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36%

36% -- email response rate improvement for Emails written at 3rd-grade reading level (vs. college level), per Boomerang email analysis (2015)

2015  · n=40,000,000  · Boomerang (Baydin, Inc.)

Emails written at a 3rd grade reading level received a 36% improvement in response rate over those written at college level.

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36%
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2015
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Emails written at 3rd-grade reading level (vs. college level), per Boomerang email analysis
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40,000,000
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Boomerang (Baydin, Inc.) · Original study ↗

Reported as 36% improvement in response rate versus emails written at college reading level; based on analysis of over 40 million emails flowing through the Boomerang service in the prior year.

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Emails written at 3rd-grade reading level (vs. college level), per Boomerang email analysis: 36% email response rate improvement. Source: Boomerang (Baydin, Inc.) (2015). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-3rd-grade-level-response-improvement
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