How Do I Verify My Email Address?

You won't be able to send Emails or Ezines from Ace of Sales without verifying your email address. To do this, click the link in the verification email we sent you when you first signed up. If you can't find the email, check your spam or junk folder.

Anytime you enter a new email address in your Contact Info area, it will have to be verified.

Comments

[Keith Materi]

My branded e-mails are getting picked off by junk-mail filters. I know this, because my own filter in Outlook Express nabbed the first one I sent. I had checked the send a copy to me too tab. Now in the Tracker I see I have quite a number that have not been opened, and some of my current customers are telling me that they have not recieved them. What now?

Keith

[Andy Horner]

Keith,

First let me say that Ace of Sales emails have been carefully constructed to pass all spam tests - and they do! However, some recipients have their email servers cranked up very high and no emails that include graphics are allowed through. This is a small number though. When I do a blast to a few hundred recipients from Ace of Sales, I see that the vast amount are delivered and a higher than average number are opened.

Typically, when you see a large number of your emails going to spam, it has to do with the content and time the email was sent. Here are some reasons Outlook flags emails as spam:

• Emails send on weekends
• Emails with lots of letters capitalized in the subject line
• Number of symbols (non-letter or number characters in the subject line
• Number of duplicate characters in the subject line. Spam often repeats meaningless characters with dozens of spaces between them.

Credit to Campaign Monitor for this info. They are an expert on email newsletter marketing for designers. Read their article here:

http://help.campaignmonitor.com/topic.aspx?t=102#Outlook%202007

I hope this helps!

- Andy

[Wendy Kostiuk]

Hi Andy,
Thanks for the info. I have followed those guidelines and recently just sent some test emails to our internal group here at GBS. What is very curious is that some branded emails went to staff junk folders and some went to their inbox. We're using the same email server and also the same email client. Even those folks with junk settings as low as possible in Outlook were getting them in junk folder. Server level security doesn't explain this odd set of results. Any other ideas?

I plan on following up with customers who haven't opened my email message by Monday to prompt them to check their junk folder, but if I have to make 50 calls each time we email a group of folks, I won't have much time for anything else. :)

Any additional suggestions you have would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendy