About TracyD81

I would not recommend anyone doing this Opt In feature and not sure why Jarred keeps suggesting it.  There is the strong potential to lose active recipients if they do not respond.  Anyone not responding will no longer receive your emails.   The other day I spent 4 hours isolating the email addresses of people who have not opened my last 3 emails (I've been downloading my opens since the start of the year).  I was surprised to see my mothers email and a few other people on the list who I know for a fact read my emails because they have commented on them and/or forwarded to others.  In any event, I created a customized opt-in email and sent it to 1784 emails on the list.  So far, only 129 people have opened the email and of that number 33 have confirmed their interest and 1 has opted out.  Twenty-three went into bounce, which is interesting since they didn't bounce last week when I sent my last mailing.  Last, what I find interesting is that no matter what I send I end up with a less than 10% open rate, which troubles memost of all. ... View more

I came into the forum to ask this very question.  I too want to delete people who are not opening my emails.  I have averaged about 2400 contacts since signing up with CC.  Yet, I only get about 10 - 15% opens depending on the topic.  I have asked several people who also use CC what their open rate is and it seems to be the average across the board, which leaves me to believe a lot of emails are either not making it to the intended recipients, or are being dumped into spam folders automatically.  Whatever the reason, I would rather pay for the 240 - 300 people who consistently open and forward my emails, than to pay for 2100, that are not.  The extra $15 a month may not seem like much to some, but for me it is alot, x's 12 that's $180 a year I am flushing down the toilet.   This is why I will not recommend CC to others.  I love everything else about the product but this issue is a deal-breaker.   I am trying to connect with a former co-worker who had a macro that allowed us to compare data in multiple rows of a spreadsheet, thereby isolating the "single" records.  This woul make it easier to delete the unused emails adresses.  If I get the info I was share.  In the meantime, I'll do downloads, sorts, and then delete one-by-one. ... View more