Entries by Stephanie

RSS Syndication Feeds to Daily, Weekly or Monthly Email

RSS Merge Tags and Scheduling The RSS tool takes content from your blog (or any RSS feed) and sends it as a message to your subscribers automatically.  The RSS driven campaign will check daily to see if anything has been added to your RSS feed in the past 24 hours.  If there’s new content, the […]

eMail Delivery Success – Troubleshooting Email Block and Filter Issues

Email filtering and delivery rates are based on many factors, including: Complaints: Occur when subscribers mark your message as spam. Complaints happen for a variety of reasons, but may indicate that you have insufficient permission for some or all of the addresses on your list.  In addition, complaints can cause future campaigns to be blocked […]

Email Marketing Bounce Management and Bounce Resolution Compliance

Email Bounce Processing and Bounce Best Practices Compliance  As a user, you cannot control bounces, but it is important that you gain an understanding of what bounces are, how a subscriber’s email address becomes “bounced”,and how the application deals with those bounces. What is an email Bounce? Bounces are messages that ISPs send back to […]

Email Bounce Codes List

While there are many Bounce Codes few are commonly used (noted in bold and orange) 0    Unknown 2    Email Send Error 10    Email address is invalid or not active, no such mailbox exists 20    General Soft Bounce 21    Soft Bounce – DNS Failure 22    Mailbox Full 23    Message Too Large for mailbox recipient 24    Response […]

Why is my message marked as SPAM or sent to Quarantine Folder?

Why is my message marked as SPAM? SPAM filters have become increasingly complex in order to identify which emails are from legitimate senders which are not.  Spam filters look at a long list of criteria to decide whether your email is spam.  Also, spam filters are very private about why your email passed or failed […]

Preventing being Marked as SPAM

Best Practices to avoid content spam filters Spam filters are very private about why your email passed or failed. They do this to ensure that spammers don’t figure out their defense techniques. There is typically not one simple change in order to let your email pass by a spam content filters.  Instead, most filters use […]

Take the Day Off – eMail Networks Full Service Options (by request)

We have experienced quite a surge in interest for our “Full Service” Account Management Services.  Here is a basic breakdown of how we can make your job much easier. Full Service – Basic – Including Data import and export. – Including sending statistics reports. – Client provides content of the e-mail blast. – eMail Networks […]

Okay, Here’s the answer on purchased lists – Just say NO

Do not purchase or rent lists. Many purchased, rented or stolen lists contact “honey pot” email addresses maintained by the SPAM filtering organizations. If you sent to these address the organizations send an automated report to all major ISPs and SPAM filtering companies that mark you as a spammer or potential spammer. This flags the […]