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Without further ado, onto the advice.

How can you send email campaigns that get opened by 100% of your mailing list?

Based on insights from Nick Selman, Fletcher Richman of Halp, and Wes Wagner.

• First, a few obvious pieces of advice for avoiding low open rates:
  • Avoid spam filters by avoiding keywords commonly used in spam emails.
  • Consider using email subjects (1) that are clearly descriptive and (2) look like they were written by a friend. Then A/B your top choices.
  • Include the recipientname in your email body. This signals to spam filters that you do in fact know the recipient.
• Now, for the real advice: Letsay 60% of your audience opens your mailing, how can you get the remaining 40% to open and read it too?
  • First, wait 2 weeks to give everyone a chance to open the initial email.
  • Next, export a list of those who haven&t opened. Mailchimp lets you do this.
  • Important note: The reason many recipients don&t open your email is because it was sent to Spam, it was buried in Promotions, or it was insta-deleted because it looked like spam (but wasn&t). The goal here is to resuscitate these people. You have two options for doing so:
  • (1) Duplicate the initial email then selectively re-send it to non-openers. This time, use a new subject (try a new hook) and downgrade the email to plain text: remove images and link tracking. De-enriching the email in this way can help bypass spam filters and the Promotions tab.
  • (2) Alternatively, export your list of non-openers to a third-party email tool like Mailshake (or Mixmax).
    • First, connect Mailshake to a new Gmail account on your company domain.
    • Next, configure Mailshake to automatically dole out small batches of emails on a daily schedule. Let it churn through non-openers slowly so that Gmail doesn&t flag your account as a spammer.
    • Emails sent through Mailshake are more likely to get opened than emails sent through Mailchimp. Why? Mailshake sends emails through your Gmail account, and Gmail-to-Gmail emails have a greater chance of bypassing Spam and Promotions folders, particularly if the sender doesn&t have a history of its emails being marked as spam.

Every founder knows you gotta find market fit. Almost no one gets it right on the first try, which means iterating quickly and decisively is the difference between greatness and the void.

On the Extra Crunch stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, we have a jam-packed panel filled with leading product builders to discuss just how founders should think about launching and iterating their products.

First, we have Ravi Mehta, chief product officer at dating app Tinder . Before Tinder, he was a product director at Facebook and a vice president of product at TripAdvisor, in addition to a host of other product-related roles. Mehta brings years of consumer products experience to the panel, and will talk about the specific needs of social and network-based products.

Second, we have Manik Gupta, chief product officer at transportation and delivery company Uber . Before becoming product chief, he led UberMarketplace and Maps products, and spent years at Google as a leading PM for Google Maps. He brings a deep background on building popular consumer apps, and also instrumenting those apps with location and consumer data.

Third, we have Diya Jolly, chief product officer of identity management platform Okta . Before Okta, she led product for Googlehome products like Nest as well as YouTubemonetization efforts, and also held product roles at Microsoft and Motorola. She brings a hybrid background in enterprise and consumer product design, and will be able to speak about the varying challenges different types of users bring to bear on a product.

Finally, we have Robby Stein, a director of product management at Instagram where he leads the consumer team in charge of Stories, Feed, Messaging, Camera, and Profile. Before Facebook/Instagram, he held a senior product role at Yahoo, which acquired his startup Stamped, and was also a PM at Google. He brings a cross-over product perspective between startups and larger tech companies that will enrich our conversation.

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&The Family& is a new documentary series on Netflix, based on the work of journalist Jeff Sharlet — whose books promise to expose &the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power& and &the fundamentalist threat to American democracy.&

Sarah Perez joins us on the latest episode of the Original Content podcastto discuss the series series, which offer a fascinating glimpse at a secretive group of evangelical Christians known only as The Family. Their most high-profile activity involves organizing The National Prayer Breakfast, an even that attracts major political figures, including every U.S. president since Eisenhower.

While the series opens with extensive, sinister and often cheesy reenactments showing Sharletintroduction to The Family, later episodes offer a broader perspective, interviewing figures who are part of or remain sympathetic to the organization, and pressing Sharlet on whether his view on The Family is correct.

Ultimately, &The Family& seems more interested in raising questions — about a specific organization and about the broader role of Christianity in American politics — than it is in answering them. Itan admirable stance, but one might leave viewers a bit unsatisfied when they reach the end of the five-episode series.

In addition to our review, we also discuss Appleannouncement of pricing and a November 1 launch date for its TV+ streaming service.

You can listen in the player below, subscribe using Apple Podcastsor find us in your podcast player of choice. If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review on Apple. You can also send us feedback directly. (Or suggest shows and movies for us to review!)

And if you want to skip ahead, herehow the episode breaks down: 0:00 Intro 0:53 Reader feedback 3:30 Apple TV+ pricing and launch date 16:59 &The Family& review