Effective email marketing is data-driven and should not be viewed as set it and forget it. As an email marketer, looking at reliable metrics when analyzing your email marketing performance is essential. Using your own data as a benchmark is the best practice for determining if you are meeting your goals or need to optimize to improve performance.
Upgrades occur all the time, but it doesn't always alter email marketing practices. Many email client upgrades over the last few years will enhance privacy for recipients, gradually resulting in inflated, artificial engagement rates for email marketers. With a key piece of reportable data becoming more unreliable, we must reconsider how success is measured.
Understand the difference between sender profiles, delivery profiles and send classifications in Marketing Cloud. These not only drive email from information but also (more importantly) ensure CAN-SPAM compliance.
On February 1, 2024, Google and Yahoo announced new requirements for bulk email senders to be implemented by June 1, 2024. These guidelines emphasize three key areas: authenticating outgoing emails, monitoring reported spam rates, and ensuring an easy unsubscribe process for email recipients. Learn more about the steps eComm has taken to ensure compliance by the June 1 deadline.
We know our eComm specialists and users understand the importance of CAN-SPAM and intend to follow it. But sometimes, mistakes can occur that lead to a violation. Learn about common ways to violate CAN-SPAM so you can avoid them. We highly recommend this wiki and the associated quiz as an annual refresher.
Design an email template, drop in data tags, and send it once. With event emails everyone on the invitation list will receive a personalized copy, like it was written just for them. Hosting sessions? Rather than troubling everyone on your invitation list, distribute the webinar info, send a reminder to bring questions for the panelists, or announce that the room has changed to only those who registered for an optional session.
