If you're wondering if AOL still exists as a separate entity, the answer is no. AOL as a standalone ISP is no more. What was AOL is now part of Verizon Media Group, which for a time was called Oath. AOL, Yahoo and Verizon are all one mailbox provider, from a sender's perspective. The Yahoo CFL (Complaint Feedback Loop) aka FBL covers all of the legacy ISP domains that made up these separate providers. That includes aol.com, yahoo.com, verizon.net, and various other domains. You can find my best [...]
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spamresource.com 
Deliverability
To help inspire you to make the best email newsletter for your company possible, we’ve compiled some of our absolute favorite email newsletters. They are all fabulous for different reasons -- some have exceptional design, some have exceptional copy, some have exceptional calls-to-action ... but all are exceptional at solving for their subscribers’ needs. Check ‘em out! [...]
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hubspot.net
Gallery
Das Internet hat zu einer beispiellosen Beschleunigung der kommunikativen und kommerziellen Prozesse geführt. Real-Time oder Near-Time sind der neue Standard. Trotzdem lohnt sich ein Blick auf die langsameren, unauffälligeren Effekte und Trends, denn auch in diese haben eine nicht zu unterschätzende Dynamik mit erheblichen Chancen für E-Mail-Versender. Die wichtigsten Effekte im Kurzüberblick: [...]
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marketing-boerse.de 
Trend
I recorded myself while rehearsing my talk for Smashing Conf 2019. It's not perfect and I might have stuttered more than once. Plus, my Macbook fans became crazy towards the end. But this way everyone can enjoy the talk while it's still hot. [...]
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youtube.com
Design
Have your subject line writing strategies and tactics kept up with the times? Check and see if you’re accounting for these six changes in subject line writing, going from the oldest to the newest trend. [...]
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oracle.com
Subjectline
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an extensively used file format for graphic images on the World Wide Web. Besides being an obvious standard for developing quality images on websites, it is used for adding quality images even in email. GIF is better than any other format if you want to add lossless, compressed animations in[...]
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emailmonks.com
Gallery
Google’s mission is to sift through the ocean of data out there and bubble up the most critical information so you can find it more easily. They do that in their search results and they increasingly do that in Gmail, whether it’s through Gmail Highlights, featuring the “Top Deals” in the Promotions tab, or through their latest feature, Email Annotations. [...]
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oracle.com
Subjectline, Design, Marketing
I pretty frequently get requests for help from someone who has been impersonated—or whose child has been impersonated—via email. Even when you know how to "view headers" or "view source" in your email client, the spew of diagnostic wharrgarbl can be pretty overwhelming if you don't know what you're looking at. Today, we're going to step through a real-world set of (anonymized) email headers and describe the process of figuring out what's what. [...]
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arstechnica.com
Fehlende Schnittstellen, umfassende Datenschutzbestimmungen oder langwierige Freigabeprozesse: E-Mail-Marketing kann schon einmal an den Nerven zehren. Vielleicht ist es in solchen Momenten hilfreich zu wissen, dass es noch wesentlich schlimmer geht: Joe Pettersson beschreibt in einem Thread auf Twitter, wie eine Bank in Großbritannien den Abmeldeprozess im E-Mail-Marketing aufgebaut hat. Die Geschichte beantwortet endlich auch die Frage, warum die Newsletter-Abmeldung bei einigen Unternehmen auch im [...]
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emailmarketingblog.de
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In addition to giving our CRM away for free, we’re also giving away free email. This means I know where our leads were coming from, whether or not our sales team was following up with those leads, how much money is in our pipeline, and could even write personalized emails based on where prospects are in their customer lifecycle! That's a solid sales and marketing setup for exactly $0. We're also adding Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn Ads tools to the CRM -- for free. Now you can report on your ad [...]
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hubspot.com
ESP
Increasingly crowded inboxes and ever more jaded consumers have made the way in which marketing emails display in subscribers’ inboxes more crucial to email marketing success than ever before. The quest for a more effective ‘inbox display’ – the three important email elements (sender name [or from name], subject line, and subheader [or preheader]) that are visible in a recipient’s inbox before an email is opened – has driven many email marketers to take a deeper look at the true impact that each of [...]
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phrasee.co
From, Subjectline
2014. It was the year of our lord, Two Thousand and Fourteen. That’s when ReallyGoodEmails.com poked its little gofer head up into the internet. It wasn’t some type of site that we spent months white-boarding, debating where to add text or buttons, figuring how to attract Monthly Active Users, or securing some of that cash-money from VCs. We knew we could get a few of our email friends to help us out because it was going to be good for the internet and we all love “good.” Since the beginning, RGE [...]
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reallygoodemails.com
Marketing
At the beginning of May, Validity announced that it was acquiring Return Path, a pioneer and leader in the email deliverability space. At the end of the month, the sale was completed. Since then, Validity, which also owns email validation service BriteVerifty, has started to make big changes, laying off 170 Return Path employees during June alone. What this means for marketers: [...]
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oracle.com
ESP
Google has joined the growing list of email technology companies developing Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), a broad industry effort to enable email inboxes like Gmail to display logos beside authenticated email, securely and at scale. BIMI provides a secure, global framework enabling email inboxes to display sender-designated logos for authenticated messages. It also includes protections to prevent senders from spoofing logos owned by other organizations. For instance, a bank [...]
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prnewswire.com
From, Deliverability
In late May, I took a look at three of the most recent changes in the enterprise ESP space and how to view them from the perspective of their clients. Change is a constant in the world of email marketing. It’s only a matter of time before the next big change in the ESP vendor [...]
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emailvendorselection.com
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