Email and eCRM

Best Practices for Managing Email Deliverability

The key to achieving best practice in deliverability is ensuring there is a procedure to check for potential delivery problems before broadcast. Senders who use in-house systems must ensure that their mail server is configured to minimise deliverability problems and that any potential delivery problems are reviewed after every campaign. This chapter looks at several […]

Factors Influencing Email Deliverability

Email deliverability, though a shared responsibility between email and IT teams, should be of particular concern to marketers, as it directly impacts a business’s ability to achieve its objectives for customer engagement and revenue. This chapter looks at the factors affecting email deliverability and how they work. Email deliverability: An overview Email deliverability covers the […]

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Maintaining Email List Quality

Having established a permission-first approach to email address acquisition, it is then key to ensure the data is correct and to provide customers with customisation options to discourage unsubscribes and spam complaints. This helps to maintain the list quality. This chapter looks at how this can be achieved. Establishing a system for data correction At […]

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Email List Growth and Address Acquisition

Best practice for sustainable growth of email lists acknowledges the benefits of cultivating a list of high-quality subscribers over a longer period. This chapter looks at the permission-first approach to acquiring email addresses, and how to optimise the opt-in process for potential subscribers. List growth: An overview Email lists can be grown in one of […]

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Email List Quality and Why It Matters

Email list quality and acquisition have both changed considerably since the inception of email marketing, with marketers coming to understand that a smaller, more engaged list of subscribers can be just as valuable, if not more so, than a larger list of unengaged subscribers. This chapter looks at the meaning and importance of list quality […]

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List Quality and Deliverability in Email Marketing: A Summary

To see their email marketing programmes succeed, email marketers have to solve two problems. They must (a) continually add new, high-quality email addresses to their databases to make their programmes grow while replacing addresses that have been removed from unsubscribes and complaints – this is maintaining list quality – and they must (b) work harder […]

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Setting Up an Effective Email Testing Programme

Holistic testing is a concept developed by Holistic Email Marketing. It can be implemented as a framework that imparts both a testing structure and a method for applying the results generated from those tests. This chapter discusses how to set up an email testing programme based on this approach. Holistic testing: An overview Holistic testing […]

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Approaches to Email Testing

Advances in technology, particularly at the ESP level, should mean that testing becomes more widespread and with less drain on resources. The creation, launch and adoption of AI-based testing tools has also been a major factor in giving marketers more control over the testing process, including allowing direct access to testing and results. Different attributes […]

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A Framework for Email Testing

Email testing is both art and science. Creative thinking helps drive the possibilities for testing, but science ensures that the results will be reliable and repeatable. It relies on a formal structure that identifies a problem, develops a framework to address it, follows a strict procedure that eliminates chance, error or bias, and delivers results […]

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The Importance of Email Testing

The ability to optimise easily is one of email’s greatest advantages over other marketing channels. Marketers that routinely send messages to their subscription lists have regular opportunities to test and optimise. This allows for continuous improvement. Testing can be conducted on all types of messages, including promotional campaigns, newsletters or updates to whole subscriber lists, […]

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Testing and Optimisation for Email Marketing: A Summary

An optimised email programme will generate more revenue and build greater engagement. It will add to the company’s understanding of its customers, making the channel an even more valuable resource, worthy of greater investment. Testing is the most common method of optimisation. Many email service providers now include basic testing modules in their platforms, which […]

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