Digital Marketing

Email That Reaches the Inbox and Earns the Open

Authentication fixed, list cleaned, templates that survive Outlook and dark mode — then campaigns and flows measured on revenue per recipient.

  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC verified
  • Tested across real inboxes
  • List health over list size
  • You own the platform and data

Is this you?

Four Signs Your Email Isn't Working

Three of these are deliverability problems wearing an engagement problem's clothes.

  • Open rates have quietly collapsed

    Same list, same content, far fewer opens — usually a sign you're landing in Promotions or spam rather than losing interest.

  • You've never checked your authentication

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC unconfigured or misaligned, which now gets bulk mail filtered at the major providers by default.

  • Everyone gets the same email

    One list, one send, no segmentation — so most recipients get something irrelevant and slowly stop looking.

  • You have no automated flows

    No welcome sequence, no abandoned cart, no post-purchase — the highest-converting emails you could send simply don't exist.

Overview

Deliverability First, Then Everything Else

The best campaign in the world is worth nothing from a domain that's being filtered.

Email remains the highest-return channel most businesses have, and it's the one most often left to decay. The decay is rarely creative. It's a domain that was never authenticated properly, a list padded with addresses that haven't engaged in three years, and a template that breaks in the client a third of the audience actually uses.

So we start with the plumbing. SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured and aligned, sending domain and subdomain strategy set, reputation checked, and inbox placement tested for real rather than assumed. Then the list: inactive segments suppressed, addresses validated, and re-engagement run before anyone gets removed — because sending to people who never open is what teaches a provider to filter you.

Only then does the sending programme matter. Templates built on a modular system that renders correctly in Outlook and in dark mode, segmentation so content is relevant to who receives it, and the automated flows that consistently outperform broadcasts — welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase, replenishment, win-back. Reporting is framed on revenue per recipient and list health, because open rates became an unreliable metric the moment mail privacy protection started pre-loading images.

Capabilities

What's Included

Nine areas of email work. The order matters more here than on most services.

  • Deliverability & Authentication

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured and aligned, sending domains set up correctly, reputation monitored and inbox placement genuinely tested.

  • List Health & Hygiene

    Validation, suppression of long-term inactives and re-engagement before removal — engagement quality drives placement far more than list size.

  • Segmentation

    Dynamic segments by behaviour, purchase history, lifecycle stage and engagement, so relevance replaces volume as the strategy.

  • Campaign Management

    Newsletters, promotions and announcements planned on a calendar, written, built, scheduled and sent against a consistent cadence.

  • Automated Flows

    Welcome, abandoned cart, browse abandonment, post-purchase, replenishment and win-back — the sequences that consistently beat broadcasts.

  • Template Design & Build

    Modular, on-brand templates coded to render correctly in Outlook and dark mode, handed over as reusable blocks your team can assemble.

  • Copywriting & Subject Lines

    Email copy written to a single purpose per send, with subject and preview text treated as one unit rather than an afterthought.

  • Testing & Optimisation

    Structured tests on subject, offer, timing and layout, run with enough volume to mean something and documented so learnings persist.

  • Reporting & Revenue Attribution

    Revenue per recipient, flow contribution and list health tracked over time — metrics that survived mail privacy protection.

Deliverables

What You Receive

  • Deliverability audit with authentication configured and verified
  • Cleaned, validated list with suppression rules documented
  • Segmentation structure with dynamic list logic
  • Modular template system tested across major clients and dark mode
  • Built and live automated flows for your key lifecycle moments
  • Campaign calendar with planned cadence and themes
  • Test log recording what was tried, what won and by how much
  • Monthly reporting on revenue per recipient, flow performance and list health

Stack

Platforms & Tools

We work in the platform you own, and will tell you when moving would genuinely pay for itself.

Email Platforms

  • Klaviyo
  • HubSpot
  • Mailchimp
  • ActiveCampaign
  • Braze

Deliverability

  • Google Postmaster
  • DMARC monitoring
  • Litmus
  • Email on Acid

Build

  • MJML
  • Figma
  • HTML & inline CSS

Measurement

  • GA4
  • Looker Studio
  • Shopify Analytics

Our Process

How We Fix and Run Email

Six phases. Deliverability is settled before we spend a day on creative.

  • 01

    Deliverability & Programme Audit

    Authentication, sending reputation, list health and current performance assessed — establishing whether the problem is reaching the inbox or performing once there.

    Deliverables: Deliverability audit, list health report, performance baseline

    1 week
  • 02

    Authentication & List Repair

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured and aligned, sending domains corrected, inactives suppressed and re-engagement run before anyone is removed.

    Deliverables: Verified authentication, cleaned list, suppression rules

    1–2 weeks
  • 03

    Strategy & Segmentation

    Cadence, themes and segments defined against what each group should actually receive, plus the flows worth building first ranked by likely return.

    Deliverables: Email strategy, segmentation structure, flow priority list

    1 week
  • 04

    Template & Flow Build

    Modular templates designed and coded, tested across real clients and dark mode, then the priority automated flows built, populated and tested end to end.

    Deliverables: Template system, render test results, live automated flows

    2–4 weeks
  • 05

    Campaign Operation

    Campaigns planned, written, built and sent to a consistent calendar, with sending volume ramped carefully where reputation is being rebuilt.

    Deliverables: Campaign calendar, sent campaigns, send-time analysis

    Ongoing
  • 06

    Testing & Reporting

    Structured tests on subject, offer and timing, with reporting on revenue per recipient and flow contribution rather than vanity engagement.

    Deliverables: Monthly report, test log, optimisation recommendations

    Monthly

Engagement

How We Work Together

Three shapes, depending on whether you need a fix, a build or an operator.

  • A focused engagement to fix authentication, reputation and list health. Best when sends have stopped reaching the inbox.

Fit

Who This Is For

And, just as usefully, who it isn't for.

Ideal for

  • E-commerce brands without abandoned cart, post-purchase or win-back flows
  • Businesses whose open rates have fallen without any change in content
  • Companies sending one newsletter to one undifferentiated list
  • Organisations that have never verified SPF, DKIM and DMARC
  • Brands with a large list they've become nervous about sending to
  • Teams that can write but have no capacity to build, test and send

Not the right fit if

  • You need scoring, CRM routing and sales handoff logic — that's Marketing & Lead Nurturing
  • You have almost no list yet — build the audience first with Strategic Content Marketing or paid acquisition
  • You bought a list — we won't send to it, and doing so would damage the domain you actually need
  • The offer itself isn't working — email will deliver that message faster, not fix it

Why DM Solutions

What You Get Beyond the Sends

Four commitments aimed at the inbox, not the dashboard.

  • Deliverability Comes First

    Authentication and reputation are fixed before we touch creative. The best campaign in the world earns nothing from a domain that's being filtered.

  • Tested in Real Inboxes

    Every template is checked in Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail and dark mode before it sends. Outlook alone still breaks a large share of email designs.

  • List Health Over List Size

    We'll recommend suppressing thousands of dead addresses. Smaller and engaged beats large and filtered, every time, and the revenue follows.

  • Measured on Revenue

    Revenue per recipient and flow contribution, not open rates — a metric mail privacy protection made unreliable and many reports still lead with.

Proof of work

Email That Started Earning Again

Programmes where placement, engagement and revenue per recipient all moved.

Testimonials

What Clients Say About Working With Us

  • DM Solutions feels less like an agency and more like an extension of our own team. They challenge our assumptions, bring data to every debate, and genuinely care whether the numbers move.

    Elena Vasquez

    Head of Demand Gen, Cortex Software

  • What stood out was that they treated our budget like it was their own money. Every channel was measured, the underperformers got cut fast, and the winners got scaled. Refreshingly honest.

    Hannah Brooks

    VP Marketing, FreshCart

  • The campaign strategy paid for itself within the first quarter. Qualified leads went up, cost per acquisition came down, and for once the reporting actually made sense to our leadership team.

    Aisha Demir

    CMO, Verde Wellness

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

The six that come up before every email engagement.

  • Usually one of two things. Either you're being filtered — unconfigured authentication and poor engagement history push mail to Promotions or spam — or you're measuring a metric that broke. Apple's mail privacy protection pre-loads images, inflating opens for some audiences and making the number unreliable across the board. The audit separates these before anyone starts rewriting subject lines.

Ready to Reach the Inbox Again?

Let us audit your authentication, list and recent sends. We'll tell you what's broken and come back with a plan and a fixed-price proposal.

Detailed proposal within 48 hours. No commitment required.