WHAT IS LIST CLEANSING?
List Cleansing is the process of scrubbing your email list of invalid, disabled, and risky addresses.
Email lists play a major role in email deliverability. Every year, at least 22.71% of an email list degrades, and it’s important to remove inaccurate and inactive accounts to maintain list health. Using a list-cleansing solution will help you achieve high deliverability rates.
List hygiene also affects your email reputation. A poor-quality email list can have a direct impact on your sender reputation. It’s important to keep your list up-to-date.
By eliminating irrelevant contacts, List Cleansing improves the quality of your email list and increases the effectiveness of your email program. ISPs tend to favor senders with clean and regularly updated lists. It increases your brand’s credibility too!
WHEN TO CLEANSE LISTS
Cleanse your old lists if you plan on introducing older, unengaged subscribers, as they can harm your sender reputation. The inactive list contains users who haven’t engaged with your email in the last 1-2 years.
NOTE: Talk to your CSM/Delivery Manager about the list hygiene service Bluecore uses. It can take more than a week to cleanse the list.)
ATDATA VS OTHER VENDORS
You can get your list cleansing done through any third-party list validation services. However, if you choose to go with the Bluecore | AtData partnership, these are the following benefits:
Bluecore has partnered with AtData to provide a seamless experience to the clients.
You can just give the inactive list to Bluecore and forget. We will do everything on your behalf and will share the cleansed results back to you with relevant attributes and deliverability recommendations.
STEP BY STEP PROCESS
Bluecore will download the inactive list and get it cleansed on AtData.
After the list validation is complete, we will share the cleansed results with the client. It will include valid emails, invalid emails, risky addresses, unknown addresses, and unverifiable addresses with definitions and counts.
We take confirmation from the client if we can proceed to unsubscribe the invalid and risky addresses.
Upon confirmation from the client, we will get the bad addresses unsubscribed through FDE (Forward Deployed Engineering) via PS (Professional Services). Also, the remaining categories will be uploaded as static lists with the help of FDE for audience segmentation.
The Deliverability Team will share recommendations and strategies to target the list so there is NO/Minimal impact on the sender reputation.
After the campaigns are deployed, we will share the performance updates, statistics and future recommendations.