The road to email inboxes is fraught with perils of all kinds, even for the most upstanding marketers. Blacklists, white lists, and smarter inboxes that sort mail based on a user's preferences are factors that can influence what happens to your message. As deliverability hinges on both technical and marketing know-how, we asked two email privacy and deliverability experts to help navigate through the delivery maze.
When you base your ad sales solely on the size of your list, you not only paint yourself into a corner, you are destined for deliverability issues.
What can email marketers learn from the FTC's final privacy report?
Five scenarios where consumers are regarded as "active users" and a look at how active they really are.
After several stable years, the inbox placement rate fell from 81% in the first half of 2012 to 76.5% in the second half.
Sometimes it's best to take a step back and look at it your marketing from the perspective of the most important people to your company: your customers.
We have to face the facts: everyone gets their email stream blocked at some point in their digital communications career.
If you keep sending the same non-targeted, irrelevant messages over and over, you can expect one result.
Looking at email bounces from an ISP's perspective. Part four in a four-part series.
There are still brands out there that don't have a true understanding of the need to follow customer preferences. Make sure your brand isn't one of them.
Steps that all marketers should take in the new year based on what we learned in 2011.
A look at how bounces are handled in the underbelly of the Internet.
Keep in mind upfront costs, backend costs, and the true value of the resulting email address.
Be sure you can interpret and respond to the machine responses when email fails to be delivered to its intended recipient and know how to fix it. Part two in a three-part series.
Four misconceptions that have arisen from urban legends that are haunting email marketers and need to be debunked.