How (and why) to follow people on Twitter

For many people and businesses, Twitter is about getting as much followers as you can. Well, it’s not: it’s about getting valuable followers but about following valuable Twitter users too.

It’s simple to use a software that allows you to find people based on keywords in their tweets, start following them and then hoping they will follow you too. Don’t do it.

It’s also easy to start tweeting and follow few people back. Should you follow everyone back? No. Because there are a lot of Twitter users following automatically or because they want to sell you stuff (if you want to buy it, then there is no problem, right?)

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Email marketing deliverability: tips to circumvent spam filters

Emails, even with valid email addresses, often never reach the recipient’s inbox. Deliverability is a big issue for most email marketers. The percentage of emails that get stuck in spam filters, the filters of ISPs and other filters, varies. 

It depends of the quality of your email list, the number of email adresses and several other factors. 

According to an older study by Assurance Systems, on average 15% of all emails with a valid email address never reach the recipient. Knowing that every year more emails are sent, the struggle to reach the inbox becomes tougher.

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