Maintaining a Clean List : Email Marketing Techniques
One of the most important, but often overlooked, tasks in email marketing is maintaining the 'quality' of your mailing list. The size of your list means nothing if the list consists of all addresses that are say, not even valid any more. Here are some points to keep in mind to maintain a clean, quality list: Never, ever, resort to 'purchased' lists, or otherwise send email to people who have not explicitly opted in to receive your email - this will backfire on you in no time. If even a handful of people receiving your email mark it as Spam, email service providers (like Gmail, Yahoo etc.) will readily blacklist you. A blacklist means you will not be able to send emails to any email address with that service provider. There are also specialist spam watch groups - like SORBS, Spamhaus etc. - that are dedicated to identifying IP addresses and mail domains that send spam. Service providers have also grown very sophisticated over the years in tracking spam, so do not t...