I got an email from a reader over the weekend\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m doing email marketing, and have a small list, but nobody is opening my emails, do you know why?<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n
Honestly, that\u2019s an impossible question to answer. There are so many reasons that people may not be opening your emails. Some of the questions you could ask are:<\/p>\n
Where do the leads come from?<\/i><\/p>\n
How quickly do you get in touch with them?<\/i><\/p>\n
How often do you get in touch with them?<\/i><\/p>\n
Are you emailing content that\u2019s relevant to what they signed up for?<\/i><\/p>\n
Is your content entertaining?<\/i><\/p>\n
What company do you use to send your emails?<\/i><\/p>\n
Normally I wouldn\u2019t go into this sort of thing. After all, that\u2019s what some of my clients pay me \u00a31500 a day for.<\/p>\n
But I was enjoying Oktoberfest, I needed some downtime, so I thought\u2026 why the heck not \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
All I asked for, was a copy of the last email they sent out.<\/p>\n
It came through a few hours later, and I immediately saw the main problem.<\/p>\n
Now, that\u2019s not to say that some other issues didn\u2019t exist, they did, but the biggest issue was\u2026<\/p>\n
Their FROM address, you know the email that you have as where your email comes from, was a gmail.com address.<\/p>\n
No, no, no, no, no.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n
When you send a bulk email, your email is authorised from a server. Basically what happens before someone receives it, is their email provider (for example Hotmail) will check the email that it\u2019s coming from, and then ask the owner of that email address if you have permission to send bulk email.<\/p>\n
And guess what happens if you use Gmail for your FROM address?<\/p>\n
Gmail respond saying\u2026 Hell No. They don\u2019t have permission.<\/p>\n
Your email is then immediately trashed before anybody sees it.<\/p>\n
Honestly, you should ONLY use email addresses from websites that you own when you send bulk email. This means that you can be sure you have permission.<\/p>\n
That means don\u2019t use Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, or any other free email providers for your FROM address in your bulk emails.<\/p>\n
Instead use something like contact@michaelwilding.com<\/p>\n
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