Staying on top of the ever-changing email world can feel like an impossible task. Email clients, platforms, and industry standards continue to evolve. New laws mean finding new ways to reach and speak to subscribers. Customer expectations have soared, as have their options for reading and acting on your emails. That’s why, every year, we round up the must-know data, trends, and innovations from the past 12 months into a one-stop resource: Litmus’ State of Email Report. [...]
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litmus.com 
Study
1.5 billion people use Gmail every month, and 5 million paying businesses use Gmail in the workplace as a part of G Suite. For consumers and businesses alike, a big part of Gmail’s draw is its built-in security protections. Good security means constantly staying ahead of threats, and our existing ML models are highly effective at doing this—in conjunction with our other protections, they help block more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching Gmail inboxes. Just as we evolve [...]
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google.com
Spam
When it comes to email marketing and social media, these two mediums work better when you bring them together. It’s like peanut butter and jelly. When they’re alone, they’re nice to have. But when you bring them together, they create a classic sandwich that everyone enjoys. Well, in this case, an unstoppable marketing strategy. There are many ways to integrate email marketing and social media to increase your reach and customer engagement. Adding a newsletters sign-up form to your Facebook page is a [...]
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myemma.com
Listbuilding, Social
To say that 2018's Cyber Monday was a digital doorbuster is a colossal understatement. November 26, 2018 will go down as the biggest online shopping day in U.S. history thus far, with sales reaching a staggering $7.9 billion. [...]
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multichannelmerchant.com
Event, Study
Many exciting trends and developments hit the world of email marketing in 2018 as email turned 40 years old – from the emergence of AMP for Gmail to mobile email reaching its long-awaited tipping point. As we head into 2019 and marketing budgets “refill,” it’s our chance to give our email programs a restart and refocus our efforts on innovation and speed to keep pace with the demanding customer. In 2019 we can expect consumer expectations for quality content to increase – it’s become an annual [...]
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marketingland.com
Trend
Here’s some things not to do when you’re in a crisis and need to send breach notifications: Register a new domain name. New domains tend to have no brand recognition and no reputation; Move to a new IP. New IPs need to be warmed up before being used, and this can take 30 days or more to manage; [...]
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emailkarma.net
Marketing
Bringing SendGrid and Twilio together can empower all of our customers to better reach and engage more of their customers in-context, driving engagement and business growth. Together, we power more than 600 billion annual interactions every year for more than 100,000 customers. [...]
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sendgrid.com
ESP, Trend
If you’re thinking of switching ESPs, first, be sure to create a solid ESP request for proposal (RFP). Second, go into the process fully understanding what’s involved. To help you with that second part, Litmus reached out to email experts at Marketing Democracy, BrightWave, DEG, Trendline Interactive, emailvendorselection.com, Laughlin Constable, and Red Pill Email to get their advice. [...]
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litmus.com
ESP
DMARC stands for: Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance. The background to DMARC.org is to increase security in email communication and to ensure greater protection of email recipients against phishing mails, as well as facilitating domain reputation. The goal is to filter out or inte rcept certain forms of criminal emails (phishing) early on so that they do not reach the users [...]
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certified-senders.org
Law, Deliverability
How should your ESP RFP process go? Which ESP candidates should you include? What questions should you ask? To answer those questions and more, Litmus reached out to email experts at Marketing Democracy, BrightWave Marketing, DEG, Trendline Interactive, emailvendorselection.com, Laughlin Constable, and Red Pill Email. [...]
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litmus.com
ESP, Study
mail marketing is designed to help a company maintain communications with customers. This builds loyalty, increases brand recognition, and drives sales. The challenge with email marketing is to strike a balance between efficiency and personalization so that you can: Maximize a one-to-one sense of connection with individual customers. Reach out to hundreds or thousands of customers at once, at minimum cost. [...]
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trustradius.com
ESP, Study
In der E-Mail Marketing Gruppe auf Facebook wurde vor einigen Wochen über die Sinnhaftigkeit von Re-Opt-In Kampagnen im Zuge der DSGVO diskutiert. Christian Schmidt, der Geschäftsführer des E-Mail-Marketing-Dienstleisters CleverReach, hat zu dem Thema in einem Interview mit dem Magazin Clap passende Worte gefunden: Bloß weil sich die Strafen bei Straßenverkehrsverstößen verschärft haben, hat doch auch nicht [...]
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emailmarketingblog.de 
Law
A complete guide to developing an organic profiling cycle: from the collection of different data clusters (personal data relating to interests and behaviors) to segmentation, up to personalization and automation. In today’s world, simply reaching a recipient’s inbox is not enough. Relevance has become the main factor of a campaign’s success. In email marketing, relevance means delivering messages that meet the interests, habits, needs, and characteristics of the individual user. [...]
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mailup.com
Gallery, Customization, Intelligence
Holland added: “A lot of it is down to interpretation. I can see us having probably 10, maybe 15 years of mitigation going on as companies start to challenge the regulation in the courts when they are starting to look at being fined. Here are the areas in which they desire more clarity, according to AvePoint: Legitimate interest — 47%; Breach notification — 44%; PIA & risk — 44%; Notice & consent — 40%; [...]
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mediapost.com
Law, Study
Due to these restrictions, globally, one in five messages does not reach the inbox. Not only do they not reach the inbox, 70 percent of those messages are not delivered to the inbox or spam folder—rather they are blocked at the gateway. With 20 percent of email not reaching the inbox, marketers are missing out on not only potential revenue, but also the opportunity to build strong relationships with subscribers. In this year’s annual benchmark report, we take a look at how email gets delivered and [...]
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returnpath.com
Study, Deliverability
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