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 […]
If you send marketing emails to Gmail users, it’s time to tighten up your sending practices. As of June 2024, Google rolled out new rules for bulk senders that raise the bar on authentication, unsubscribe functionality, and spam complaint thresholds. The goal: a cleaner inbox experience for users. The consequence for marketers who don’t comply: slower delivery, lower inbox placement, and more messages headed straight to spam. Here’s a breakdown of what changed and how to make sure your messages keep landing where they should. Key Updates at a Glance […]
Donor data often lives in silos. Reports trail behind real behavior. Personalization takes hours of manual work. For fundraising teams, it’s a constant challenge to turn insights into action. For one nationally recognized pediatric healthcare organization, these challenges were compounded by the need to ensure every outreach effort was efficient, relevant, and HIPAA compliant. This organization set out to solve a familiar problem in fundraising: how to connect donor insights directly to marketing execution without adding more strain on their teams. To do this, they turned to two of their […]
Apple’s Link Tracking Protection rolled out with iOS 17 and expanded significantly with iOS 18 in late 2024. If you’re a marketer running email campaigns, this change is already affecting how you track clicks and measure success, and it’s only going to grow throughout what remains of 2025. With iPhones making up over half the US smartphone market, most businesses sending emails to consumers will feel this impact during the crucial fall marketing season. Here’s what you need to know to keep your email marketing profitable and measurable. What Is […]
As a business owner, you’ve invested in a CRM to organize customer relationships. But if your marketing campaigns still feel like guesswork, the issue might be your data strategy. The missing link is often the quality and structure of the data inside your CRM. Most CRMs excel at tracking sales activities, but marketing automation requires different information. To send targeted campaigns or nurture leads effectively, you need data that tells you where prospects are in their buyer’s journey and how they prefer to engage. This is where the right marketing […]
