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  • _CerealSauce
    Cereal (@_CerealSauce) reported

    @KDC705 Samsung signed a deal with google to replace their sms app with google messages which has gmail login support, web support, RCS support, and a ton of other useful features this person probably doesnt know about. New google messages app is a banger if you live in hell and need sms

  • IngrisPhotos
    ใ€Œ CROW ใ€ (@IngrisPhotos) reported

    Any removal requests or issues please contact nyantarosupport @ gmail. Com

  • ReneHermenau
    ReneHermenau (@ReneHermenau) reported

    Just found out @AnthropicAI apparently doesnโ€™t let you change your account email.๐Ÿ™„ Company email โ†’ private email? Gmail login โ†’ your own domain? Old inbox โ†’ new identity? Nope. Cancel the account and start over. Thatโ€™s not just annoying. Thatโ€™s your AI memory, history and context locked to an email address.

  • oodegen
    ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿซต (@oodegen) reported

    @PopPunkOnChain @pumpcade so if I understand correctly every day it's a new wallet which will be created with a gmail login, it's zero where are the old data established yesterday it must be in the profile but nothing

  • ebziebi
    ebi (@ebziebi) reported

    currently mourning my limbus account bc apparently I can't login atm since my gmail account that's linked to it got temporarily disabled for some reason ๐Ÿ˜ญ

  • megsxcx
    megan (@megsxcx) reported

    @run2yeonjun whattt i dont think ive heard of other ppl having this issue. are u on a personal gmail,

  • VaibhavSisinty
    Vaibhav Sisinty (@VaibhavSisinty) reported

    I've been testing Hermes integrations for the last few weeks. These 7 are the ones that actually changed how I use it. โ†’ Google Workspace. This should be your first setup. Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, all through one connector. Once your agent can check your inbox and read your calendar, it stops feeling like a toy and starts feeling like an actual assistant. โ†’ Slack. Instead of scrolling through 200 messages to find what the team decided last week, you just ask. Hermes pulls the answer from the actual thread. This one alone saved me more time than I expected. โ†’ GitHub. Before this, Hermes was guessing about my code. After this, it actually reads the repo, checks the issues, and looks at pull requests before answering. Completely different experience. โ†’ Notion. All your docs, wikis, and databases become things Hermes can think across. It started connecting notes I'd written months apart that I'd completely forgotten about. That surprised me. โ†’ YouTube transcripts. Hand it an hour-long podcast or conference talk and you get searchable text back in seconds. I set this up as an afterthought. Now it's one of the ones I reach for most. โ†’ Stripe. You stop clicking through dashboards and start asking questions. "How many trials converted last week?" "Who downgraded this month?" Direct answers. It turns your payment processor into something that actually talks back. โ†’ Reddit. For figuring out what people actually think about a product or tool, this beats blog posts every time. Real users complaining, comparing, recommending. That's signal you can't get from SEO content. Let Hermes dig through it for you. The difference between an agent you talk to and an agent that works for you is what you connect it to.

  • alkimiadev
    alkimiadev (@alkimiadev) reported

    @cr3ghost I obviously had no idea this was happening or at least not at this extreme level when I switched to linux full time years ago, but the same basic underlying rationale is why I stopped using github for private hosting when microsoft bought them and why I won't use vscode. I started looking at google in the same way last year. A little over a year ago I largely de-googled my life. I was doing research into their sketchy moderation system on youtube and it involved actively violating their tos since there is literally no other way to do it. Their tos is worded such that any kind of research like that leaves one risking their google account. That was when I realized how fragile my online life had become due entirely to excessive trust placed in google. I still use gmail because I've had it forever but nothing I care about (knowingly) touches google's servers. I own the domains that use for the emails and while I don't host the email servers (use proton) I could host my own email server if needed.

  • EzgiSelek
    Ezgi๐ŸŒบ (@EzgiSelek) reported

    @TeamYouTube hello, i have sent my gmail address because my 35k youtube channel has changed. But i havent received back any message. Could you please manage my problem? Im so desperate right now that i lost my channel

  • Johnboscoamaobi
    John (@Johnboscoamaobi) reported

    There are three things involved here: 1. Either your Gmail was hacked and hacker used your Gmail to login plus Google authenticator access 2. Your entire device is compromised with a keylogger 3. Someone close to you is doing this to Because he/she has access to your device

  • DivyanshT91162
    divyansh tiwari (@DivyanshT91162) reported

    Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok agree on almost nothing. They all quietly agreed on MCP. Here's the part nobody's telling you: there are 11,000+ MCP servers live right now, and fewer than 5% make a single dollar. The plumbing is built. The money isn't picked up yet. MCP is basically USB-C for AI. Before it, connecting an AI to your tools meant hand-wiring a custom integration every single time. Now you build one small server and every major AI can plug into it โ€” Gmail, your database, Notion, any API. And you don't even need to be a real engineer anymore. You describe the tool, Claude or ChatGPT writes most of the server, you ship it in a weekend. The playbook is stupidly simple: โ†’ Find a boring workflow someone repeats every week โ†’ Build one sharp MCP server that kills it โ†’ Free tier for reach, paid tier for revenue โ†’ Charge per use, per seat, or per outcome Servers that actually solve something are pulling $500โ€“3K/mo. Some hit $10K in six weeks. Built once, sold on repeat. The window where "understands MCP + ships one tool" is rare won't stay open long. The marketplace is empty. Be the one who fills it.

  • NainsiDwiv50980
    Nainsi Dwivedi (@NainsiDwiv50980) reported

    Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok agree on almost nothing. They all quietly agreed on MCP. Here's the part nobody's telling you: there are 11,000+ MCP servers live right now, and fewer than 5% make a single dollar. The plumbing is built. The money isn't picked up yet. MCP is basically USB-C for AI. Before it, connecting an AI to your tools meant hand-wiring a custom integration every single time. Now you build one small server and every major AI can plug into it โ€” Gmail, your database, Notion, any API. And you don't even need to be a real engineer anymore. You describe the tool, Claude or ChatGPT writes most of the server, you ship it in a weekend. The playbook is stupidly simple: โ†’ Find a boring workflow someone repeats every week โ†’ Build one sharp MCP server that kills it โ†’ Free tier for reach, paid tier for revenue โ†’ Charge per use, per seat, or per outcome Servers that actually solve something are pulling $500โ€“3K/mo. Some hit $10K in six weeks. Built once, sold on repeat. The window where "understands MCP + ships one tool" is rare won't stay open long. The marketplace is empty. Be the one who fills it.

  • boxofwraps
    robert (@boxofwraps) reported

    Need to link a gmail smurf account to text while Samsung had no problems. Google ***** *** really watching us like big brother

  • web3_antivirus
    Web3 Antivirus (@web3_antivirus) reported

    Opera GX had a flaw that let a malicious website silently install a GX mod and use it to pull data from pages a victim visited. In a proof of concept, a Gmail address was reconstructed from one visit with no click/approval from the user. Opera has patched the issue and says it found no evidence of exploitation in the wild. Keep your browser updated and treat unexpected add-ons as a warning sign and remember that small browser features can become real attack surfaces.

  • tangdi_kebab
    tangdi kebab (@tangdi_kebab) reported

    If only @Microsoft can fix whatever is wrong with Copilot 365 agentic workflows. Just do what Google is doing with Gemini for Google Workspace - Drive can sort my files, Gmail can make events in Calendar, Docs can pull data from all Google apps, etc

  • Esybest1
    Esther |Moderator | Community Manager|Reply Mgt (@Esybest1) reported

    @nelson_ozy @Obaiyno @winexviv Have signed up with Gmail. When u link on that assessment. It brings out a form to.fill for the child who is taking the exam, after filling. Submitting becomes an issue. Last 2 weeks. He tried to join the quiz. It kept failing. I dropped it also but no response not only me self

  • BunnyWhole_
    BunnyWhole (@BunnyWhole_) reported

    @TeamYouTube please help. A hacker stole my Gmail account adding themselves as a family manager. They set my account to under 13 years of age. No account recovery can fix this because of their hacking. You are literally the only thing that can save my Gmail and my YouTube.

  • JPetty2498
    Jay Petty (@JPetty2498) reported

    @Heartofgold4422 Doing so. Problem I have is x is in a Gmail accountant for some reason I cannot get to it on the tablet. So Iโ€™m gonna change it when x will let me try and mess with the account again. Iโ€™m in a time penalty atm

  • mailclaw__io
    Mailclaw.io (@mailclaw__io) reported

    Notion Mail is shutting down. Your workflow doesnโ€™t have to. Mailclaw connects your Gmail with Notion no inbox migration, no setup headaches. Emails automatically become Notion database items: tasks, tickets, or whatever your workflow needs. You can also handle emails right from text messages: reply, snooze, archive without opening your inbox. Not another inbox. An email agent that turns your inbox into actions. Welcome to Mailclaw๐Ÿ™Œ

  • kalashvasaniya
    Kalash (@kalashvasaniya) reported

    this is getting serious. i try my best to remove all the temp mail upvotes and fraud, but now one user created 31 gmail accounts in 10 minutes and upvoted i found the issue because im saving user fingerprints, so i knew someone was committing fraud need to secure @scrolllaunch now ๐Ÿ˜ญ

  • ViVitKrafT
    TimmieVivian (@ViVitKrafT) reported

    @kuda pls I changed my phone recently and I want to login in to my Kuda account in my new phone, so input my nin and is telling me already used and used my bvn as well but itโ€™s requesting for the gmail I used to register my bvn and the gmail I used to register it I canโ€™t remember

  • bnbcaptain
    Captain X ๐Ÿ”ธ (@bnbcaptain) reported

    @RamXBT @milianstx You are talking this but Your Own Avici infrastructure needs an upgrade . How i Lost Funds on AVICI : - I lost my web3auth MFA on 2023 when avici not even born - avici later force everyone to connect gmail and i did - integrated web3auth MFA login - now i canโ€™t access to avici account No devices changes , however the avici login required mfa verification of web3auth - still i have acess to avici web portal but it required mobile to sing tx - there is no way to transfer my funds either - ended up with losing funds for such conflicting integration

  • Div_pradeep
    Pradeep Pandey (@Div_pradeep) reported

    Google's AI scanned 2 billion Gmail accounts without explicit consent. A class-action lawsuit claims it processed bank statements, medical records, and tax files by default. Most users still don't know it's happening. Here are 5 moves to shut it down tonight:

  • pinkh200
    evangeline #bachibeachday (@pinkh200) reported

    @CeciliasArmpits @WaterSheepO1 listen bro if you don't have gmail lost media accounts you're the weird one I don't care also discord I can't really explain that besides the fact that I used to love making new accounts because I would get bored of accounts fast I've calmed down since then though

  • composio
    Composio (@composio) reported

    What can Fable 5 do that GLM-5.2 can't, when you hand them real agentic work? To answer that question, we connected Fable 5 and GLM-5.2 to 17 SaaS tools and gave them 47 tasks. As expected, Fable 5 solved all 47 tasks. GLM-5.2 solved 45, but the two misses tell an important story. They showed us exactly how open-weight models still fall short when trying to match SOTA performance. Letโ€™s dig in. Background: Each model ran as an agent connected to 17 live SaaS accounts: Airtable, Datadog, GitHub, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Jira, LaunchDarkly, Linear, Notion, PagerDuty, PostHog, Salesforce, Slack, and Zendesk. The tasks are the kind of work you'd actually delegate to an agent: - Find every file in this repository that leaks a credential - Deduplicate these CRM records - Repair this broken recurring calendar event. Every task had a known correct answer baked in ahead of time. In this post, we looked at the traces to analyze how exactly GLM-5.2 โ€œfailedโ€ compared to Fable 5. GLM-5.2 solved 45/47 tasks and Fable 5 had a perfect 100% score. In addition: - Fable averaged 84 seconds per task; GLM averaged 148. Across the full suite, Fable finished in nearly half the total time (66 minutes vs 116). - Fable was the faster model in 43 of the 47 scenarios. - Fable used about 20% fewer tokens overall - Fable needed fewer tool calls (239 vs 294) and fewer conversation turns (6.1 vs 7.3 on average) to get to an answer The most interesting part comes from digging deeper into the stack traces. That revealed some interesting gaps: Gap #1: Knowing when the job isn't finished One of the tasks GLM-5.2 failed was a GitHub security audit. The instruction was to find every Python file in a repository that contains a hardcoded `secret_key`. The repository had been seeded with exactly 130 such files, so the correct answer was known in advance. Fable 5 found all 130 of them. This took 3 tool calls and 68 seconds: Fable constructed an effective search query on its first attempt, pulled every page of results, deduplicated the paths, and answered the question. GLM-5.2 found 120 files, and reported those 120 as the complete answer, without ever questioning whether it might have missed something. Both models had access to identical tools. GLM used a slightly different search query that returned fewer results, and it simply trusted what came back. Along the way, it also lost track of a results file it had saved earlier and spent turns searching the filesystem trying to find it again, plus hit two errored tool calls while trying to fetch file contents. In essence, GLM-5.2 ended up spending 262 seconds and three and a half times the tokens to deliver 92% of the answer. Ninety-two percent sounds close, but in a real security audit, that gap is 10 leaked credentials making it into production. Gap #2: Judgment when the criteria are fuzzy The second failed task is more unsettling, because GLM did almost everything right and still failed to get to a complete answer. The task was a Zendesk SLA audit: find the open billing tickets where no support agent had posted a public reply within 24 hours of the ticket being created. This requires reading each ticket's actual conversation history and making a judgment call about whether a genuine agent reply happened. GLM-5.2 inspected every candidate ticket, exactly as instructed. It also computed breach timestamps correctly. It also produced perfectly structured output in exactly the requested format. But then it classified the wrong tickets as breached. GLM spent 927,000 tokens and six and a half minutes producing a wrong answer that looked correct on the surface. Fable 5 identified the exact set of breached tickets in 131 seconds. What makes this failure mode dangerous is precisely how presentable the wrong answer was. The formatting was right, the timestamps were right, the structure was also right; a human skimming the output would almost certainly have approved it. A human would identify the error after carefully analyzing the stack traces. Gap #3: Efficiency, compounded Even on the 45 tasks both models passed, the traces often looked very different, and one task made the difference quite visible. The task was a LaunchDarkly configuration change applied via JSON Patch, a format that demands strict precision. Fable 5 completed it in 45 seconds, using 3 tool calls and 181,000 tokens. GLM-5.2 got the same correct result, after 8.8 minutes, 17 tool calls, and 982,000 tokens. That's 11.7 times longer and more than five times the tokens for an identical outcome. Looking at the largest speed gaps across the whole run: the LaunchDarkly change at 11.7x, the GitHub secrets audit at 3.9x, a Google Calendar recurring-event repair at 3.6x, a free/busy scheduling task at 3.4x, an Airtable batch-isolation task at 3.4x, the Zendesk SLA audit at 3.0x. The pattern underneath all of these is that Fable tends to reach the right tool with the right parameters on the first attempt, while GLM takes a more exploratory path, doing extra searches, extra retries, occasional detours to recover from its own missteps. This difference barely matters in a single chat exchange, but in an agent workflow, where every step feeds the next one, the time compounds across the entire task. That's how you end up finishing the same suite of work in half the time and at 80% of the token cost. What all this actually tells us The interesting conclusion here isn't "the closed model beat the open one.", but *where* it beat it. Both models can definitely use tools, navigate real APIs, handle authentication, parse messy responses, and chain steps together. The real gaps were things like: - Knowing when a job isn't actually finished yet. - Verifying its own work before committing to an answer, - Treating "the output looks plausible" and "the work is complete" as different things - Getting judgment calls right when the criteria are fuzzy In other words, Fable 5 scored higher in the places where small mistakes are hardest to spot and most costly to miss.

  • Balogun_ayo519
    Balogun Ayomide (@Balogun_ayo519) reported

    @gmail Good day pls I have complain about my Gmail account trying to login itโ€™s not going @gmail

  • khan_kilo
    Kenny Mc (@khan_kilo) reported

    @nicklaunches Most of my products are apps , so TikTok and Apple search ads has been the main. Something else Iโ€™ve been looking into for SaaS is Gmail ads. If youโ€™re SaaS solve a problem that users normally gets an email about I think itโ€™s a good surface to advertise your solution. I havenโ€™t tried it as yet though but it seem like a high intent surface

  • shushant_l
    Shushant Lakhyani (@shushant_l) reported

    I'm shocked most people still use Gmail like a basic inbox. Here are 10 Gmail hacks that can save you hours every single week. --- ๐Ÿ“‚ Gmail Productivity โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Gemini AI Assistant โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Summarize Email Threads โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Write Emails Faster โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Improve Tone & Clarity โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Find Information Quickly โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Search Operators โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ From Sender Search โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Attachment Search โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Older Email Search โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Large File Search โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Smart Filters โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Auto Organization โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Add Labels โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Sort Emails โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Archive Messages โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Highlight Important Emails โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Alias Tricks โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Create Email Variations โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Track Signups โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Separate Categories โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Keep One Main Inbox โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Email Scheduling โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Client Follow Ups โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Time Zone Management โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Planned Communication โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Send Later Workflow โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Undo Send โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Fix Typos โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Prevent Wrong Recipients โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Catch Missing Attachments โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Extend Cancellation Window โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Email Templates โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Quick Replies โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Proposals โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Introductions โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Follow Ups โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Email Task System โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Connect Google Tasks โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Create Reminders โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Add Deadlines โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Track Follow Ups โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Confidential Mode โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Expiring Access โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Restricted Forwarding โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Restricted Downloading โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Extra Verification โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Label Organization โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Work Labels โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Client Labels โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Finance Labels โ”ƒ โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Project Labels โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Learning Labels โ”ƒ โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Bonus Tricks โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Keyboard Shortcuts โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Snooze Emails โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Mute Conversations โ”ฃ ๐Ÿ“‚ Priority Inbox โ”— ๐Ÿ“‚ Archive Instead Of Deleting

  • Markoemailwiz
    Marko, email wiz (@Markoemailwiz) reported

    "Avoid spam trigger words" is 2015 advice. Gmail doesn't read your email for the word "free" anymore. It watches what people DO with your emails. No opens, no clicks, no replies โ†’ Promotions tab. Your copy isn't the problem. Your engagement is.

  • ecom_nicolas
    Nicolas Olaya (@ecom_nicolas) reported

    10 Email Marketing Trends That Will Define 2026 Over the past few years, we've worked with 100+ ecommerce brands across every revenue stage. Some patterns are becoming impossible to ignore. These aren't predictions. They're the strategies the best brands are already using to stay ahead. Here's the condensed version. 1. Human-Sounding Emails Are Winning AI-generated emails are flooding inboxes, and they all have the same polished, soulless, "unlock your potential" energy. Subscribers are tuning them out. The emails that are cutting through right now feel like a real person wrote them. Short sentences, conversational tone, a founder sharing something personal, an opinion that's slightly polarizing. This isn't anti-AI. It's about using AI as a tool, not a replacement for your brand voice. The human touch is what makes someone open email #47 from your brand instead of archiving it. 2. Retention Thinking Over Email Marketing Thinking For a long time, email marketers were hired to do one thing: send emails that generate revenue. Design a template, write copy, hit send, check the dashboard. That era is fading. The email marketers creating the most value in 2026 think like retention strategists. They understand the P&L, they know the CAC and payback period, they think about cohort analysis and product adoption ratesโ€”not just open rates and click rates. When you operate this way, you stop being "the email person" and become a strategic partner who solves real business problems. 3. Plain Text Emails as a Strategic Weapon Design emails still have their place. But plain text emails from the founder are consistently outperforming graphic-heavy campaigns for education, re-engagement, and personal updates. Three reasons: Better deliverability. They're lighter, and inbox providers favor them. More authentic. They feel human in a world drowning in polished marketing. They stand out. They look different from everything else in the inbox. The smart move is mixing both into your calendar. Design for product highlights and promotions. Plain text for founder stories, education, and personal check-ins. The contrast keeps things fresh. 4. Product Adoption Flows Over Sales Sequences Post-purchase used to be: thank you, cross-sell, review request. The entire sequence was designed to extract more money as fast as possible. The 2026 approach is completely different. The best brands are building post-purchase flows that help customers succeed with the product first. How to use it. When to use it. What to expect. Common mistakes to avoid. Because if someone doesn't use your product consistently, they don't see results. And if they don't see results, they churn. No amount of clever cross-sell emails will save a customer who never opened the bottle. 5. Zero-Party Data 2.0 Collecting zero-party data through your pop-up isn't new. How brands are using it has evolved. The old approach: Ask a question, store the answer, maybe personalize the welcome flow. That was ZPD 1.0. ZPD 2.0 is using that data across your entire business. When 57% of your customers tell you they struggle with a specific problem, that's not just an email segmentation insight. That's business intelligence. It should influence what products you develop, what hooks your ads use, and what copy goes on your product pages. Your pop-up is a market research engine, not just a list growth tool. 6. Micro-Commitment Flows When someone commits to a small action, they're significantly more likely to follow through with a bigger one. The best brands are embedding micro-commitments throughout their flows. We tested this with a supplement brand. We made subscribers "activate" their recurring discount by completing a short survey, even though every subscriber gets the discount by default. The group that claimed it had significantly higher LTV and repurchase rate. Why? Because when people put effort into claiming something, they value it more. That psychological investment translates directly into better retention. 7. Billing Reminder Optimization If you're a subscription brand, this single email might be the highest-leverage thing you can improve. Most brands send: "Your card will be charged in 3 days." That's basically an invitation to cancel. You're leading with cost instead of value. The reframe: "Your next delivery ships in 3 days, and here's the free gift we included." That shifts the psychology from "I'm losing money" to "I'm receiving something." We've seen up to 30% lower subscription churn with this approach. It's also one of the best moments to present a one-click upsell while the customer is already mentally prepared for the delivery. 8. Deliverability-First Strategy With Gmail and Yahoo tightening their filtering, deliverability has moved from "something to keep an eye on" to the foundation everything else sits on. A deliverability-first strategy means you don't build your email program and look at deliverability later. You design the entire strategy around it from the start. Authentication before you send a single email. Monthly list cleaning as non-negotiable. Sending to engaged segments instead of blasting. Monitoring spam rates weekly. Every decisionโ€”how often to send, what to send, and who to send toโ€”should be filtered through one question: Will this help or hurt my inbox placement? 9. AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement This brings the AI conversation full circle. AI is a terrible replacement for strategic thinking. But it's an incredible accelerator for execution. Use AI to write email copy in minutes. Use it to generate a month's worth of campaign ideas. Use it to analyze hundreds of subject lines and uncover patterns humans would miss. But the human always makes the strategic decisions, the creative calls, and the judgment calls about what's right for the brand. AI handles the heavy lifting. You steer the ship. 10. Optimization Over Aesthetics A beautiful email is useless if it doesn't convert. This mindset has become dominant among the best email marketers. Compress every image so emails load fast. Make sure the above-the-fold section communicates the entire offer before anyone scrolls. Design mobile-first. Test in dark mode. Check rendering across Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. Track the metrics that actually matter, not just Klaviyo attributed revenue. The brands generating the most revenue per subscriber aren't the ones with the prettiest emails. They're the ones where every email is built to perform.