The Deliverable Diary

For the past six months, almost all of Google’s services – including Google Search, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Hangouts – have experienced serious disruptions when trying to gain access from China. The biggest blow, however, has just been made to Gmail, the world’s biggest email service, which has finally been blocked […]

The way you handle email unsubscribes for your marketing emails is more important than it looks. It’s not a time to make things difficult for the people who want to leave your list, or to just dismiss them without a second thought. There’s actually a huge reason to make unsubscribing from your list easy, if […]

Deliverability is still a challenge for most email senders. ReturnPath reports only one in five emails makes it to the inbox. Will a shared IP address or a dedicated IP address help? ReturnPath’s Deliverability Benchmark Report shows some industries are having an especially hard time getting their emails read. Only 43% of the emails sent by […]

There are lots of metrics to follow in email marketing: open rates, click-through rates, unsubscribes… Here are the 32 things you should focus on to improve your delivery rates.

Hackers abound. We see more and more news headlines about not just eBay accounts getting hacked, but major international banks getting hacked. And while there’s no sane way for the average person to be sure their information is 100% forever safe (you can’t even buy laundry soap at Target 100% safely) there are quite a […]

Though it may not be a layman’s term, everyone who has an active email account has probably received transactional email at some point. Transactional email refers to an email generated by some action involving the user; it does not necessarily refer to any sort of financial transaction. This could include an action directly on the […]