Spotlight on ... Spotlight!


Today, I share a bit of a unique Spam Resource Spotlight. I asked my friend Lauren Meyer from SocketLabs what they're up to over there and offered her some space here on the blog to share it with you all. She obliged, and so today we have SocketLabs Spotlight in the Spam Resource Spotlight. Take it away, Lauren!

ESPs are built different. Plain as that. We have different needs and challenges than our customers.

More specifically, deliverability folks at email service providers (ESPs) face a constant and varied stream of challenges. We have multiple plates spinning, fires to sniff out and extinguish, and mysteries to solve for our customers. But it's not easy when we're responsible for dozens, hundreds -- even thousands -- of senders who rely on us to deliver their mail reliably. Particularly when the clock's ticking and the email data we need to do our jobs is hard to reach.

At SocketLabs, we understand these complexities firsthand. Many of us have been in your shoes (in fact, some of us still wear them!), and we've always dreamed of having a platform that gives us a better, faster, stronger way to identify and deal with our most urgent issues first…without jumpin' in and out of accounts and spreadsheets like Mario trying to save the princess.

So we decided to build something different: SocketLabs Spotlight email analytics.

Imagine if you could…
  • Tackle your most urgent dumpster fires (ahem, customer issues) first -- without pulling and analyzing multiple performance reports -- because you're able to see all your senders in one place, at one time. Our urgency scoring makes prioritization a breeze.
  • Spot trends sooner and minimize the impact...before your customer spots ‘em and asks you what's up. Proactivity goes a long way to proving, "it's you, not us." It's also a great way to build trust with your customers, which can improve retention rates and increase the lifetime value of your senders. That's music to your company's ears.
  • Inspire action to improve by showing customers exactly the impact of their bad behavior.
  • Segment and re-route traffic to different shared IP pools based on sender characteristics and behaviors...without the help of a developer or learning how to code in your free time. (ugh)
That's SocketLabs Spotlight. (...well, that's part of Spotlight, anyway.)

Here's a quick video to show you the features our ESP customers have been most excited about (so far...there's a lot more comin' down the pipe): Spotlight product walk-through

Ohhh, some of you like to read? Fine. Here's a quick TL;DR for ya: 
  • Spotlight gives you a 40,000-foot, account-wide view of all sending activity for all of your customers…even if you're routing email traffic through multiple providers (such as SendGrid and Mailgun).
  • Each of your customers will have a StreamScore, generated using more than 25 internal and external data points for rapid analysis into their email health. If your senders have multiple subaccounts or sending domains, you'll see a unique StreamScore for each of those so finding the bad apple in your shared pool's bunch is quick and easy.
  • You'll immediately know where you can make the biggest impact (or prevent the most damage) via sorting by urgency score, issue count, StreamScore, or sending volume.
  • No migration or dev required -- plugging in takes just a few minutes.
Now that we're powered by Snowflake, we've started rolling out new machine learning features (based on the StreamScore we've been working to improve for years) to help all of us translate deliverability speak into business language. For example, being able to show senders that they're missing the inboxes of more than 25,000 legitimate contacts because of a list hygiene issue.

Queue up the sound of marketers lining up to follow your advice!

You've got a very unique (and critical) role within your organization: one that requires email savvy, technical prowess, a thoughtful approach to…basically everything…and the ability to translate deliverability headaches into business success for a magnitude of senders.

Above all, we've designed SocketLabs Spotlight to help you help your customers be successful…and to make your role within your organization more impactful (and better appreciated!). That requires tooling that's been built for you by folks just like you.

Don't be like Mario. Find your senders in need of rescue quickly -- before they're whisked away from Castle Inbox -- with SocketLabs Spotlight.

You can try it free for 30 days! And yes, that includes your Black Friday traffic, if you get your trial going quickly. No email migration is required. No dev required, either!

Interested in helping us make this tool the best thing since...well, deliverability? Reach out, I'd love to nerd out with you on this. 💌

PS - thanks so much, Al, for the opportunity to share our excitement about what we're building. Spotlight has me giddy like a kid on Christmas morning! You rock. 💌 💌 💌
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