What is DKIM, SPF & DMARC? And How to Set Them Up
This is serious. This is about your email deliverability. I know from my own experience that these acronyms may sound unfamiliar, scary and may seem totally uninteresting. Or maybe they sound familiar, but you never cared enough to check what they really are. Either way, it's time to learn a bit about what SPF, DKIM and DMARC are and how to set them up in your DNS records for your mail server, if you want to have better control over your email deliverability.
How & When to Test Email Deliverability? List of Tools & Alternatives
Are you taking good care of your cold email campaigns’ delivery rates? There are a few tools our team uses to help Woodpecker customers test email deliverability and improve it. In this post, we share this list with you and explain how & when you can use email deliverability tools by yourself.
GDPR for Cold Sales Email Senders – FAQ
Lately, we're getting lots of questions about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). This seems like a topic that still needs some clarification. That's why here we've put together a GDPR FAQ - a list of frequently asked questions about the regulation along with our answers. Hope you'll find here some useful clues and practical tips about processing data and managing your email campaigns according to the GDPR principles.
What Are Email Sending Limits of Various Email Service Providers?
You have to know this. Especially if you do email outreach. Each email service provider has its own email sending limits. The limits may be daily, hourly, and sometimes also per minute. If you’re sending cold email campaigns without being aware of your email provider’s limits, your email account may get blocked before you know it.
27 Tools & Services for Outbound Sales Prospecting (2022 Updated)
Prospect list building is a crucial part of the outbound sales process. The first step is defining your ideal customer profile (ICP). But as soon as you've done that, you actually need to find the right accounts, people and their contact details. Here's a tool stack for step two. A collection of outbound prospect list building tools and services that will help you regularly feed Woodpecker with fresh contacts.
Links in Cold Email: How to Add & Track Them Safely (Updated)
Do you have links in your cold emails? I bet you do. We often feel the need to add a link or two – either in the body of our email or in the signature. Moreover, we usually want to know if someone clicked the link or not. Ideally, we would like to know how many people clicked the link and who it was exactly. There are many tools that allow us to track clicks on links in emails, but all of them use the same mechanism to do that. Unfortunately, the mechanism is not perfect, and it may cause spam alerts if we set up our links wrong. That's why it's important to put in the links properly into our message not to get into spam folder. Here's how to do that.