New Kickbox feature: Spike Detection. Stay ahead of unusual API activity. Get real-time notifications, set custom thresholds, and protect your forms from bots or sudden traffic spikes.| Kickbox Blog
Everything you need to know before choosing a Shared IP or Dedicated IP. The benefits, the downfalls & how to choose a winning setup for your email program.| Kickbox Blog
Forms are a wonderful way to connect with your customer and be a great source of 'zero-party' data. BUT when forms aren’t protected, they can also be dangerous. We cover 4 ways you can protect your online forms.| Kickbox Blog
Bikes and email marketing—an unlikely pair with a lot in common. From planning your route to keeping pace, Hank shares the parallels that keep your campaigns moving smoothly.| Kickbox Blog
Are your email metrics lying to you? Discover how bots and non-human interactions affect your opens, clicks, and deliverability.| Kickbox Blog
Is your perfectly curated email actually reaching the inbox? If you're not following email deliverability best practices, your messages may not actually be getting through. We created this approachable resource to share the basics of email deliverability that every marketer should know.| Kickbox Blog
In this takeaways blog from Pubcon 2025, Hank explores how AI is reshaping SEO and what it means for email marketers. Learn how to adapt your email strategy, optimize for AI-driven search, and build stronger multichannel campaigns that capture and convert high-intent traffic.| Kickbox Blog
The inbox is prime digital real estate. It's high-value, competitive, and a must to attain. But the strategies to get in (and stay in) aren't as mysterious as they may seem. Today, I'll be sharing the stuff mailbox providers want (or don't want) you to know| Kickbox Blog
Typos, spam traps, and bad emails are hurting your deliverability—and your ROI. With Kickbox’s new Gravity Wiz integration, add real-time email verification to Gravity Forms in minutes. Clean your list at the source and keep emails landing in the inbox.| Kickbox Blog
Collecting emails is easy. Sending emails is easy. But what happens in between can make or break your inbox placement, engagement & ROI. Most marketers don't make the connection. Learn why email validation isn't optional anymore.| Kickbox Blog
Fresh from the Email Insider Summit on Amelia Island, Hank reveals key 2025 email trends shared by top brands like Salesforce, Wells Fargo, and Paramount+. Learn how emotional loyalty, deliverability fixes, AI adoption, and more are shaping marketing success in 2025.| Kickbox Blog
Introducing our real-time email verification integration with Iterable. Verify emails automatically within Journeys to keep your email database clean, improve deliverability, and boost engagement. Learn how this automation can strengthen your email strategy in our latest blog.| Kickbox Blog
Microsoft is rolling out new sender requirements for Outlook.com in 2025. Here's what high-volume email senders need to know to stay compliant.| Kickbox Blog
Expert advice about how DNS impacts email deliverability—from SPF & DKIM to common misconfiguration & more. What every email marketer should know| Kickbox Blog
Skiing & email marketing have more in common than you think! From list hygiene to segmentation, learn how to carve your path to success + dotski recap| Kickbox Blog
2025 email insights & trends by industry experts: Explore stricter sender requirements, AI-powered inboxes, privacy-focused metrics & the rise of omnichannel strategies| Kickbox Blog
Maximize your holiday marketing wins. Get tips for onboarding new customers, creating a content calendar, cleaning your email list & re-engaging inactive subscribers for long-term success in 2025.| Kickbox Blog
Discover email marketing insights from Digital Summit Dallas! Highlights include tips on email authentication, AI strategies, audience growth & building genuine connections for impactful campaigns & more| Kickbox Blog
The Real Magic Behind Successful Email Marketing (And How to Add It to Your WordPress Site)| Kickbox Blog
Email generates $42 for every $1 spent. List decay degrades that ROI. Email experts share tips to help you grow your email lists & attract quality subscribers| Kickbox Blog
Email experts weigh in on artificial intelligence, how to integrate this emerging tech into your email marketing—best practices, pitfalls & more| Kickbox Blog
Industry Updates: Gmail Expands BIMI Support & Orange Revises Sender Guidelines| Kickbox Blog
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In the final installment of this email headers guide, we'll take you through some of the most important email headers to know and what they information they share about your program.| Kickbox Blog
Gmail & Yahoo are fighting back against email abuse. Learn how increased email filtering is impacting deliverability and what you can do to ensure your messages reach the inbox.| Kickbox Blog
The Anti-Black Friday Email Campaign, a contrarian strategy to skip sales & build genuine connections. Learn how to showcase brand values, foster loyalty & create impactful email campaigns this holiday season| Kickbox Blog
Part 5 of our email authentication series covers BIMI: what it is, its implementation & benefits. BIMI allows senders to display their logo in the inbox| Kickbox Blog
Join the Kickbox and the CSA as we dive into the world of email headers and how they can be used to help senders improve their deliverability.| Kickbox Blog
In this episode of Email Deliverability Unfiltered, we discuss the ins & outs of implementing DMARC & BIMI and how brands are using both to have an edge over their competition| Kickbox Blog
Email Predictions for 2025| Kickbox Blog
Hank is the Sr. Manager of Marketing Operations at Kickbox. Having 25 years of marketing experience, he has been dubbed the Digital Marketing Infotainer because he makes marketing fun & successful.| Kickbox Blog
Building trust with your mailbox provider, ESPs & subscribers is a crucial aspect of email marketing. In this episode, experts discuss email authentication| Kickbox Blog
Email marketers: Apple's iOS 18 & Gmail updates replace email preheaders with AI summaries, reshaping email strategy. Learn how to adapt & optimize content| Kickbox Blog
Gmail introduces Common Mark Certificate (CMC) for non-trademarked logos, expanding BIMI support to more senders. Orange revises sender guidelines with new authentication standards & email limits. Stay informed on these key industry updates!| Kickbox Blog
Expert advice from Active Campaign, Mailkit & Kickbox for insights on peak sending strategies. Learn how to maximize email deliverability & achieve holiday success.| Kickbox Blog
The holiday season is a prime time for email marketing. Learn how to optimize your campaigns, stand out in crowded inboxes & drive sales.| Kickbox Blog
Discover holiday marketing tips & strategies from the Kickox CoLab event in Austin. Industry experts shared strategies on lead capture, data-driven personalization, and maximizing holiday campaign success. Get actionable insights to boost your email and marketing efforts this season.| Kickbox Blog
Discover how generative AI is revolutionizing marketing. This guide covers the essentials of integrating AI into your marketing strategy| Kickbox Blog
Deliverability experts explore data quality, what you should look for and consider as a sender, and the impact on deliverability and performance| Kickbox Blog
Discover why permission-based email marketing is important to deliverability & campaign success. Plus, guidelines, best practices & why consent matters| Kickbox Blog
Part 4 of our email authentication series will help you understand DMARC: what it is, how it helps to prevent domain spoofing, plus implementation tips & more| Kickbox Blog
What are email headers and why are they important? This comprehensive guides takes you through a series of articles discussing email headers from what they are, why they are important, how to read them, and the headers you need to know.| Kickbox Blog
Email Authentication Series | Part 2 covers the SPF authentication protocol: why it exists, what it protects & tips to help you troubleshoot & implement| Kickbox Blog
Email Authentication Series - Part 3: DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) What is it? How does DKIM protect content & content identity? Troubleshooting & more| Kickbox Blog
Securing your site with an SSL certificate is no longer options. Learn about SSL certificates, how to get one, the SEO impact & more| Kickbox Blog
Are your subscribers hitting the report spam button? Email experts discuss spam complaints & feedback loops or FBLs & how to handle them properly| Kickbox Blog
In this article, we share five ways to grow your email marketing subscriber list and improve the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns.| Kickbox Blog
Protect your domain by identifying and closing the gaps in Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records added to your domain for your email programs.| Kickbox Blog
Resident expert Hank Hoffmeier takes us from the humble beginnings of email marketing to today's major advancements and subscriber protections.| Kickbox Blog
So what would happen if we didn’t have to worry about the inbox or the spam folder? Would best practices still hold true? Experts discuss this "marketing utopia"| Kickbox Blog
Find out the difference between delivery & deliverability & how they impact your email program—from a real deliverability expert.| Kickbox Blog
Join experts from Word to the Wise, Inbox Jam, Spam Resource, EmailKarma, Kickbox, and more to talk all things deliverability. Deliverability Week 2024 kicks off June 17th!| Kickbox Blog
Email Deliverability Unfiltered Transactional emails are vital to a brand’s email program, a customer’s experience with your brand and their interactions with your products and services. Transactional emails are communications that are not only expected but wanted. When they are not received, like a password reset email, it| Kickbox Blog
Here are the top 3 email marketing trends you shouldn't ignore if you want to enhance your email marketing program in 2024| Kickbox Blog
Email experts debunk common myths, explain why images in email historically posed deliverability challenges & how they continue to influence deliverability today| Kickbox Blog
Discover expert insights on leveraging AI for email marketing from Hank Hoffmeier and other top marketers at Pubcon.| Kickbox Blog
Regardless of how you define an inactive, one thing is certain: an inactive isn’t completing an essential action to make them meaningful to your program.| Kickbox Blog
Deliverability experts discuss the potentially harmful effects of affiliate marketing on your brand, email program & ability to reach the inbox.| Kickbox Blog
Email experts share the email resolutions you should consider for 2024, offering insightful guidance for elevating your email strategy| Kickbox Blog
Expert advice to help you build a compelling case for your deliverability efforts to help you reach your email goals & justify resources.| Kickbox Blog
Bookmark this article to keep track of the updates and changes to the upcoming 2024 rollout of sender requirements from Gmail and Yahoo.| Kickbox Blog
Let's look back at the 2023 holiday season. The top email news headlines include new sending guidelines by Gmail & Yahoo, technical issues & removal of inactive accounts.| Kickbox Blog
Optimize your email program with expert-tested strategies. Explore testing tips & tactics for inbox success and fine-tune your deliverability.| Kickbox Blog
Email Deliverability Unfiltered Last month, we contemplated the hypothetical scenario of a world without email tracking. This time, we take it a step further and ask the thought-provoking question: is there a life without email? What is it about email that makes it so resilient? Is there a conceivable scenario| Kickbox Blog
Gmail and Yahoo have released their new requirements for email senders come 2024 to help better protect the inbox from spam and other malicious activity.| Kickbox Blog
If you missed our own Jennifer Nespola Lantz and Zeta Global's Gene Gusman walking you through what you need to do to succeed through the 2023 peak/holiday season, fear not! We've got you covered. find a recap (and recording of the webinar) below. Peak season is an opportunity – an| Kickbox Blog
