Exclusive Interview with Miklos Handa (Founder of the email marketing solutions, “MailMike.net”), speaker at Vienna International Gaming Expo 2018

Today we speak with Miklos Handa, Founder of the email marketing solution, “MailMike.net” and speaker at Vienna International Gaming Expo 2018.

Coming from a land-based casino background with several years of experience from London’s Napoleons and Grosvenor Casinos as well as with global B2B igaming providers, he is a former gaming professional turned email marketing guru who created a tool with the help of Sebastiaan de Vos (former Head of Deliverability at Emarsys) that finally gets gaming content to inbox. With a deep understanding of the marketing needs and challenges of the gaming industry, he currently serves numerous affiliates, casino operators and B2B solution providers.
Today, Miklos is a recognized expert in his field, helping the gaming industry to legitimately boost their marketing efforts.

Thank you for being available and accepting this interview. First of all will you please introduce yourself and the company you represent?

Miklos: My Name is Miklos Handa and I am the co-founder of MailMike.net, the igaming industry’s email marketing partner.

MailMike is a service to assist the large volume E-mail senders to overcome their day-to-day problems. The concept of MailMike was born from the need to respond to the challenges of the fast-growing and rapidly changing email marketing industry. Will you please speak more about email marketing and in more details what is MailMike?

MailMike started out as a spam detection platform. We created a tool that was able to tell senders if their campaign was going to land in the spam box before they send it to their database. Due to the high demand, last year we introduced consultancy services to optimize email deliverability and by now we have grown into offering a 360° solution from technical set up on any platform, to campaign optimization or even fully managed sending.

We can read on your website that apart from the MailMike toolset, you offer personal consultation and various operative services. What are the services you offer your clients and which are the most demanded ones?

Miklos: Yes, as I have mentioned before we have gradually expanded our service offer to cover the full spectrum of email marketing so our customers can get the highest possible conversion rates. The most complex part of this is the technical setup on the sending platform. The majority of our clients subscribed to an email marketing platform before and expected to get an out of the box solution that is ready to send with amazing results. Unfortunately, this is not the case. To get past the spam filters you have to adjust the deep technical settings that most senders (or their CRM managers) don’t even know about and the sending platforms offer little to no help with this unless you are in one of their top tier packages with a dedicated account manager and specifically ask for the implementation of certain settings on their back-end. We aim to bridge this gap by auditing and fixing or configuring the setup ourselves from the start. As a result, our customers can send campaigns with outstanding conversion rates and keep maintaining a great sender reputation. We can even fully manage their email marketing with setting up, designing campaigns, testing and deployment.

How can MailMike overcome the challenges of renewing technology nowadays? What do you consider the most successful experience in the history of MailMike?

Miklos: Currently the biggest challenge facing the industry is the introduction of GDPR. All businesses need to be very careful about how they handle (and not to abuse) customer data. We can help our clients become fully compliant as this is also an integral part of our business.

As for our biggest success to this day, I am still very proud of our core B2B2B spam detection service which is used by some of the top sending platforms themselves daily, including one which is able to successfully send over 70billion emails annually thanks to our advanced technology.

Will you please tell more about the people who are behind the curtains, who created and have maintained these innovative, very successful and revolutionary services?

Miklos: The MailMike software was developed by Sebastiaan de Vos, who was formerly the head of deliverability at Emarsys. With his experience, close relationship to mailbox providers, black and white list provider, and all the significant email industry players, he had the knowledge how to maximize the performance of email marketing campaigns in a fully compliant manner. I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to bring this deep insight and technology to the market and offer it to the igaming industry.

In 2017 you took part at ViGE in Vienna. What was this experience like, what benefits did it bring to your company, was it a useful experience?

Miklos: Yes, it was our our very first gaming expo with MailMike. As we serve various other industries such as ecommerce, event organizers, media sites etc., the ViGE helped us to get a feedback from the gaming sector and to better understand their needs and concerns. This allowed us to tailor our service to be better suited for this market segment.

Have you recently participated at other conferences and if yes, which were those?

Miklos: We have attended many expos and conferences from different industries all over the year, but the most recent one was another gaming event called the Prague Gaming Summit, which was a great show to network and build some new relationships.

The next ViGE conference in Vienna will be at the end of May, beginning of June (31st May-1st June). You will be a speaker at this event. What are your expectations and will you please tell us in a nutshell what are you going to speak about?

Miklos: I am very excited about the ViGE this year and I imagine it will be pretty busy. I will be speaking about customer acquisition, improving conversion and retention rates, but I cannot tell you more, you’ll just have to come 😉

If you want to meet Miklos in person or networking with the biggest names of the Sports betting, Casino, VR/AR, Marketing, eSports, DFS, Virtual Sports and Crypto industry, make sure you attend the Vienna International Gaming Expo.

Miklos will also be live next week on iGamingRadio.com with Konrad. Make sure you save the date, 24 April and tune in at 13:00 CET.

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