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More accurate email metrics

Jason Spitz
suggested this on September 08, 2011 11:59 am

This is something that's bothered me for a long time...the metrics on email-blast performance are REALLY messed up, to the point of being totally useless. Topspin only shows TOTAL (aggregate) Opens & Clicks, so if one fan opens the email 5 times & clicks a link 10 times, all of those actions are counted toward the total. This leads to "percentages" of over 100%, which is meaningless. The bad data Topspin provides makes it impossible to evaluate the real effectiveness of an email campaign, and therefore impossible to test & improve my email-marketing strategies. I feel stuck. 

I would recommend several improvements to the email metrics:

  1. display UNIQUE Opens and Clicks in addition to (or instead of) TOTAL Opens & Clicks
  2. show an OPEN RATE metric -- number of unique Opens divided by Emails Delivered. You show "Click Rate", but not Open Rate (I have to calculate that myself). Open Rate is crucial to evaluating the effectiveness of an email campaign.
  3. calculate the CTR metrics based on Unique Opens & Clicks (this will provide more accurate data on email performance)
  4. remove the CTR metric for "Total Clicks / Total Delivered". This is a pointless metric; it doesn't matter how many deliveries got clicks, only how many Opens got clicks.
  5. add a button to quickly remove Bounces from the Fan database. Currently, I see how many emails bounced, but I have no way of identifying them or removing them.
This will go a long way towards making Topspin's email-blast tool a more useful (and ultimately more profitable) tool for users.
 

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Brad Barrish
Topspin

Thanks, as always, for the detailed feedback. We'll be launching some email improvements in the next couple of weeks.

October 19, 2011 05:58 pm
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Matt Singleton

Looks like no real movement on this at all, in almost a year! The bounce removal button seems like a no-brainer.

August 23, 2012 09:57 am
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Brad Barrish
Topspin

We've been focusing the majority of the dev cycles on the new GoDirect product, which is now in beta. No email capabilities right this minute, but there are coming very soon. 

As far as bounces go, bounces are removed automatically.  

August 27, 2012 10:37 pm