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Improving Campaign Deliverability for PC and Mobile Users by Wendy Lowe
All the time spent planning your campaigns seems like a waste if a large number of your email messages are not making it to your subscribers' inboxes. Moreover, the constant evolution of technology means more people are checking their email ...
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Bring Deliverability and Design Together to Maximize Email Marketing Success by Neil Anuskiewicz
Getting your permission-based email marketing emails into the inbox and ensuring that your email design is just right are closely related. Here is some useful information on the nexus between the two as well as on doing both well.
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Tips on Avoiding Deliverability Disaster by Barton Schaefer, PhD
Will nearly 100 percent of my marketing email end up in my customers' spam folders? The answer may be "yes" if your company doesn't change its email practices.
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Managing Email Frequency: Focus on the Subscriber by Loren McDonald
In the holiday email season of 2008, retailers turned up the gas on their email campaigns, hoping to salvage what was predicted to be a flat or down consumer-spending season. Chad White's Retail Email Index shows retailers sent a record number ...
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Email Deliverability Is in Your Hands by Adam Covati
Deliverability is high up on the list of an email marketer's concerns. In fact, a recent report from Jupiter Research, the 2008 Email Marketing Buyer's Guide, found that deliverability is the number-one consideration for marketers when selecting an email service ...
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Optimize Email Deliverability With Best-Practice Strategies by Dan Forootan
If you're a marketer, every undelivered message translates into lost revenue. Luckily, there are ways to improve the odds of delivery and decrease the chance of running into problems in the first place. The key to email deliverability lies in earning ...
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Halloween Email Advice: How to Revive Your Dead Subscribers by Jordan Ayan
Are dead email addresses haunting your open and click-through rates? If once-active recipients have stopped opening your emails, are no longer actively reading your messages, or aren't clicking on email links, those recipients are no longer in the land of ...
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Key Tune-up Tips to Keep Your Email Campaigns Humming by Lena Waters
In this era of blocked images, preview panes, new ISP deliverability rules, and the constant flux in rendering issues associated with Web-based and desktop email clients... a one-size-fits-all email design just won't cut it. Each email template needs to be ...
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RSS: What's in It for Marketers? (Part 2) by Eric Frenchman
RSS may not ever replace email as a delivery tool. But nonetheless, it will move Web site traffic, because people can use RSS readers to receive content without having to visit a site. Here's part two of a primer on RSS, ...
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Is Your IP Address Whitelisted? by Neil Anuskiewicz
You play by the rules. Your list is confirmed opt-in. You have spent time writing a compelling message and an inspiring call to action. Your graphic designers have designed a stunning custom email. You then send the email to your list ...
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Deliverability: Are Your Email Messages Trusted? by Joshua Baer
Deliverability is overwhelmingly the greatest email marketing challenge. What can you do to make sure your marketing campaigns avoid the obstacles and get delivered for the highest possible ROI?
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Thought Leaders Commune on Email Marketing, Part 2: Getting Past the Spam Filters by Stephan Spencer
MarketingProfs recently convened a Thought Leaders Summit of global experts to discuss the critical issues facing email marketers today. On hand were the likes of Chris Baggot of Exact Target, consultant Rok Hrastnik, DoubleClick's Eric Kirby of DoubleClick, and Forrester's ...
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Case Study: How to Beat the Spam Filters by Kristie Tamsevicius
Between getting caught in spam filters or being blocked by ISPs and disappearing in the sheer volume of email that's out there, it's tough to guarantee that your newsletter actually gets into the hands of your customer. Recently, the author ...
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SWOT Team: Creating Effective Media Kits by Hank Stroll
This week, add your two pesos to the dilemma: What makes for an effective media kit? What works and what doesn't? Also this week, read your answers to last week's query: How do you prevent email newsletters from being ...
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Email Marketing: The First 48 Hours Are Critical by Raj Khera
The next time you broadcast a permission-based email to your customers, members or newsletter subscribers, monitor your response for the next 48 hours. That's when the vast majority—80%—of those who would open your message will actually open it, according to ...
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SWOT Team: Preventing Email Bounce-Back by Hank Stroll
This week, add your two pesos to the dilemma: What steps can you take to ensure your email newsletters get through spam filters (and don't bounce back)? Also this week, read your answers to: What do you do when your audience ...
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SWOT Team: What's the Least Painful Way to Measure ROI? by Hank Stroll
Marketing departments often have the challenge of dealing with too much data. This week: How do you collect the right sort of data and measure the efficiency of a marketing campaign? Join the conversation! Also this week, read your answers to ...
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What to Look for in an Email Services Provider (Part 1 of 2) by Paul Broni
It's important to get your money's worth when hiring an email services provider.
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Giving It Away by Tom Barnes
Here’s the challenge: How do we very simply communicate our U.C. (unilateral concession) in a credible way (without saying free)?
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Will California’s Spam Law Kill Your Email Marketing? by Brian Klais
hile California's new spam law is aimed at spammers, its wake is rippling toward every legitimate email marketer.
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Just Give Me the Facts, Ma'am
When your email campaigns encounter deliverability issues—especially those for which you are not at fault—you might think the best way to resolve your problem is to make friends with an ...
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Get Out That Rake
"Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan had a problem. With an abysmal delivery rate of 81.29 percent, his email campaigns weren't getting through to many of the people who wanted them. "The ...
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Don't Try That Around Here
Laura Atkins, in a blog at Word to the Wise, recently invited the blogosphere to comment on a reader's claim that direct-mail catalog marketers would soon begin to rent and ...
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Stop Being So Mysterious
"In email marketing, we seem to tolerate a level of mystery that would not be acceptable in any other channel," says Stephanie Miller in a post at the Daily Fix ...
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20% of Commercial Emails Not Delivered
As the global recession grinds on, marketers continue to turn to email marketing to drive sales. But those efforts often confront email-deliverability obstacles: In the US and Canada, more than ...
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Think of It as a Club
You understand how email delivery works, but perhaps you have trouble explaining the process to your boss, a client or a colleague. If so, you're in luck. An entertaining post ...
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Where Did They Go?!
If you've noticed an unusual drop in open rates for messages sent to Gmail accounts—and for B2C companies, this could represent a large percentage of subscribers—it's probably not your fault. ...
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Beware the Spaminator
The best email offer in the world won't accomplish much if it never reaches your intended recipient. Beware: there are strong forces at work these days trying their best to block your ...
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Glad You Could Join Us!
Smith-Harmon just released its Retail Welcome Email Benchmark Study, which examines best practices at 112 of the Internet's largest retailers. And in a recent post at the Email Karma blog, ...
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Behold the Golden Channel
If you're new to digital marketing, you're not alone—and it's never too late to start making an online impact. This especially holds true with email—which, for many marketers, has proved ...
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That Bounce Ain't So Soft
"Most email marketers do not view soft bounces as being a major cause for concern," says Dela Quist in the UK DMA Email Marketing Council newsletter, "so rarely, if ever, ...
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Getting Past the Bouncer
No matter how good the offer in your email is, you won't see any results if subscribers don't receive your message. This reality makes deliverability an extremely high priority. Neil ...
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Love the MIME
In a wide-ranging video interview with BNET, strategist RJ Talyor of ExactTarget discusses a range of email marketing issues, and provides insight on the best way to handle messages sent ...
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The Time to Authenticate is Now
"There's been talk for some time now that ISPs would eventually take into consideration whether an email was authenticated when deciding whether to block email from a particular sender," says ...
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Why Don't You Click With Me?
Chances are good that fewer than 15 percent of your list clicked on at least one link in your last email. "Think about that," says Mark Brownlow in a post ...
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Four Key Deliverability Questions
If you're like the majority of marketers polled by Jupiter Research, your number one consideration when choosing an ESP is deliverability. But Adam Covati says an ESP can only do ...
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The Dummies Prove a Point
How well does your subscription process handle improperly entered—or clearly malicious—email addresses? If the findings presented in a whitepaper by FreshAddress are any indication, the answer might be: not so ...
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Stay Away from the Honeypots!
In a pair of posts at Email Marketing Reports, Mark Brownlow discusses the subject of spam traps. He says there are two main types: Honeypots. "Some [anti-spam] organizations put specific ...
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CAN-SPAM and Permission: Boosting Deliverability
Last week, we discussed some of the common CAN-SPAM pitfalls detailed in an ExactTarget whitepaper. Now, we're switching our focus from meeting minimum requirements to actually raising the deliverability bar. ...
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