Successful Subject Lines for Your Home Services Business

Carefully crafted subject lines mean higher email open rates, and email opens directly impact the number of customers your home services business books. But many business owners don’t give this much thought and instead, default to a standard email newsletter format with subjects like “10% off your summer AC checkup” and “is time for a new roof?”. The downfall? These emails have notoriously low open rates.

So what can you write to entice readers to open an email and engage in your content? At OutboundEngine, we craft eye-catching, branded emails on behalf of automotive business owners and other automotive professionals, and we work hard to ensure high delivery rates that are well above industry averages. We’ve determined which subject lines received the most opens in the past year. Here’s a list of the top performing email subject lines and their corresponding header images to help you build a solid strategy for the upcoming months.

5: 5 Ways to Make Your Home More Pet-Friendly

4: 7 Maintenance Tips to Take You Beyond Spring Cleaning

3: 5 Design Approaches for Your Perfect Garden

2: 5 DIY Projects You Should NOT Try at Home

1: Cleaning Tips for 6 Common Floors

Wrap-up

As you can see, the most highly engaged emails we crafted were written to help, not to sell. The stats we’ve accumulated show that the more creative and helpful an email subject line is, the more engaged the reader will be. And when you’re providing interesting content, you’re also increasing the likelihood that your emails will be forwarded to others. By putting a little thought into your email subject lines, you can develop an active readership and continued customer engagement that can lead to future deals and referral business.