Today, we’re happy to introduce an exciting new product at SendGrid—our Marketing Email Service. This new cloud-based service makes it easy for our customers to create, deliver, and analyze their e-mail marketing campaigns. We know that marketers are juggling a lot, so we built this service with trust, ease of use, affordability, and top-notch deliverability in mind, so you can rest assured that you’re running the most successful campaigns possible. Our Marketing Email Service features include but are not limited to: An easy-to-use web interface with: Pre-designed email templates Drag and drop editor Ability to use your own HTML Scheduled…
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The following is a guest post from SendGrid’s Compliance Desk. SendGrid doesn’t compromise when it comes to compromised accounts and neither should you. There are a number of ways you, your computer or your servers could be vulnerable. Our 11 step security checklist can help identify issues and hopefully recognize a problem before it causes a negative impact. Every day that you put off security steps, your reputation as a business and a sender is at risk. Take a few minutes, go through this checklist and make sure that your systems are secure. Make your password robust. Use a mix…
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Is your email program on the highway to email hell? As a follow-up to our webcast: Highway to Hell–Top 7 Fastest Ways to Land in the Email Underworld, our presenters Ali Frusciano and Ali Nelson have answered all of your questions about how to stay on the fast track to the inbox below. LIST MANAGEMENT What is the best way to get an old list (that you created over many years) cleaned? We recommend starting to send to your most recent signups first and then tier back by sign up date. For example, for the first week, send to people…
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The Web got its name because the links between pages look like what a spider produces. Over the last several years the Web has become even more interconnected due to APIs. Functionality and data from one site can be used within another site. As these applications have become more complex, they’ve required real-time streams of information. Most APIs simply provide a response when a developer supplies a request. That model does not meet all the needs of today’s apps. Webhooks flip the model and most APIs have a real-time use case that would benefit from a more proactive approach. A…
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The following is a guest post from SendGrid’s Compliance Desk. Registration forms are a great way to follow up people’s interest in what you are offering on your website. Unfortunately, registration forms can be a large source of a sender acquiring bounced addresses and spam traps, which could cause your business to spam a host’s mailbox without proper validation of addresses. This can result in a lower SendGrid internal reputation score, as well as reflect poorly upon your business. Fortunately, there are many helpful techniques that can help a sender avoid many of the issue that can come up through…
READ MORE » Even the most well-intentioned email program can be plagued by the pitfalls of the email underworld. Spam traps, blacklists, phishers, and more are all hell-bent on making your email’s journey to the inbox a treacherous one. Think you know how to keep your email on the right path and avoid temptation? Join SendGrid’s email experts Ali Frusciano and Katie Nelson this Thursday June 13th at 1:00 PM EDT as they take you down the top 7 fastest roads to email hell, and back! This free webcast will: Present real-life stories of email programs gone awry Uncover the most devestating pitfalls to…
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A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the Red Hat office in Mountain View to take part in a sort of corporate hackathon. Red Hat invited members from various companies to explore its OpenShift PaaS and build something called a cartridge at the event. These cartridges are not gray boxes that you plug into your old Nintendo console after furiously blowing out all the dust. Cartridges are ways users can extend the OpenShift platform. Third Party developers can create support for languages, databases or other environment requirements which might not exist on OpenShift in order to…
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