Most email programs are not broken. They are unfocused. Opens are fine, deliverability is fine, the flows are there. Nobody has stopped to ask whether each send is earning its click.
Michael J. McBride
Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce
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Most email programs are not broken. They are unfocused. Opens are fine, deliverability is fine, the flows are there. Nobody has stopped to ask whether each send is earning its click.
Michael J. McBride
Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce
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A subject line lands on a Thursday morning at nine. She opens it on the way to the office and reads the top line, then puts the phone down. She never taps. Multiply that quiet moment across a whole calendar and the shape of a program appears, one where opens look fine and clicks do not. The health check misses it. The revenue does not.
A subject line lands on a Thursday morning at nine. She opens it on the way to the office and reads the top line, then puts the phone down. She never taps. Multiply that quiet moment across a whole calendar and the shape of a program appears, one where opens look fine and clicks do not. The health check misses it. The revenue does not.
Opens were healthy. The clicks were not.
Scarlett Gasque came to us with a Klaviyo program that looked correct on every surface. Opens averaged 56%, well above apparel benchmarks. Bounce rate sat under 0.6%. Spam complaints were effectively zero. Every core flow was live: welcome, browse abandonment, post purchase, winback. Click to open rate across the program held at 2.44% against a category benchmark of 5% to 9%. That gap was the whole story. The list was reading. The list was not tapping.
The picture we drew for the brand was simple. Two send slots a week instead of five plus, with a clear reason each one existed. Thursday mornings between 8 and 11 AM ET for commercial sends, drops and promos and launches, on the slot that was already producing a 3.13% click to open rate and eight times the revenue per recipient of the Sunday series. Sunday at 11 AM held for the editorial franchise, tightened and no longer expected to carry commerce. Subject lines rewritten around a product or an occasion rather than a mood. SMS pulled off broad MMS blasts and rebuilt as short plain sends with one product link each, aimed at an audience that had earned the message. Persistent fail numbers pruned every week.
Opens were healthy. The clicks were not.
Scarlett Gasque came to us with a Klaviyo program that looked correct on every surface. Opens averaged 56%, well above apparel benchmarks. Bounce rate sat under 0.6%. Spam complaints were effectively zero. Every core flow was live: welcome, browse abandonment, post purchase, winback. Click to open rate across the program held at 2.44% against a category benchmark of 5% to 9%. That gap was the whole story. The list was reading. The list was not tapping.
The picture we drew for the brand was simple. Two send slots a week instead of five plus, with a clear reason each one existed. Thursday mornings between 8 and 11 AM ET for commercial sends, drops and promos and launches, on the slot that was already producing a 3.13% click to open rate and eight times the revenue per recipient of the Sunday series. Sunday at 11 AM held for the editorial franchise, tightened and no longer expected to carry commerce. Subject lines rewritten around a product or an occasion rather than a mood. SMS pulled off broad MMS blasts and rebuilt as short plain sends with one product link each, aimed at an audience that had earned the message. Persistent fail numbers pruned every week.
How the program was tightened
No rebuild. The bones were sound. Three levers moved in order, and the program stopped talking over itself.
Send timing narrowed to two anchor slots per week, both chosen from the brand's own click data. Commercial and editorial got their own rhythm and stopped competing for the same inbox on the same day. Subject lines were rewritten toward specificity, a product named, a moment named, a piece of the collection anchored. SMS moved from broad MMS blasts to plain product linked messages sent to audiences that mapped to the message, replacing a 2.52% click rate that sat well under the 6% to 10% category benchmark and a fail rate close to 6% that was quietly costing money. Klaviyo held through the whole reset. Shopify held. Littledata held. Alia held. The stack was never the issue. The stack was being asked to do the work of a system nobody had bothered to compose.
How the program was tightened
No rebuild. The bones were sound. Three levers moved in order, and the program stopped talking over itself.
Send timing narrowed to two anchor slots per week, both chosen from the brand's own click data. Commercial and editorial got their own rhythm and stopped competing for the same inbox on the same day. Subject lines were rewritten toward specificity, a product named, a moment named, a piece of the collection anchored. SMS moved from broad MMS blasts to plain product linked messages sent to audiences that mapped to the message, replacing a 2.52% click rate that sat well under the 6% to 10% category benchmark and a fail rate close to 6% that was quietly costing money. Klaviyo held through the whole reset. Shopify held. Littledata held. Alia held. The stack was never the issue. The stack was being asked to do the work of a system nobody had bothered to compose.
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