Ensuring Successful Email Delivery
The purpose of any email is to convey the intended message to the desired audience, be it an individual, a group or a wide spread audience. The successful delivery of an email can be curtailed by several technical factors. This can sabotage your communication efforts, marketing campaign and critical time in getting a response or feedback.
The use of email as a communication tool has increased over the years. It is a tool of delivering message that allows certain degree of customization and personalization while being fast and non intrusive. As a result, more and more marketers are using it as their most significant marketing tool.
According to a recent study, more than 90% of the marketers employ emails as their main communication channel, followed up by phone and other traditional forms of communication. The great advantage of email is that it easy to draft and send messages and it almost costs you nothing. However, in recent times the emails system has also been abused a lot in the form of spam mails and other uninvited marketing mails. This has resulted in small and large businesses adapting anti spam technology to combat such spam mails and thereby curtail the unsolicited emails reaching their mailing systems.
To this end, even internet service providers and other non-profit organizations have created a repository of blacklisted email IDs that send spam mails. Their database is constantly updated and shared among the members of anti email spam communities and organizations. Although such actions taken by these organizations are necessary to counter unsolicited emails, they do pose a significant threat to email marketing campaigns.
Several marketers and businesses find that their legitimate email messages seldom reach their targeted recipients as they are blocked or blacklisted. This has resulted in marketers being very careful in crafting their emails.
It is often observed that email abusers are far ahead of the anti email spam camp. Marketers and businesses are constantly working to be compliant with the rules and norms set up by spam regulators. Following the best practices of the spam regulator will ensure that emails are not blocked and not blacklisted. Exercising this will drastically increase the changes of emails reaching the desired destination on time.
The challenge to successful delivery of emails include authentication of email IDs, reputation of the email host, being mislabeled as email spammers by anti spam applications, server configuration, and by email recipients. Identifying these fundamental challenges to successful email delivery will go a long way in ensuring that your emails are sought out by others. It will also help you to foresee any potential challenges ahead.
Pramod works as a Senior Search Engine Marketeer at an online marketing firm. Some of the successful keyword campaigns manged by him include Sample Containers and Antibiotic Sensitivity Discs.
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