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Customer Success Story: Extole “Likes” SendGrid’s Deliverablity Expertise and ISP Mediation Solutions
Extole is the leading provider of social engagement applications that drive measurable results on and off Facebook for leading brands and agencies. Extole uses email to drive customers to the point of sale while generating positive social recommendations using their Refer-A-Friend solution. To support its business model, Extole built and managed its own in-house, proprietary email system, but as their business grew and demands increased, their system lacked key functionality to properly track and manage their email streams. Related PostsSendGrid Delivered hits NYC September 12 Customer Success Story: Award Winning Digital Agency, Cyber-Duck Benefits from Cloud Email Capabilities Become an Inbox…
READ MORE »Customer Success Story: Online Music Promotion Software, Haulix Achieves a 95% Delivery Rate With SendGrid
Haulix provides online music promotion software for industry professionals and their media contacts. With Haulix, publicists can easily create branded web pages, manage press contacts, send email invitations and protect their musical assets with powerful watermarking technology. Related PostsSendGrid Expands to Denver London Hackers Bring Home the Gold at API Hackday Using SendGrid API in Tiggzi Mobile App Platform Back to Basics. If You Can’t Send an Email, What Can You Do? 3 Mobile Trends That Will Affect the Future of Transactional Email
READ MORE »Webinar: Q&A With Elmer and Carly
Last week, SendGrid’s email experts Elmer Thomas and Carly Brantz broke down some tips and tricks to make sure your emails don’t get banished to the spam folder. There were so many great questions during the webinar that we weren’t able to get to. In an effort to keep the conversation going, Carly and Elmer took some time to respond to these questions here. If you missed the webinar, you can access a recording here. Related PostsWebinar: Q&A with Ken and Carly The Benefits of Sending Email in the Cloud Whitelists: The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good How…
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 PostsWebinar: Q & A With…
READ MORE »Three Misconceptions About Deliverability That Simply Aren’t True
There are still a few misconceptions about email deliverability that will effectively hurt your email reputation, rather than get you on the fast track to delivery. Here are three such misconceptions that simply aren’t true. Related PostsHow to Calculate the Cost of Maintaining Your Email Infrastructure Customer Success Story: Online Business Intelligence Platform, Cyfe Saves Money by Choosing SendGrid Instead of Building Their Own Solution 4 Ways Relevant Email Can Increase Site Traffic and Drive Engagement SendGrid Now Available for HP Cloud Services Three Questions to Ask your SMTP Service Provider Before You Buy
READ MORE »Why Legitimate App Email is Mistaken For Spam
Do you ever get reports from your customers that “this email” or “that email” was never received? Chances are, your answer is an emphatic “Yes”, but rest assured – you’re not alone. In fact, the open “secret” of email communications is that nearly 20% of legitimate email is never delivered to the intended inbox. Overall, more than half of all email sent is considered to be abusive or illegitimate. So, what do these unfortunate statistics have to do with your business? Related PostsWebinar: Q&A With Carly and Paul Webinar: Tips and Tricks to Stay Out of the Spam Folder Customer…
READ MORE »5 Key Practices to Avoid the Spam Folder
According to MAAWG’s Email Metrics Report released in November 11, almost 90% of the emails included in their study were considered to be abusive. Spam and other malicious emails continue to plague customers, ISPs and legitimate senders so to ensure your emails get delivered to the inbox, you have to follow a few key email best practices. Focus on your sending reputation. ISPs look at your sending behavior to make filtering decisions. If you have a good sending reputation, your emails will get delivered, but if not, your emails may end up being blocked at the gateway or labeled as…
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