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 clients. It’s not as simple as double opt-in in the industry. Sites like ours work with partners on shared campaigns
10 Email Tracking Metrics You Should be Monitoring
As you view your email campaigns, there are a number of metrics that you need to focus on to improve your overall email marketing performance. Email behaviors and technologies have evolved over time – so be sure to update the means by which you monitor your email performance. In the past, we’ve also shared some of the formulae behind key email metrics. Inbox Placement – avoiding SPAM folders and Junk filters must be monitored if you’ve got a significant number of subscribers (100k+). Your sender’s reputation, the verbiage used in your subject lines and message
5 Mistakes that Could Get Your Email in the Spam Folder
If there’s one part of my job that continues to make me beat my head up against the wall, it’s email deliverability. We continue to grow an engaged list of email subscribers but geesh, ISPs are ridiculous. In businesses, one thing that happens is that emails turn over as employees come and go. We’ll have subscribers consistently interacting for months and then – poof – the emails bounce. Or worse, they’re routed to some other employee who reports it as SPAM. We can literally go weeks without any reports of SPAM and very minor unsubscribe