Email Engagement Score
An email engagement score is a single number, often 0 to 100, that sums up how much a prospect has engaged with your emails: opens, clicks, replies and how recently they happened. It's a sorting aid, not a measurement. Every vendor weights it differently, so a 70 in one tool and a 70 in another don't mean the same thing.
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A score is handy when you have more prospects than time. Sort by it, work the top of the list, leave the bottom. The risk is that one number hides what's behind it, and on email a lot of what's behind it can be machines.
An example weighting
There's no standard formula. Here's one way to build a score, to show the moving parts:
- 30 points: opens graded as a person in the last 14 days, capped at five
- 25 points: clicks in the last 14 days, with pricing or booking links weighted above the rest
- 25 points: replies in the last 30 days, with a "not interested" worth nothing
- 20 points: recency, falling to zero 60 days after the last engagement
Pick your own cut-offs for hot, warm and cold, then check them against the people who actually booked a meeting.
Mistakes that break it
- Counting raw opens. Apple Mail Privacy Protection and security scanners open email without a person. A score built on raw pixel loads ranks machines.
- Treating every click the same. Scanners follow every link, and an unsubscribe click isn't interest.
- Ignoring time. A burst of activity three months ago doesn't make someone warm today.
- Hiding the inputs. If a rep can't see why someone scored 80, they can't tell a buyer from a scanner.
Does Outsolvi have one?
No. Outsolvi doesn't give prospects a score. It shows the counts a score would be built from: counted opens, clicks and replies on each tracked email, with the reason for every open (for example "opened in Gmail" or "Microsoft Defender security scan"). An email that reaches five counted opens and two clicks is flagged as a hot lead.
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Start Free TrialFrequently asked questions
Does Outsolvi compute an engagement score?+
No. You see counted opens, clicks and replies on each tracked email, every open with its reason, plus a hot-lead flag. There's no 0 to 100 number.
How is an engagement score different from a hot-lead flag?+
A score ranks everyone on a sliding scale. A hot-lead flag is a yes or no: has this email crossed a line worth acting on. A flag is easier to trust because you can see exactly why it fired.
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