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Deliverability
Tips and strategies to ensure your email reaches its destination.
What to look for in an email verification tool
Marketers know how important growing a list of contacts is to the success of a business. The more people who give you permission to deliver messages to their inboxes, the more...
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Numbers don’t lie: What factors are impacting your deliverability?
It’s no secret that many first-time senders struggle with delivery across different mailbox providers. What makes this even more complicated is that your delivery rate might differ...
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Improve your email bounce rate: The deliverability mindset
Oh, the elusive email bounce rate, the bane of email marketers everywhere. Email marketing metrics like open rate, conversion rate, click-through rate, and engagement...
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Domain warm-up and reputation: Stretch before you send
So, you wanted to send out a lot of emails but found that when you did, a lot of them either ended up undelivered or in the spam folder. Think of it like this: When you start working...
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Email Scams: How to spot and avoid them
Not to be dramatic but falling victim to email scams can destroy a person’s life, cripple a business, cost millions of dollars, and waste countless hours of time. The worst part is...
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Ditch the noreply email (and what to do instead)
Automated emails – what’s not to love? Email marketing campaigns can be automatically sent out for customer birthdays, transactional email receipts, and just about any email...
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Reverse DNS white labeling: How it works
The Domain Name System (DNS) is about as old as the internet itself, and it’s easy to understand why. Domain names, like mailgun.com, are way easier to memorize and...
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Sunset policy and email engagement: A complete guide
Have you ever been on the receiving end of a long, drawn-out breakup? It’s awful. But the worst is when you simply get ghosted. They stop answering your texts and calls and...
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How to prevent outbound spam
Spam sucks. That’s the long and short of it. We’ve talked about how to identify and prevent spam, but what if you’re part of the problem? We’re talking about outbound spam exiting...
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Beware of phishing emails
You’ve got mail! But is it legitimate? Even if you recognize the company that sent you the email, it’s best to double-check any emails that request sensitive information, like...
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