Florin Armasu, CEO of Data Innovation and creator of Sendability, unpacks the open source stack, deliverability disasters, and metrics that actually matter after 15 years of sending emails for brands like Nestle and Brown-Forman.
Jesus is an editorial & SME manager with years of experience specializing in data-driven content strategy, scalable operations, and governance in the tech industry.
B2B SaaS email is not a newsletter problem. It is an onboarding, retention, and account-expansion problem dressed in HTML. We tested ten platforms built for product-led companies with long sales cycles and event-heavy data.
After running the same membership-renewal sequence through ten platforms with a fictitious boutique studio profile, the gap between fitness-native software and general email tools showed up in places we did not expect. Class waitlist alerts, no-show win-backs, and birthday rewards either flowed through the booking calendar automatically or required hours of manual mapping per workflow.
The best email marketing software for small business promises the moon on a shoestring budget -- automation, segmentation, deliverability -- without requiring a dedicated marketing department or remortgaging the office to cover monthly fees.
Carles is an SEO and Digital Product professional with over 15 years of experience focused on data-driven growth and scaling marketing operations across tech.
We ran the same six client accounts through ten email platforms for a month, from regional e-commerce to B2B SaaS to a local services franchise. The winners were not the feature-heavy ones, but those that handled client isolation, consolidated billing, and reports a client could actually open unaided.
After running identical outreach campaigns through 10 cold email platforms, the biggest surprise was how much inbox placement varied between tools using the same sending domain. Two platforms landed over 90% of our test messages in primary inboxes. Three others barely cracked 60%, despite offering similar warmup features on paper.
Newsletter platforms have split into three distinct camps, and picking the wrong one means rebuilding your entire subscriber relationship from scratch when you inevitably want features your current tool cannot provide.
Sophie Steffen is the co-founder and CEO of Kunoichi, a growth performance marketing agency based in Barcelona. With over 12 years of experience in social media, community management, and performance marketing, she helps brands scale through LinkedIn-driven growth, paid acquisition, and automated outbound. She is also a martial arts instructor and runs a dojo in Barcelona.
The standard advice on email list cleaning is to purge aggressively. Florin Armasu, with 15 years and enterprise clients behind him, argues that discarding 80% of your database is not best practice -- it is waste.
Florin Armasu, CEO of Data Innovation and creator of Sendability, unpacks the open source stack, deliverability disasters, and metrics that actually matter after 15 years of sending emails for brands like Nestle and Brown-Forman.
Open rates are now fiction. Florin Armasu makes the case for active database growth rate as the single most important metric in email marketing, and explains why almost nobody tracks it.
Email generates up to $45 for every $1 spent, and 4.59 billion people use it worldwide. We compiled the most important email marketing statistics and trends shaping business strategies in 2025.
90% of cyberattacks start with email phishing, and 94% of companies were hit in 2024. We compile the most critical phishing and email security statistics shaping enterprise defense strategies in 2025.
We tested the top email marketing platforms for SMBs and ranked them by automation, pricing, and ease of use. ActiveCampaign leads our list, but MailerLite, Brevo, and AWeber each have strong cases.
Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is built for creators who want simple automation and audience growth. Mailchimp is a full marketing suite for businesses. We compare both to help you pick the right tool.
Omnisend combines email, SMS, and push notifications in one platform built for e-commerce. We review its multichannel automation, Shopify integration, and whether it delivers real value for online stores.
Symantec Messaging Gateway acts as a perimeter barrier filtering phishing, malware, and zero-day threats before they reach inboxes. We review its detection capabilities, DLP integration, and enterprise fit.
A major FMCG brand got blocklisted at Hotmail, risking 5 million euros in lost revenue. The worst part: they did not notice until someone checked the per-provider metrics.
Florin Armasu runs Mautic, KumoMTA, and Qmail (a 1998 mail transfer agent) in production for enterprise clients, and his stack outperforms most commercial ESPs.
Every email platform now claims artificial intelligence as though merely uttering the phrase constitutes a feature. We tested ten tools to determine which ones genuinely improve campaign performance and which are simply charging extra for a chatbot wrapper.
When your business sends millions of automated emails daily, the difference between a reliable platform and an unreliable one is measured in lost revenue and eroded customer trust. We evaluated seven enterprise-grade services to identify which ones actually deliver at scale.
Restaurant email marketing lives or dies on one question: does the platform understand hospitality, or is it generic software with a food-themed template bolted on? We tested ten tools built for the industry to find out.
Monitoring transactional email infrastructure from an Android device ranges from surprisingly capable to laughably inadequate, depending entirely on which platform you chose. We tested eight services to find the ones worth your mobile attention.