navigating the isp landscape
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Anyone who has spent any time trying to get their important email receipts, notifications, or password resets to their users' inboxes knows how daunting it can be to navigate the ISP landscape. What is the best way to authenticate your email for Gmail users? Does Yahoo! care more about IP reputation or domain reputation? Can I expect a different click and open rate for different ISPs? SendGrid email experts Ryan Harris and Amy Mustoe offer advice on how to comply with ISP expectations and identify trends they are seeing among today's most popular ISPs.TRANSCRIPT
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Navigating the ISP Landscape
Amy MustoeDirector of Account Management
June 4 2013
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Navigating the ISP Landscape
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Top ISPs
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What do ISPs Want?
• Best user experience for their customers• To deliver wanted mail• Protect customers from spam
- Spam = Unwanted mail
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Why Should I care what ISPs want?
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Here are some reasons why• 90% of email is not delivered or
filtered to spam folder• A simple mistake can live with your
brand/domain forever• It is hard to fix a bad reputation• The abuse community is small and
bad sender information is shared
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How do ISPs Monitor Email Performance?
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Engagement
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True or False?
• Sending more mail makes you more money.
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Engagement:Quality vs. Quantity
• More email does not equal more money
• Non engagement affect your deliverability
• Sending the right message to those engaged and another to the less engaged is key
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Positive Engagement
• Opens• Clicks• Reply to
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Negative Engagement
• Unsubscribe• Mass deleting emails• Mark as spam• No engagement
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What do I do With Engagement Data?
• Segment your list- Metrics by ISP- Open and click rates
• Win-back campaigns• Identify problems with certain ISPs• Profile your customers
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Temptations
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Purchased Lists
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Automatically Sign People Up
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Inviting Recipient’s Address Books
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Looking Forward
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Reputation:IP vs. Domain
• Reputation tied today mostly to your IP • The trend is moving from preferring IP
reputation to domain reputation
- Gmail is biggest user of domain reputation to date and Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL are quickly moving in this direction
- Making marketing decisions while keeping your brand in mind will be critical for the future
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• Domain Reputation - automated• Blackbox - no humans at the
postmaster desk• List unsubscribe – no official
feedback loop• A plus - shares logic for bulked mail
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• Feedback loops to report complaints
• IP reputation• Yahoo Bulk Sender Form• Automated engagement
tracking
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• JMRP (Junk Email reporting program)
• SRD (trusted users) shapes your reputation
• IP Reputation• SNDS provides tool to monitor
reputation
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Key Takeaway
• Right Message
• to the
• Right Person
• at the
• Right Time
• with the
• Right Frequency