Your Biggest Email Problem

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What's up? Been a while since I've been around here and appreciate all the changes I see here.

I've been busy doing serious work in email delivery. Basically, I've built a bullet-proof delivery system and used it to send 4.5M emails over the past few years, with a list of 1.7M emails. Yeah, I expect you'd do the math and realize I could only send 4 emails to that entire list and it'd be more that 4.5M emails - and that's where one secret is, proper segmentation equals sending fewer, highly targeted emails. And of course, when I first started I didn't have 1.7M emails.

So I've ran this system for only 2 other marketers, where their email lists are their lifeblood, not just a passive portion of their online business. Over time I've added a number of features and solved problems that fit our specific needs. In doing so, I always thought about solving problems and adding features in such a way that would make sense to other marketers, not just us. And along the way I got to do some pretty cool stuff, from washing down large lists, segmenting lists according to amounts of activity and other actions taken outside of email, and building complex sales funnels where individual products are pitched until either the member unsubscribes or reaches the end of that email series and are automatically placed in another series. I'll talk more about the system and our experience if you're curious, but for now, back to the main purpose of this post.

Now I'm getting ready to bring in some more marketers and could use your advice.

What are some of the features you wished your current emailer would have?

What are some of your largest email problems that you wish someone would solve?

What are some of your other email needs (like list purchase, washing, etc)?
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  • Profile picture of the author marklyons
    The biggest problem with email is how people use it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Pickett
      Originally Posted by marklyons View Post

      The biggest problem with email is how people use it.
      I don't know if I can solve that one with software.

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  • Profile picture of the author davismiller097
    My new problem, if I want to compose a new email, I click on compose, the where it show TO I put in the first letter of the email address and it used to bring up all emails starting with that letter, now for some reason it does not do that anymore, I have to type the full address, any ideas please?
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Pickett
      Originally Posted by davismiller097 View Post

      My new problem, if I want to compose a new email, I click on compose, the where it show TO I put in the first letter of the email address and it used to bring up all emails starting with that letter, now for some reason it does not do that anymore, I have to type the full address, any ideas please?
      That problem is related to your email client and isn't related to an email list or my mailing system, so it's not something I can solve for you, sorry.
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