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How to avoid emails going to the spam folder – words to avoid and more

2Dec

By Sean TinneyNo Comments

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How to avoid emails going to the spam folder – words to avoid and more

By Sean Tinney November 30, 2023 Let’s face it, nothing feels more frustrating than pouring your heart into a carefully crafted email, only to discover it’s taken an unexpected detour to your subscriber’s spam folder. It’s not as if you can send an email to your subscribers asking them to safelist you, because those emails will just end up in spam. It’s a vicious cycle.But what can you do to avoid your emails from going to spam? To increase your chances that your emails make it safely into your subscribers inbox, there are some basic steps you can take to avoid spam filters. In this blog we’ll highlight those simple and easy to implement steps to avoid emails going to spam. Plus we’ll share a well documented tip for staying out of the spam folder that, in actuality,...

20Jun

By Pam NeelyNo Comments

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Why Are My Emails Going to Spam?

By Pam Neely June 8, 2022 Nobody likes spam. But you know what’s even worse? Having your emails categorized as spam. If you’ve put a lot of work into an email message or a newsletter, it can sting to see even one person mark it as spam. Why would anyone do that, right? You’re a good sender. You’re not… a spammer! But even good people can get their messages marked as spam. So let’s help your self-esteem and your email marketing metrics. We’ll walk through how even the best people can occasionally have their emails end up in the spam folder. What is spam? Spam is any email sent to someone who did not sign up to receive it. Spam is sometimes also called “unsolicited bulk email” or “junk email.” Incredibly, almost half of all emails sent are spam. This means that ...

5Jun

By Alyse FalkNo Comments

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Best Practices for Double Opt-in

By Alyse Falk May 10, 2022 Building your list the right way has long-term rewards. How you set up the sign up process for your email list can have a big effect on how engaged your subscribers will be later on. It might seem counterintuitive, but if you let people subscribe without any sort of confirmation, you can end up with a less engaged and less profitable list. This is why one of the proven best practices of email marketing is to use “double opt-in.” In this post, we’ll cover: What double opt-in isDouble opt-in versus single opt-inAn example of how double opt-in worksThe pros and cons of each sign up settingHow to set up double opt-inCommon mistakes people make when they set up double opt-in Double opt-in does require some extra work, both for you and your subsc...

How to Include a Physical Address in Your Emails Without Revealing Where You Live

1Jun

By Pam NeelyNo Comments

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How to Include a Physical Address in Your Emails Without Revealing Where You Live

By Pam Neely May 24, 2022 CAN-SPAM law requires all commercial emails include the sender’s physical address. But that doesn’t mean you have to include your home address. Adding your business’s — or your own — physical address to all your emails is a required step when you set up your first email campaign. It makes some people a little nervous. “What if someone comes to my house?” Fortunately, there are ways to meet this requirement without revealing where you live or risking a fine. But first, let’s explain why you have to include that physical address. CAN-SPAM law and physical email address Everybody hates spam emails. (Especially us!) And adding a physical address to your emails is one of the best ways to stop spammers and reduce how many unwanted emails we ...

Re-Engagement Emails: 10 Examples of How to Win Back Email Subscribers

16Apr

By Pam NeelyNo Comments

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Re-Engagement Emails: 10 Examples of How to Win Back Email Subscribers

By Pam Neely April 15, 2022 Are inactive subscribers weighing down your email marketing results? See how to revive your list with re-engagement emails. Re-engagement emails are one of the best-kept secrets for keeping your email list engagement rates high. In this post, we’ll show you: Why re-engagement email campaigns are importantHow to write effective re-engagement emails10 great re-engagement email examples But first, let’s talk about decay. Specifically, email list decay. Email list decay (aka “email address decay” or “email database decay”) is the percent of email subscribers’ addresses that are abandoned or go inactive. List decay can happen for many reasons, like someone leaving a job or creating a new email address and abandoning their old email addres...

Apple iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection Open Rate Trends

3Oct

By Tom KulzerNo Comments

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Apple iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection Open Rate Trends

By Tom Kulzer October 1, 2021 Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) rollout in iOS 15 has Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) rollout in iOS 15 has caused fascinating changes in open rate metrics. The most interesting of which is the change in behavior of when we see opens being detected. Let’s dive into a few charts using data from hundreds of millions of delivered messages. Apple Mail opens by a percentage of total mail sent Below you’ll see the raw volume trends of user opens as Apple iOS 15 is adopted on an hourly basis. Raw opens by hour as Apple iOS 15 is adopted. More Night Time Readers? Look closely and you’ll see the peaks and valleys are different on older iOS versions vs. Apple’s new MPP proxy in iOS 15. Putting proxied iOS 15 tr...

Why You Should Clean Your Email List (and How to Do It)

11Mar

By Kelly ForstNo Comments

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Why You Should Clean Your Email List (and How to Do It)

By Kelly Forst March 9, 2021 Want to run a successful marketing campaign? Then it’s time to clean house. You built up your list of subscribers. Now it’s time to remove a bunch of them. Because a clean email list can work wonders. In fact, cleaning your email list can improve three key metrics: deliverability, open rates and click rates. The better these metrics, the more successful your email marketing campaign will be. That’s because a smaller list of engaged subscribers — people who actively read and interact with your content and brand — are more valuable than a larger list of subscribers who never open your content. In fact, lists with numerous inactive email addresses typically have higher rates of bounces, spam complaints and unsubscribes than ones that do...