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Email marketing is one of the most effective digital marketing strategies with impressive automation opportunities. A direct digital marketing channel to reach potential and existing clients by providing them with a solution to their problems can yield impressive results and a high marketing ROI.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of different email marketing strategies exist to help businesses across all industries push new customers down the sales funnel. However, to create a successful email marketing campaign, it\u2019s imperative to overcome a variety of issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a closer look at top email marketing challenges and how to overcome them.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. <\/b> Low Deliverability Rate<\/b><\/h2>\n

Deliverability rate is the rate at which an email is successfully delivered to an email address. It\u2019s calculated by dividing the number of delivered emails by the number of sent emails. The\u00a0 email deliverability rate can suffer for several reasons including:<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad Email List Hygiene<\/b><\/h3>\n

A poor email list is a list that contains invalid emails, spam traps, outdated addresses, and the like. To check if your email list is in top shape, you need to figure out if each address is valid. Doing this manually could take a long while.<\/span><\/p>\n

To check the list fast, you can use<\/span> email verifier<\/span><\/a> tools. An email validator checks the list quality and alerts you if there are any invalid addresses. By removing them from your list, you can increase the deliverability rate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blacklists<\/b><\/h3>\n

If you\u2019ve sent too many emails with spam traps as addresses, your IP or domain could get blacklisted. Email service providers monitor spam traps, determine which IP or domain sends them, and block them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Removing your address from a blacklist can be complicated. It\u2019s much easier to avoid this problem by ensuring high email list quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad Sender\u2019s Reputation<\/b><\/h3>\n

A sender\u2019s reputation is the reputation of your IP address. The email service provider checks it to see if you are a spammer or a valid sender. The basis of the reputation is email list quality, open rates of previous emails, and content quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the reputation is poor, the message ends up in the spam folder, and deliverability suffers.<\/span><\/p>\n

To improve your reputation, you can ensure high-quality content, check email list quality, authenticate your domain, and provide subscribers an unsubscribe option within the email.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. <\/b> Low Open Rate<\/b><\/h2>\n

An open rate is a percentage of sent email messages that recipients open. If you send 100 emails and 20 are opened, you have a 20% open rate. No matter how hard you work on the quality of your messages, they don\u2019t have an effect unless the recipient opens them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, people get<\/span> over 100 emails a day<\/span><\/a>. Many of these emails go to trash and spam as soon as the recipient sees them. One of the first challenges all email marketers face is making sure the message is open.<\/span><\/p>\n

To improve your open rate, you can:<\/span><\/p>\n