Intermediate: Managing and Optimising Deliverability

Protect Your Sender Reputation. Stay in the Inbox. Scale with Confidence

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If you understand the fundamentals of email deliverability and want to ensure your emails consistently land in the inbox as you scale, this course is your essential next step.

You’ll learn how to manage reputation, leverage authentication protocols like BIMI, and proactively prevent blocklisting and engagement drops – keeping your sender health strong as your programmes grow.

  • Investment: £90
  • CPD Certified
  • Approximately 2 hours of expert video content
  • Built for marketers managing growing or complex email programmes
  • Includes checklists, testing tools, and actionable frameworks

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Course Objective

By the end of this course, you will:

  • Understand how sender reputation works and how to protect it
  • Implement advanced authentication protocols like BIMI for brand trust
  • Improve engagement metrics to maintain inbox placement
  • Manage blocklists and reduce spam complaints proactively
  • Differentiate deliverability strategies for transactional and marketing emails
  • Use professional tools to monitor and optimise deliverability performance

“As your strategy matures, so must your reputation. This course teaches you how to protect your deliverability and unlock scalable growth — all with control and clarity.”

Kath Pay, Course Director, Holistic Email Academy
  • What is sender reputation?
  • How mailbox providers calculate reputation scores
  • Key factors influencing your reputation over time
  • Deep dive into SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configurations
  • How to implement BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification)
  • How authentication improves brand trust and deliverability
  • How opens, clicks, and deletions affect inbox placement
  • Understanding Gmail’s Primary vs. Promotions tab placements
  • Strategies for boosting engagement to improve deliverability
  • What happens when you’re blocklisted—and how to recover
  • How to monitor blocklist status
  • Proactive strategies to minimise spam complaints and protect reputation
  • How deliverability dynamics differ between transactional and marketing emails
  • Best practices for each type to ensure optimal inbox placement
  • Critical tips for ensuring transactional emails always reach the inbox
  • Recommended tools for deliverability tracking and monitoring
  • How to run and interpret deliverability tests
  • Setting up and using feedback loops, postmaster tools, and dashboards

All this for just £90!

CPD certified. Lifetime access. Updates included.

Who This Course Is For?

Email Marketers
running growing email programmes

CRM and deliverability managers
seeking to maintain high inbox placement

Marketing ops teams responsible for compliance and sender health

Ecommerce and SaaS brands
scaling their lifecycle and promotional emails

Protect Your Email Investment

Sender reputation is your ticket to revenue

Advanced Yet Practical

Tools, frameworks, and real-world strategies

Stay Future-Proof

Adapt to changes in engagement filtering and authentication standards

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Meet Your Tutor

Kath Pay, Co-Founder Holistic Email Academy

With deep expertise in email deliverability, Kath Pay has helped brands overcome blocklisting, improve inbox placement, and implement best-in-class authentication practices. Drawing on 27+ years in the industry, she combines technical know-how with practical strategies to ensure emails get seen and acted upon. Kath has helped & advised organisations of all sizes, from startups to global retailers, on managing sender reputation, list hygiene, and engagement – making her one of the most trusted voices in deliverability.

Is this course right if I already monitor bounce rates and complaints?
Yes! This course takes you deeper into managing reputation, authentication, and engagement optimisation.

Do I need a technical background to understand authentication protocols?
No, we explain SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI clearly and simply.

Will it cover how to recover from blocklisting?
Absolutely—there’s a full module dedicated to blocklist management and recovery strategies.

Is there an exam?
No exam – just practical learning and a CPD-accredited certificate at completion.

Course Workbook

Your downloadable workbook includes checklists, templates, guided exercises, and note-taking prompts — designed to help you apply your learning immediately.

CPD Hours & Certificate of Completion

Earn 3.25 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours and receive a personalised certificate upon completion. Ideal for professional development plans and showcasing your new skills on LinkedIn, your CV, or in performance reviews.

1.5 Hours of Expert Video Content

Self-paced, high-impact lessons delivered by expert tutors — broken down into bite-sized, easy-to-follow modules.

Quizzes & Knowledge Checks

Short, practical quizzes are included to help you consolidate what you’ve learned and build confidence as you go.

Stay ahead of inbox algorithms, avoid costly mistakes, and safeguard your brand’s sender reputation.

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