Comments on: Is Your Email Getting Through? http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/ Search Engine Conspiracy Theories and Banter Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:31:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Graeme http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-64 Graeme Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:01:44 +0000 http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-64 Give in to them :( run your own server, but send your outgoing emails to gmail using their pop3 option. You can set your reply to address. Or failing that- route them out (eg only gmail yahoo destinations) via gmail. The email system will only be for spammers soon, its becoming unuseable for business now. Give in to them :( run your own server, but send your outgoing emails to gmail using their pop3 option. You can set your reply to address. Or failing that- route them out (eg only gmail yahoo destinations) via gmail. The email system will only be for spammers soon, its becoming unuseable for business now.

]]> By: puravida http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-31 puravida Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:05:04 +0000 http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-31 Oh wow! Thanks for your comment, Erica. :) I did not know about ESPs... That does sound like a very probable solution for my problem. I will have to look into them now. Thanks for stopping by! -Brandon Oh wow! Thanks for your comment, Erica. :)

I did not know about ESPs… That does sound like a very probable solution for my problem. I will have to look into them now.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Brandon

]]> By: Erica http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-30 Erica Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:00:09 +0000 http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-30 This is a very good post with some very good suggestions. But, I would suggest allowing email campaign management providers, or ESPs, to do a lot of this work for you. You mentioned Constant Contact, which I believe charges per email sent, and you mentioned that would be a little pricey due to your large subscriber list. However, there are ESPs out there that don't charge per email sent, but charge monthly without a limit on emails that can be sent. ESPs take extra care to ensure their high deliverability rates, so you don't have to fool around with a lot of the coding and authentication issues that ESPs can do for you. However, with ESPs, you get what you pay for. If you use a free ESP, then you will usually have much lower deliverability, as spammers may also use these free services so the ESP does not have a very good reputation with the ISPs. I would suggest using MailChimp, Listrak, or emailBrain for your campaigns. Like, I said, they may be a little more then you would like to pay, but if you are running a legit email campaign, you'll get what you pay for: high deliverability rates with little work on your part. Great post! Thanks! This is a very good post with some very good suggestions. But, I would suggest allowing email campaign management providers, or ESPs, to do a lot of this work for you. You mentioned Constant Contact, which I believe charges per email sent, and you mentioned that would be a little pricey due to your large subscriber list. However, there are ESPs out there that don’t charge per email sent, but charge monthly without a limit on emails that can be sent.

ESPs take extra care to ensure their high deliverability rates, so you don’t have to fool around with a lot of the coding and authentication issues that ESPs can do for you. However, with ESPs, you get what you pay for. If you use a free ESP, then you will usually have much lower deliverability, as spammers may also use these free services so the ESP does not have a very good reputation with the ISPs.

I would suggest using MailChimp, Listrak, or emailBrain for your campaigns. Like, I said, they may be a little more then you would like to pay, but if you are running a legit email campaign, you’ll get what you pay for: high deliverability rates with little work on your part.

Great post! Thanks!

]]> By: Product of the System » Blog Archive » Whew! Gmail and Yahoo Email Suck! http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-29 Product of the System » Blog Archive » Whew! Gmail and Yahoo Email Suck! Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:42:22 +0000 http://www.seconspiracy.com/2008/01/13/is-your-email-getting-through/#comment-29 [...] and adding code to some of my businesses so that I can try to combat the effects of “spam trap poisoning” (i.e. sabotage) and over zealous spam filters that are really hurting my online [...] [...] and adding code to some of my businesses so that I can try to combat the effects of “spam trap poisoning” (i.e. sabotage) and over zealous spam filters that are really hurting my online [...]

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