Andrew Luxem

Email Marketing Playbooks

Run email as a system, not a send calendar

Most email advice starts with the message. The message is only one part of the channel. Authentication and sender reputation affect inbox placement. Lifecycle rules shape who receives a message and when. Measurement determines whether the reported result can be trusted. Sending more does not repair a weak system.

The library starts with deliverability. Later modules will cover mailbox-provider requirements, campaign operations, lifecycle programs, and measurement. Each published playbook takes one defined problem and gives you the steps, templates, and checks to run the process, review the result, and correct what breaks.

Playbooks covers the broader work of marketing, CRM, team building, and leadership. Email Marketing Playbooks applies the same method to one channel.

8 PLAYBOOKS MAPPED · 6 PUBLISHED · ALL FREE

Use every published playbook without giving me your email address. That is deliberate.

Last updated August 2026.

The module map

MODULE 01

Deliverability

8 DELIVERABILITY PLAYBOOKS · 6 PUBLISHED

Authentication through incident response.

MODULE 02

Provider intricacies

Not published yet

Gmail, Outlook and Microsoft 365, Yahoo and AOL, Apple Mail and MPP, corporate gateways.

MODULE 03

Operations

Not published yet

Pre-send QA, campaign briefs, segmentation ops, experimentation, templates, stream separation.

MODULE 04

Lifecycle programs

Not published yet

Welcome, re-engagement, win-back, post-purchase, browse and cart, onboarding to habit.

MODULE 05

Measurement & governance

Not published yet

Post-MPP measurement, scorecards, holdout and incrementality testing, retention attribution.

Modules 02 through 05 are next. Nothing here will ever be gated, but if you want to know when they land, The Strategic Brief goes out on Substack.

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