Free preview: The Small Business Email Playbook

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Deliverability, templates, sequences and the spam triggers to avoid, written for a business owner rather than an engineer. Fourteen chapters cover the sender requirements the mailbox providers now publish, where a mailable address may legitimately come from, SPF, DKIM and DMARC in the order they must be added, and how to keep receipts and campaigns on separate rails so one can never sink the other. Then the sending machine: signup paths, welcome messages, subject lines and preheaders, templates that survive blocked images and dark mode, the five automated sequences worth owning, and the segments, frequency and sunset rule that keep a list healthy. The last part replaces the open rate with five measures that still hold, separates real spam signals from folklore, sets out consent law across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia alongside inbox accessibility, and finishes with a thirty-day repair runbook. No invented benchmarks, no vendor prices, and every worked example uses figures you supply. The full manual runs 88 pages. One payment, instant download, yours to keep.