Marketers have a lot going on. Email inboxes are packed, social feeds are crowded, and ad costs keep climbing. Amid all that noise, one channel remains surprisingly underused yet incredibly effective: SMS. Text message marketing is direct, fast, and highly visible. If you want to connect in real time and cut through the clutter, it’s time to give SMS the attention it deserves. The Power of Immediacy According to Gartner, SMS open rates average between 90% and 98%, and most messages are read within minutes of being received. That’s an engagement level most channels can’t touch. Deloitte’s Global Mobile Consumer Survey reports […]
Drip campaigns are one of the most effective ways to keep your audience engaged without adding hours to your workload. Whether you’re nurturing leads, onboarding customers, or re-engaging past contacts, automation makes it possible to deliver the right message at the right time without constant manual effort. With the emfluence Marketing Platform, you can build, personalize, and launch a complete drip campaign in under an hour. Here’s how to go from idea to impact, fast. Step 1: Define Your Goal (10 Minutes) Start with clarity. Every drip campaign needs a single purpose, whether that’s nurturing new leads, onboarding […]
This month’s emfluence Marketing Platform updates bring you AI insights, the ability to hide archived groups, additional help tools, and more. Explore the latest features inspired by our user community: Archived Groups KF Asks: We have many archived groups which makes bulk assigning group access difficult on new users. Can you provide a way to hide those groups? In System Users, the Groups tab now includes an option to toggle archived groups on or off, allowing you to hide them from the list. AI Insights on the Contact Record emfluence […]
Yahoo recently moved from suggestion to enforcement when it comes to email deliverability. For email marketers, this shift raises the stakes: miss authentication, list quality, or complaint thresholds, and your campaigns might never reach inboxes again. What’s New: From Soft Guidelines to Strict Enforcement In early 2024, Yahoo (alongside Gmail) announced new sender requirements that essentially formalized what responsible senders have been doing for years: Initially, Yahoo took a soft-enforcement approach: warning senders, sharing guidance, and giving teams time to adapt. But beginning in April 2025, Yahoo started tightening enforcement. […]
Email clients like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and Apple Mail are rolling out updates that directly affect how your emails are filtered, displayed, and measured. Marketers who adapt can protect deliverability, improve design consistency, and measure performance more accurately. Key Email Client Updates Marketers Need to Know About Email providers are implementing updates that will impact whether your emails reach inboxes and how you track results. Gmail is tightening spam filters, Yahoo is enforcing stricter authentication and complaint-rate thresholds, Outlook is using AI to organize emails, and Apple Mail is expanding […]
