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Reached 1.4k Subscribers, then I cleaned it up.

As the title said, that's what I did, and it feels good.

I did remove a bunch of emails, but it was worth it because who wants to have subscribers if they do not open?

Look at the difference.

from 1400 to 1220 daang.

And this is how they are sorted.

Positive intakes

Well, now is cleaned and hopefully, open rate will be higher...

Regrets

The only regrets I have is not have implemented a double opt-in before, I was afraid potential readers won't bother to check the inbox twice.

Well, this is it...

Clean your list...

on November 3, 2020
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    Hi Michael! Two questions:

    1. what tool are you using that gives you that type of analytics?
    2. I actually turned off my double opt-in but this makes me think I should re-instate it. Do you have any data to help me make that decision?
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      hey jake! I used this one

      is free, it will ask for 8 dollars if register it puts it down to 4 but if you complete alll of it is free...I didn't see the last option...so I paid 4$.

      I have been a really long time without double opt-in. 200+ bad emails are a lot... and the longer you have it without the worst.

      Imagine that you do like me, and sell sponsorship spot or classifieds, you tell them is 40% click-through, but it could be more without fake or unusable email addresses.

      I am aiming to have real readers, not to just hoard addresses.
      I hope it helps Jake,

      /mike

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      Hey Juris,

      You can see on the second image which addresses are gone.
      I left those existing ones and also those opening, also those that are called "role", unavailable SMTP are also gone.

      After this, I left the double opt-in on, I won't remove it, I rather to have a quality list than have bad emails. Next month I will go through those who open and those who do not.

      Before launching on Producthunt I had 1232, now I am up to 1420 again, so the double opt in is actually something worth to have, even if it feels like a barrier.

      But, let me mention I have around 150 pending...

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          Yeah, tjey do matter, but I think is psychological. You want your list to grow and that's your goal, but while growing you understand is no good to have useless addresses...

          ...I am not paying so much attention to those pending, because if they really wanted it, they would have looked for it...

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      Well, as you can see in the images it says the type of emails they were...

      As you can see most of them are not reachable...

      So..bye bye Felicia...

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