What You Need To Know

Email DeliverabilityYou’re spending a lot of time each week crafting emails to your subscribers, but none of that will do you any good if you don’t have a decent delivery rate (aka, email deliverability). If those emails land in your potential customers’ spam folders, you don’t have much of a chance of making a sale or building a relationship with them. Getting email to the place you want it to go is getting harder and harder these days. The voluminous amounts of emails that fill our inboxes has companies scampering in order to make the process better. If you tried to send 1 email to 500 addresses from your personal account, there is a good chance that those emails will not even make it out of your inbox! If you are sending emails to let customers know that you are having a sale, or if you are sending them a newsletter you promised, you need to have a reliable method of getting those emails out the door. Email Deliverability is KEY to Having Your Emails Get To Where They Are Going When you send an email, you want it to get to the recipient it was intended. At one point or another, you have probably ended up in someone’s spam folder, their promotion folder, or even worse, not delivered at all. This is the OPPOSITE of email deliverability! In order to get your email to the proper person and place with out bouncing back, you want to follow some straight forward guidelines. Here are three tips that will help insure that your emails make it to your subscribers’ inboxes. 1. Use A Reputable Auto Responder Service Using a reputable auto responder service is the single best thing you can do to improve your chances of avoiding spam folders. Companies like Constant Contact, Aweber, and Get Response work hard at making sure they are white listed with the big Internet Service Providers and email providers like Gmail. Most auto responder companies will list their delivery stats. In addition the good ones will make sure your emails are compliant and keep you out of hot water. 2. Set Expectations and Keep Them Your chances of staying in the main inbox are high when your subscribers regularly open your email. The best way to insure that – outside of providing great content that your subscribers are looking for – is to set expectations from the beginning. Let your subscribers know early on when and how often they can expect an email from you. You can even use “foreshadowing” in your messages.