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13 hours agoDon't Let Your Online Presence Suck - It's Your First Impression
A strong online reputation across multiple platforms is essential for building trust and attracting opportunities.
The convenience of sourcing online is fraught with more pitfalls than most of us want to admit. Try finding adequate photos of a vintage piece's condition-close-ups of the fabric, video of damaged areas, any images of a piece's rear or underside!
More than half of professionals check work email outside regular working hours, according to a recent study published by ZeroBounce, surveying 1,157 professionals in the United States and Europe last month. Nearly 3 in 4 professionals feel pressure to respond to emails off the clock, with that pressure intensifying among top earners.
Most of us treat our inbox like a storage unit. We open an email, think 'I'll deal with this later,' and move on. Before we know it, we're buried. People with clean inboxes get that every email is actually a decision waiting to be made. Delete it? Respond now? Schedule for later? Delegate it? They don't let decisions pile up because they know that unmade decisions drain mental energy.
This is because these unsubscribe links usually take you to a web page via a URL embedded in the unsubscribe text that identifies your email address, either in plain text or via an alphanumeric code. The moment this unique URL loads, the spammer at the other end knows that you were the one to click it; they now know that the email address they blasted does, in fact, have a real person at the other end.
In a service alert spotted by BleepingComputer, Microsoft revealed that the glitch started on February 5 and has been preventing some Exchange Online users from sending and receiving emails. "Some users' legitimate email messages are being marked as phish and quarantined in Exchange Online," Microsoft said in the service alert. "We've determined that the URLs associated with these email messages are incorrectly marked as phish and quarantined in Exchange Online due to ever-evolving criteria aimed at identifying suspicious email messages, as spam and phishing techniques have become more sophisticated in avoiding detection."
Sender reputation suspensions often arise from email practices that negatively impact the recipient experience, such as high bounce rates, subscriber complaints, and invalid addresses. These elements collectively shape your sender reputation data and trigger a suspension when they consistently fall below acceptable thresholds.
If you're an email marketer trying to deliver messages to the 3 billion Gmail users around the world, more AI in Gmail probably raises your anxiety. That's understandable. We've all seen how AI has upended the work of colleagues in SEO. One of the new features for Gmail is essentially AI Overviews for email. Another feature, AI Inbox, summarizes messages and helps users prioritize tasks and requests.