Email After Hours: The Podcast for Email Senders

When ranking stressful activities in a person's life, some might put transitioning your email service provider (ESP) right up there with getting married or buying a new house. If you’re one of those folks, here’s your chance to look the beast in the eye and learn how to tame it. You’ll learn about successful ESP transitions from a veteran with three successful transitions in as many years. In this episode of Email After Hours, Michael Cabral, a seventeen-year veteran in the email management space and the Senior Manager of Email Operations and Strategy at J.Jill, walks us through a step-by-step checklist for migrating ESPs. Plus, he’ll share J.Jill’s go-to strategies for keeping subscribers engaged through email and SMS marketing. (They do such a good job that J.Jill’s subscribers complain if they don’t receive marketing emails. Mind blown.) If you enjoyed this episode then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow ‘Email After Hours’ on Spotify Email After Hours: The Podcast for Email Senders is handcrafted by our friends over at fame.soCheck out our three most downloaded episodes:Rethinking Customer Loyalty Programs: The Good, The Bad, and The Free CoffeeThe One Email Metric You’re Not Tracking (& Other Secrets to Killer Email Content) with MarketingProfs’ Ann HandleyNew Consumer Email Trends & Tips to Become a BFF Brand with the Data & Marketing Association (DMA)

 Episode Summary: Say your team spends hours weekly managing your company’s email campaigns, but the results are meh at best. Leadership is pushing for results, while on the other hand, running manual campaigns is eating into the team's productivity and morale. Sound familiar? Email automation might be the answer.In this episode of Email After Hours, Jeanne Jennings, a twenty-year veteran in the email marketing space and the Founder and CEO of Email Optimization Shop, discusses all aspects of email automation, from implementation tips to pitfalls. She also explains the importance of a robust automation strategy to help marketing teams deliver relevant, personalized content at scale.If you enjoyed this episode then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow ‘Email After Hours’ on Spotify Email After Hours: The Podcast for Email Senders is handcrafted by our friends over at fame.soCheck out our three most downloaded episodes:Rethinking Customer Loyalty Programs: The Good, The Bad, and The Free CoffeeThe One Email Metric You’re Not Tracking (& Other Secrets to Killer Email Content) with MarketingProfs’ Ann HandleyNew Consumer Email Trends & Tips to Become a BFF Brand with the Data & Marketing Association (DMA)

Episode Summary: POV: You’re an email marketer in 2023. Budgets are tight, headcounts small, and leadership expectations for email performance higher than ever. Sound familiar? Get ready to take notes. In this episode of Email After Hours, Jay Schwedelson, President and CEO of Outcome Media and Founder of Subjectline.com, offers a masterclass on easy email wins to boost subscriber engagement. He’ll share quick, cost-effective strategies to optimize all elements of the email—from subject lines to CTAs. Some spoilers: Spam trigger words are BS, percent-off discount offers can backfire, and adding a “PS” to your email can be a game changer.If you enjoyed this episode then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow ‘Email After Hours’ on Spotify Email After Hours: The Podcast for Email Senders is handcrafted by our friends over at fame.soCheck out our three most downloaded episodes:Rethinking Customer Loyalty Programs: The Good, The Bad, and The Free CoffeeThe One Email Metric You’re Not Tracking (& Other Secrets to Killer Email Content) with MarketingProfs’ Ann HandleyNew Consumer Email Trends & Tips to Become a BFF Brand with the Data & Marketing Association (DMA)

Episode Summary:The spam folder is a wild place full of mail order brides, poorly written poetry, fake lottery winnings...and expertly crafted email campaigns?Unfortunately, we’re not kidding. Try as we might avoid the spam folder, there comes a time when every email marketer—deliverability experts included—discovers one of their campaigns was banished to the land of chain letters and money scams.  In this episode of Email After Hours, Kate Adams, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Validity, and Jason Crichton, Director of Customer Success, join hosts Guy Hanson and Danielle Gallant to discuss how one of Validity’s high-profile campaigns landed in the spam folder—and what senders can do to avoid the same fate.  Tune in as we reveal why growing your audience organically (and slowly) is vital to the success of your email program. Plus, you may even hear a “hot take” or two! If you enjoyed this episode then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow ‘Email After Hours’ on SpotifyEmail After Hours: The Podcast for Email Senders is handcrafted by our friends over at fame.soCheck out our three most downloaded episodes:Rethinking Customer Loyalty Programs: The Good, The Bad, and The Free CoffeeThe One Email Metric You’re Not Tracking (& Other Secrets to Killer Email Content) with MarketingProfs’ Ann HandleyNew Consumer Email Trends & Tips to Become a BFF Brand with the Data & Marketing Association (DMA)

Episode Summary: Are you tired of fighting for attention in stuffed inboxes? Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) might be the answer. We know what marketers are thinking: Did we really need yet another email acronym? But BIMI is so much more than that. In this episode of Email After Hours, Tom Bartel, Senior Vice President of Data Services for Validity, joins hosts Guy Hanson and Danielle Gallant to explain how senders can use BIMI to win more clicks and conversions in the inbox. They’ll discuss the benefits of BIMI, how to implement it, adoption trends, and why senders will want to be early adopters of this emerging specification. (Best of all, they’ll do it in plain English!) If you enjoyed this episode then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow ‘Email After Hours’ on SpotifyEmail After Hours: The Podcast for Email Senders is handcrafted by our friends over at fame.soCheck out our three most downloaded episodes:Rethinking Customer Loyalty Programs: The Good, The Bad, and The Free CoffeeThe One Email Metric You’re Not Tracking (& Other Secrets to Killer Email Content) with MarketingProfs’ Ann HandleyNew Consumer Email Trends & Tips to Become a BFF Brand with the Data & Marketing Association (DMA)

Episode Summary: In this introductory episode, Guy and Danielle discuss who they are, what makes them email experts, and some of the biggest challenges email marketers are facing (hot takes included). Listen as they dive into one of the biggest mistakes email marketers make: failing to understand and prioritize email deliverability. Tune in as they unpack what deliverability is, why it matters, and how senders can pave their road to the inbox in any email climate.If you enjoyed this episode then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow ‘Email After Hours’ on SpotifyEmail After Hours: The Podcast for Email Senders is handcrafted by our friends over at fame.soCheck out our three most downloaded episodes:Rethinking Customer Loyalty Programs: The Good, The Bad, and The Free CoffeeThe One Email Metric You’re Not Tracking (& Other Secrets to Killer Email Content) with MarketingProfs’ Ann HandleyNew Consumer Email Trends & Tips to Become a BFF Brand with the Data & Marketing Association (DMA)