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The email marketing dashboard

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The dashboard is the health check for your email database: how many people you can actually reach, and how many you have lost along the way.

FigureCounts
Total peopleEveryone in your database.
Unique email addressesDistinct addresses — lower than total people, because some share an address and some have none.
Approximate sending countRoughly how many you could reach today, once the exclusions below are taken off.
Unsubscribe listPeople who asked to stop. Permanent.
Bounced listAddresses that rejected mail.
Failed listSends that could not be delivered.
Invalid listAddresses that are not deliverable.

Why the sendable number is lower

The gap between total people and the approximate sending count is people with no address, duplicates, unsubscribes, bounces and anyone whose marketing emails are switched off. That gap is normal — a large and growing one is worth investigating.

What to act on

  • A growing bounced list — your data is ageing. Verifying addresses on import stops most of it.
  • A jump in unsubscribes — usually the last campaign: too frequent, or sent to people who never expected it.
  • Recent campaigns at the bottom show what has gone out from the organisation and from your tribes, so you can see the whole picture before adding to it.

The statistics are cached for speed; refresh statistics recalculates them when you have just made a big change.