Deliverability is a moving target and managing your email program while flying blind puts marketers at risk for potential failure.
ExactTarget Marketing Cloud and Return Path Email Deliverability Experts will help you navigate the email data landscape. In this session, you will explore how to use best practices built on data insights to effectively manage and execute your email programs. From sender reputation to inbox placement, discover through a client success story how email data can help you optimize your strategic plans.
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1. Track: Email Marketing
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Deliverability: Using Email Data to
Build Strategic Customer Journeys
Josie Garcia, Practice Manager, Global Deliverability
Anthony Chiulli, Deliverability Consultant
Tonya Mitchell, Sr. Professional Services Consultant
Mandy Parisi, Email Marketing Manager
2. Track: Email Marketing
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Goals for Today’s Session:
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Business impact of
having visibility into
your email
performance
Knowing your
deliverability metrics
What impacts your
ability to reach the
Inbox
Getting in front of
key deliverability
detractors
Strategically using
data to stay ahead of
the curve
Being proactive vs.
remaining reactive
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DO YOU DRIVE BLINDFOLDED?
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The Long and Winding
Road to Reach the Inbox
Travel with your eyes wide OPEN
Know how your program is performing
React and make adjustments
5. Email Delivery:
What could go
wrong?
Reputation
60+ ISP criteria
IP history
Whitelist
Blacklist
Shared IP
Authentication
SPF
DKIM
DMARC
ISPs
Security
Spoofing
Phishing
Spammers
Blocking & Missing
ISP firewalls
Unknown user rate
Spam
DELIVERED
JUNK
(–) Engagement
Ignore/Delete
Unsubscribes
Complaints
SRD rate
Feedback loops
SENT
Infrastructure
MTA
IP Address
DNS
Filtering
Classification
Automatic
Personal
Graymail
(+) Engagement
Reads
Opens
Clicks
Shares
Gmail tabs
Rendering
Tagging
Images on
HTML errors
Email clients
Mobile devices
Bouncing
Unknown address
Undeliverable
Mailbox full
Auto reply
List
Signup
Permission
Welcome
Data sources
Unknown Users
Spam traps
Segmenting
Aging
Hygiene
Content
Text
Images
Text-Image ratio
Links
Spam words
Responsive design
Spam laws
Senders
Subscribers
INBOX
Competition
Similar offers
Social updates
Notifications
Changing interests
Delivery Plan
Cadence
Frequency
Volume
6. Email Delivery:
ESP & IT’s
Responsibility
Reputation
60+ ISP criteria
IP history
Whitelist
Blacklist
Shared IP
Authentication
SPF
DKIM
DMARC
ISPs
Security
Spoofing
Phishing
Spammers
Blocking & Missing
ISP firewalls
Unknown user rate
Spam
DELIVERED
JUNK
SENT
Infrastructure
MTA
IP Address
DNS
Delivery Plan
Cadence
Frequency
Volume
Filtering
Classification
Automatic
Personal
Graymail
Bouncing
Unknown address
Undeliverable
Mailbox full
Auto reply
Senders
Subscribers
INBOX
Competition
Similar offers
Social updates
Notifications
Changing interests
Content
Text
Images
Text-Image ratio
Links
Spam words
Responsive design
Spam laws
List
Signup
Permission
Welcome
Data sources
Unknown Users
Spam traps
Segmenting
Aging
Hygiene
(+) Engagement
Reads
Opens
Clicks
Shares
Gmail tabs
Rendering
Tagging
Images on
HTML errors
Email clients
Mobile devices
(–) Engagement
Ignore/Delete
Unsubscribes
Complaints
SRD rate
Feedback loops
7. Email Delivery:
Marketer’s
Responsibility
Reputation
60+ ISP criteria
IP history
Whitelist
Blacklist
Shared IP
Authentication
SPF
DKIM
DMARC
ISPs
Security
Spoofing
Phishing
Spammers
Blocking & Missing
ISP firewalls
Unknown user rate
Spam
DELIVERED
JUNK
SENT
Infrastructure
MTA
IP Address
DNS
Delivery Plan
Cadence
Frequency
Volume
Filtering
Classification
Automatic
Personal
Graymail
Bouncing
Unknown address
Undeliverable
Mailbox full
Auto reply
List
Signup
Permission
Welcome
Data sources
Unknown Users
Spam traps
Segmenting
Aging
Hygiene
Content
Text
Images
Text-Image ratio
Links
Spam words
Responsive design
Spam laws
Senders
Subscribers
INBOX
Competition
Similar offers
Social updates
Notifications
Changing interests
(+) Engagement
Reads
Opens
Clicks
Shares
Gmail tabs
Rendering
Tagging
Images on
HTML errors
Email clients
Mobile devices
(–) Engagement
Ignore/Delete
Unsubscribes
Complaints
SRD rate
Feedback loops
10. Track: Email Marketing
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The ISPs Watch the Signs!
COMPLAINTS = <.1%
LIST QUALITY:
• Unknown Users = <2%
• Spam Traps = 0
ENGAGED
SUBSCRIBERS:
• Active in Inbox
• Active with YOUR mail
SENDING VOLUME
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Webroot experiencing challenges at AOL, Yahoo, and a Spamhaus “false Alarm” –
Fake domains and accounts collected via free trial promotion.
Success Strategies
• Engaged ETMC Deliverability Practice Manager to investigate
• Sender Score Certification, daily campaign and reputation monitoring
• Manually suppressed bad domains
• Worked with BriteVerify to improve data quality
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Key Lessons Learned…
• It’s not your ESP, it’s your data
• Inbox placement is a privilege
• Quality always trumps quantity
• Inbox placement requires ongoing strategies
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Knowing your
metrics is the key to
a successful email
program
You can’t fix it if you
don’t know its broken
Even poor
deliverability metrics
are your friend
You can use data
from ISPs to your
advantage
Inbox placement
requires an ongoing
strategy
You can be proactive
with the right tools
Quick Recap:
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CUSTOMER JOURNEY
SHOWCASE
MARKETING
THOUGHT LEADERS
EMAIL MARKETING PRODUCT STRATEGY
& ROADMAP
PERSONAL
TRANSFORMATION
& GROWTH
SOCIAL MARKETING MOBILE & WEB
MARKETING
DEVELOPERS HANDS-ON
TRAINING
INDUSTRY
TRENDSETTERS
CREATIVITY &
INNOVATION
SALESFORCE FOR
MARKETERS
ROUNDTABLES
Presentation
We want presentations to outline a complete story arc including
Initial goals
Iterations/pain points
Lessons learned
Success
Future plans
Eyes wide open – know rules to the road for email deliverability – discuss key deliverability/reputation factors
Have visibility into your program metrics
Use that data to react and make adjustments to your program and then monitor again for improvement
Email deliverability road trip
what ETMC does for you
your responsibility
Anthony – discuss how ETMC and RP provide data for insight into what you must be aware of for your email program
Exact Target:
Working with an ESP such as Exact Target can provide you key metrics on the performance of your email program.
These include: Delivered Rates, Bounce Rates, Opens/Clicks, error codes, subscriber activity data, and more.
These are very helpful metrics in understanding how your program’s performing and the success of your deliverability, but doesn’t provide other metrics that the ISPs are paying attention to.
Return Path:
This is where collaborating with a partner like Return Path, and leveraging their rich email intelligence tools is extremely valuable. Return Path is a partner of Exact Target who’s email data fills in the crucial gaps of the metrics ISPs and filtering vendors are paying attention to. Return Path provides metrics including inbox placement rates, IP reputation scores, spam trap data, competitive intelligence, subscriber engagement, and other data points that offer a premium version into the success and potential downfalls your program can encounter.
In the world of email deliverability, the more data you have available to you, the better off you are at proactively managing and optimizing your email’s performance.
We often say, “you don’t know what you don’t know”..meaning you are only as good as the data and metrics you have available to you. But why are these metrics so important to have you might ask???
Because the ISPs and filter companies are utilizing many of these data sets in complex algorithms and decisions on how they treat your inbound mail. ISPs monitor complaints, the quality of your lists, subscriber engagement, and volume fluctuation, and other metrics in taking a pulse of who you are as a sender, and how they treat your mail. If you do not have the visibility into many of these metrics, you will be driving blindly in attempting to manage the success of your email channel.
Data is powerful in this industry, and in working with experienced consultants like Return Path and Exact Target, they can help you in overcoming difficult situations and offering custom recommendations to keep your program running at an optimal rate.
With that, I want to introduce Mandy Parisi, from Webroot, who is going to share her experience with you on how she used data to overcoming difficulties with her email program by leveraging the right data sources and resources form both Return Path and Exact Target.
Mandy…
Takeaways that track to the 3 items on the Goals slide