Deliverability

So, you're sick and tired of hearing about your beautiful emails landing in spam? We're glad you checked in. If you’re responsible for your organization’s email campaigns, you’re probably constantly thinking about how to avoid spam filters, spam words, and always...

We’ve spoken many times about building a contact list as one of the main steps in your email marketing strategy. We have also often repeated how important it is for you to have a clean list. In fact, you’re probably a bit tired of hearing all about it by now. We get it. But...

The Gmail Promotions tab’s hot debut in 2013 caused mixed reactions. Some marketing pundits predicted that it marked the end of email marketing as we know it. Others were less dramatic and just stated that it would have a negative impact on the opens and clicks of...

Bigger isn’t always better for email marketers – especially when it comes to email file sizes. Trying to stuff large images or send big HTML files can hurt your email engagement and deliverability. So how big is too big for email file sizes? Is it time you put your email...

If you’ve been using single opt-ins for a while, the idea of double opt-ins may seem a little daunting. You’re effectively doubling the number of steps a user takes before their added to your lists. And this can be a little scary for most email marketers whose KPIs are...

Hands up if you’ve heard someone talk about email headers, but have no idea what they are. Or even worse, maybe your technical team asked you to send them the full header of your email, and you’re frantically looking for it everywhere. In this post, we’re going to tell...

You didn’t become an email marketer because you wanted to dive into complicated code all day. Ugh. And when you hear all these weird sounding acronyms like DKIM, SPF, and DMARC, your first instinct is probably to run for the hills. But then, when you encounter...

When your business is just starting out, you want to feel as if you’re doing all you can to grow your customer base. Stories like Harry's gathering 100,000 email signups in one week are inspiring, but they can pressure you to frantically check how to grow a contact list...

Have you ever tried to contact a brand to get them to stop sending you emails, only to get back an automated reply that says your email failed to be delivered? If you have, you’ve met the villain of our story: the noreply email address. Noreply addresses are the brick...

Celebrity impressions are hilarious. Who doesn’t love a good Sean Connery or Marlon Brando impersonation? But when bad actors impersonate your brand through email spoofing, it’s no laughing matter. Because email is such a personal and trusted...

If we take a trip down memory lane (some of our lanes might be longer than others), we might remember our parents telling us if we didn't tidy our bedroom or help clean the dishes, we couldn't play with friends or go to a movie. Let's face it, none of us wanted to...

The holiday season is almost upon us, which means marketers – especially those in retail – will soon start to increase their sending frequencies and will also widen their nets to reach out to as many contacts as possible. At Mailjet by Sinch, we expect to see very high...