Pedro Sorrentino from SendGrid discussed best practices for email deliverability at the RD Summit '14. He emphasized that the future of email is about getting messages into users' inboxes. SendGrid processes over 16 billion emails per month for over 180,000 customers. However, 20% of emails worldwide do not reach users' inboxes. Pedro discussed factors that impact deliverability like authentication, volume, clicks/opens, and unsubscribes. He also covered upcoming changes like DMARC and the trend toward using domain reputation instead of IP addresses. Pedro's key message was to send the right message to the right person at the right time with the right frequency.
1. SendGrid
RD Summit ‘14
The Future of Email is Deliverability
Pedro Sorrentino – Ecosystem & Latam Growth – SendGrid
@pedrosorren
Pedro @ sendgrid.com
10. Delivery Flow
SGA | 2014
Sender Recipient
Email content passed to
SendGrid via API or SMTP
Email delivered to
recipients’ inboxes
Analytics captured by SendGrid and
passed back to customer
SendGrid
processes and
queues email
14. 150 Billion emails a day
Global Email Volume=
2.3 Billion + Avg Inbox has 8024 messages!
How many active inboxes?
15. “A good definition of the web might be, “the stuff you can find by searching it.”
Google says the web contains 30 trillion unique URLs.
The average web page contains 96 of those objects, and is 1.6 megabytes in
size. That puts the size of the indexed web at around 512 petabytes.
So, email is about 3x the size of the web (based on average size of messages)
Via https://medium.com/@raindrift/how-big-is-email-305bbdb69776
18. Breakdown the Perspective as a
Sender vs a Receiver
• Put your self in the perspective of the
Sender
• We tell customers to send less all the time
• We fire bad senders
42. Engagement:
Quality vs. Quantity
• More email does not equal more money
• Non engagement affects your
deliverability
• Sending the right message to those
engaged and another to the less
engaged is the key
52. Reputation:
IP vs. Domain
• Reputation tied today mostly to your IP
• The trend is moving from preferring IP reputation to
domain reputation
- Gmail is biggest user of domain reputation to
date and Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL are quickly
moving in this direction
- Making marketing decisions while keeping your
brand in mind will be crucial success in the
future
53. • Domain Reputation - automated
• Blackbox – hello? No one is at the
postmaster desk
• List unsubscribe – no official feedback
loop
• A plus - shares logic for bulked mail
54. • Feedback loops to report complaints
• IP reputation
• Yahoo Bulk Sender Form
• Automated engagement tracking
55. • JMRP (Junk Email reporting program)
• SRD (trusted users) shapes your
reputation
• IP Reputation
• SNDS provides tool to monitor reputation
60. Content
Frequency
Lots of Content at Once
(Monthly Newsletter)
You don’t want to be here
Core Product Notifications
(Dripped Campaigns,
Activation Based on User
Behavior)
Pure Transactional Emails
(Sign up Confirmation,
Password Reminders)
Navigating the ISP Landscape.
This can be a difficult endeavor if you don’t have up to date insider information. Today I hope to share that information with you.
Top ISPs
What is an ISP? What is an ESP?
Here are a few top ISPs.
You might be asking yourself, how am I to know what ISPs want?
They are competing with many other ISPs for the best customer experience. Getting wanted mail to the inbox
How do ISPs measure a senders performance?
Filtering
Authentication – DKIM, DMARC, SPF – if you use a reputable ESP they will take of this for you. In general it is signing your email so the recipient ISP can validate you are a legitimate sender.
Subscribe to blacklists. Many large ISPs use Spam Haus or other Blacklist to further insure that the sender IP and domain are not known bad senders.
True or False? Sending more mail makes you more money.
False.
This could be answered as true and it still make sense. It can be deceiving in that sometimes you will send more mail and make more money but there is a limit to where it too much. This can affect your reputation, inboxing and in turn $
Engagement: Quality vs. Quantity
More email <> equal more $
Non-engagement kills your deliverability
Send to only those who want your email – Know your customers – send the right message
Opens
Clicks
Reply to
Unsubscribe
Mass delete
Spam reports
No engagement
What is Engagement?
The most important trend in the industry today
Temptations – everyone has them but avoid these pitfalls
Purchased lists
Auto sign up (pre-checked box)
Inviting – using address books
Do it the right way or stay clear of this tactic altogether
Looking forward – what trends are we seeing?
Reputation IP vs. Domain
In the past reputation was only really measured by IP and changing IPs would allow you to start fresh. This is no longer the case.
Trend is moving towards Domain reputation – GMAIL is on the forefront of this
Domain reputation, Blackbox – no one at the postmaster desk, List unsubscribe (no FBl), A plus – shares logic for bulked mail
FBLs, IP reputation, Yahoo Bulk Sender form, Automated engagement
JMRP – otherwise known as Feedback loops
SRD –trusted Hotmail users are asked to vote you whether your email is spam/wanted
IP reputation
SNDS provides tool to monitor – red/yellow/green
Concentrate on the Right Message – to the Right Person – at the Right Time - with the Right Frequency and you will stay on the good side of the ISPs and have little trouble getting to the inbox of your customers