{"id":2215,"date":"2012-04-01T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T08:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T08:49:25","slug":"unexpected-results-from-last-mass-mailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected results from last mass mailing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"abdolreza,<\/a><\/p>\n

This is odd, I think.<\/p>\n

I did a mailing 43 hours ago to our list of 71,401 subscribers in English. \u00a0(It’s also gone out to the French and Spanish lists more recently.) \u00a0The mailing reported on the victory in the Auckland lock-out, and urged supporters to sign up to three selected urgent actions campaigns.<\/p>\n

I listed these in the following order – Abdolreza Ghanbari<\/a> (by far the most popular campaign), then Kamal Abbas<\/a> (the third largest of the three, in urgent need of many more supporters) and then Matteo Parlati<\/a> (whose campaign was stronger than the Abbas one but still considerably smaller than the Ghanbari one).<\/p>\n

Because in most mailings, the links which appear first get the most clicks and the ones which appear last get the least, I assumed that the Ghanbari campaign would do best — and not only because it appeared first, but also because it is such a popular cause.<\/p>\n

But the actual gains for the campaigns in the last 43 hours have been as follows:<\/p>\n