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Articles Tagged "deliverability"
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How do I know if I’m writing a good subject line?
The Subject Line Researcher Project The nerds in MailChimp Labs recently unveiled a new experiment called the Subject Line Researcher. It's kind of like Google's Keyword Tool, but for email marketing. And it's free for all MailChimp users. To test your subject line go to the Setup step of the…
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How Spam Filters Think
How To Avoid Getting Your Campaigns Accidentally Junked If you send email campaigns long enough, you will inevitably run into spam filter issues. We've found that on average, you can expect 10-20% of your emails to just get lost in cyberspace, mostly due to overzealous spam filters. You don't even…
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Avoiding the spam filters
There's no sense spending a bunch of time designing, coding, and writing your email newsletters, only to get them trapped in your recipients' junk folders. That's like those salmon you see on TV. They make the long, once-in-a-lifetime journey from the ocean to return to their birthplace and spawn. They…
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How fast does MailChimp deliver email?
The time it takes to deliver your campaign to your entire list depends on the size of your list, and on the current mail queue at MailChimp. Technically it could take us 45 minutes to send 1 million emails. Beyond this ISPs require messages be throttled to groups of 2,000…
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What is Authentication and how do I set it up?
What is Authentication? Authentication is sort of like a license plate for your email. It provides a trackable identifier which indicates you're a legit emailer. There are 4 different types of authentication you have to take into consideration when sending bulk email content: DKIM Domain Keys SenderID SPF Learn More…
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Why can’t I use MailChimp to clean my list?
The simple answer is - MailChimp isn't a list cleaning service, we're a different type of company altogether. The longer more helpful answer is - MailChimp is an email service provider and we have specific thresholds that we're required to police to help us maintain the deliverability and sending reputation…
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I’m not receiving my test campaigns
If you're sending yourself (or your client) test campaigns from MailChimp, but you haven't received any of the emails, here's what to check: Was the email bounced back by your company's email server? After you send your email, give it a few minutes, then check your campaign stats for any…
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I know this email address is valid, but it hard bounced.
If you want to resubscribe a valid bounced address you'll need to delete the member from your list (not unsubscribe) and manually add them back. If you send a campaign and it hard bounces back from an email address that you *know* is a valid address, there could be several…
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Is there a limit to the number of tests I can send?
Did you get a notice saying you've sent too many tests of a single campaign or too many tests for your account? Paid Accounts You can send tests to 20 email addresses at a time and you can send 70 tests per campaign, or 200 tests per account per day…
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MailChimp Server Whitelisting Information, IP addresses and server names
If you are trying to send emails to recipients inside a company, but the emails aren't getting through, it's probably an aggressive corporate email firewall holding your emails back. Don't take it personally. They just think that sending the same email to multiple people in their company looks like spam.…