When you carry out an email campaign, it is essential to respect data protection compliance rules, but also to maintain a positive relationship with your prospects and customers.
In this context, excluding unsubscribers and invalid or irrelevant emails becomes a key step in optimizing your mailings. Magileads, a leading B2B campaign management platform, offers simple and effective solutions for filtering your mailing lists. Here's how to do it.
Why exclude unsubscribers and invalid emails?
- Compliance with GDPR rules (General Data Protection Regulation)
The exclusion of unsubscribers and invalid emails is first and foremost a question of legal compliance. According to the GDPR, companies are required to respect users' choices when it comes to communication. Recipients should be able to easily unsubscribe from your campaigns, and once done, their email addresses should be removed from your mailing list. Failure to do so may result in significant legal sanctions and fines. Additionally, ignoring unsubscribes can harm your business reputation, as it can be perceived as disrespecting user privacy. - Improving
Email Deliverability One of the consequences of sending emails to invalid or inactive addresses is a deterioration in deliverability. Mail servers, such as those in Gmail or Outlook, monitor the quality of sendings and may reduce the deliverability of future emails if a campaign contains a high number of bounces. Bounces can be classified into two categories: “soft bounce” for temporary errors and “hard bounce” for permanent errors. By excluding these invalid addresses, you reduce the risk of being classified as spam, which improves the chances that your future emails will actually reach the recipients. - Optimizing Campaign Performance
Excluding unsubscribers and invalid emails helps optimize the overall performance of your email campaigns. When you eliminate contacts who no longer wish to receive your messages or those with incorrect addresses, you send your emails to people who are genuinely interested and potentially responsive. This increases the open rate, click-through rate , and ultimately the return on investment (ROI) of your campaigns. By targeting only active and relevant contacts, you maximize the impact of your messages while minimizing resources wasted on ineffective mailings. - Strengthening Brand Image
Excluding unsubscribers and respecting recipient preferences strengthens your brand's credibility and image. When users see that you respect their choice to unsubscribe, it creates a positive perception of your company, based on privacy and transparency. It demonstrates that you listen to your customers and are committed to maintaining a respectful relationship with them. Carefully managing unsubscribes and invalid addresses demonstrates your professionalism and can even contribute to the loyalty of your prospects and customers.
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Step 1: identify unsubscribers and invalid emails in Magileads
Magileads integrates advanced features to automatically manage unsubscriptions and errors. Here are the key points:
- Automatic unsubscription management: When your recipients click on the unsubscribe link, Magileads automatically marks them as “unsubscribed” in your database .
- Verification of email addresses: Thanks to its integrated verification tool, Magileads detects invalid or inactive addresses before sending your campaigns.
- Detailed Sending Reports: soft bounce or hard bounce errors , which indicate temporary or permanent problems with certain addresses, respectively.
Step 2: exclude unsubscribers and invalid emails from your list
Once unsubscribes and invalid addresses are identified, follow these steps to exclude them:
1 – Filter unsubscribes
- Access your contact list in Magileads.
- Use the “Status” filter and select “Unsubscribed” .
- Export this list if necessary for archiving, or delete them directly from your active mailing list.
2 – Manage invalid addresses
- In the dashboard, go to campaign reports and identify emails marked as “ bounces ”.
- Add them to an exclusion list or remove them from your main list.
3 – Create an exclusion list
- “Exclusion Lists” tab .
- Manually add or import the email addresses you want to block for your next campaigns.
Step 3: Automate the process with Magileads
To save time and avoid oversights, Magileads allows you to automate certain steps:
- Setting up global exclusions: Configure your campaigns to automatically exclude unsubscribers and addresses marked as invalid.
- Synchronization with your CRM : If you use a CRM, synchronize it with Magileads to import unsubscribe data in real time.
- Use of intelligent scenarios: Magileads can integrate automated workflows to automatically identify and manage contacts to exclude.
Step 4: test and validate your shipments
Before launching a campaign, follow these best practices:
- Simulate the sending: Use the test function to verify that unsubscribers and invalid addresses are excluded.
- Analyze your segments: Make sure your segmentation only includes active and relevant contacts.
- Follow your KPIs: After each campaign, analyze the results to adjust your next actions.
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