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Email Deliverability

DKIM key rotation without downtime: the 48-hour dance

DKIM keys are supposed to be rotated periodically. Almost nobody does it. The ones who try often break their email for a few hours doing it. There's a correct procedure that avoids both problems, and it's surprisingly unglamorous.

5 min read · 11 May 2026
Email Deliverability

How to sell DMARC monitoring to clients who've never heard of it

Selling DMARC monitoring to a client who's never heard of it is one of the easiest sales conversations you can have in professional services, assuming you frame it correctly. The problem is that most agencies frame it wrong.

5 min read · 8 May 2026
Email Deliverability

The agency email security audit: a repeatable £500 offer

This is a productised service that any web or digital agency can start selling this week. It generates £500-1,500 per engagement, takes about 3-4 hours of actual work, and has an extremely high conversion rate from the first conversation because the value is obvious and the price is low. It also leads directly into a £50-150/month recurring monitoring service, which is where the real margin is.

5 min read · 2 Apr 2026