Email best practices, advice, tools, and industry trends for practical use.
To maximize your email investment, you need high deliverability. But getting there can feel like a major challenge. The truth is, you can get there and our team of deliverability strategists are here to help. We’ve compiled this series of deliverability tips for email marketers and today we’ll break down the first three of our nine
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You’ve probably thought about diversity and inclusion at your company, especially from the perspective of hiring and employees. But have you thought about how inclusive your email content is? If you’re not following email accessibility best practices, you could be excluding 20% or more of your readers. Get your message to as many people as
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SparkPost’s recent global survey revealed that 74% of marketing leaders are concerned about impending email privacy changes – and 82% of leaders are actively preparing for those changes. But this isn’t exactly breaking news. We’re constantly hearing about iOS 15… Email opens are dead… Third-party cookies are next on the chopping block… Zero-party data is
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In this season of the Bachelor, we are fortunate enough to have an NFL player who has had a whopping zero minutes of playing time during his entire career. Clayton Echard is also the only Bachelor who hasn’t been in the spotlight yet and was not a fan favorite at all. However, we’re not here
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It can be hard to judge a trend worth adopting, and it’s no different when it comes to email marketing trends. In this post, we’ll break down five of the trends we think live up to the hype. Some trends speak to us immediately and we jump at the chance to try them out. Others
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Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared on B2BMarketing.net. Since the rise of data-driven marketing in the ‘80s, data became a tool that marketers relied on. We’ve since moved past the days of seemingly unlimited data, and data breaches, to more restrictions. However, all is not lost. Here’s why tighter customer privacy restrictions
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SparkPost’s real-time event webhooks are an incredibly valuable tool for senders to have data automatically pushed to their systems. This can drive downstream automation such as updating mailing lists, triggering automated email journeys, or populating internal dashboards. While the same event data can be accessed via the SparkPost UI using Event Search, or programmatically by
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Gmail is Prefetching Images, Leading to Marginally Inflated Opens The recent changes with Apple Mail Privacy Protection had us wondering – where else is prefetching happening? While false opens come as no huge surprise, we have additional details around the limited set of circumstances in which Gmail is prefetching images in emails sent to Gmail
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Hello! My name is Sasha and I’m a Technical Support Analyst on the Frontline Support Team at SparkPost. We are a part of the greater support team and are all proud members of the Customer Success department. As technical support analysts, we are the frontline of customer support and primarily serve customers of the SparkPost
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