Email delivery is stupid. I’m not kidding. It’s been around for over 20 years but we still have 50+ email clients that all display the same code differently. And we tens of thousands of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who all basically have their own rules around managing SPAM. We have ESPs that have stringent rules that businesses have to conform to when adding a single subscriber… and those rules are never actually communicated to the
Email Address List Cleaning: Why You Need Email Hygiene And How To Choose A Service
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
Moosend: All The Marketing Automation Features To Build, Test, Track, and Grow Your Business
One exciting aspect of my industry is the continued innovation and dramatic drop in cost for highly sophisticated marketing automation platforms. Where businesses once spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (and still do) for great platforms… now the costs have dropped significantly while the featuresets continue to improve. We were recently working with an enterprise fashion fulfillment company that was ready to sign a contract for a platform that would cost them over half-a-million dollars
Cheetah Digital: How to Engage Customers In The Trust Economy
Consumers have built up a wall to protect themselves against bad actors, and have raised their standards for the brands they spend their money with. Consumers want to purchase from brands who not only demonstrate social responsibility, but who also listen, request consent, and take their privacy seriously. This is what’s called the trust economy, and it’s something all brands should have at the forefront of their strategy. Value Exchange With individuals exposed to more than
Maximize Your Deliverability with Marketing Cloud’s Sender Authentication Package
Most companies sending email truly underestimate how much deliverability can impact their organization. A beautiful, well-constructed, and highly effective email can wind up in the junk folder of someone who subscribed and wished to convert with your company. That’s a terrible situation to be in. Even worse, you may not even realize that your emails are being routed to junk unless you’re using an inbox monitoring tool. My recommendation for this is our partners at
IP Warm: Build Your New Reputation With This IP Warming Application
If you’ve got a significant size subscriber base and have had to migrate to a new email service provider (ESP), you have probably been through the pain of ramping up your new reputation. Or worse… you didn’t prepare for it and instantly found yourself in trouble with one of a few problems: Your new Email Service Provider received a complaint and instantly blocked you from sending additional email until you resolved the issue. An Internet
What Is An IP Address Reputation And How Does Your IP Score Affect Your Email Deliverability?
When it comes to sending emails and launching email marketing campaigns, your organisation’s IP score, or IP reputation, is highly important. Also known as a sender score, the IP reputation affects email deliverability, and this is fundamental for a successful email campaign, as well as for communication more widely. In this article, we examine IP scores in greater detail and look at how you can maintain a strong IP reputation. What Is An IP Score
7 Reasons to Cleanse Your Email List and How to Purge Subscribers
We’re focusing a lot on email marketing recently because we’re really seeing a lot of problems in this industry. If an executive continues to pester you on your email list growth, you really need to point them to this article. The fact is, the larger and older your email list, the more damage it may be having to your email marketing effectiveness. You should, instead, be focused on how many active subscribers you have on your