Marketing Best Practice

Practical, no-nonsense guidance on the fundamentals - content, compliance, CTAs, and getting the basics right.

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What Are Email Bots, and How Does Kulea's New Super Strict Filter Stop Them?
Kulea has launched Super Strict bot filtering. Here's what email bots actually are, how our existing Strict filter works, and what changes. 29 Jun 2026
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Why Your Engagement Data Is Lying to You: The Bot-Click Problem in Recruitment Marketing
A meaningful share of the opens and clicks in your recruitment email reporting aren't from candidates or clients at all - how to spot bot-inflated engagement and fix it. 24 Jun 2026
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The Importance of Data Cleansing
Why data cleansing pays for itself many times over - the real cost of bad contact data, and what good data cleansing actually involves. 29 Apr 2025
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Staggering Email Marketing Campaigns - Why It's So Important
Why sending your whole campaign in one bulk burst hurts deliverability - and how staggering the send improves both inbox placement and sales follow-up. 11 Apr 2025
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The Ultimate Guide to Email Deliverability
A complete, practical guide to email deliverability: IP and domain reputation, SPF/DKIM/DMARC/BIMI setup, data quality, and email content best practice. 13 Jan 2025
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Why Do My Email Open Rates Suck?
If your email open rates have tanked and stayed low, the fix usually isn't your subject lines - it's IP and domain reputation. Here's how to recover. 7 Nov 2024
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The Evolution of Email Deliverability: From IP to Domain and Sender Reputation
Why email providers shifted from IP-based filtering to domain and sender reputation - and why a technically flawless email can still land in spam. 16 Aug 2024
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3 Free Apps for More Mindful Marketers
Marketing is emotionally demanding work - three free apps that can help build small, sustainable wellbeing habits into a busy schedule. 22 Jul 2024
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Creating a Killer Content Marketing Campaign: Eight-Step Guide
An eight-step framework for launching a content marketing campaign that actually achieves its objective. 16 Jul 2024
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A Quick Guide to the ICO's Cookie Policy Guidelines
What PECR actually requires for cookie consent, how it relates to GDPR, and the exemptions worth knowing about. 9 Jul 2024
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10 CTA Mistakes to Avoid
Your call to action is one of the most powerful elements on a page - get it wrong and you risk losing leads who were genuinely interested. 20 May 2024
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You Are Surrounded by Sales, People
Zig Ziglar's famous line holds up well, but old sales tricks don't, in a world where customers know exactly what you're doing. 28 Apr 2024
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5 Marketing Automation Myths Unmasked
Most marketing automation misconceptions trace back to expensive, complex first-generation platforms. 28 Apr 2024
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Q&A: Tim Jubb of Airsweb on Marketing Automation
Tim Jubb, Digital Marketing Manager at Airsweb, on building personalised nurture journeys for a global B2B SaaS audience using marketing automation. 12 Apr 2024
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Lead Nurture or Nature?
Lead nurturing takes real effort to set up - but research suggests letting nature take its course costs you considerably more. 6 Apr 2024
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10 Lead Generation Tips to Fill Your Sales Funnel
Today's buyer doesn't take kindly to the hard sell, and you've got seconds to earn their attention - 10 practical tips. 5 Apr 2024
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The Secrets Behind Value-Adding Marketing
The core principle behind every effective marketing automation journey: give something genuinely valuable at every touchpoint. 13 Mar 2024
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Google/Yahoo Spam Updates Feb 2024 Interpreted
What Google and Yahoo's February 2024 bulk sender requirements actually mean for B2B marketers: who's affected, what's mandatory, and the rollout timeline. 26 Jan 2024
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Crafting Effective Sales Outreach: Building an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Audience
How to build an Ideal Customer Profile and use it to write sales outreach that actually resonates - a practical, step-by-step guide. 12 Sep 2023
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Kulea's Guide to Landing Pages
The difference between click-through and lead generation landing pages, and the best practice that makes either one actually convert. 1 Sep 2023
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Growth Hacking 101 for Small Businesses
What growth hacking actually means, and how small businesses can apply the mindset to attract, convert, and retain customers without a Silicon Valley budget. 26 Aug 2023
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Is Your Email Marketing Strategy Up to Scratch?
With 84% of email traffic classed as spam, standing out requires real customer data and genuinely relevant content - not just a bigger list. 23 Aug 2023
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Kulea's Paid Search Hierarchy
Which paid marketing channels actually drive the best click-through rates, ranked from our own campaign data. 20 Aug 2023
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Demystifying Email Security Bots and Kulea's Approach to Addressing Them
What email security bots are, how they inflate your open and click rates, and the specific steps Kulea takes to filter bot activity out of your real engagement data. 1 Aug 2023
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One-to-One Marketing: A Super-Personalised Highway to Stressville?
True one-to-one marketing sounds exhausting for a small team - here's a more realistic middle ground: one-to-segment. 1 Mar 2023

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