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

Written by Julia G

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 Email users may still remember the days when identifying a phishing email was easy …

14 Real Tips to Avoid Email Deliverability Issues

Written by Julia G

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 Email users …

Understanding Deliverability Metrics

Written by Julia G

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 emails sent. For example, the 0.1% complaint rate is considered acceptable and often seen among good senders, but the 0.5% rate is already too high.

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

Written by Julia G

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 protect their users against the assault of increasing volumes of spam and malicious emails.

On the other hand, the war of Internet service providers (ISPs) against spammers harms legitimate email senders, and your marketing results suffer because of this, right?

Improve Email Deliverability: Insights and Best Practices That Really Work

Written by Julia G

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% performance improvement for your next email marketing campaign?

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 …

How to Get Emails Past Spam Filters and Email Firewalls

Written by Julia G

Even legitimate email marketers who send CAN-SPAM compliant emails to people who subscribed to their lists have their emails filtered as spam all the time. Unfortunately, there’s no quick and permanent fix. However, if you understand what spam is, how spam filters work, and what mistakes cause the email to be filtered as spam, you will be able to reduce …

14 Tips to Avoid the Spam Folder

Written by Julia G

If you are very serious about email deliverability, you should regularly test to ensure your legitimate email gets delivered to the Inbox. In this post we offer the best email marketing practices you must follow to keep your emails out of the spam folder. Related Posts Email users may still remember the days when identifying a phishing email was easy …