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I recently switched my email sends from an old domain to the Deliverability Dashboard domain.I wasn't totally surprised to see the open rates were lower when I sent from the new domain, but that might have been because of the actual email or content or lots of other...

In this three-minute video, I'll quickly explain why you no longer have to send plain text emails to maximise your deliverability, but why it's important to still keep your emails as clear and simple as possible.https://vimeo.com/489901748

If you saw my email earlier this week, you’ll already know that I’m presenting at the Inboxed Summit, which is happening in a couple of weeks from now.  On Monday of this week, I was lucky enough to be invited to record the Q&A panel session with four other...

In this video, I'm sharing a great summary of the most important things you need to know about email deliverability and getting more of your emails into more of your audience’s inboxes. Many thanks to Helena and Kelly at Speaker Insight for hosting my presentation and...

It’s amazing how much can change in less than 18 months.  In February last year, I posted something on Facebook that started by saying “Right now, my business is more than £40,000 under water because of the decisions I made last year. I’ve got the cold from hell....

This week’s blog is slightly less related to the specifics of email deliverability. Instead I’m going to share my reflections after delivering a lot of training material in a fairly short period of time. The last week or so has been crazy for me, with several one-hour...

In last week’s blog, I explained why it’s so dangerous to continually send emails to all of your unengaged contacts - these are the ones that might not have opened any of your emails for weeks, months or longer. Today I’m going to explain how to reach out to your...

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been talking a lot about “bad” email addresses and I’m going to continue that theme with this post. The RACE Model Firstly, I'll recap on the four pillars of deliverability that can all affect whether or not the emails that you send...

Some of the most common questions that I get asked relate to keeping email lists clean, commonly known as list hygiene. In the previous blog post, I explained how list hygiene can impact your sender reputation and explained about the different types of “bad” email...