What keeps email marketers up at night? Sure, there are lots of
worries. What if my copy has a typo? What if I get flagged as spam?
What if people unsubscribe in droves?
But what they should be worrying about is a big word with
an important meaning: deliverability.
That means that emails messages are actually getting to the
recipients mailbox. The Delivra blog has covered this topic quite
often recently, discussing an overall
email marketing deliverability plan as well as focusing on
reputation...
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Marketing
emails are designed to engage the customers and generate sale
leads, but annoying email formatting errors or inaccurate content
can actually harm your brand reputation and sales. A successful
marketing campaign delivers the most relevant message to the target
audience at the right time. Know how to avoid some common errors so
your emails don’t trigger spam filters or get misunderstood.
Increase the readability and reach of your emails by following
these 3 pointers:
1. Avoid
using...
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Each
day email marketers think outside the box to make their emails
reach target customers. But are your customers actually receiving
your email? Email Spam filters are becoming smarter in keeping
inboxes free of emails which they consider, “Spam”. Therefore, it
is imperative for marketers to devise ways to bypass the spam
filters and reach their customer's inbox. Here are a few
tips:
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Clear and relevant subject line: To entice
your customer to open your email the subject line should...
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As a
marketer, you have to be careful about the emails you send. With
aggressive Spam filters everywhere, your email can easily land in
the Spam folder. Your reputation as a sender is critical in
authenticating your emails, ensuring its deliverability, and
increasing your open and click-through rates. Here are a few tips
to ensure your emails reach your reader's inbox and not the Spam
folder:
Maintain Your Email List: Having a big
database is not enough. You should periodically run an email...
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When
you send ''snail" mail, you can ensure its deliverability by
super-scribing the correct address legibly. The postman reads the
information, checks for due postage, and completes his job of
reaching the right address and delivering the mail. The type of
content does not matter much because the postman is duty bound to
deliver it even if the package is devoid of content! If,
however, there are typos in the recipient’s address, ZIP codes are
incorrect, or state abbreviations are non-standard,...
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If you're doing email marketing, you should be thinking about
your return on investment.
This isn't particularly unique to email. It's not even unique to
marketing. If you put money into some effort in your business, you
want to figure out what that investment actually produces.
For example, we recently sent out a reactivation
campaign for our ongoing business classes here in
Indianapolis. (Is your email marketing agency doing reactivation
campaigns?) Here's what it looked like:

This is a great...
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In doing some research for our upcoming
Webinar: Essentials to Managed Email Marketing, I happened upon
this graph from Econsultancy. It's part of their 2012 Digital
Trends Survey:
Does your organization use an ESP for any services
beyond the basic broad base of email?

As a marketer, I'm always looking for trends to verify (or not)
the hypothesis driving the decision. So, when Delivra made the
decision to incorporate "managed services" as a primary component
in our marketing messaging, I think a...
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Managed services basically means the action of managing work on
someone's behalf. At Delivra, managed services means that Delivra's
email experts can help your company in the following
areas:
- Production
- Deliverability
- Strategy
- Design
- And pretty much any other area you may need help in!
Marketers these days are overwhelmed with a variety of tasks
that they need to manage on a daily basis. Therefore, likely don't
have the time to dedicate to making their email marketing program
great. And if you are a...
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Email
marketing channel expenses include dollars spent on list rental,
email deployment programs, email deliverability expertise, email
design, initiatives for list growth, and many more. One of the
marketing trends predicted for the coming years is an upward swing
in the budget for the email marketing channel.
The budget allocation decision obviously stems from the fact
marketers enjoy significant return on investment (ROI) through this
channel.
Having said that, who wouldn’t like to raise the...
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