Tag Archives: spam

164: Ruari Baker: The 3 most important things you can do for email deliverability: Multi-subdomains, email validation 3.0 and good ol’ postmaster

Your fancy AI personalization messaging strategy doesn’t mean anything if you don’t also have a strategy for email deliverability. Ruari busts long-standing myths about HTML vs plain text, why open rates died with Apple’s 2021 privacy changes, and why the spam complaints visible in your marketing platform represent a fraction of reality. You’ll walk away with 3 deliverability tactics that will help you reach the inbox and stay there.More

160: Mac Reddin: How to leverage dinosaurs to get warm intros and drive better pipeline

Mac treks through the Jurassic wilderness of modern sales, where outbound campaigns cannibalize themselves while AI-powered sequences are degrading response quality by the day. Real marketing power flows through human networks, forward-thinking companies are transforming their SDR teams into relationship architects who measure success through network depth and authentic engagement. Be the team that does better.More

98: You Shall Not Pass: Google’s New Spam Guidelines and What it Means for Email Marketers

Google and Yahoo’s recent guidelines largely reaffirm established best practices in email marketing. However, a key new detail is the public disclosure of a 0.3% spam complaint rate threshold. While exceeding this rate in a single instance won’t immediately land you in the spam folder or get you blocked, it’s a clear signal of stricter enforcement ahead. Maintaining a consistently low complaint rate is crucial, as repeatedly crossing the 0.3% mark will now lead to more severe consequences than before. More

43: There’s a domain reputation behind every email

Most email marketers understand that email domain and IP reputation play a critical role in your ability to land in the inbox. But most email marketers will admit they are easily spooked by all the accompanying fancy authentication acronyms. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, they just mean allowing Gmail and other email clients to verify you as the sender. We’ll break those and many more email deliverability tips right now.More

42: Exit through the promos tab, even as a brand

Most companies should accept that their marketing emails are destined for the promos tab in Gmail. Instead they should focus on standing out from all the other newsletters. –and consider themselves lucky they aren’t in the spam folder. But there is good news. If your business is willing to radically change their HTML heavy templated email strategy in favor of a personal 1-1 text based strategy, brands can find a way into the primary tab.More