by Ben Fielding | May 22, 2026 | Learn, List Cleaning
…and What to Do About Each If you run cold outreach as a recruiter, you’ve bounced emails. The question isn’t whether it happens, it’s whether you understand what type of bounce you’re seeing, why it matters, and what to do next. TL;DR An...
by Ben Fielding | Feb 26, 2026 | Learn, List Cleaning
Wouldn’t it be nice to know when someone marks your email as spam? Not guess. Not infer from falling opens. Not wait for reputation to quietly erode. Actually know. With Yahoo, you can. And honestly? That’s pretty cool. What Is Yahoo’s Complaint Feedback Loop? In...
by Ben Fielding | Jan 5, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing, Email Outreach, List Cleaning
Earn the Inbox or Lose It In 2025, every recruiter was talking about the same things: authentication, sending limits, complaints, staying out of spam. Good. Doing that work mattered. But here’s the uncomfortable truth I’m seeing play out. In 2026, having your...
by Ben Fielding | Nov 17, 2025 | Learn, List Cleaning
You know the feeling.You send a campaign, expect the usual handful of replies… and nothing. Not even a polite “thanks but no thanks”. It’s not your messaging. It’s not the market. It’s Google tightening the taps again. How Google’s New Rules Hit Recruiters...
by Ben Fielding | Jun 2, 2025 | Learn, List Cleaning
TL;DR Yahoo’s Complaint Feedback Loop (CFL) tells you exactly who marked your email as spam (something Google Postmaster doesn’t do) Yahoo and AOL addresses are common in older candidate databases; complaints from those contacts quietly damage your sending...
by Ben Fielding | Jan 15, 2025 | Learn, List Cleaning
How to Know If Your Emails Are Actually Getting Through TL;DR “Delivered” in your ESP just means the receiving server accepted the email. It does not mean it reached the inbox. Delivery and deliverability are two different things. Both matter for...
