Your email doesn’t matter if no one opens it.
A subject line should be:
A description of what’s written within
Short (this enables preview text to be shown)
Your “Hoping to connect” subject line is non-descriptive and unoriginal. Just don’t send it!
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SalesLoft recently published research around subject line sentiment.
Neutral subject lines got the most replies.
Why? Neutral = Short + Descriptive
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Also consider:
Is it time-sensitive? Is a specific action to be taken? Don’t bury the lead. This is the place for it.
Instead of (a seemingly harmless) subject line of “RFP Response” for your urgent email, try “Need Approval by EOD on SOW: RFP Response.”
Preview Text
Most email clients will display the first few sentences of your writing to entice the reader to open. Keeping subject lines short maximizes the amount of preview text shown.