Spam Traps: What They Are and Why You Should Pay Attention to Them
The following is a guest post from SendGrid’s Compliance Desk.Spam Traps (also called “honeypots”) are simply ways to identify and monitor spam. Creating them is as easy as taking an email address or...
View ArticleShared and Dedicated IPs: Which Should You Choose?
Trying to determine whether you should be on either a shared or a dedicated IP? Before you make any decisions, let’s start with the basics. All email is delivered over an IP address. It’s basically...
View ArticleHighway to Hell: Top 7 Fastest Ways to Land in the Email Underworld
Even the most well-intentioned email program can be plagued by the pitfalls of the email underworld. Spam traps, blacklists, phishers, and more are all hell-bent on making your email’s journey to the...
View ArticleYour Highway to Email Hell Questions, Answered
Is your email program on the highway to email hell? As a follow-up to our webcast: Highway to Hell–Top 7 Fastest Ways to Land in the Email Underworld, our presenters Ali Frusciano and Ali Nelson have...
View ArticleOur Experts Answer Your Email Deliverability Questions
As a follow-up to last month’s: Ask an Expert! Getting Started With Email Deliverability our Customer Success Engineer Kurt Diver has answered all of the questions he was unable to answer during the...
View ArticleTransactional Email Inspiration: Birchbox Hits the Bullseye With Their Email...
Need a little email inspiration to kick off your week? Here’s a great example of an effective transactional email, brought to us by Kate S. from our marketing department.Intuitively, it makes sense...
View ArticleJoin SendGrid at the PayPal Global Battle Hack Competition in NYC July 20-21
Paypal is on a mission to find the world’s best hackers—are you one of them? Through their Battle Hack competition, they’re combing through 10 cities across the globe from now until October, looking...
View ArticleStop Notification Overload
How many notification emails do you send on a daily basis? If you aren’t sure, take inventory. Many apps send notifications each time an action is taken. While this is the premise of transactional...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes with SendGrid’s Co-Founders
We’re often asked about how SendGrid got its start and what the journey’s been like over the past four years. The story really begins at the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering where...
View ArticleSendGrid Email Marketing Service Tutorial: How To Create a Recipient List
With the recent release of our Marketing Email Service, we’re happy to share a new video tutorial initiative from our Support team, VidGrid. VidGrid will walk you through each step of creating your...
View ArticleSendGrid “Sits” with NCWIT and Girl Develop It Boulder
We were very happy to sponsor the latest Girl Develop It class in Boulder this past weekend. We welcomed 15 women into our office to learn the basics of HTML and CSS in a hands on two-day course. It...
View ArticleSendGrid Email Marketing Service Tutorial: Create a Newsletter and Add Custom...
We’re happy to continue our VidGrid tutorial series in support of the recent release of our Marketing Email Service. This series will walk you through each step of creating your email marketing...
View ArticleSendGrid helps GRM app Guestfolio provide ROI tracking off of newsletters
The following is a guest post from Mark Edmondson of Guestfolio. Guestfolio is based in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The company provides a seamless suite of Guest Relationship Management (GRM)...
View ArticleYahoo! To Recycle Dormant Addresses
The following is a guest post from SendGrid Senior Deliverability Analyst, Tim Starr. Yahoo! recently announced that they will be recycling email addresses that have been unused by their owners for 12...
View ArticleSendGrid Email Marketing Service Tutorial: Design Creation Using Drag and...
We’re happy to continue our VidGrid tutorial series in support of the recent release of our Marketing Email Service. This series will walk you through each step of creating your email marketing...
View ArticleDMARC: Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance
The following is a guest post from SendGrid’s Compliance Desk.DMARC and YOU. The future of email authentication.What is it?Have you ever received an email message that claimed to be from a company or a...
View ArticleRe-confirmation Emails: Should You Be Sending Them?
The following is a guest post from SendGrid’s Compliance Desk.In order to maximize your email deliverability it is important to keep your address list current and clean. What does this mean and why...
View ArticleSendGrid Email Marketing Service Tutorial: How to Set Up the Subscription Widget
We’re happy to continue our VidGrid tutorial series in support of the recent release of our Marketing Email Service. This series will walk you through each step of creating your email marketing...
View ArticleWhat is Marketing Email?
Marketing email (also known as commercial or promotional email) as defined by the CAN-SPAM Act is any message in which the primary purpose “advertises or promotes a commercial product or service,...
View ArticleThe Solution for Making Bacn Tasty
The following is a guest post from Graham at our Compliance Desk.Bacn is the new spam and major ISPs are making changes to make sure that your inbox stays healthy. For clarity, “spam” is simply email...
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