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Email Never Sleeps Episode 7: Why Email Deliverability is Your Fault
This video is episode 07 of Email Never Sleeps, the email marketing podcast. Watch this video to learn why email deliverability is your fault as an email marketer. Also, gain insight into email marketing from a deliverability perspective. What is Email Never Sleeps? Email Never Sleeps is a vidcast/podcast to discuss real pragmatic email marketing strategy and allow [...]
How to Improve Your Email Production Process
This video is episode 06 of Email Never Sleeps, the email marketing podcast. Watch this video to learn how to improve your email production process. Also, gain insight into email marketing team building. What is Email Never Sleeps? Email Never Sleeps is a vidcast/podcast to discuss real pragmatic email marketing strategy and allow the listener to gain valuable insight. [...]
Email Never Sleeps Episode 5: Why should a marketer care about DMARC and BIMI
This is episode 05 of Email Never Sleeps, the email marketing strategy insight podcast. Watch the video below to learn about why email marketers should care about DMARC and BIMI. Also learn, which types of companies are taking advantage of BIMI in their email marketing plan. This DMARC and BIMI video should help you learn advanced technical email marketing [...]
Email Metrics That Matter
It's time to start thinking about new email marketing metrics to track because vanity metrics like open rate won't cut it anymore. Some program-centric metrics can translate into business-centric metrics, opening up the door to a larger budget for email marketing innovation. Buckle up. Email Marketing Metrics That Matter Video by Andrew Kordek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrFvfvy4HY
Email Never Sleeps Episode 4: Why You Should Clean Your F***ing Email List
Hey Hey! It's episode 4 of Email Never Sleeps, the pragmatic email marketing strategy insight podcast. In this week's video, our guest Al Iverson, Director of Deliverability Products and Services for KickBox is discussing with Andrew Kordek some of their email marketing list hygiene strategies and ways to be successful with cleaning your email lists. What is Email [...]
Email Never Sleeps Episode 3: 3 Step Abandoned Cart Email Series is Dead
Hey Hey! It's episode 3 of Email Never Sleeps, the pragmatic email marketing strategy insight podcast. Watch this week's episode to hear InboxArmy's Christopher Donald spill details on why the 3 Step Abandoned Cart Email Series is Dead and how some businesses have up to eight emails in their abandon cart automation! What is Email Never Sleeps? Email [...]
Email Never Sleeps Episode 2: Best Ideas That Failed in Email
Welcome back to episode 2 of Email Never Sleeps, the pragmatic email marketing strategy insight podcast. Watch this week's episode to learn about the best ideas that have gone south in email marketing. What is Email Never Sleeps? Email Never Sleeps is a vidcast/podcast to discuss real pragmatic email marketing strategy and allow the listener to gain valuable [...]
Email Never Sleeps Episode 1: Wisdom For Young Marketers
So many people have asked Andrew Kordek Vice President of Customer Engagement at iPost for advice on best practices in email marketing. That's why iPost decided to launch the new podcast series titled Email Never Sleeps. What is Email Never Sleeps? Email Never Sleeps is a vidcast/podcast to discuss real pragmatic email marketing strategy and allow the listener [...]
Email Marketing: What is a Pristine Spam Trap?
A Pristine Spam Trap Is Not Good. There are three types of spam traps senders can email, but one of the worst ones is called a pristine spam trap. Pristine traps have also been referred to by email marketers as true traps or honeypots because the address has never been an email address. They are created by ISP’s, security companies, and inbox providers for the sole purpose of catching spammers. For example, ilovegettingemailsfromyourbrandsokeepsendingmeemails@gmail.com may look, sound, and feel like a legitimate email address, but let’s be honest, no one wants to type or even remember that address. How Do These Spam Trap Recipients Get On Your Email List? As an email sender, you should know and [...]
4 Dumb Ways to Deal with Mail Privacy Protection
There has undoubtedly been a lot of hullabaloo around Mail Privacy Protection affecting email over the last few weeks. Apple iPhone users on apple devices can now surpass tracking pixels and online activity. The industry itself has all agreed that people should not panic and that email will continue to thrive and innovate due to this change from Apple. That being said, we at iPost all love a good laugh, so we decided to come up with four dumb ways your brand can deal with Mail Privacy Protection going forward. (Please note that we are not condoning or endorsing these practices in any way as this post is meant for entertainment purposes only) So without [...]
Andrew Kordek Reveals 8 Answers on Best Email Programs
Does the perfect email program exist? What is the best email system? These are commonly asked questions by digital marketers and the answer may surprise you. The perfect email program may or may not exist. Depending on how you define perfection, the Perfect Email Program Video by Andrew Kordek answers 8 commonly asked questions he encounters in his day to day at iPost. In, The Perfect Email Program Video, I discuss/challenge you as email marketers to answer a few questions to see if your program is ahead of the game. Perfect Email Program Video by Andrew Kordek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmx0YEmFR0 I'm Andrew Kordek, I spent nine years managing emails on the client-side and managing multiple email accounts for Quest Software and Groupon [...]
Top Email Subject Lines In June 2021
Best June email subject lines We love writing email subject lines. We love testing them. We love to be surprised when what we think will work doesn’t. We also love when an email we didn't expect to take off gets incredible email open rates. Effective Email at its best! We love good emails at iPost. (please don’t get us started on open rates) Source: giphy.com As you surely know, a well-crafted eye catching email subject line can enhance the email’s opportunity for subscriber engagement when you send an email. While there were so many great emails and great subject lines that hit our personal email inboxes in June 2021, we have handpicked what [...]
iPost Joins International Franchise Professionals Group (IFPG)
SAN MATEO, CALIF., June 29, 2021 iPost email marketing platform for franchises drives the decision to join IFPG iPost, an enterprise email marketing and automation provider is honored to announce that it has become an Elite Member of the International Franchise Professionals Group (IFPG), the world's largest & most respected franchise consultant organization. “iPost’s commitment to the franchise community made IFPG the ideal association to partner with,” says Skip O’Neill, iPost VP. “Helping franchisors to improve their efficiencies and customer communications aligns with our easy to use solution and multi-tier account structure." The amount of change that has happened in recent years around digital marketing is astronomical. Those franchises that offer the most relevant, targeted email content to [...]
How Many Email Links Should I Have? How to Link an Email.
How many email links should I have? Email marketing is one of the most cost-effective ways to generate and nurture leads. But how many links should you include in your emails? Don't be fooled by the common belief that more email links will increase your click-through rate (CTR). In this post, we'll go over how many evergreen email links are appropriate for one campaign, as well as what types of links you can include in an email. We'll also discuss how to link them correctly with text that makes sense. You might be surprised at what we find out! "MORE LINKS! MORE LINKS! MORE LINKS!" Stop! Are you questioning how to link an email? Before [...]
Testing an email is a waste of time.
Testing an email is a waste of time. I am sick of the words “test it” in email marketing. For the last 15 years, it seems that you cannot go a week without reading an article about the value of testing in email. Thought leaders, content marketers, vendors, and agencies have all banged the drum of just how testing can work and produce results. Unfortunately, in most cases, marketers haul off and test maybe one or two emails, see little if any change, and move on. Perhaps they get discouraged around how testing is supposed to be set up, or maybe they thought it would be easy and find that it takes patience and [...]
Thank you Apple, we L.O.V.E. MPP!
Apple delivered the email marketing community a gift at the WWDC this past week, and we at iPost cannot be more excited. In case you haven’t heard, Apple will be releasing “Mail Privacy Protection” MPP later this year with iOS15, iPadOS15, watchOS8, and macOS Monterey. Here is what we know so far about Mail Privacy Protection (MPP): IP addresses will be blocked. The opening times of emails will now no longer be accurate at all Email opens will be completely inaccurate - All emails will be marked as open whether a person reads them or not. Tracking Pixels (or “spy pixels”) will be opened by default All remote images will be preloaded before hitting the users [...]
Email delivery vs Email deliverability
In email marketing, email delivery and email deliverability are two entirely different things when it comes to running an email program. Unfortunately, they are often used interchangeably, and it causes some confusion amongst non-email people around your organization. So how do you distinguish email delivery and deliverability? Email Delivery Delivery simply means that the email you just sent was accepted by your recipient’s server and did not bounce. It doesn’t mean that the email was delivered to the inbox or a folder; it simply means that it wasn’t rejected. Email delivery rate is NOT a metric you want to use to gauge the success of your campaign or your program. Therefore, the email delivery rate is [...]
Amazing Email Subject Lines May 2021
It's fair to say that email subject lines are one of the most important components of an email. What do email subscribers see first in their email inbox? The email subject line! If your email subject line is not amazing, then your digital marketing efforts could be falling short. In this post, we reveal amazing subject line examples. We love amazing email subject lines at iPost. We love writing email subject lines. We love testing them. We love to be surprised when what we think will work doesn’t. We also love when an email we didn't expect to take off gets incredible email open rates. Amazing subject lines can enhance the email’s subscriber engagement While there [...]
Memorial Day iPost will be closed in observance
On Monday, May 31st, the offices of iPost will be closed in observance of Memorial Day here in the United States. Memorial Day (formally known as Decoration Day) is typically known as the start of Summer. It is often observed on the last Monday with family and friends either at picnics, sporting events, or other gatherings. However, given the circumstances of the last 14 months, our world needs a bit more celebration, and I, for one, am looking forward to spending some much-needed rest and reflection time on this day of remembrance. Reflect on those men and women comrades who died in service to our country That said, let's not lose sight of what this Memorial [...]
iPost Announces eValuate, a Free Assessment for Email Marketers
SAN MATEO, CALIF., May 06, 2021 iPost, an enterprise email marketing and automation provider, has announced iPost eValuate, a free assessment of two critical email marketing components: subscribers and creative. With eValuate, iPost experts with an average of 15 years of industry experience conduct both a subscriber analysis and a creative review. iPost eValuate Can Analyze Up To 1,000,000 emails! The Subscriber Analysis analyzes up to 1,000,000 email contacts to determine the health of that database. The iPost team looks for invalids, spam traps, and bogus and disposable email addresses. The team then provides optimization recommendations based on that information. The Creative Analysis looks at one piece of email creative and makes recommendations for optimizing the creative while staying [...]
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