Archive for December, 2009

Joe Scharf Joins SendGrid

Friday, December 11th, 2009

We are very happy to have Joe Scharf join our team.  Joe has tremendous technical experience as well as business development experience having degrees in Computer Science, Electrical Engineer, and an MBA.  Joe will wear many hats in the team so don’t be surprised if you see him all over the place.  Joe will help us provide much better support for our users and help optimize our infrastructure and better utilize our computing resources.

SendGrid is still looking for talented individuals to grow its team so please checkout our jobs page http://sendgrid.com/jobs.html and apply if you are the right fit.

Categories of Email Statistics

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Different types of emails vary in interest to users.  Emails such as shipping alerts, forum notifications, and account confirmations are well received by users and hardly generate any complaints since users already expect these emails.  On the other hand, unexpected emails such as certain newsletters, or email invitations from contact imports on sites such as social networks, event planning , or surveys are less likely to be expected by users and more likely to generate complaints.

SendGrid allows companies to tag each of their emails and assign them a category.  After this, SendGrid will track emails sent, clicks, opens, unsubscribes, spam reports, and bounces per category.  Companies using SendGrid will now be able to see what types of emails generate more complaints, higher click-though rates, or what emails generate more interest.  For more information on how to accomplish this and for a video on how easy it is to get started and how the statistics look please go here.

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