
Open Rate vs Reply Rate: Which Cold Email Metric Actually Measures Success
A 60% open rate with a 0.5% reply rate is a deliverability win and a copy failure. Here is why reply rate is the metric that matters for cold outbound, what good looks like,…
Field notes from building outbound systems for B2B teams — infrastructure, research, and the numbers behind both.

A 60% open rate with a 0.5% reply rate is a deliverability win and a copy failure. Here is why reply rate is the metric that matters for cold outbound, what good looks like,…