We’ve been exploring the Periodic Table of Email Optimization and Deliverability over the past few weeks, and today we’ll delve into the not-so-sexy, but still vitally important, area of infrastructure. While marketers may not be in charge of their company’s email infrastructure – typically the IT department handles such matters – it’s critical that marketers
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I have a great career because I get to play in different sandboxes. This week, for example, I got to meet with a client in financial services, one that has little to do with the holiday retail onslaught that’s beginning to descend on us from every marketing channel. As I presented on industry trends, I
Email, although a conventional mode of marketing and communication, has weathered the storms of Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Mobile, and even RSS. What has helped email become a valuable medium over time is its periodic evolution. From plain-text messages to highly targeted and automated emails, they have now mastered features like HTML and CSS coded design,
Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify has announced the launch of its newest marketing app extension, Shopify Email. Shopify Email will allow Shopify merchants to create, execute and monitor email marketing campaigns natively within the platform. The new capabilities are expected to be generally available to Shopify merchants beginning in early 2020. In 2018, Shopify launched Shopify
In recent weeks, we’ve been exploring the themes laid out in the first-ever Periodic Table of Email Optimization and Deliverability. After Permission, and inextricably tied to it, is the concept of trust. Gaining permission from a recipient to send them email sets the stage for building trust. This includes both the trust of the recipient
Email marketing platform SparkPost has announced plans to purchase reputation management, email deliverability and analytics provider eDataSource. The acquisition is expected to provide SparkPost and eDataSource customers the combined abilities to create, send and measure email performance and inbox placement analytics. The announcement also included plans to launch new capabilities, including automatic seeding and real-time
Salesforce has announced updates to its Marketing Cloud email solution to support new inbox functionalities provided by several major Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The new features include Salesforce’s AI solution, Einstein and interactive email capabilities that could serve as an alternative solution to AMP for Email. The interactive capabilities will be integrated from the company’s
Email marketing platform MessageGears will now provide support for Google’s AMP for Email. Customers will be able to include interactive AMP components within their emails. The AMP-enabled features allow recipients to take actions — such as RSVPing to an event — directly within email, rather than following a redirect to a different site or landing
The proliferation of digital channels and devices has made it more difficult for B2B marketers to accurately target prospects with the right messages, on the right devices, at the right times. Prospects are managing more of the buying process themselves, creating decision short lists by researching brand websites and social channels without ever speaking to
Identity and encryption provider DigiCert, Inc. has issued that world’s first Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) to CNN.com, a move that will enable the company to participate in upcoming trials of the Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI). VMC, a new digital certificate that validates the authenticity of the brand logo attached to an email sender’s
This month I’m going to deviate from my regular series and talk up the new Periodic Table of Email that Marketing Land just released. After being in the email business for 20 years, I can recognize the effort and organization needed to put this grand data visualization together. I give total props to the Marketing
Are you delivering the email and mobile experiences your customers expect? Are you measuring your performance the right way? Do you know how to compare your company’s campaign performance to competitors — or take learnings from industries and apply them to your own? If the answer is “no” then it’s time to learn how to
The CM Group, which oversees a number of technology brands including Campaign Monitor, has acquired the ecommerce platform Conversio. Now part of Campaign Monitor, Conversio’s technology will be used to launch CM Commerce, a new email product designed for smaller retailers. “Conversio is one of the most highly rated and highly reviewed applications in the
In December 2010, something unexpected happened: Facebook surpassed Google in terms of website traffic according to The Economist. Over the next few years, the Facebook-dominant phenomenon would repeat in other ways: time spent, usage on mobile devices, user growth, etc. Ten years ago there seemed to be no ceiling to how high, or how fast,
250ok, an email analytics and deliverability platform, has integrated Google Postmaster Tools data into its solution. It can pull in Google Postmaster data from Gmail across multiple IP addresses and sending domains for deliverability analysis via an API. Google Postmaster Tools, launched in 2015, is a resource for high volume senders to analyze email performance
As we were developing the first-ever Periodic Table of Email Optimization and Deliverability, which we launched at the MarTech Conference in Boston recently, we consulted with many email experts to determine the essential elements for success in this complex medium. One of the important themes to emerge was that of Permission, which resides in the
Device identity resolution provider BounceX has announced that it will be expanding its partnership with email marketing, automation and marketing software provider, Emarsys. The partnership includes a strategic integration between BounceX and Emarsys that is said to support revenue growth with intelligent acquisition tactics and connected customer journeys for the companies’ mutual customers. The BounceX
Twilio SendGrid’s Email Validation API, which was launched in beta earlier this year, is now generally available to customers with Pro and Premier Email API plans. The API allows developers to integrate in order to catch potential typos, inactive email addresses and share email accounts among other criteria that can damage your brand’s sending reputation
You’ve probably heard plenty of talk about how email marketing is dying or even that it’s already dead. In fact, based on the insights gathered by SharpSpring and Ascend2, it seems the opposite is true. Marketing influencers at 145 businesses with 500 or fewer employees tell us email is alive and thriving. Download this PDF
Email marketing has the highest ROI out of all marketing channels and we all know that. But did you know that email didn’t start as an evolution of superior marketing? The origin of mass emailing started as spam back in 1978 when Digital Equipment Corp’s marketing manager Gary Thuerk emailed more than 600 clients over
It was surprising to learn that more than two in five financial services customers say they rarely or never receive relevant marketing communications from financial services companies they’ve used before or are currently using, according to a new Yes Marketing study. Additionally, nearly a quarter (22%) of consumers say they hear from companies across channels
Marketing Land’s sister site, Search Engine Land, pioneered the highly successful Periodic Table of SEO – a guide to the essential aspects of search engine optimization that debuted in 2011. Now, we are continuing and expanding our commitment to marketers with the Periodic Table of Email Optimization and Deliverability – a guide that tells you
Martech is always changing and evolving, and the same is true for one of the oldest martech applications in our toolsets — email marketing. Many organizations treat email like a static piece of marketing technology and leave email deliverability up to the email service providers, but marketing to the managed inbox needs to be an
Way back when the Internet was young and early internet surfers were using 3600 baud modems to launch themselves via copper into the Netscape driven cyberverse, trust and identity were not really as important as they are today. Flash forward to today: Identity and reputation both play a critical role for re-establishing trust across digital
Email optimization and deliverability are critical to our marketing programs, and a new report [registration required] from Return Path indicates that marketers are starting to pay closer to attention to the key factors that help their email reach the intended inboxes. Reaching the inbox continues to challenge marketers as bad actors continuously develop new methods
Email marketing provider, GetResponse, has released its latest global email marketing benchmarks report, which analyzed over four billion email marketing campaigns sent from 126 countries and spanning 19 industries. GetResponse analyzed emails sent between from January through June 2019. Why we should care The report findings detail the effectiveness of different email marketing strategies and
Email delivery firm, SparkPost, has announced new enhancements to its validation service, SparkPost Recipient Validation. According to SparkPost, the enhancements include additional data which doubles the number of bad email address it is able to detect. The feature identifies the bad email addresses using historical bounce data and analyzes the sending behavior of other SparkPost
Delivering personalized communications that drive customer engagement at every touchpoint continues to be a challenge for most marketers. And with a plethora of channels to choose from, it can be difficult to determine where to allocate budget and resources to ensure the best customer experiences — and drive the best outcomes. Earlier this year, performance
Email marketing campaigns are only effective when messages reach inboxes. And then, even if your email makes it to the inbox, will it be opened and read? Best practices for successful inbox placement and open rates have evolved over the years, leading to an abundance of new and old myths surrounding deliverability, subject lines, and
While summer can be a slower season for some retailers, the large success with massive summer shopping events like Amazon’s Prime Day for brands not named Amazon show there is opportunity in every season. Most importantly, it doesn’t have to be a grand gesture or event. Small changes and tweaks can make a world of