Email/SMS tracking is generally wrong because the calculations are actually incorrect.
When ESPs track clicks/opens they're using a useless, outdated, soul-crushing formula:
unique clicks / total recipients
So sending to a list of 10,000 people, with 325 clicks and 1500 opens = 0.0325. Seeing that tends to drop confidence and heart because a fraction tells you nothing, in reality.
What the CRM world needs, that NOBODY else offers, that would increase everyone's confidence in their email/SMS skills, using a more accurate formula:
Total unique clicks / total unique opens
It would look like this:
10,000 sent, 2026 opened, out of the 2026, 1649 were unique opens. 462 clicks total clicks, 372 were unique opens.
2026 / 10,000 = 20% open rate
372 / 1649 = 23% CTR vs 0.0372 the old way. (372 / 10,000)
Which do you think is going to make marketers and clients ecstatic? Your campaign performance is better than you realize... especially if it's translating to sales/bookings.
How it would look for both individual & campaign levels:
=== (email/campaign/SMS)
Underneath reporting section
Total Opens | Total Clicks | Unique Opens | Unique Clicks | Unique Open Rate | Unique CTR
Or some form of that.
Do you see how this is immensely accurate, improves confidence when writing emails/SMS, allowing for a deeper understanding of segments and campaigns on top of A/B testing?
VERY few ESPs offer this, not a single CRM does as far as I know.
Imagine the selling point that NinjaPipe also increases confidence due to correct campaign metric tracking.
Please see supporting links:
https://www.klipfolio.com/resources/kpi-examples/email-marketing/unique-clicks#:~:text=You%20can%20achieve%20this%20by,the%20unique%20click%20rate%20percentage.
7 months ago
I never heard of this method, it makes sense because segmentation becomes easy to understand. Allows fast pivoting and seems to offer greater insight. Really cool!
0 7 months ago Reply