This Is Why Most Of Your Emails You Send Out To End Users Are Never Responded To!

[Damion]

Workers are dealing with more email then ever before, with 35 per cent
of executives receiving over 100 emails a day. However, not all emails
were read with over half (55 per cent) deleting between 10 and 50
emails a day without reading them.

Research methodology

The survey commissioned by Waterford Technologies in October 2007 was
conducted online by an independent company, and polled a sample of 100
UKexecutives in management levels or above.

Full Article

 

[Charley]

I never sent letters to some annonymous people. I always ensure that I get the direct contact to see my email.

 

[nstalk]

I never sent letters to some annonymous people. I always ensure that I get the direct contact to see my email.

I wish I could do that Charley....whats your secret?

 

[Damion]

I never sent letters to some annonymous people. I always ensure that I get the direct contact to see my email.

If it only where that easy, to get your email noticed by the decision maker right away Charley.
The bigger the company, the more complicated to get that direct contact.

But not only that, according to the linked study your email even when it reaches your direct contact, it's not even being read!

It's being deleted right away - because they're to busy to read their email and it's evidently much easier to get rid of it.
It wouldn't matter who was the sender, they don't care, it's just being deleted.

 

[gazzip]

Looks like a major problem

This looks like a good tool to let you know if its been read or not, which would be far better than been left wondering.

I have'nt used it yet - I think it was posted here recently by Sashas :tu:

www.readnotify.com


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[Damion]

Yeah, I've tried it - it's not bulletproof.

I used it a couple of times and on times when i actually used it for end users it didn't work.
Some where registered as opened and some weren't.

But i guess that is something you can't prevent and every software/solution has that problem.

 

[Alex]

Very interesting read.

And I also found some software like that before, but I can't recall where exactly. Most probably on SourceForge . Should take a look again, and post it here if I can find anything.

 

[Charley]

I wish I could do that Charley....whats your secret?

It's all about networking with people. The more networks you have the easier it is to get through your emails to the right people. End Users will read email and reply if you have a proper subject and description.

When I started out, the responses were very limited as my emails looked unprofessional. After months of research, I am moving along successfuly.

If it only where that easy, to get your email noticed by the decision maker right away Charley.

 

[sashas]

Looks like a major problem

This looks like a good tool to let you know if its been read or not, which would be far better than been left wondering.

I have'nt used it yet - I think it was posted here recently by Sashas :tu:

www.readnotify.com


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Its an amazing tool, IMO.

And I'll let you guys in on a little secret: if the person you've sent the email to reads it more than once, but still doesn't respond to your mail, there is a very high chance he's tossing the idea back and forth in his head, and if you send another follow up email, more often than not, he'll respond.

 

[Pred]

hmm. may need to look at this

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

Yeah, I've tried it - it's not bulletproof.

I used it a couple of times and on times when i actually used it for end users it didn't work.
Some where registered as opened and some weren't.

But i guess that is something you can't prevent and every software/solution has that problem.

I know that when I check emails through Outlook Express, the unsolicited emails that are received oftentimes ask for me to allow a "read receipt" to be sent to the original person that sent the email. If I'm not at all interested in what they're selling, I check the box to not send a read receipt, as I don't want my inbox to become infested with spam.

Don't know if this service allows for that option, but it may be why it's not fail proof.

 

[npcomplete]

I know that when I check emails through Outlook Express, the unsolicited emails that are received oftentimes ask for me to allow a "read receipt" to be sent to the original person that sent the email. If I'm not at all interested in what they're selling, I check the box to not send a read receipt, as I don't want my inbox to become infested with spam.

Don't know if this service allows for that option, but it may be why it's not fail proof.

Not all mail clients have implemented the read receipt protocol you are talking about. Outlook has, some of my webmail clients have, but this is hardly universal. While I have not looked into this particular site-based read-receipt utility, my *guess* is that they are not using the read-receipt protocol.

Funny: I have read-receipt turned on with my outgoing mail by default. Also by default I reject all requests for read-receipt in my incoming mail... boy am I a hypocrite sometimes...

Marc

 

[accent]

There is a way to track emaiils opened in HTML - you put a 1X1 pixel image and track when it is downloaded. I have HTML turned off for that reason. Don't know if this is something different, but a lot of people turn off HTML in their emails.

 

[npcomplete]

There is a way to track emaiils opened in HTML - you put a 1X1 pixel image and track when it is downloaded. I have HTML turned off for that reason. Don't know if this is something different, but a lot of people turn off HTML in their emails.

Excellent point accentnepal! This is different than the read-receipt protocol, and *perhaps* different than that site you are talking about. I also leave html turned off for that reason. (I really should go to that site Sasha linked earlier and check it out)

You can still receive attached images when you turn off html, but it does not download images located on the other servers, where the image tag in the mail links to an external server which can be monitored by the sender. This image-download within mail is the way *most* low life spammers can see that you opened your mail.

Marc