by Ben Fielding | Jun 24, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing
TL;DR Use PNG when your image needs a transparent background. Logos on coloured or dark email backgrounds being the main example. Use JPG for solid rectangular images like signature banners. JPG files are smaller and there is no quality benefit to using PNG here. Keep...
by Ben Fielding | Jun 24, 2026 | Learn, DNS, Email, Email Marketing
TL;DR If your agency uses a website platform like SourceFlow or Volcanic, your email signature images are most likely loading from that platform’s domain. Not yours. That creates a dependency: if you ever change website platforms, every signature image across...
by Ben Fielding | Jun 17, 2026 | Learn
TL;DR Outreach platforms like Sourcewhale and TrackerRMS can verify that your technical authentication is set up correctly, but they can’t control or diagnose everything that affects inbox placement. Deliverability problems often sit at the level of IP...
by Ben Fielding | Jun 17, 2026 | Learn
Recruitment Agency Email Outreach Issues A top-down look at the state of email outreach in recruitment agencies. TL;DR If your agency’s emails have stopped landing in inboxes, the problem is almost always either technical (how your domain is set up) or...
by Ben Fielding | Jun 15, 2026 | Learn, Popular
By Ben Fielding, Quinset The number that should worry every agency owner Here is a fact from the real world. In an audit of 490 UK recruitment agencies, more than half had no DMARC record on their primary sending domain. Most of the rest had DMARC set to monitor-only,...
by Ben Fielding | Jun 11, 2026 | Learn
TL;DR .com domains are better than .us for US expansion – no restrictions, stronger global reputation, and no requirement to prove a physical US presence Domain age matters for email deliverability – older domains are trusted by mailbox providers; register...
