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Sender Reputation: Easy to Ruin and Hard to Restore

Julia — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:48:11 +0000

Your sender reputation with ISPs is the key factor which determines what will happen to your email after you click “Send”. Your reputation is built on your email sending activity, and it’s much easier to spoil it rather than restore your good name.

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Sender Reputation: Easy to Ruin and Hard to Restore

5 Real Steps to Easier Email

Julia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:33:27 +0000

Have you ever thought about your subscribers? Who are they? What are their occupations? If they subscribe to your newsletters, buy your products, and respond to your offers, it doesn’t always mean they devote all their time to online marketing. Your subscribers or customers are quite different people with totally different jobs and mindsets. If they have a full-time work, they may access their computers for a short time on the evening or at night only.

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5 Real Steps to Easier Email

Subject Line Personalization: Does It Make Sense?

Julia — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:27:16 +0000

As the Subject line is one of the factors that make the reader either open or delete the message, we’re always wondering about the best way to write the Subject line. In one of my latest articles I shared several tips on how to write the Subject line to increase the email open rate.

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Subject Line Personalization: Does It Make Sense?

6 Tips for Writing Better “Subject” Lines

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:16:18 +0000

Like the From field the Subject line is one of the most important components of a successful newsletter sending campaign. Together with the From line, the Subject line determines whether the recipient will open an email, delete it immediately, save file it for future reading, or report and/or filter it as spam. Plus, many anti-spam filters use the Subject lines to separate good emails from spam. So, because of a poorly written Subject the email may not even reach the recipient’s inbox in the first place.

Below are the tips to write Subject lines that produce higher open and click-through rates:

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6 Tips for Writing Better “Subject” Lines

Tailoring “From” and “Subject” Lines for Email Clients

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:51:59 +0000

So you got a great email message design, wrote a perfect Subject line, added your company name to the From field and you think you’re ready to send the email out. Wait a minute. You work may not be over yet. You probably will need to spend some time for optimizing your From and Subject lines. What does it mean and why is optimizing the From and Subject lines so important?

You know different email clients render the From and Subject lines in different ways. This is one of the challenges of distributing email newsletters.

Some email clients limit the quantity of characters if the From and/or Subject lines. So, if your Subject is too long, it will be cut off and may be unreadable for the recipient. In some email programs the From and Subject lines are interrelated – the longer the From field, the shorter the Subject line is allowed. The From field can be displayed either as Name + Email Address, or Name, or Email Address in different email programs.

It’s good if you know what email clients your recipients use to view your emails. You can then tailor your "From" and especially "Subject" lines to display properly for all the recipients. If you don’t have the information about your recipients’ email programs, try to optimize your message at least for the most common email clients listed in the table below.

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Tailoring “From” and “Subject” Lines for Email Clients

11 Tips for Better Newsletter Content and Layout

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:37:24 +0000

For many Internet marketers email newsletters are one of the main means to not only promote their products or services but also to build and enhance relationships with existing and potential customers and generate leads. Achieving these goals is possible only if the newsletter contains valuable and trusted content for the readers, clients, partners or prospects. Otherwise, they won’t simply read the newsletter.

A newsletter that gives something of value moves the prospect or customer to the next level of the relationship, impels them to visit your website where they will probably take a desired action: download software demo version, subscribe to another newsletter, or maybe purchase some of your products or services.

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11 Tips for Better Newsletter Content and Layout

What a Good, Healthy HTML Newsletter Looks Like

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:12:49 +0000

Now we’ll just remind all the tips for designing a HTML email message and give an example of a good, "healthy" email newsletter created in G-Lock EasyMail. So, let’s recap:

Your name or your company name in the From field. Your recipients should immediately recognize who sent the message.

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What a Good, Healthy HTML Newsletter Looks Like

Don’t Use the Word “Free” in the Message

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:26:43 +0000

This statement is taken for the rule by many email marketers. Despite of a magic power of this word that prompts the recipient to immediately act on your email, it’s generally believed that "free" is a pure spam word. Yes, there is a truth behind this. Every other spam message contains the word "free". But what is the most important is the environment this word is used in, i.e. the whole phrase with the word "free" matters.

Let’s look how two popular spam content filters – Spam Assassin and MS Outlook 2000 – work and handle your emails.

Spam Assassin, one of the main “test” spam filters, assigns points – positive and negative – to the message content and HTML code. Positive points mean potential spam, negative points mean the message content and code are not generally used by spammers. The score is calculated and if it exceeds a certain level, the message is filtered as spam. It’s about the Spam Assassin user to determine the level at which emails are filtered. It is generally believed that most companies/ISPs use a total score of around 10, but that some may go as low as 4.

In the Spam Assassin the phrases with the word "free" do get fairly high scores – 1 and higher. But the phrases commonly used in legitimate emails such as “free report”, "free download", "free upgrade", “free e-book” and “free newsletter” are not affected.

Unlike the Spam Assassin, MS Outlook 2000 Junk E-mail Filter uses a pass/fail method. It looks for “junk and adult” content in the message and directs suspicious messages to the Outlook’s Deleted Items folder. The common things that trigger the filter are the use of an exclamation point and the word "free" in the message Subject line.

The bottom line: Use the word "free" in your email newsletters wisely and test, test and test your message before sending it to the whole list.

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Don’t Use the Word “Free” in the Message

Bigger List, Better Results

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:23:31 +0000

Since email marketing is the cheapest form of marketing, many email marketers focus on building as big mailing list as possible believing that the bigger list they have the better results they get. Of course, obtaining new subscribers or customers is a good thing. But a smaller list of active, interested and motivated subscribers or customers is really what you should aim at. At least, take time to clear your list from invalid emails and reduce the energy you spend on your inactive members.

Here are a few tips how you can get the most out of your active members:

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Bigger List, Better Results

Best Email Delivery Practices Gone Bad

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:49:38 +0000

OK, we’ve just described best email practices you should follow to pass as a good email marketer and get better delivery results. But you know there is nothing constant on the Internet. New methods are being adapted; old ones go out of date. Email delivery practices change as well. Email practices that were widely and successfully applied yesterday may not be so effective today.

With all that said, we feel it’s reasonable to get you familiar with email sending tactics that are no longer good. If you are using any of such tactics or may just be thinking about applying any of them, you may consider changing your mind and not engage into them.

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Best Email Delivery Practices Gone Bad