The best way to ensure your email strategy
brings the greatest results To your business is to gain credibility
with your subscribers. It’s not always an easy task. That’s exactly what IP warmup is for. You’re in the right place
to get all the answers you need. We’re here to help. There are three reasons
why your IP could need some warming up. One, you’re starting a brand new business With a new email domain,
sending out messages to your new clients. Two, You’ve recently changed
your email provider and need to migrate Contact lists
without losing deliverability rates. Three, You have a trusted list of contacts
and your business is The same, yet you haven’t sent them
anything for a while. So your Internet service provider
may gross suspicious of your return. In each case, the consistent IP warmup
strategy will help you engage Your subscribers, improve your emails
performance and build credibility With ISPs. As the inbox providers we all rely on. When your emails go out, their contents,
your from field, Your email domain address, And the list of contact
are all carefully analyzed Because the system is trying to determine Whether or not your message will be useful
to the intended audience. The IP warm up process
ensures that with time More of your communications are perceived
as helpful and important. As such, there are four parties involved. Once you start sending emails
from a cold IP, the senders Your from address, your email service
provider, The platform you used to deploy your email
marketing campaigns Such as GetResponse,
the recipient’s inbox provider That will process your email upon
sending Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo! And the recipients themselves
who will decide whether or not to interact With your email their inbox provider
lets it through in the first place. You start sending emails
for the first time or after a long break.
Your default sender
reputation is set on medium Based on how you communications
are received by your audience. The inbox provider decides
whether you deserve to move up Or down the rating scale. It’s important because your sender
reputation directly affects Not only if your messages are delivered,
but also where they end up. A low reputation usually means most of
your emails will land in the spam folder. The very slim chance of your subscribers
ever finding them. Of course, some emails may end up in spam
folders in the beginning anyway, But by following the very best IP warm up
practices, we’re going to present for you Soon your messages will only land
in the desired primary inbox. There are two main aspects
to a successful warm up strategy. Gradual sending volume
growth and careful contact segmentation. Be consistent with your sending volume. Most inbox providers Recommend starting with around 1000
email sent on your first day. Then gradually increasing the volume
as you move along your campaign. In most cases, adding 20% of new
subscribers every day is a safe way to go. Here consistency is key. If your warm up process is doing well. You can’t stop in the middle of it
and you can’t risk speeding it up When it comes to segmentation. You might have heard that personalization
works wonders for conversions, But did you know it’s equally important
for deliverability rate? Here we recommend segmenting your contacts
based on Two distinct criteria
enabled simultaneously. Most recent activity and inbox providers. Those ISPs. When you track your contacts
activity, it’s easier for you to exclude Those who are inactive and tailor
more engagement dependent communication For those who interact in your emails,
the most internet service or inbox Providers are responsible For monitoring email traffic
and analyzing subscriber activity stats. They’re particularly wary
about new centers and big sending volumes.
All ISP’s handle these processes, but each
may focus more on different metrics. For example, one inbox provider will focus More on the open and click rates, while
others monitor email content more closely. This means that your reputation on Gmail
may be higher than that on Yahoo! We’ve included
links to the most popular inbox providers Regulations for successful mailings
in the description of this video, Along with other helpful resources to get
you started with IP warm up. Remember CAS consistency of your mailing
authenticity of your message, Segmentation of your recipients
and your emails will land Straight in your subscribers
primary inbox in no time.
