The Whitelist

As we’ve been saying these last few weeks with repeated posts on improving your email delivery rates, there are all kinds of ways to increase your deliverability. And all are worth taking a look at because even if you improve by ½%, that can add up to a significant impact on your email marketing ROI. If every tweak you made mattered a little, but you tackled a number of them, every tweak added together can mean a marked improvement!

But the next step is to get your email marketing opened and acted upon. For tips, tricks and expert advice on increasing your email marketing ROI after you get to the inbox, download our popular email marketing whitepaper titled, “You’ve made it to the inbox. Now what? Driving ROI once your email is delivered” available here.

Pulled together by top email marketing consultants, this whitepaper is even more helpful now as subscriber engagement becomes a key factor in how ISPs look at your email marketing: as spam or not.

Make all of these email best practices part of your email marketing process today by downloading the whitepaper here.

Time and again in this email marketing blog, we preach relevance as key to email marketing ROI.

But what is relevant? Relevant to me could be ridiculous to you.

Regardless of varying interpretations of the word’s meaning, the concept remains critical to your email marketing success. So let’s clarify.

Relevant email marketing means your email marketing subscriber gets emails from you when she wants, how she wants and with information she wants.
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We’ve preached here and in our email marketing newsletter about the importance of an effective landing page as an email best practice…and that it must be a smooth transition from email to Web page so you don’t jolt or lose the visitor.

But it occurred to us lately that maybe we’ve focused too much on making sure they’re similar to avoid a disconnect between your email and your landing page. Maybe we haven’t done a good job of spelling out the differences between the email someone gets and the landing page that email drives them to.
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Next week Lyris sponsors a critical email marketing webinar featuring our own Michael Kelly. Titled “Reaching the Inbox – E-mail Reputation and Deliverability,” the one-hour webinar will take on email delivery and how your email marketing reputation affects your deliverability. The panel will cover:
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Email marketing is made up of many moving parts. There are technical parts like the software, policy parts like CAN SPAM compliance, tricky parts like the email delivery, email design parts like alt text, and last and certainly not least, the word parts.
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Another nugget from Merkle’s new email marketing whitepaper says that line of text asking recipients to add your company to their address book really does work!

As an email marketing advisor, we at ClickMail are firm believers in doing everything you can to improve your email delivery rate. As we’ve pointed out before in an earlier email marketing blog post, even a slight change in your email delivery rate can add up to significantly more email marketing ROI. That’s why we encourage our email marketing clients to do everything they can to improve their email delivery, even if that means switching their email service provider (ESP).
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Another nugget from Merkle’s new email marketing whitepaper says that line of text asking recipients to add your company to their address book really does work!

As an email marketing advisor, we at ClickMail are firm believers in doing everything you can to improve your email delivery rate. As we’ve pointed out before in an earlier email marketing blog post, even a slight change in your email delivery rate can add up to significantly more email marketing ROI. That’s why we encourage our email marketing clients to do everything they can to improve their email delivery, even if that means switching their email service provider (ESP).
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Sure you might feel a bit overwhelmed by all the authentication methods out there: SenderID, DomainKeys and DKIM. But that doesn’t mean you can afford to ignore them, especially DKIM and especially now. Every email marketer knows maximizing email delivery is critical. Authentication helps.

In November, AOL announced plans to start using DKIM in early 2009, and they were true to their word. That means they join Yahoo and Google in using DKIM to measure sender reputations…including yours.
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As further follow up to ExactTarget’s email deliverability webinar last week, ‘Getting to the Inbox: Why “Send” Is Not the End and Reputation Is King,’ let’s talk opt in.

As the webinar pointed out and we covered in our last email marketing blog post, email delivery is a huge concern among email marketers, and reputation is the key to deliverability.
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Last week we sat in on ExactTarget’s email deliverability webinar, ‘Getting to the Inbox: Why “Send” Is Not the End and Reputation Is King.’

The webinar pointed out that as concerned as email marketers are with maximizing their email delivery rates, they still aren’t paying enough attention to reputation.

According to the webinar, actions taken by email marketers to improve email delivery in 2008 included:
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