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Intro  To  Email  Delivery    

Maintaining  An  Email  Marke5ng  Program  

 Steve  Wheeler  

Director  of  Deliverability,  Dyn  @InboxExpert  

 

Mike  Veilleux  Director  of  Email,  Dyn  

@MikeVeilleux    

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Introduc5on  

•  Welcome  and  Introduc5on  

•  Email  Components  &  Terminology  

•  Why  Deliverability  MaGers  

•  Maintaining  an  Email  Marke5ng  Program  

•  Introduc5on  to  DynECT  Email  Delivery  

•  Q&A  

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Email  Components  &  Terminology  

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Email  Lists  

•  Single  Opt  In      “Subscribe”  •  Double  Opt  In      “Subscribe  and  Verify”  •  3rd  Party  Opt  In    “Subscribed  elsewhere”  •  Rented  /  Bought    “Who  knows…”  

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Email  Types  

•  Transac5onal  – Password  Resets  – Welcome  and  Ac5va5on  – Triggered  Emails  

•  Bulk  – Daily  Deals  – NewsleGers  – Product  Releases  

 

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Email  Result    

•  Open  •  Click  •  Unsubscribes  •  Complaint  

– Recipient  has  reported  email  as  spam  to  ISP  

•  Bounce  – Hard  Should  not  retry  – SoV    Retries  are  acceptable  

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Email  Components  

•  List  Management  – Subscribed  user  database  – List  segmenta5on  

•  Content  Crea5on  – Email  encoding  

•  Email  Delivery  – External  -­‐  Email  Service  Providers  –  Internal  -­‐  Mail  Transfer  Agent  

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Why  Deliverability  MaGers  

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Why  deliverability  maGers  

•  Only  84%  of  permission  based  mail  makes  it  to  a  user’s  inbox  –  Return  Path  

•  About  12%  of  that  being  lost  all  together  –  Return  Path  •  For  each  delivered  email  message,  four  are  blocked  for  spam  -­‐  Yahoo  

•  This  gives  a  rela5ve  size  of  4x  volume  of  spam  to  permission  based  mail  

•  Marketers  responsible  for  70%  of  “spam  complaints”  –  Return  Path  

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Evolu5on  of  Email  

Email  born  in  1971  by  ARPANET  

   

First  spam  message  in  

1978  

First  large  volume  SPAM  in  1994  

Content  filtering  is  born  in  1997  

People  get  crea5ve…    Viagra  -­‐>  VI@GR@  

Reputa5on  monitoring  is  born  

References: templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpamAssassin

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Email  Marke5ng  Management  

   

Email  Marke5ng  

Managing  Customer  

Engagement  

Infrastructure  

Tes5ng  

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Managing  Customer  Engagement  

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Managing  Customer  Engagement  

•  Why?  – Reputa5on  is  king  – Engagement  is  key  

•  How?  – Holis5c  Approach   “Your x-ray showed a broken rib, but we

fixed it with Photoshop.”

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Gehng  on  your  list  

•  Opt  in  method      Challenge          –  Double  Opt  In      Not  enough  signups  –  Single  Opt  In      High  bounces,  complaints  –  3rd  Party          Complaints  –  Customer        Complaints    

•  Example  Sugges5ons  –  Examples  at  signup    Lower  Complaints  –  Address  signup      Accuracy  of  Email  Address  –  Prime  Real  Estate    Amount  of  signups  

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Cadence  

•  Customer  Expecta5on  

•  List  Fa5gue  

•  Preference  Centers  

0  

500  

1000  

1500  

2000  

2500  

Daily  Complaints  

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Tailoring  Content    

•  Ini5al  Reac5on  – Subject  lines  are  relevant  – Mobile  Formats  – Alt  Text  /  Pre  Tags  

•  Ensure  Content  Accuracy  – List  Segmenta5on  

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Gehng  off  your  list  

•  Simple  Unsubscribes  – One  click  – Top  of  email  – Re-­‐join  incen5ves  –  great!  

•  Complaints  – Make  sure  to  remove  from  email  list  – More  than  approx.  0.02%?    Look  upstream!  

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Manage  Customer  Engagement  

Reputa5on  

Gehng  on  your  List  

Tailor  Content  

Manage  gehng  off  your  list  

Infrastructure  

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Infrastructure  

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Infrastructure  Planorm  •  What  do  you  need?    Primary  Source        

– List  Management    Web  development  team                  Marke5ng  

– Email  Content      Web  development  team                  Marke5ng  

– Email  Deployment    Outsourced                  Internal  

 

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Infrastructure  Types  

•  Email  Campaign  Mgt.    Bulk  •  Mail  Transfer  Agent      Bulk,  Transac5onal    •  Internal  vs.  External  

– Open  Source  – Paid  Solu5ons  – Cloud  based  

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Infrastructure  Details  

•  IP  Management  – Segmenta5on  via  IPs  –  IP  Pools  

•  Monitoring  –  IP  address  forward  /  reverse  DNS  setups  –  IP,  URL  and  Domain  blacklists  

•  Feedback  Loops  – Ensure  user  complaints  are  heard  

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Tes5ng  

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A/B  Tes5ng  

•  Purpose:    Op5mize  customer  conversions  

•  2  or  more  varia5ons  of  a  single  element  – Subject  Lines      Open  Rates  

– Content        Click  Rates  

– List  Segments      Both  

•  Compare  results  for  future  improvement  

 

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Seed  Account  Tes5ng  

•  ISPs  don’t  report  inbox  placement  

•  Sample  mail  to  personal  email  accounts  at  various  ISPs  

•  Report  results  

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DynECT  Email  Delivery  

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DynECT  Email  Delivery  

Send  •  Highly  Available  •  SMTP  •  API  

Repor3ng  •  Rest  API  • Web  UI  •  Postback  API  

Deliverability  Protec3on  •  Bounce  Reclassifica5on  •  Complaints  •  Suppression  List  

Engagement  Tracking  •  Open  •  Click  •  Unsubscribes  

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