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Open Rates Sinking - Need HELP Asap
Hello,
I am reaching out to all you experts in hopes of receiving some constructive feedback. I started in my position about 3 months ago. We have one big newsletter than is broken down into 3 different versions that gets sent out at the beginning of each month, it is called "Titan Tracks". Now, I have all the data from 2019 - until current so I can see trends, but I can also see a slow decline in open rates / CTR through that time period as well. Here is some data from 2020;
As you can see, we delivered around 11,000 emails and had a 30% open rate and a 40% open rate. These are the numbers I WANT to see.
Here is some data from last month, October;
We recently did a purge of customers from CRM/Eloqua so my contact database dropped to 4,000 people. But you can see the open rate has significantly dropped, down to below 4% which is basically nothing. Completely unacceptable. I am not sure what I need to do.
Last month, we purged a little over 6,000 customers from CRM first, and then removed them from Eloqua. The problem is, the numbers just don't add up. For example, my "Titan Tracks - RED" segment went from 21,735 down too 7,289. But, it says I only delivered my email to 4,000 people. This is the case for the other two segments I use for my monthly newsletter.
I am drowning in confusion with this and really need some advice on how to get my open rates back up to where they should be.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hello Devon,
Thanks for your email. I'll take a first sweep at some ideas here, but will come back to you via email also.
First: Are you 100% certain that there's no duplication amongst your audiences/segments? You mention one newsletter broken into three different versions. Does that mean you have three Segments and 3 email assets or one segment and one email with Dynamic Content?
Second: Is it possible Auto Opens are having an impact? Eloqua users have been able to see Auto Opens since Release 22A (Feb 2022). Auto Opens have been impacting marketers for just over 12 months now. We've seen this significantly impact some clients, but not others.
CLICK HERE to read our blog post regarding Auto Opens, it will give you more details.
You mentioned you've been at this for three months, however, has Titan been using Eloqua since 2019? The reason I ask is to determine if the historical stats you show above are from Oracle Insight.
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Thanks for commenting Derek!
First: I am not 100% certain. We have 3 separate segments with 3 separate emails / 3 separate campaigns.
Second: I think AutoOpens are having an impact. Take a look at this - I made an "Overall Open Data" analysis report to see the difference in AutoOpens before an after February 2022 and this is what I found:
January and February are low on the Auto Opens, but starting March through December, the Auto Opens significantly increase and the Total Opens are extremely low. This is solid data that gives me a clue as to what could be going on, but I am not sure how to tackle the problem.
Let me know if I can answer any other questions.
Thanks Derek!
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I see there's been some great interaction here on this post! @TitanMachinery, was just going to chime in and recommend you reach out to our Oracle Cloud Support team if you're still working to understand what's going on though. They're standing by and can help you dig in and investigate as well :-)
Group Product Manager, CX - Marketing: Eloqua
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How would I go about contacting Oracle Support?
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Group Product Manager, CX - Marketing: Eloqua
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I cannot see such report on my Eloqua... :(
