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Customer Success Story: Free Logo Services’ CEO Selects SendGrid as their Solution of Choice
Free Logo Services is the #1 provider of logo design services for entrepreneurs, small businesses and organizations worldwide. They have over 800,000 customers and send approximately 400,000 emails per month. Before CEO, Craig Bloem opened the doors to Free Logo Services in September 2011, he considered the implications of email on the success of his business model. Having dealt with the challenges of email operations and delivery at his previous companies, including Performable which he sold to HubSpot, Craig wanted to find a solution that he could easily integrate and scale with his business right from the very start. Related…
READ MORE »2012 Threat Report Puts Transactional Email on High Alert
The Websense 2012 Threat Report issued by Websense releases an annual report that looks at trends in web, email, data and mobile security. The 2012 report revealed some interesting findings that developers should be wary of as they build and secure their applications. At the forefront of this report is transactional email. A somewhat obvious yet chilling stat is that 92% of email spam contains a URL. Given that most transactional email contains a link to a web page, this is a high risk category that needs to be carefully monitored at its source. Related PostsCustomer Success Story: Extole “Likes”…
READ MORE »Customer Success Story: Online Business Intelligence Platform, Cyfe Saves Money by Choosing SendGrid Instead of Building Their Own Solution
New start-up, Cyfe experienced tremendous growth within the first two months of opening their doors. Cyfe offers an all-in-one dashboard that aggregates all of your online services using custom widgets for search, email, social, feeds and business services. With Cyfe, you can easily monitor all of your business data from one dashboard. Related PostsWebinar: Q&A with Ken and Carly SendGrid Expands to Denver London Hackers Bring Home the Gold at API Hackday Introducing the SendGrid Guide to Email Infrastructure Webinar: Q & A With Danny and Tim
READ MORE »4 Ways Relevant Email Can Increase Site Traffic and Drive Engagement
Everyone knows that email is fantastic for quickly pushing messages out to customers and members but it can also be a powerful way to increase website traffic. This is especially true in the era of social networks when an email alert is often the trigger that drives a member to interact with the social site. How can you use email to increase your site traffic and drive more engagement? How can you leverage all your SEO efforts to enhance your email program and get these two efforts working in harmony? Related PostsCustomer Success Story: Turnkey Sports & Entertainment Brings the…
READ MORE »How to Keep Your Password Reset Emails Out of the Spam Folder
Transactional emails are arguably the most important and impactful messages being sent to your customers because they are an expected and desired communication. Oftentimes, customers are actually waiting to receive email from you. Such is the case when it comes to password reset or recovery messages. Related PostsWebinar: Q&A With Elmer and Carly Pick Up the Money on the Table with Transactional Email Webinar: How to Get The Most Out Of Transactional Emails Three Misconceptions About Deliverability That Simply Aren’t True How Social Media and Email Can Co-Exist for Maximum Impact
READ MORE »Three Questions to Ask your SMTP Service Provider Before You Buy
Getting your emails delivered to your customers is imperative if you want them to respond to your messages. While employing an outsourced SMTP email server solution is the best choice due to its ease of use and flexibility, before you make a final decision on who will take on the important task of handling your transactional email, make sure you ask the provider these three key questions. Related PostsSendGrid Now Available for HP Cloud Services Make Email Delivery Simple and Easy Using SendGrid [Video] Guest post: SendGrid takes the Cake[PHP] when it comes to SMTP 5 Key Practices to Avoid…
READ MORE »Leveraging SendGrid’s Event API
This guest post is from H. Wade Minter at TeamSnap, a SendGrid customer. TeamSnap is a web/mobile tool to help keep sports teams and social groups organized. With that mission, email deliverability is critical. Our users send a lot of email, most of it important team-related business We need to make sure that the email gets delivered, as well as watch out for bouncing addresses or spam complaints. We don’t want to get blamed when someone shows up at the wrong field because they didn’t get the email that their coach sent out. Keeping our deliverability numbers high is paramount,…
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