Writing emails that get responses is an incredibly valuable skill – and what makes an email likely to get a response is hard to determine.
There's a lot of advice about how to write a good email on the web, from general writing advice to full sets of pre-written email templates.
But almost none of that advice shows the data behind it (usually because there isn't any), and a lot of it is contradictory.
So we decided to figure out what factors really matter when you want to get a response to your messages.
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Without further ado, here's the roundup of what really matters when you're sending an email!
