Recruitment Email Best Practices

You spend a lot of time working up who to recruit. Make sure the messages get to them. Recruiting email best practices are essential for market research professionals to ensure their campaigns reach the right audiences and yield successful results. Warming up your email server, scrubbing your lists first, segmenting your lists, keeping them clean, and providing subject line advice are all key components of a successful recruitment campaign.

Start Sending Slowly

"Warm up" your email server by gradually increasing sending volumes over time, so Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are less likely to flag your messages as spam or block the emails from being sent out.

• This process should be done slowly with low volume sends at first, increasing over time until desired levels have been reached. Batches of no more than 15-20,000 emails are a good place to start.
• Starting with small batches will help build trust between you and ISPs and, gradually, allow more of your messages through without any issues down the road.
• If some time has passed (approximately 2 months or more) since your last email campaign, start again with small batches to work towards reestablishing rapport between you and ISPs.

Segment Your Lists

Segment lists into different categories based on demographics such as age range or gender. This ensures that each recipient receives content tailored specifically toward them instead of a generic message. Content that is not tailored to audiences could result in lower response rates overall due to its lack of personalization factor.

Scrub Your Lists

Remove any invalid addresses or members who may have unsubscribed from previous mailings. This can lead to higher bounce rates if not taken care of beforehand.

Characters that may contribute to invalid addresses and require review prior to Email List upload are as follows:

• Domains should not include:
  `~!@#$%^&*()+=[{]}\|:;"'<>,/?.
  Domains can include symbols such as:
  -__ .
• The @ symbol is only used before the email domain (e.g. @gmail.com)
• Delete all of the empty columns to the right and below any Email List fields in your file in case there are miscellaneous characters negatively contributing to the bounce rate.

Keep Your Lists Scrubbed

Regular maintenance should be carried out on each of your lists by removing any inactive members from them; this ensures that your lists remain relevant and useful for analysis purposes rather than being skewed due to outdated information being included in survey results or other reports.

Recruitment emails should be sent out regularly with incentives offered if possible; this helps attract new participants while also encouraging existing ones to stay engaged with their studies or projects over time.

Subject Line Advice

Provide concise, clear subject lines with specific calls to action that accurately represent what arrives within an individual’s inbox. You want to draw attention away from other competitors vying for similar consumers' attention, resulting in greater success when trying to recruit potential customers online.

Avoid trigger words to stop your emails from going to spam.

Emojis stand out from plain text and can help grab attention quickly, which could result in higher open rates for your message compared to those without them. Many people use emojis as a way to express emotion or sentiment within their messages; this could be beneficial if you want potential recruits to feel excited about joining your team or project!

Depending on who you send your message to (international populations or elderly vs. younger audiences), certain symbols might mean something completely different. It's probably best to avoid them altogether unless absolutely necessary.

Beware of Spam Traps

Spam traps are email addresses that have been created solely to identify and filter out unwanted messages, such as those sent by spammers or recruiters. By using spam traps, service providers can ensure only good messages reach the right people.

To protect yourself from inadvertently creating an environment where your recruitment emails get blocked due to potential spam traps, make sure you take steps such as verifying each member wants to participate before sending them anything.