Be honest… what do you really think about us!? 🤔 — email screenshot from SemRush
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SemRush

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Be honest… what do you really think about us!? 🤔

Semrush Team
August 21, 2024

About this email

This is a customer satisfaction survey email from Semrush aimed at gathering user feedback to improve their service. The email features a clear call to action, asking recipients to rate their satisfaction on a 1-5 scale with clickable star icons, supported by branded visuals to engage users. The tone is polite and professional, encouraging participation while emphasizing the company's commitment to continuous improvement.

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Why this works

**Why this works.** The subject line drops the corporate mask ("Be honest… what do you really think about us!?") and speaks to a real tension users feel - they assume feedback requests are theater - which breaks through survey fatigue by treating the ask as a genuine conversation, not a compliance checkbox. The pattern here is "name the objection before the ask"; you can lift it for any NPS or satisfaction survey where you need users to actually click instead of delete.