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Infographic: To Build or Buy? That is the Question.
One thing I’ve noticed during my time here at SendGrid is how something so vital can be, at times, overlooked. We have a lot of customers who start off small with us and grow huge. It’s really fun to be a part of their growth and even better to help them overcome some major issues that email senders face. Without an email provider like SendGrid, companies face several major pitfalls sending email at large volume. As these customers grow we get to help them scale very easily and worry-free. Sending email at scale is risky business. Your company depends on…
READ MORE »Webcast: If Your Product Emails Your Users, Good Luck!
Incorporating transactional email into your product is never as easy as you might think. The amount of time it can take to follow best practices, properly authenticate, and monitor your email performance is likely to steal too much time away from building really cool products. Join SendGrid’s Developer Evangelist Adria Richards and Engine Yard’s Jacob Lehrbaum at 1PM EST on November 28th as they discuss the cost, complexity, and massive headaches caused by trying to run your own email server. This webcast will cover: Headaches and complexities of running your own email server Best practices for email deliverability: saving time,…
READ MORE »SendGrid Delivered 2012 Wraps Up in Denver
SendGrid Denver has now been open for about a month and already, we’ve seen a huge crowd at the Denver Startup Crawl, an intimate lunch and learn with a presentation from our CEO on investing in startups, and an engaged group of entrepreneurs at SendGrid Delivered. With all the involved members of the local tech community, Denver was the perfect city to wrap up this year’s tour. We had a little something for everyone at SendGrid Delivered, Denver: whether you were there to learn about how to use our new newsletter, listen to the experts about how to increase your…
READ MORE »SendGrid Delivered, San Francisco
SendGrid Delivered, our national email deliverability tour, stopped in San Francisco a few weeks ago for a day of good discussion, interesting guest speakers and great tips on improving email systems. We had the opportunity to talk to many local companies about the role of email in their company, SendGrid’s part in improving email communications, and what’s next for them. One of the highlights of the event was hearing from guest speakers. Dylin Redling from BranchOut, Nimish Parmar and Tali Leff from StumbleUpon, and Mike Preuss from Formspring each provided unique insight into email from a startup perspective, and shared…
READ MORE »SendGrid Delivered Hits San Francisco Next Wednesday, 10/10
The next stop on the SendGrid road show, SendGrid Delivered, is the beautiful tech-haven of San Francisco. This completely free event is perfect for current customers looking to fully take advantage of their SendGrid service, as well as people who just want to see what email deliverability is all about. SendGrid Delivered is a national tour where our email experts will be teaching the masses about all-things email. We’ll cover the gamut of email best practices; from how to improve your sender reputation to which of our APIs will revolutionize your business. Our developer evangelists will be there to…
READ MORE »Use What You Have to be More Relevant
There is no place more competitive than a consumer’s inbox. Your email offer is up against not only your direct competitor but also breaking news, sports scores, personal messages from friends and much more. Most of this is out of your hands but there is one thing you can do – and that is send messages that are RELEVANT.
READ MORE »SendGrid Delivered, New York City
Last week we brought SendGrid Delivered to the Big Apple, where we got the opportunity to connect with many interesting local companies to talk about all things email. Hosted at the swanky Liberty Hall at the Ace Hotel, this was a full day event complete with lunch, a happy hour, and tons of good discussion. We kicked things off with an in depth discussion about understanding and improving your sender reputation from our Industry Relations and Deliverability Manager Paul Kincaid-Smith and Developer Evangelist Elmer Thomas. Complete with tricks of the trade, this session was ideal for anyone with deliverability issues,…
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