How and Why to Establish an Email Deliverability Audit

Are you worried about your email strategies? Is there uncertainty around the effectiveness of your messages or even worse, are you sure your emails are even reaching the intended recipients?  The answer to all these questions is simple: In order to be sure, you need to perform an email deliverability audit.

When performed quarterly, an email deliverability audit is helpful in improving the performance of your email marketing campaigns. While the term “audit” can seem to be broad, meaning a variety of tasks, in common terms, it is the overall assessment of your email marketing processes.  You can think of it as your company’s way of putting the email marketing campaigns under a microscope and figuring out what does and doesn’t work.

Why Should You Conduct An Email Deliverability Audit?

An email deliverability audit should be performed for several reasons, with the core purpose of evaluating one or a group of the following issues:

  • Security
  • Reputation
  • Content Quality
  • Deliverability
  • Effectiveness

In most cases, an audit will cover most of the areas above, with specific issues identified as well as their apt solutions. If performed correctly, an audit should also reveal all areas where your email marketing is working effectively.

Additionally, it is important to note that while any quarterly deliverability audit can reveal a variety of problems, some of the most common ones to look for include:

 

How Can You Establish A Quarterly Email Deliverability Audit?

Okay, so now you know all the great things an email deliverability audit can do for you. I’m sure your next question is: How can I perform an email audit for my email campaigns? Not a problem — leave that to us! When MailMonitor performs your email audit, we cover the following areas:

  1. Perform an Interview – First off, you need to become the Sherlock Holmes of your company and do some detective work. Talk to your staff and team members, especially those involved directly with your email marketing campaigns in any way, including content generation and technical executions. Also engage with your clients and contact lists in gathering useful information, asking them of their experiences with your emails, including surveys, polls, and questionnaires.
  2. Perform a Process Analysis – Have a list prepared on all the processes that are involved in an email campaign’s evolution, from the initial concept to delivering the finished product. Prepare a flow chart with timelines if that helps. Some of the likely parts In your process analysis list will include:
  • Concept Ideation and Creation
  • Subject Line Creation
  • Header Creation
  • Text and Format of the Main Content
  • Message Template Design
  • List Acquisition and Management
  • Email Delivery
  • Testing and Evaluation of Deliverability
  1. Gather Useful Information – This includes studying your samples, using historical data for evaluation and tracking trends to predict any possible changes. Look at your email campaigns with a critical eye, from a neutral standpoint. You might also want to engage with your ISP or email service provider in getting you any useful information that you can use.
  2. Have a Reputation Analysis – You need to be critical with this, as your company reputation can be seriously damaged by your email campaign’s reputation. Bad emails from your end, even few, can get you straight to the spam lists, destroying any chances of salvaging a decent delivery rate. You need to be regular at identifying your email reputation and quick with cleaning it up. Feedback loops are a great way to track your reputation.
  3. Compile Existing Delivery Data – After all, investigations have been performed and process understood, you need to compile your data. You need to have a strong focus on your next email campaigns. Monitor all steps identified and watch out for any pitfalls and/or trouble hotspots. Some of the crucial type of data to compile includes:
  • Bounce Rate, Open Rate, and CTR
  • Text-Only Mail vs. HTML Ratio
  • Opt-Out Figures

We understand that all of this can be overwhelming and to put things on autopilot, we recommend that you try the MailMonitor Email Deliverability Tool. Our deliverability suite has you covered, reporting you in real time on dozens of ISPs, giving the much-needed visibility to the delivery performance at all major ISPs worldwide.

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