Weekly Report · June 9 – June 23, 2026

Email Performance Analysis

Every daily email compared against its own category baseline — apply (coaching), product (Masterclass / Tackling Texting), and content (podcast / video / posts) — plus list growth, churn, and buyer signals from the weekly BerserkerMail export.

6,510
Avg Send Size
32.7%
Avg Open (Period)
+202
Net List Growth
40
Unsubscribes
1
New Buyer
01 · This Period's Emails

Every email vs. its category baseline

Baselines are the trailing 90 days (Mar 25 – Jun 21), full-list sends only: apply 34.1% open / 0.13% click · product 35.3% / 0.22% · content 34.0% / 1.64%. Deltas are against the email's own category.

DateSubjectTypeOpenΔ OpenClickΔ ClickUnsubs
Jun 9What You Should Have Been Told About Sex When You Were 16apply32.0%−2.10.09%−0.044
Jun 10AI Psychosisapply33.0%−1.10.15%+0.023
Jun 11Turning Your Strong Opinions Into a Good Dating Lifeapply32.9%−1.20.22%+0.097
Jun 12Why ruthless approaches are low ROIapply33.1%−1.00.17%+0.047
Jun 13A Patricia of Your Ownapply33.6%−0.50.20%+0.076
Jun 14Understanding the Beliefs that Cripple Youapply32.1%−2.00.20%+0.074
Jun 15OnlyFans vs. Strip Clubs vs. Escortsapply34.0%−0.10.25%+0.126
Jun 16A Phase, Her Character, Or Your Mood?apply31.6%−2.50.18%+0.056
Jun 17Liberating Her From Sisterhoodapply32.9%−1.20.20%+0.073
Jun 18Magic Spells She Uses Against Youapply33.4%−0.70.17%+0.044
Jun 19Don't Date The Abortion Doctorapply31.9%−2.20.15%+0.023
Jun 20Why Arranged Marriages Are Coming Backapply33.1%−1.00.71%+0.585
Jun 21The Casanova Nice Guyapply32.2%−1.90.18%+0.055
Jun 22The Best Part Of Being A Man *apply29.0%0.15%2
Jun 23The Holy Grail of Self-Work *apply15.9%0.14%1
* Jun 22–23 opens were still accumulating when the report was pulled — deltas suppressed. Every send in this window was an apply email (the Jun 13–23 stretch was the Father's Day / coaching sales sequence). No product or content emails went out this period.
02 · Standouts

Emails that beat their category

Why Arranged Marriages Are Coming Back Apply Top Performer
Jun 20 · 5.5× the apply-category click rate (0.71% vs 0.13% baseline) — the 3rd-highest click rate ever recorded for an apply email on this list. 46 people clicked through to the application. Whatever this one did — a provocative frame plus a curiosity gap on a culture-war topic — is worth studying and repeating.
Open33.1%
Click0.71%
Clicks46
Unsubs5
OnlyFans vs. Strip Clubs vs. Escorts Apply
Jun 15 · Best open rate of the period (34.0%, right at baseline in a soft month) and nearly 2× the category click rate (0.25%). The comparison-listicle subject line pulled both attention and action.
Open34.0%
Click0.25%
Unsubs6
The coaching sales sequence (Jun 13–23) Apply
The Father's Day coaching push ("$10,000 I Didn't Have," "Name Your Kid After Me," "Ayahuascan't," "No Kids") ran clicks consistently above the apply baseline (0.17–0.25% vs 0.13%) without an unsub spike — the list absorbed an 11-day sales run at normal churn. One new full-price buyer (Nicolás, DMM + OTO coaching upsell) landed inside this window.
03 · Unsub Watch

What cost subscribers — and what didn't

This period was clean: no email exceeded 0.11% unsub rate (7 people), right at the long-run norm. For context, the all-time worst offenders show what a real spike looks like.

All-Time Unsub SpikesTypeDateUnsub RateLost
Hey Fa**otapplyOct 14, 20250.43%26
Free Sex WorkshopproductNov 14, 20250.30%18
The Problem With Homo-Erotic Men's GroupsapplyOct 19, 20250.28%17
Why I Never CuckproductNov 17, 20250.25%15
Your Application Has Been DeniedapplyApr 26, 20260.25%16
Pattern: unsub spikes come from shock subject lines and launch-week fatigue, not from selling per se. The long-run unsub rate is nearly identical across apply (0.106%), product (0.119%), and content (0.112%) — daily selling does not cost meaningfully more subscribers than content.
04 · List Health

Subscriber flow: June 9 → June 23

Growth
348 new records, 146 removed — but 279 of the new records (80%) were bot form-fills on the Application Funnel. Real new subscribers: 69, led by Twitter organic (47) and the home page opt-in (20). YouTube opt-in appeared for the first time (1).
Real New+69
Bot-Filled+279
Net (All)+202
Churn
40 unsubscribes in 14 days (≈0.5% of actives — normal). Median tenure at unsubscribe was 19 months; nearly half (48%) had been on the list 2+ years. Only 6 of the 40 joined within the last 30 days, so onboarding isn't leaking. 6 people re-subscribed.
Unsubs40
Median Tenure19 mo
Re-subs6
Buyers & Intent
1 new buyer (DMM + OTO Coaching Upsell). 46 people clicked the 1-on-1 application page during the period, and 124 entered the Greatest Hits nurture sequence. The bot flood on the Application Funnel is the top action item — add bot protection before it hurts deliverability.
New Buyers1
1-on-1 Page Clicks46
Greatest Hits Adds124
06 · Method

How this report is built

Categories. Every email is classified by its CTA: apply → patstedman.com/apply (1-on-1 coaching), product → the Masterclass or Tackling Texting sales pages, content → a podcast, video, or post. Comparisons are always within category — a content email's 2% click rate and an apply email's 0.15% are both normal.

Baselines. Trailing 90 days, full-list sends only. All-time averages are inflated by the higher-open era of late 2025.

Excluded outliers. Sends under 1,000 recipients are excluded from all averages — these are segmented sends to buyers, event registrants, or sales-page visitors (e.g., "The Dynamic Man Masterclass is HERE" at 83% open to 249 buyers, the Forbidden Intimacy Deep Dive emails at ~380 registrants, "Your Free Call" to 24 people). They're a different audience, not a signal about copy. The most recent 2 days of sends are shown but not scored, since opens are still accumulating.

Sales proxy. BerserkerMail doesn't report per-email revenue. "Sold well" = high-intent clicks on apply/product emails plus buyer-tag changes in the weekly list export attributed to that window.