So you’ve got a list of purchased email addresses—now what? Whether you were pressured to buy this list, came across it in your marketing automation platform, or discovered it in your company files, the first thing you should know is that you should not send an email to these people. Not even to ask them if they want your emails—not even that. It’s tempting to sit on a list of potential buyers, and even more so if you’re in B2B and can make a good guess that these email addresses […]

This month’s emfluence Marketing Platform updates include unpublishing workflows, changing the throttling on a paused email and new badges for users to earn. See what our community has asked for and what we built in March 2021: Unpublish a Workflow LP Asks: Can you make it easier to turn off workflows? Finished with your workflow? Need to turn it off? You can now find an Unpublish Button on your workflow. The current state of your workflow will be turned into a draft (meaning you will lose any existing drafts) and your […]

Using the A/B Testing Tool in the emfluence Marketing Platform, you can create up to five variations of an email, with options to test everything from subject lines to call-to-action buttons, from names, email content, and more. Getting started with the A/B Testing Tool To get started, just click the “Create A/B Split” button on the compose step of your email. You will always have the option to delete any variations you create. Once created, you will see options to create variations of pretty much everything. While you can customize […]

Let’s start with simple definitions: in email, a bounce happens when a recipient’s mail server rejects an email. It’s the email server equivalent to swiping left on a dating profile app. Hard bounces and soft bounces can be triggered for several reasons, and it’s important to know which type is affecting your email marketing campaign from reaching some of your contacts. Knowing the difference between a hard bounce versus a soft bounce will help you effectively handle each situation when they come up, while still maintaining your deliverability reputation and […]

Composing the perfect email is about so much more than a snappy subject line and clever call-to-action. With the constant barrage of marketing emails being sent daily, the inbox has become valuable real estate! As a marketer, all you can hope for (at the very least) is that your recipients open your email, but you may need to do more to entice them—like be more mindful of who the email looks like it’s coming from. Did you know that more than half of email users pay attention to the from […]