12 Questions You Should Be Asking If You Have Deliverability Issues

Written by Julia G

Email marketing is the most convenient means of reaching new and existing customers and subscribers throughout the year. Companies and online marketers can send email marketing campaigns to introduce their products and services, showcase new features, promote their blogs, and give exclusive offers to re-engage customers who haven’t been active in a while. Related Posts Gmail is the world’s most …

Advanced Email Analytics

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3 Things You Need To Know About Bounced Emails and FBL Email Handling

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Handling of bounce emails and feedback loops is a part of best email marketing practices. And there is a solid ground for this. Ignoring bounce and FBL emails lead to serious consequences from bad sender reputation to blacklisting issues and problems with email deliverability. Related Posts Gmail is the world’s most popular email service, but the introduction of the “Promotions” …

14 Real Tips to Avoid Email Deliverability Issues

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You spend a lot of time designing a beautiful branded email template, polishing up your email copy, and crafting a teasing and enticing subject line that should skyrocket your email open and click-through rate. But before pressing the Send button, did you think that your subscribers might not even get the opportunity to see your email? Related Posts Gmail is …

Understanding Deliverability Metrics

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Many email marketers are mistakenly assured in their ability to reach their recipients when they observe a high delivery rate. But what the “delivery rate” term actually means is the number of sent emails that did not return as a hard or soft bounce. In reality, a delivered email could end up in the Inbox, or spam box, or could …

Everything You Should Know about Spam Complaints

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No one is safe from spam complaints. Complaints can happen even to good marketers who are sending to permission-based email lists. The complaint rate used to be underestimated, but the recent research shows that 20% of deliverability issues were caused by a lot of spam complaints. The complaint rate is calculated as the number of “report spam/junk” complaints out of …

Everything Email Marketers Need to Know About Email Sender Reputation

Written by Julia G

When it comes to email marketing, deliverability means getting email marketing messages to the recipients’ Inboxes. It is the key to a successful email campaign. Over the past years, email deliverability has evolved. While the subject lines, spam filter triggering words, special characters, and image-text ratio have been the most important things to pay attention to in the past, these …

How to Maximize Inbox Delivery: Best Practices that You Can Implement Today

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The Internet and email have created new opportunities for businesses of all sizes and across all markets. The bad thing is that malicious senders are abusing email too. I bet you are receiving hundreds of ads and promos every day from people you have not even heard of. Thus, ISPs and all receiving networks are forced to take measures to …

Improve Email Deliverability: Insights and Best Practices That Really Work

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Some 17% of emails from legitimate senders around the world failed to reach the inbox during the year-long period according to Return Path’s latest study on this topic. Globally, the average Inbox placement rate saw a decline from 85% to 83%, meaning that 1 in every 6 commercial emails fails to reach the Inbox. How would you like a 21% …

Can’t Keep Up? 9 Ways to Simplify Your Path to the Recipient’s Inbox

Written by Julia G

Email marketing is about the balance between strategy, deliverability, funding, process, staffing, and the need of the customer. There is a whole set of things that influence the final decision. Deliverability is just one of them. When you are making a decision about re-activating customers, sending that next promotional, transactional or welcome email, deliverability becomes one of the things for …

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