Webcasts

For all the likes, shares, tweets, pokes, follows, and friends, there’s a fundamental core to the internet that will never go away - email. Ruby on Rails makes it easy to send email using ActionMailer, but receiving and parsing email in your app can still be a huge pain. Enter Griddler - a Rails engine by thoughtbot that makes it super simple to receive email in your application using SendGrid's Inbound Parse Webhook. In this webinar, thoughtbot and SendGrid will show you how to set up Griddler in your Rails app, explain the Inbound Parse Webhook, and answer all your burning questions about incoming email. By the time the workshop is over, you'll be receiving email in your Rails app like a pro!

Are you seeing a 4,000% return on investment with your email program? If not, your program is achieving below average performance. SendGrid email experts Ken Apple and Jesse McCabe will give you all the tools you need to breathe life into your transactional and marketing email campaigns in a free webcast.

Anyone who has spent any time trying to get their important email receipts, notifications, or password resets to their users' inboxes knows how daunting it can be to navigate the ISP landscape. What is the best way to authenticate your email for Gmail users? Does Yahoo! care more about IP reputation or domain reputation? Can I expect a different click and open rate for different ISPs? Hear from SendGrid email experts Ryan Harris and Amy Mustoe as they offer advice on how to comply with ISP expectations and identify trends they are seeing among today's most popular ISPs.

Isaac Saldana got started in 2009 with the intention of making email easier for developers and soon found himself running a fast growing company. SendGrid's founder decided to hire a CEO from the outside to run the company so he could continue to focus on the technical challenges of building a great product. Hear how they worked together to make the technical and business sides of the company work together.

Transactional email is one of the most engaging communication channels, yet many companies fail to take advantage of its potential. Many companies are afraid to incorporate marketing into their transactional messages. Discover how to increase ROI and engagement with your customers through discrete marketing in your transactional email.

Most developers know about SendGrid's SMTP relay services and the deliverability benefits, but did you know there are also a host of other SendGrid APIs that can make your life even easier? Learn how to use all of the SendGrid APIs to unleash the full power of email in your application.

Of all the major headaches in the world of transactional email, maintaining your own email infrastructure may be the biggest. One wrong step could get your IPs blacklisted or leave your infrastructure vulnerable to phishing attacks. Get answers to your toughest email infrastructure questions to help keep your emails flowing to the inbox.

With the rise of web and mobile applications, transactional email has become a necessary communications channel for most businesses. Learn how to take advantage of this valuable channel to increase engagement, generate additional revenue, and improve customer experience.

Staying out of the spam folder is tougher than you might think. Over 20% of legitimate email never makes it to the inbox. Customers quickly become frustrated when they don't receive important messages like password resets, purchase confirmations and shipping notifications. Learn how to make sure your emails make it to the inbox.

Email deliverability is the secret crisis facing many companies who depend on email to send important messages to their customers. Successfully managing your sender reputation is crucial to make sure your messages get delivered reliably. Check out these 7 tips to take control of your sender reputation and stay in the good graces of the ISPs.