Review my newsletter metrics and decide what to change
A plain-English read of your newsletter numbers with three specific changes to test next month.
The prompt
Review my newsletter performance and tell me what to change. This is step 5 of a newsletter launch pack; it works on its own, but paste your original promise and growth plan if you have them.
Newsletter and reader: [DETAILS]
Data for the last 4-8 issues: [per issue: subject line, send date, delivered, opens, clicks, unsubscribes, replies, new subs]
Top clicked links: [LIST]
Reader feedback: [replies, comments, survey answers]
My goal: [e.g. growth, engagement, sales, paid conversions]
Analyze:
1. Trends, not single issues: what's rising or falling across the period.
2. Open rates with caution: privacy features in some email apps inflate opens, so weight clicks, replies, and unsubscribes more heavily.
3. Which subject line styles and topics performed best, and whether the sample is big enough to trust.
4. Unsubscribe spikes and what was in those issues.
5. Signs of deliverability trouble (sudden drops at one mailbox provider, rising bounces) and what to check.
6. Whether the newsletter is serving my goal, or just generating opens.
Return:
- A 3-sentence verdict.
- A table: Issue | Subject | Open | Click | Unsubs | Notable.
- 3 specific changes to test next month, each with how I'll know it worked.
- One thing to stop doing.
Only draw conclusions the data supports; say when I need more issues before deciding.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- DETAILS
- LIST
- replies, comments, survey answers
- e.g. growth, engagement, sales, paid conversions
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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