How to Write Newsletters That Get Opened, Read and Clicked
Clean your list. Scrub those disengaged subscribers away! If, after
being nicely invited, they haven’t re-engaged:
Port them from your primary list to a new list or group, which
you can then suppress or segment-out when you send your
newsletter going forward, or
Unsubscribe or delete them from your list
Although least desirable of your options, unsubscribing or deleting
your disengaged subscribers may be the best way to go, for two
reasons. The first: it clears them from your list so they’re free to
re-subscribe in the future, which they won’t be able to do if they’re
already subscribed but on a muted group. The second: if you’re
keeping those folks on your list in the hopes of mailing them offers
down the road, you could be setting yourself up to be labeled as
spam because you’ll be popping into their inbox irregularly and only
with offers. Not good email marketing.