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Planning and perfecting your preference centre

Planning and perfecting your preference centre

Planning and perfecting your preference centre

April 12th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

What is a preference centre? An email preference centre is a page that gives your subscribers a choice in the emails they get from you (such as...

Cyber-attack learnings for Local Government

Public Sector Security

Cyber-attack learnings for Local Government

March 3rd, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

In January the Government announced that local authorities will receive £37.8m to boost their cyber resilience.The funding has been announced as...

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA): What is it and why you need it

Data Protection

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA): What is it and why you need it

March 1st, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

Traditional usernames and passwords can be easily compromised. Multi-factor authentication (MFA), is a security control that requires users to...

Allowlisting: How it works and why you should encourage it

email-marketing Deliverability

Allowlisting: How it works and why you should encourage it

February 28th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

With the sending of marketing emails on mass being a regular occurrence, and in many cases unsolicited (based on Legitimate Interest in B2B), many...

Phishing and its impact on legitimate senders

Phishing and its impact on legitimate senders

Phishing and its impact on legitimate senders

February 24th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

Phishing and Business Email CompromiseBusiness email compromise is a cyberattack that is designed to gain access to critical business information...

Email pre-flight checklist

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Email pre-flight checklist

March 12th, 2020 - Sadie Burgess

We all know the feeling, that moment just before you hit send - but all that could be set to change. With out pre-flight checklist you can be...

Blocklisting - What it means and what to do about it

Deliverability email-marketing

Blocklisting - What it means and what to do about it

January 31st, 2020 - Dan Hare

A blocklist (previously known as blacklist - see https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/terminology-its-not-black-and-white) from an email marketing...

Which is the best image format for email?

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Which is the best image format for email?

June 14th, 2019 - Sadie Burgess

Images can be rendered in a plethora of file formats  – JPG, PNG, EPS, GIF, TIFF, BMP and more. But which is the right format for your mail? Which...

Rise of the machines - A definitive guide to bots

Deliverability email-marketing

Rise of the machines - A definitive guide to bots

June 6th, 2019 - Dan Hare

We are under threat from robots and artificially intelligent programs designed to stop us. Yes, like some dystopian sci-fi thriller, the world of...

Maintaining your email marketing database

Best practice

Maintaining your email marketing database

February 22nd, 2019 - Dan Hare

Your email marketing database is like a plant. It needs to be continually fed, watered and pruned if it is to stay in good health, yet...

The ABC of AB Testing subject lines

email-marketing

The ABC of AB Testing subject lines

February 22nd, 2018 - Sadie Burgess

Email campaigns are a great way to get both new and repeat business. Your contact base is already pre-qualified as they have opted in to hearing...

Deliverability 101

Best practice Deliverability

Deliverability 101

January 23rd, 2018 - Sadie Burgess

Deliverability, also known as inbox placement, is a step before the usual open and click-through metrics that we marketing...

7 tips to make social media and email marketing work together

Social media email-marketing

7 tips to make social media and email marketing work together

August 18th, 2017 - Sadie Burgess

Both social media and email have proved themselves as vital parts of any successful marketing strategy. Yet a lot of marketers prioritize one over...

Email A/B Testing Best Practices

Best practice

Email A/B Testing Best Practices

July 1st, 2017 - Harry Thomas

A/B testing, also known as split testing, is a method of comparing two versions of an email (A and B) to see which one performs better. The A/B...

3 reasons you should be using email automation

email-marketing Automation

3 reasons you should be using email automation

May 25th, 2017 -

“Email Automation” has become a buzzword for 2017. If you’re a business owner and you are actively searching to increase the efficiency of your...

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