How email warming can help you skyrocket your deliverability ?

An email warming service generates engagement on your emails, which helps to improve email deliverability.

High engagement is now a top factor to improve email deliverability.

ReturnPath, the global leading company in email deliverability (acquired by Validity) says, in their Gmail Deliverability Best Practices page, in the Gmail’s top deliverability factors section, the following :

“When encountering deliverability issues at Gmail, temporarily sending only to your most engaged subscribers […] can help improve your sending reputation and lead to an increase in inbox placement. Gmail uses engagement as a factor for filtering your email.”

Sendgrid, one of the major email sending services says, in one of their posts, the following :

“The higher your email engagement, the more likely you are to avoid spam filters and land in the inbox.”

Campaign Monitor, in their guide to avoid spam filters, says :

“Now, whenever you send a new campaign, inbox providers like Gmail and Outlook actually look at their user engagement and previous interactions with your past campaigns. They then use this information to determine whether your latest campaign makes it to the inbox or not.”

That’s therefore a proven fact (backed by our data) that having a high level of engagement helps a lot to improve email deliverability.

Email deliverability : by using an email warming service, your inbox and domain receive a lot of engagement.

The mission of an email warmup tool like MailReach is to generate engagement with your inbox and domain to improve email deliverability and sending reputation.

An email warming service connects to your inbox and start conversations with other inboxes. Most of the emails sent are opened, replied, marked as important and removed from spam and promotion.

It literally teaches the email providers to send your emails to the inbox of your recipients.

An email warming service removes your emails from spam. That helps to improve email deliverability.

Having your emails rescued from the spam folder helps you improve email deliverability.

Rescuing a message from the spam folder is one of the most important metrics considered by inbox providers. Marking a message as not spam takes considerable effort on the part of a recipient and reflects as such upon the mailbox providers.

As ReturnPath says: "Gmail likes when subscribers rescue your email from the spam folder if it is marked as spam. It tells Gmail that you are more likely a legitimate sender."

An email warmer automatically removes your emails from spam and moves them to the inbox.

When using an email warm up tool, each warming email that lands in the spam folder of any inbox in the network is automatically marked as “not spam” and moved in the main inbox.

That’s a huge help as it constantly fixes and helps recover your deliverability when you’re landing more in spam.

Therefore, to improve email deliverability, using an email warming service that automates the process of moving your emails from spam to the main inbox can be a game changer.

A good email warmer generates meaningful engaged conversations. And guess what, Google can understand emails.

Gmail, which is the #1 email hosting service just before Microsoft Exchange, uses AI to suggest ‘smart replies’ to its users.

It simply means that Google is able to understand the emails your receive to suggest you relevant quick replies.  

Unfortunately, most email warm up services generate conversations with gibberish content. It does not make any sense.

At MailReach, we’ve invested money and time to build a powerful system that generates meaningful content : asking for news, meetings and call proposals, mentioning previous work, corporate subjects, etc.

This type of content, as it’s meaningful and realistic, helps you build trust with inbox providers and thus improve email deliverability on a more efficient level.

Also, it’s much more consistent with your regular email activity than sending emails with gibberish content.

An email warming service helps you see where your emails land, and that’s helpful to improve email deliverability.

One of the biggest problems when you send emails is not exactly knowing your real deliverability. Where your actually land given your sending reputation.

Typically, a lot of people use Mail-Tester to know their score.

Breaking news : you can have 10/10 on Mail Tester and still land totally in spam.

Mail Tester is useful to know if your technical setup is right (such as SPF, DKIM, DMARC, image / text ratio, etc), but is not really representative of the reality of your deliverability.

When using an email warming service like MailReach, you can see exactly, on a daily basis, where your warm up emails land.

And that’s a strong help to monitor your results.

For example, if you see a spam peak, you’re invited to slow down your campaigns as it may have happened because your emails have been marked as spam.

Conclusion : email warming will help you, but be demanding on the quality.

Email warming should help you improve your deliverability but it should meet some important conditions :

• First, the conversations generated by the service should be human and meaningful and not gibberish.
• The email warming service should warm your inbox for different providers, not only Gmail but Gsuite, Outlook, Office 365, Yahoo, etc.
• Ideally, using a smart algorithm to adapt the warming process depending on your deliverability.

Of course, you’ve probably seen us coming, MailReach meets all these conditions.

We have been doing cold emailing for 5 years and keep doing it. This is crucial to be able to develop a service that is truly effective and that really helps you.

If you need tips on how to improve your cold email deliverability check out our full guide.

Our track record :

• Grew from 0€ to 120k€ Monthly Recurring Revenue in 6 months in our previous company with cold emailing as our only acquisition channel.
• Helped raise 56M€ in funding for IPOs and seed rounds with cold emails.
• 75% open rate on average for > 130 companies sending thousands of cold emails per month.

Thanks for reading this post, we hope it helped.