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Subject line A/B testing

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Last discussed Oct 29, 2026

Testing multiple email subject lines on a sample of subscribers before sending the winner to the full list.

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Used for: Improving newsletter open rates Praised: Statistically significant open-rate gains; shorter subject lines perform better vs: Two-word subject lines at 42% open rate vs. 37% for subject lines over five w...

"Every time that you post a newsletter, best practice is to test probably four different subject lines. I did that today... This is the one that won. It had 21% open rate. You can see the bottom one 17.9%. That 3% difference there at 130,000 subscr..."

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