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@ShareYaarNow So true. Experience economy means people want to plan around experiences, not just be reminded about them. That's partly why I think calendar-based marketing is underrated. Events living in someone's calendar hit different than sitting in a newsletter they may or may not open.

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@taninreachoutly 100%. Open rate is the marketing equivalent of counting how many people glanced at your billboard. That's why I'm bullish on calendar feeds for events. No open rate to game - either they subscribed and see it when planning their week, or they didn't. Way more honest signal.

Your open rate is a vanity metric. You can get 70% opens and still get zero replies. Prospects open emails to answer one question: “Is this about me… or another pitch?” Curiosity > deliverability. Optimize for replies, not opens. #coldemail #b2bsales #leadgen #marketing

Friday vibe check: Email marketing: "Please open me please please please" Calendar feeds: *just chilling in your calendar when you're planning your weekend* One begs. The other belongs.

@CertificatesDev @BeJS_ Smart move. One-time calendar adds are great - for recurring events, calendar feeds are even better. Subscribers get automatic updates without having to add each one separately.

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@salesmsg For event-based businesses there's another angle - calendar feeds. People don't ignore what's already on their calendar when planning their week. Different channel, same problem solved.

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Your email "open rate" is a vanity metric anyway. Open doesn't mean read. Read doesn't mean acted on. Calendar feeds just show up when people are planning their week. No metrics games, just presence.

Everyone's fighting for inbox real estate. Meanwhile calendar feeds just chill in a place with zero competition - your actual calendar. Wild how few brands have figured this out.

@ClimStefan Exactly. Trust + relevance + timing. Email fights for all three. A calendar entry gets them by default.

@EventStacker yes this is true I like the analogy. Being aligned with your message creates trust, which then helps getting in their calendar

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@migabeatz Good email marketers do make it work. But scalability is where feeds shine. One feed can serve unlimited subscribers. Update the source once, syncs everywhere. No per-send costs. Tradeoff is less granular targeting - but for events, reach beats segments anyway.

@EventStacker Valid point But I’d argue the brands still winning email are the ones engineering relevance, not just fighting for attention Segmentation + timing + behavior-based flows still cut through the noise Curious though — how scalable has the calendar strategy been compared to email?

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Venues spend so much energy on email campaigns. Build the list. Design the template. Write the copy. Send it. Watch 15% open it. Repeat. With calendar feeds, you add an event once and it just syncs to everyone who subscribed. Done. They see it when they're making plans.

Hot take: email marketing died and nobody noticed. People trained themselves to ignore promo emails years ago. Banner blindness but for your inbox. Calendar feeds? Subscribe once, events just show up. No filters to fight through.

@inogic Or skip the inbox entirely. For event-based comms, calendar feeds let you push updates directly to where people plan their day. No email to categorize, route, or filter. They subscribe once. Every update just appears on their calendar.

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@Chris_Smth Solid point, but even 46% means half never see your content. Calendar feeds flip this - 100% visibility. Event just shows up where people already live. No subject line needed when you're not fighting the inbox.

90% of marketing emails don't personalize the subject line. Question-format subject lines hit 46% open rates. "March Market Update" → "Is your neighborhood's value about to shift?" The highest-leverage 5 words you'll write all week aren't in the email body. They're in the subject line.

The problem with email newsletters: - You send it - 80% never open it - The ones who do open it are already at work - They bookmark it "for later" - Later never comes Calendar feeds bypass all of this. Your event just shows up when they're planning their week.

Unsubscribe rate for email lists: 2-5% per month Unsubscribe rate for calendar feeds: basically zero People don't remove feeds. They added it for a reason and it just... works. No friction, no inbox clutter, no "mark as spam" temptation. Different game entirely.

@sandropap This is why calendar feeds are interesting for retention. Day 9, day 21, day 45 - doesn't matter. When you have something new, it just shows up on their calendar. No send fatigue. No "am I emailing them too much" anxiety. The event is just... there when they check their week.

Everyone thinks the money is in the welcome email. "Get the welcome email right and you've cracked email marketing" I think that's wrong. And it's costing businesses more than they realize. The welcome email gets all the attention because it has the highest open rates. Of course it does... someone just signed up, they're curious, they'll open anything you send in the first 24 hours. But that's not where retention is won or lost. Retention is decided in the emails nobody talks about. The email on day 9 when the excitement has worn off and they're quietly deciding if you're worth their attention. The email on day 21 when they haven't bought again and are already drifting toward a competitor. The email on day 45 when they've gone completely cold and you either win them back or lose them permanently. These are the emails that separate businesses with 15% repeat purchase rates from businesses with 30-40% repeat purchase rates. Not the welcome email. The problem is that most businesses put all their creative energy into the front of the sequence and then let it fall apart in the middle. Day 1 is polished. Day 2 is decent. Day 7 onwards is either nonexistent or clearly written on a Friday afternoon by someone who ran out of ideas. That drop-off is where customers leave. Not because they stopped liking your product. Because you stopped showing up with something worth reading. The businesses that print consistent revenue are the ones who mapped out what the customer needs to hear on day 9, day 21, day 45 and actually wrote those emails. That's the work most people skip. That's exactly why it's the opportunity most people are missing.

Ran the numbers on a venue's email list vs their calendar feed subscribers. Email list: 2,400 people, 18% open rate = ~430 actually seeing your promo Calendar feed: 340 subscribers, 100% visibility = 340 seeing it Smaller list, almost the same reach. Zero effort per event.

Email open rates are down bad. 20%... 15%... 10%... Meanwhile your calendar app has a 100% "open rate" - people literally live in there. Why are we still treating email like the gold standard for reaching people?

@MilesGMorrison 100%. Inbox is a war zone. Calendars though? Trusted space. People don't trash calendar entries like promo emails. For events, calendar feeds skip the inbox entirely. Your stuff shows up where they're planning their day.

- Email marketing is overrated. Like events, it has a place and should be a piece of the strategy, but in my experience the conversion rate is low. If it’s done in a thoughtful (not spammy) way and combined with real connections, can be a useful reminder for small/mid size gifts.

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@VARC_Solutions Great lineup! One channel worth adding to the mix: calendar feeds. People ignore emails but they actually check their calendars when planning their week. Events that show up directly on their Google/Apple calendar have a way better shot at attendance than another promo email.

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