20/08/2026
The Metric That Predicts Your Email List Is Dying
There's a number sitting quietly in your email platform right now, trying to tell you something.
Most of us never think to look at it.
Open rates and revenue only tell you what already happened. By the time revenue dips, the real damage been happening for months, unnoticed.
I've sat with businesses who lost months they could've spent fixing this. Not because they didn't care. Just because nobody was watching the direction things were heading — only the number on any given day.
So if there's one thing I'd love for you to take from this: pull your last three months of open rates. Doesn't need to be exact, just a rough estimate. If that line is drifting down, even gently, that's not a revenue problem yet. It's a relationship problem. And the good news? Those are so much easier to fix while they're still small.
Is your open rate today higher or lower than it was three months ago?
I love to know, drop the direction in the comments, up, down, or flat.
You can watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnrGQIneWV8