Email marketing is a blood sport. In the last 20 years, the only thing that’s changed with email is that good email senders continue to get punished more and more by email service providers. While ISPs and ESPs could totally coordinate if they wanted to, they simply don’t. The result is that there’s an adversarial relationship between the two. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) block Email Service Providers (ESPs)… and then ESPs are forced to block
Hunter: How To Find A B2B Contact Email Address In Seconds
There are times when you really need to just get an email address to contact a colleague that you don’t have in your address book. I’m always surprised, for example, how many people have a LinkedIn account registered to a personal email address. We’re connected, so I look them up, drop them an email… and then never get a response. I’ll go through all the direct message interfaces across social media sites and the response
Email Validation Versus Verification
We were having a discussion with a founder of an email cleansing platform, on the state of the email list cleansing industry. If you go to that link, you’ll find a lot of players in the market – many of which we’ve tested and used for our clients. We struck up a relationship with Neverbounce (now a sponsor of the blog) because their system did an extraordinary job of verifying our newsletter list and our
FindThatLead Prospector: Search and Find Targeted Lead Email Addresses
Are you searching for a certain target’s email but you don’t know how to reach them? FindThatLead has a comprehensive database of email addresses and an interface to query and download them for prospecting. Is it legal? Actually, yes. All the emails are generated with FindThatLead’s algorithm based on patterns, or found on public sites through the web. How FindThatLead Prospector Works Select segmentation – Choose between the different variables to make your search more
BlackBox: Risk Management for ESPs Fighting Spammers
BlackBox describes itself as a consolidated, continually updated database of nearly every email address that is actively being bought and sold on the open market. It is used exclusively by Email Service Providers (ESPs), in order to predetermine if a sender’s list is permission-based, spammy, or outright toxic. Many of the problems that email service providers run into is fly-by-night spammers that purchase a large list, import it into their platform, and then send to
