Tom Kulzer

Prevent surprise Gmail Clipping with the new message size indicator in AWeber.

Unlocked a backlog of amazing stuff to get released today and in the coming weeks, months with a huge architectural upgrade behind the scenes that's been years in the making. Search speed was reasonable in most cases before, now it literally loads faster than you can blink.

@arvidkahl 2026... and it'll also be a strong indicator of a lack of curiosity, a key driver in high performing team members.

2027 prediction: "This was hand-coded" will sound less like craftsmanship and more like negligence.

Celebrating dramatically higher open rates from Saturday? Bad news... Gmail’s spam filter had an outage. That spike is proof your emails usually go to the spam folder. Ask yourself why your users tell Google to put your emails in the spam folder and change your strategy.

Being ghosted by a potential client can be incredibly frustrating, but it’s crucial to follow up. Our direct integration with @Calendly now has two new triggers—Meeting Rescheduled & Meeting No-Show—you can easily re-engage no-shows and help invitees reschedule. #emailmarketing

Exciting news! Our Subject Assistant now writes subject lines and preview text for your emails! 🎉 Get suggestions that reflect your message content and follow best practices. Get started today and take a vacation from writing subject lines! 😎

🚀 @Etsy Sellers Alert! Don't let platform changes disrupt your customer connections. Join @AWeber's FREE webinar today Feb 8 at 12pm ET. Discover how to grow your email list within Etsy's guidelines & boost your shop's success. 💌 go.aweber.com/etsy

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If you've been let down by your ESP this week in helping you meet Google's requirements, we'd be happy to have you at AWeber. Our experts do free concierge migrations as well. aweber.com/migration.htm

At 4pm today when volume peaked, AWeber's amazing Customer Solutions team was helping one user every 13 seconds. Our team answered questions and got over 2,300 users configured to meet Google & Yahoo's email requirements. Try phoning your ESP, they likely are not answering.

@emanuelcinca @JMatthewMcGarry Yes, it happens but not nearly as often as general bot sign ups. Pruning still incurs the reputation hit with mailbox providers from the bot signups. Nothing beats COI and a good provider with bot detection on forms.

@tkulzer @JMatthewMcGarry Doesn't that mean that the same bots can also double-opt-in?

The most common mistake I see newsletters make: ❌ Double Opt-In 20-40% of subscribers never confirm their email! Then they never hear from you again. It's better to send emails to everyone and remove folks who don't engage after 60-90 days.

If you're using AWeber and want to know at a glance if you're ready for Google/Yahoo's changes on Feb 1, visit aweber.com/users/contact/… and do this...

@JMatthewMcGarry Because 20-40% of your web form submissions are likely bots submitting either bogus emails or real emails of people that don't want your messages and are going to hurt your reputation. If you're not using confirmed opt-in you're building a list full of bots.

@ContentScienti1 Read receipts are almost universally unsupported and unsent these days. If that's what you're using to register an "open" then I'd expect most to log zero. "Opens" in the email marketing platform world are measured by an image being loaded by the recipients email client.

@tkulzer Hello Tom, Thanks! Tricky as I seem 'ok' in every sense, but realizing a huge percentage of emails where I am answering a question I know the recipient has been waiting for never log as 'opened'... Since posting a friend told me iphones may not 'read-reciept' for Hubspot 'sales'

#emailgeeks what is the best #emailmarketing tool to quickly check whether specific email copy is getting too close to #spam (ex, is sending 3 video or document links problematic?)

If you send an email newsletter or any kind of email marketing, it's critical that you make sure you comply with Google & Yahoo's requirements before Feb 1st. Get the checklist you need on our knowledge base: help.aweber.com/hc/en-us/artic…

Many popular ESP tools are not ready for the coming changes. AWeber is 100% ready. Even if you're ESP is ready, your account may not be configured fully to meet the requirements. Check your dashboard today and inquire with your ESPs support team to double check.

With the coming Feb 1 Google & Yahoo email sender changes, many email marketing platforms (ESPs) need to make updates to keep their clients emails delivering to inboxes properly. At AWeber, we did a deep dive on what 15 other platforms are doing. The results were scary...