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20% -- email response rate for top 25% of cold email outreach campaigns (2024)

2024  · QuickMail

Analysis by QuickMail shows that only the top 25% of email campaigns achieve a response rate of 20% or more.

  • Represents the threshold (20% or more) achieved by the top quartile of campaigns
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top 25% of cold email outreach campaigns
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Cited from QuickMail analysis; top quartile of campaigns achieve 20%+ response rates

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top 25% of cold email outreach campaigns: 20% email response rate. Source: QuickMail (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/top-quartile-outreach-response-rate-quickmail
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