What are Reddit's favorite Email Marketing Apps?

Chats on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted by default, which means Telegram's servers can read everything you send. Both Signal and WhatsApp do end-to-end encryption by default.

Furthermore, Telegram's end-to-end encryption once contained a flaw that looks suspiciously like a backdoor, which doesn't make it any more trustworthy in my eyes.

EDIT: Also, Telegram does not support end-to-end encrypted group chats.

Not sure what email provider your using but sending to many emails at once can flag your system. Look into breaking them into batches and staging their sends.

https://sendpulse.com/knowledge-base/email-service/general/send-bulk-email-without-getting-blacklisted

That's funny. Looking at the network requests, the initial HTML includes all the content. I found another blog on buttondown.email with the same issue, so I blame the provider. Probably waiting for something to load before displaying the content.

First, having the new gTLDs take off would be a huge benefit to the OP and to us all. Why?

• Domainers hate the gTLDs. They don't see a path to making money off of them, so they haven't invested in them.
• .com is fully saturated. There's nothing left. Domainers are only interested in .com, because the market has no room for expansion. Every new domain is a fight for space.

That said, here are my 2 cents. The reason trust is an issue is because spammers and phishers were known to take advantage of the cheap gTLDs (.biz) and country code TLDs (.tv, .us). It's a "once burned, twice shy" historical mistrust.

However, a bigger problem than trust is that the common public lacks awareness of new .gTLDs, and businesses/individuals don't know how to brand themselves for them yet. For example, the company Customer.io doesn't brand themselves as "Customer". They brand themselves as Customer.io. The full advertised name includes the ".io".

So, if I was a lawyer, I could create the domain punkrawk.attorney. However, I would have to find a way to brand myself with the attorney gTLD. Until there's a tipping point in new gTLD awareness, this will continue to be a problem, and .com will continue to be king.

Try installing Hotjar on your site (the free version). Especially before you do your next paid FB promotion. Also, look into the free version of Drift to communicate with customers when they visit - they might have questions you weren't expecting.

PS also install Google analytics and Facebook Pixel so you can generate similar audiences.

1000 hits is great for just starting but you need to really hunker down and find out what your revenue driving channels are. It could be Instagram / Blog posts / Facebook (organic or paid) / adwords etc - but you'll never know until you start tracking it.

https://www.hotjar.com

https://www.drift.com

What do you value your time at? (Sidenote: I recommend using this calculator if you haven't already)

My time is personally around $55 an hour. If it takes me a bit more than an hour to write and maintain a Boomerang-equivalent, then it's probably cheaper to pay someone for it.

Disclaimer: I don't use Boomerang, but I do use YesWare, which is a much more full-featured version for salespeople, and is essential in my daily workflow.

In practice, applications (like TLS servers and web browsers) read random bits from /dev/urandom or RtlGenRandom on Windows. The OS CSPRNG collects noise/randomness/entropy from multiple sources and securely mixes it, with reseeding to maintain secrecy against attacker that had limited access to OS CSPRNG buffers.

All sane cryptographic functions internally use a randomness API that just provides the required number of random bytes (like reading from /dev/urandom or getrandom). Some things like HMAC and AES-GCM can just use those bytes as-is, other things like RSA code generate RSA keypairs using the randomness to deterministically generate candidate primes and primality-test them until it finds two primes of the right size (half the RSA key size).

A CSPRNGS can just be something that takes 256 bits generated by an unpredictable physical process (fair dice, electronic noise, whatever), and then just uses that as key in AES-CTR (or chacha20 keystream), generating 2 raised to the 68th power number of random bytes. This is probably enough, but if you need more, rekey it and run the same code again. This runs at gigabytes per second per core and is secure. The method to collect the initial seed is up to you - some don't trust Intel RDRAND and prefer to use the least significant bits from the timing of IO interrupts or whatever.

See for example this for more: https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-the-linux-csprng-is-now/

You may want to create a mailing list. Nothing fancy, just something like a https://buttondown.email/ URL you can point interested folks to where you'll announce the kickstarter. I'd subscribe.

Also, if running a kickstarter is a new idea, you may find the advice at https://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter/to be useful.

Fint Mascha, men det hele er jo opstået fordi du ikke har styr på kundeservice. Hvis du havde benyttet eks. Intercom havde du blot sat et auto-svar op om at i modtager mange henvendelser og bede folk væbne sig med tålmodighed. Samtidigt kunne i appellere til folk tjekker det T&T nummer ud som i selvfølgelig automatisk sender til kunderne.

At du er røvutjekket har intet at gøre med om PostNord har travlt. Du skal bare lære at kommunikere. Det skulle man egentligt tro at du som influent kunne finde ud af.

If you look at those light up monkey decorations and think "this is a slur against black people" then you're racist.

The history of using 'monkey' as a slur against black people is well known, and of course the kind of caricature is also well- known. These lights have nothing in common with those racist caricatures. Literally nothing.

But I'll play the game, if these monkey lights are in fact racist caricatures then should the Zoo even advertise their monkey and ape exhibits? If any representation of a non-human primate is in fact a racist caricature then we ought to be consistent, right? Is this racist?

Theres basically no way to do it without a back-end. Anything you put in the frontend code can easily be seen and manipulated by anyone opening the page in their browser.

If you dont need it to be 100% built from scratch, you could use one of the pre-built solution offered by different services, like Mailchimp for example. You basically paste a snippet of their code into your website and the rest is handled by them.

https://mailchimp.com/help/create-a-contact-form

Yes, I'm aware automated emails are a thing. If every single automated email takes about 100ms to render and send (a fairly realistic scenario), sending 10000 of them would take 16 minutes of non-stop hammering on the mail server which would immediately result in throttling and half of your emails bouncing.

It's not a trivial problem to solve and engineers working on it get paid fairly well.

Here's an example https://mailchimp.com/help/how-throttling-improves-deliverability/

This article from 2006 said he never read it personally, and also doesn’t imply anything about it being inaccurate.

http://anthonykiedis.net/magazine-scansarticles/2006-2007/2006-2/052006-q-238/

Interestingly for one who has experienced so much anguish both as a member and non-member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frusciante has no interest in hearing the other side. He hasn’t read Scar Tissue.

“I’ve asked Anthony for a copy on three occasions. He says, Sure, but it never comes,” he smiles. But Frusciante has heard what’s in it. He is unimpressed.

“There are things in it that were supposed to be secrets. We said, We won’t talk about this, but it’s all there. It’s not the coolest shit in the world…but I forgive him.”

I’m sure like most autobiographies, there are parts that are fuzzy or cobbled together. Maybe things are misremembered, and possibly they are purposely misremembered (slightly) to make for a better narrative. And of course, sometimes people have different “sides” to the same basic story.

If you really want to see some comparison between Scar Tissue and other sources, there’s some great, thorough research done by Hamish ( /u/butter_wizard ) in his newsletters— https://buttondown.email/rhcpsessions Sometimes, Hamish will note where his research runs parallel or counter to the stuff in Scar Tissue.

I'd say that you should first read this neighborhood guide put together by Mail Chimp. It's sort of a "Neighborhoods 101" for the city (not so much the burbs). After reading it, come back here with more specific questions.

In regards to #3, I'm an engineer on Postmark https://postmarkapp.com/. While we only do transactional email, we have great deliverability and straightforward pay for what you use pricing. Feel free to hit me up with any questions!

We use PostMark at work. I don't interact with it too much, but it's free for the first 25,000 emails and offers a built-in templates system (which would eliminate the need for a a bunch of Rails mailer views in your project).

I got the same notice today, and may move in this direction.

From Ken Norton's famous "How to hire a product manager" essay (https://www.kennorton.com/essays/productmanager.html ):

>Remember friend, nobody asked you to show up.

>Product management may be the one job that the organization would get along fine without (at least for a good while). Without engineers, nothing would get built. Without sales people, nothing is sold. Without designers, the product looks like crap. But in a world without PMs, everyone simply fills in the gap and goes on with their lives. It’s important to remember that - as a PM, you’re expendable. Now, in the long run great product management usually makes the difference between winning and losing, but you have to prove it. 

And more about saying no as a PM - focused on product strategy, but obviously the more you take on your plate, the more stressful your life will be: https://www.intercom.com/blog/product-strategy-means-saying-no/

Sure thing!

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Video support in email is tricky. Check this out: https://mailchimp.com/help/limitations-of-html-email/

iframes aren't supported, which is what you're trying to do.

Instead some rendering clients support the use of HTML5 video, but things like Outlook will not. Typically people use a fall back to a static image when the rendering client doesn't support video.

If you don't want to change services from Mailchimp, there are a number of workarounds to keep Mailchimp and and Shopify connected. Mailchimp has some suggestions here. ShopSync looks most attractive by the way Mailchimp lays out the options but I've seen some people express problems they've had with that app on the corresponding Shopify app store page. I suspect they are having some growing pains from their increased number of users. That said, they have overall favorable ratings. I do wonder what the app maintainers get out of it, though. It's a free app that seems to be doing nothing but providing help to another service. Are they getting a kickback from Mailchimp, maybe?

Browse some neighborhoods here: https://mailchimp.com/about/jobs/atlanta/neighborhoods/

Atlanta is really big and spread out. There are urban areas with character and cookie cutter suburban areas with strip malls and everything in between.

You could live with a roommate or alone and the costa would vary widely based on where you want to be and if you are willing to have a roommate.

Some one bedroom apartments in a good part of town can easily hit $2,000/mo or more but you can also find studio apartments in a semi shady part of town for much much less.

Traffic is bad here so picking what area of town you want to be in and work in matters a lot. Unless you want to be in your car all time stuck in traffic, which I do not recommend. We do have some limited transit.

MailChimp also has a larger guide beyond neighborhoods here: https://mailchimp.com/about/jobs/atlanta/

Might be helpful to read the "Requirements and Best Practices" from MailChimp.

Technically, yes he could email that list but it's at high risk because these people did not opt-in for this marketing, they opted-in for a different company's marketing.

If there are enough spam reports MailChimp could take action, per their terms of use.

>17. General Rules
You promise to follow these rules:
* You won’t send Spam! By “spam,” we mean the definition on the Spamhaus website.
* You won’t use purchased, rented, or third-party lists of email addresses.
* You won’t violate our Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of this Agreement.
* If you use our API, you’ll comply with our API Use Policy.
If you violate any of these rules, then we may suspend or terminate your account.

I think you're rabbit-holing a bit here. These appear to be entirely unrelated to the overwatch material--different logos, sites have been registered for at least two years, twitter has a multi-month history going back to at least Oct 2016, etc., and the DMO is a real office (http://bit.ly/2sCSUbV).

Edit: mailchimp is also a real service (https://mailchimp.com/), not a Hammond teaser.

EditEdit: Per /u/fifthpilgrim, twitter goes back a year. I'm too lazy to verify that.

You don't store passwords in plaintext. You store salted and hashed passwords. When the user enters their credentials you salt and hash the input and match against the stored details. You only allow them to submit over HTTPS.

If the user forgets theirs you send them a link via email to reset the password.

Make sure SPF, DKIM and DMARC are set up correctly at a minimum. (Google around for these).

However, Amazon has notoriously poor deliverability with their email service. I would recommend using Postmark. Leaps and bounds better than any other service I’ve used (mailgun, sendgrid, and a couple others)

All advertising resolves around tracking. You see VPN ads because you were tracked, and you will see the same VPN ads everywhere you go. How are they doing this? See https://mailchimp.com/marketing-glossary/google-remarketing/

Essentially, they upload emails of their users to Google, and have them track you across the Internet and show you ads. Considering they're paying close to $1/click, this is the only way to get ROI on your ad spend.

This is hypocritical and deceptive, for a privacy service that claims it will prevent tracking while doing it themselves.

Options twofold.

1. Use a 3rd party app such as ShopSync to integrate Mailchimp to Shopify.
2. Switch email marketing provider. Some suggestions are Klaviyo, Omnisend, AWeber, Convertikit, Drip, Sendlane, Constant Contact to name a few.

A few more details here that I wrote up. Mailchimp have more details too.

When you initially captured the opt-ins, is the service/content they opted in for still the same or are you reusing addresses for different projects/services/etc. not related to the initial opt-in agreement?

Also, have you taken the time, throughout the years, to prune the list? Removing hard/soft bounces, unsubscribes, and low/no engagement accounts?

You can read more about omivore here https://mailchimp.com/help/about-omnivore and also you can contact their support if you're confused. We're not tech support.

SOP. This email isn't even about the money. The dollar amount options presented are mostly in the impulse purchase range, with a low potential ROI. Kenney is independently wealthy enough to fund his entire campaign, if he chose. This e-mail is about getting people to donate some small amount so that they're conditioned to support the actual desired outcome of voting for him later.

Optimistic 2% <strong>open</strong> rate on the e-mail to a maximum of 80,000 UCP members (=1,600 opens), with a <strong>click through</strong> rate of just 5% of that 2% (=80 clicks), for a maximum expected ROI of 80*$200=$16,000. There's no realistic way to get $1 per UCP member directly out of an email blast.

Please don’t use telegram. It’s security and privacy is worse than WhatsApp. I’ve no idea how they’ve gotten this far. Their messages aren’t end to and encrypted by default and the method they do use for end to end encryption is their own weird invention.

https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-the-most-backdoor-looking/

It's something I've wondered about as well. I think for the foreseeable future there will be a need for sales execs who handle enterprise and larger deals because of the complexity involved in shepherding large purchases, the need for custom workflows in large organizations, and the desire for large customers to have a dedicated point of contact/advocate within their vendors.

But with the rise of things like product lead growth and cloud marketplaces I could see a decline in the number of SMB and mid-market roles. Why pay a sales person when users can discover, test, and buy the product on their own? That's essentially the model Atlassian has taken: https://www.intercom.com/blog/podcasts/scale-how-atlassian-built-a-20-billion-dollar-company-with-no-sales-team/

Third-party lists of email addresses are prohibited under Mailchimp's Terms of Use. We recommend growing your audience using the tips found here: https://mailchimp.com/resources/growing-your-audience/

The barracuda's do content inspection and it looks like they are putting in links to a domain the barracuda doesn't like. IMO I would leave newsletter sending to companies that specialize in it. That way your content is coming from trusted systems who have built up a good rep with all the email providers and spam lists.

Mailchip is free for up to 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month

https://mailchimp.com/pricing/entrepreneur/

C'est l'Union Européenne qui a voté l'entrée en vigeur de la General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Ça touche chaque site qui servent des clients en Europe donc pratiquement tout les sites populaire dans le monde.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A8glement_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral_sur_la_protection_des_donn%C3%A9es

Si tu veux un truc plus concret pour comprendre, j'ai ça en anglais: https://postmarkapp.com/blog/gdpr-get-ready

You can now request a dedicated IP with Amazon SES if you wanted to go that route - SES offers 62,000 free emails and then $0.10 per 1000 more. I run EmailOctopus which integrates with SES and offers front-end/API/etc.

Alternatively, one of our competitors is Ongage who offer a front-end to any SMTP (including Gmail). They're not particularly cheap, but are very well established and respected. https://www.ongage.com/

I have a feeling there may also be Wordpress plugins which do what you're asking - although not particularly clued up on that.

Hey r/BehindTheClosetDoor!

Really excited to talk with you all about Closet Tools and Poshmark growth tactics.

I just sent out an email to email subscribers, so we'll have some more people joining us.

I expect to get lots of criticism about automation and how it is against Poshmark’s community guidelines, but I hope there will be some valuable questions that are asked and answered!

Here’s some questions you might want to ask (or at least something to get your mind thinking):

• What’s the best way to grow my Poshmark Closet?
• How can I use the Closet Assistant to make more sales?
• Will you be making X feature?
• What’s the long-term vision of Closet Tools?
• What is your name, birthday, SSN, and credit card number?

(Kidding about the last one 😂)

So, if you’ve got any burning questions or just want to stop by and check out what other people are asking, feel free to do so!

Great! Thanks for sharing. I've been using Hotjar for a while. Thanks to their video recording I found out our Optimizely caused some sort of bug that broke our main lead form for Internet Explorer users. Could have been a while before we figured that one out via Analytics. Damn.

Also interesting are these from Intercom: https://www.intercom.com/books

The official Mailchimp app for Shopify will stop working. But there are other apps that can sync your Shopify data with Mailchimp and vice versa. ShopSync is a free app that a lot of people seem to be flocking to. I'm personally waiting a little while to switch to ShopSync since it looks like they are maybe having some growing pains with the large influx of new users (see the reviews on the app store page). ShopSync and some other apps are mentioned here along with Mailchimp's take on this whole mess.

You can add the inactive contacts to a Group before unsubscribing them. You'll be able to view the group of contacts later on and resubscribe people if you want to re-engage with them. As long as the contacts were unsubscribed by the account owner/admin, you should be able to resubscribe them. https://mailchimp.com/help/resubscribe-a-contact/

Where's your job at?

Atlanta tends to be more car-centric than your average major city, e.g. NYC, SFO, DC, Chicago... you can certainly find ways to get by without a car if you want to, but if you'd prefer to have one, you're in the majority.

If you work in or north of Buckhead up 400, Buckhead is a reasonable choice. Buckhead has a particular vibe to it that not everybody enjoys - including myself. I find it a bit pretentious and snooty, so if you're into the more divey or hipstery types of stuff, you might have better options.

Describing the whole of Atlanta is kind of difficult, but MailChimp has a good overview here: https://mailchimp.com/about/jobs/atlanta/neighborhoods/

I would honestly say MailChimp, they've announced recently that this will be free: https://mailchimp.com/features/marketing-automation/ which means that you are able to set up a lot of automated campaigns, which makes life a lot easier.

MailChimp has a guide to the city. https://mailchimp.com/about/atlanta/

As far as nerdy gaming places go, I'm only familiar with Battle & Brew, Oxford Comics & Games, and Joystick Gamebar.

I live in Lawrenceville, so I do most of my game shopping at Titan Comics & Games, Wasteland Gaming, and Galactic Quest. I've also heard good things about Meeple Madness, but that's even further north.

We'll give away 3 months free of EmailOctopus, to anyone, up until Friday at midnight. That'll allow you to send to up to 250,000 contacts. Usual value of up to $327.

https://emailoctopus.com/pricing?coupon=entrepreneur

Have you thought about slimming your list down? Find people who haven't opened an email in the last 6 months or something like that and just remove them from your list. It sounds like a horrible idea to remove people from your list but if they haven't been opening emails anyway, what's the point in having them.

To answer your question, though, look for companies that use Amazon SES. Something like Sendy or EmailOctopus (note, I've never used these and am not endorsing them ... these are just 2 I've seen mentioned).

I think cold emailing to your niche is going to be your strongest avenue, especially as a part timer. Keep your website/web presence up to date with your latest work, and with each project try to stretch yourself a bit so you can expand into other verticals.

Other quick wins:

• I also always recommend raising your prices, makes you look more legit. You need examples though.
• Your close rate on cold emails is really low. You should send around 5-7 emails before giving up on a cold lead, and hopefully you can get closer to 1-5% (10-50 clients from 1000 contacts) depending on who you are going after, price point and relevancy to what they need. Template ideas: http://www.yesware.com/blog/cold-email/

Reading their blog, it sounds like this is exactly what I'm talking about. An embedded pixel or link that any self-respecting email server/client either deleted the email, or moves it to junk with no images allowed to load.

http://www.yesware.com/blog/2012/07/18/how-does-yesware-tracking-work/

If you read this, they basically outline just how many gaps there is in this method anyway. You can't tell who read it if there is multiple recipients. You can't tell who put it in SPAM, or never allowed images to load, or DID allow the tracking code to load but then promptly deleted it. Again, a read-receipt is asking enough.

Really, this is just false marketing anyway. In my personal opinion, it leads to false leads, bumbling about "hot" emails that could have a million reasons for being "hot", and ultimately can lead to your domain name being blacklisted, which negates ALL progress you've made. Try getting off SORBS when you've been shown to be an unsolicited spammer.

Now, that being said, it's also truly false marketing because if you're big enough to need this, then you should have your own domain name, email server/host and web server/host. On the web server, you serve up the content and use SQL or some "Commercial Off The Shelf" tracking software to parse logs, etc and do your reporting.

This is like paying Yellow Pages for their cookie cutter websites and re-sold Google advertising credits.

If you do this:

1. Use An Anonymous Gmail Account
2. Sign up for yesware (free) (a gmail plugin) and you will be able to track exactly who opens it.

(Full disclosure - I signed up, and liked it so much I bought the paid version)

You are welcome to add this info to OP

I don't think there is a built-in way to send emails and manage unsubscriptions in Excel.

Having an unsubscribe link is complicated. I think you would be better served by dedicated software like customer.io or sendblaster. I haven't used either of these, but something like that would be better than trying something in Excel.

Awww. Trust me you are not alone. Spent almost 4 years in the industry now and still at times I Google what's product marketing.

It may not be a new role but people around may get carried away and not understand what PMMs bring to the table.

You can ensure your best when you split responsibilities between demand-gen, marketing ops, content marketing and other related teams.

I'm gonna link a video below that may help you in letting the scope of your work sink in your personality.

Link to the video

Also suggest you to keep skimming the blogs on Drift's blog. Their Marketing Manifesto would be a good place to start.

Drift Manifesto

Guys at drift have a good collection of articles on different aspects of Product Marketing.

The more you understand your role the better you will be in a position to draw clear boundaries with your management, else like in my case you may endup finding yourself crushed under the weight of unrealistic and unreasonable expectations.

Hope this helps.

Cheers..❤

There's a lot of jobs in IT that often don't require a specific degree (or even a degree), and only need an understanding of coding, databases etc., in order to communicate with developers more effectively. If you can actually code a little, even better.

Here'a short overview and here's a longer list. Research the heck out of them and if you see something that sounds interesting, research some more.

In the meanwhile keep honing your JS & database skills with the many free courses/tutorials on YouTube. You never know just who or what might exactly click for you.

Again, it's not about becoming a programmer, it's about developing a general understanding for the field, which will give you an edge, when you apply for the above mentioned jobs.

A lot of them just need a good understanding of UI/UX and an ability to make small frontend corrections, and they are home office positions, great for introverts.

I keep getting a "not found" error page. I was able to fix it by modifying the subscribe button link to "https://buttondown.email/mikebuntart". The button on your subscribe page goes to "https://buttondown.email/mikebuntart.". Notice the period at the end.

I like what you have going on though. I love comics and science fiction. I'm so glad I came across this yesterday and I look forward to reading more of Stratum.

> Using their own proprietary encryption protocol (for no reason whatsoever, btw) is not secure.

The reason is obvious, Telegram was launched because of Snowden's revelations, the other protocols could had backdoors. OK it's very risky to roll your own protocol but in this particular case Telegram has been successful.

> Look at stuff like this, it doesn't really inspire much confidence.

Interesting, thanks, so your guess is that Telegram induces a false sense of security to spy on even secret chats on behalf of governments or something else.

You don't need to spend money on giveaways! You can do it pretty much for free! You can do "RT this for a chance to WIN #giveaway" and then randomly select someone who RT'd and send them a copy via email. I do monthly giveaways (sometimes of my stuff, sometimes of recent releases in the genre by friends or people I'm doing a newsletter swap with) on my newsletter, just select someone at random that was subscribed (free newsletter software: https://buttondown.email). When I'm giving away other people's books in physical Rafflecopter will let you run free giveaways with multiple ways to enter for free (you can pay for more bells and whistles but they aren't necessary).

I'm not the best blurb writer out there, but I think you are writing space fantasy? I'd go maybe with something closer to this:

"Mark is pretty content in his life. He has a great job [doing x / his childhood dream ], a [girlfriend / a great group of friends / people he cares about], and maybe a chance at [ greater aspiration ]. But he's always wondered if there was something more.

He was not expecting that something more to be an undercover mission to take out the leader of a galactic empire, one he is supposedly descended from and who he had no clue existed until he was conscripted into this task. Now he must [ leave behind X / sacrifice Y ] or risk [ thing he holds dear ]. It does not help that the fate of the universe also rests in his hands. Will he be able to pull off a mission that requires [ skills ], or will everything he holds dear [cliche / metaphor a la: crumble to dust / turn to ash / cease to exist]?

True. There are a lot of devs who can't discern good from bad design. And that's totally normal. The fact that you can do it is a definite bonus.

But be wary of the dribblization of design - yes it's a thing.

Product design is about making thigs work better, not just look nicer.

And sometimes, an "uglier" design will perform better than a "pretty" one because it's more functional. The majority of design on Dribbble is not functional. It's fantasy projects that haven't seen the light of day, and could never be executed as designed with the constrains of real life technology/content/product imaging etc.

I just read this a week ago and it might help you:
There are three stories you should know cold:

• why your company exists
• why you work there
• what you’ve learned from customers your company has helped.

I find the "Contact Us" options a bit inconvenient and it might slow down your business. You need a clearer call to action, and giant text at the top of the page isn't the best place. Ideally all three contact methods should be easily found in a few places. I highly recommend installing Intercom to talk to customers and relying on that instead.

It'll also likely need SSL certification if users are communicating with the site owner. This is a good choice for SSL and web application-level security.

Also, what about providing useful content, such as links to companies that do delivery so users can view their menus? I know it would be extensive, but useful, and might be a good way to establish partnerships in the future.

You didn't set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC; they are a requirement for most mail servers today. Without them your messages will fail SPF tests and be flagged as spam, and many recipients may never even see them.

Mailchimp or any other email host isn't going to set these things up for you, it's up to you as the domain owner.

Set Up Email Domain Authentication

Mailchimp is free for under 2000 contacts (with limited functionality) and very user-friendly. Hopefully, if you can show that a mailing service is a good investment, they will provide you with the tools to help you be successful.

https://mailchimp.com/pricing/marketing/

I use MailerLite rather than Mailchimp but there should be an option to create a sign-up form on Mailchimp that you then embed in your website. People can then fill in their details using this form, which adds them to your mailing list. If Mailchimp is anything like MailerLite (and other similar tools) you will then have an option to automatically send out a confirmation/greetings email.

I'd do this on a dedicated page on your website, rather than the contact page (which I would guess is for general enquiries). I'd also be wary of asking people for anything more than an email address; you want to make it as quick and easy as possible for them to sign up.

I'd take a look at this article: https://mailchimp.com/help/add-a-signup-form-to-your-website/ .

Hope that helps!

If you've got 2,000 or fewer people, the best option would be Mailchimp. You can sign up for their free account, upload the names/emails/companies, and use the field merge tags in an email to dynamically pull in that information. https://mailchimp.com/help/getting-started-with-mailchimp/

1) You probably don't want to set up your own mail server - it's a lot of hassle you could save yourself. I'm assuming your client already has some kind of email system set up? Like for internal use, info@ addresses and similar things? In that case you won't need to setup a mail server. You just have to connect to it. How you do that depends on your stack.

2) You can do HTML mail, but it's an absolute pain the behind. E-Mail HTML is not like normal HTML. Depending on the client used the rules can be wildly different and you somehow have to put together something that works on all of them. In either case you should always provide both a text and a HTML version (via multipart). Tools like Litmus can help you a lot with that.

3) Spam-filters are becoming increasingly complex - they use hundreds or thousands of factors to decide whether or not something is SPAM. Those will include things like outgoing links, phrasing, frequency of emails and many many more. Domain is just one of them (if an important one).

4) Why aren't you using one of the existing tools for this? There are plenty of services like MailChimp out there that will make your life a lot easier than trying to implement emails yourself. Working with email is to be feared and should be left to wizards with long beards.

~~eh? You lost me.~~

Wait. I see it now.

<!-- This is a parody website. Not actually produced by SpaceX. Contact for any questions. -->

All the rest of the HTML looks legit enough and is literally impersonating Starlink, from the branding, SpaceX copyright notice, down to the embedded Property Meta-tags with Starlink HQ's legit address listed, 18390 NE 68th Street.

"Parody"—I do not think it means what they think it means. ;)

Maybe tossed it in there in a lame attempt to try to shield from SpaceX/Starlink taking over the domain via ICANN/WIPO Domain Squatter dispute resolution processes? Pretty dumb, if so.

Maybe they're just harvesting e-mail addresses? Something tells me SpaceX/Starlink doesn't use Mailchimp. ;)

Mailchimp... Free for up to 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month. Easy to implement with embedded code, and you can make very nice newsletters with their template system.

hm, if you want to take a look at a mailing list MailChimp has a free plan (up to 2k subs, 12k mails/month) and is probably the easiest to set up. If you need assistance with that, let me know.

You can really only ballpark. Best way to get a ballpark is to start soliciting signups for a mailing list; i.e., get customer emails with a landing page and offer. From there, apply the conversion rate for your category of business. Mailchimp puts the conversion rate for e-commerce mailing lists at about 3%.

I am in e-commerce as well. So, for example, I pay about 38 cents per signup. My conversion rate is around 3%. Therefore, my advertising cost per sale is roughly $13.

As an email gateway admin, I can tell you that if you set up your own smtp server now and begin sending out email you'll most likely get blocked or blacklisted due to the age of your dns, reputation, and the content may appear UCE.

Your best bet is to use a service like mailchimp (https://mailchimp.com/m/pricing/pay-as-you-go/) or ConstantContact that will handle the unsubscribes, bounces, and abuse reports. These services send out a lot of email but because they do a good job with keeping their lists clean and handle abuse and unsubs quickly - they are trusted and allowed to deliver to my domains.

You know what, I just did some research and discovered:

this

So I assume I can use a mix of exchange online, and that.

Big fan of postmarkapp.com. They vet all [new] clients to ensure a low spam reputation and thus their sending IPs are trustworthy. We have very little "went to spam" issues and we send about 90K emails a month.

SPF TXT record is supposed to include the email servers that are assigned as your domains SMTP/MX hosts and used by users to relay email, ie: mail.foobar.bar. In your case you would need to know what SMTP host you use, ie. Spectrums and add it to SPF.

Also, Google/Microsoft/etc are also quite picky, I would suggest also implementing DMARC.

https://postmarkapp.com/guides/spf

I use postmarkapp.com for this. Sending emails from azure servers (and I assume aws etc..) hits the spam filter more often than not. There's integration for receiving webhooks when a user responds to the email too.

https://wildbit.com/privacy-policy

https://postmarkapp.com/support/article/1088-dmarc-reporting-tool-faq

> We provide DMARC reports as a free service. As such, there are certain limitations to the service at the moment to help us keep everything running smoothly:
> >We will only fully process DMARC reports with less than 100,000 records (DMARC report records are XML nodes that contain aggregated information for a specific IP address). Any report exceeding this limit will be truncated to the first 100,000 items. > >We will store raw reports for up to 9 months. The maximum size of an unarchived DMARC report that we will store is 3MB. For larger reports we will first extract the metadata and make it available to you, and then the reports will be discarded.
> >We will store the reports metadata in a form retrievable via the API for up to 9 weeks.

Thankfully, no! If a US company has gotten EU-US Privacy Shield certified, then data can be transferred to their services without additional consent because they have promised that their privacy protection is as strong as if they were in the EU and that they will be subject to fines by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (or in some rare cases, DOT) if they do not.

https://postmarkapp.com/eu-privacy#privacy-shield

https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant_search (search for Wildbit to confirm for Postmark as that's the name of the company that runs Postmark)

Source: Did GDPR compliance for my organization and just read details on Postmarkapp.com to find specifics for them.

There has never been any need to get someone to do DMARC for you. The only "paid" bit is the interpretation of the results. DMARC is just a DNS entry which then sends emails to a destination of your choice. Postmark have a good guide here: https://postmarkapp.com/guides/dmarc

For smaller sites, I just have the results go to Postmark and get their reports weekly by email: https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/

However if you want to create your own, then the guide outlines the structure and a couple of the report providers have a free tier.

One trick I have done is setup a group on the client () which is the email address put in to dmarc DNS record. Then I have a public folder/shared mailbox as a member. If I am evaluating services, I just create a contact and add them to the group. They will get the same emails that I do with the reports, but I don't have to keep changing the DNS record to accommodate them. Doesn't work for the Postmark service as they check DNS as well, so I do that one first, once it running, change the DNS entry and add their email address to the group.

Good to know. I'd suggest using https://postmarkapp.com if yours are transactional emails (like application emails). They are probably among the best in terms of deliverability. They have a policy that prohibit to use their service for marketing emails and so they have a good reputation among email providers (less spam complaints = better deliverability).

I don't see the endgame either, unless they are malicious Mailchimp competitors, trying to screw with Mailchimp. (I have no reason to think that beyond pure speculation, I should add). This Mailchimp info suggests it's a well-known problem though (one which we're both just finding out about the hard way): https://mailchimp.com/help/about-fake-signups/

Ha I just wrote about this, as a positive. Being able to get started with SwiftUI was a huge win over learning AppKit. I don't mind filling in the gaps as the app evolves.

https://buttondown.email/ryancarver/archive/a-mac-app/

I use Mailgun myself, but https://emailoctopus.com might be worth a look. Like Sendy they also use Amazon SES, so should be pretty cheap. And then you wouldn't have to deal with hosting it yourself, unlike Sendy. They say they have a developer API so maybe you can get metrics from that. Both Sendy and Email Octopus have list segmentation which should do the job for hiding sponsors; not sure if either of them support conditional content within an email.

We might be an option for you.

You could create the one account and within that account have multiple lists (there's no limit on the number of lists).

So in your case, each of the five different companies would have their own list in your account. You'd pay for the total number of contacts across all five of those lists.

Within each list you can create custom fields to assign data to contacts, which enables you to segment each company's list. And you can set up time-based automated email sequences for each list, for example, a welcome sequence.

You can find out more about us here: https://emailoctopus.com/

Or reach out to us here on Reddit if you have any questions. :-)

We might be a good option for you.

With EmailOctopus you can turn off open and click tracking. And we offer a free plan for up to 2,500 subscribers.

You can find out more at emailoctopus.com though if you have any questions, happy to help out here too.

Better to use an external service such as amazon SES to avoid getting your webserver ip blacklisted. MailChimp can get ridiculous expensive once your email subscribers grow beyond the free plan. I tried a few self hosted plugins and mail systems but they are all slow, buggy and compete for cpu power when running. I find emailoctopus (with amazon SES) the best for quick drag and drop newsletter saas without the hassle of optimizing your own mailing system. It's also more economical in the long run. Their support is pretty fast too and responds in a couple hours.

Disclaimer: I have been using emailoctopus for around a year. For those who are planning to try, you can use my referral link and we both get $15 credit: https://emailoctopus.com/?urli=P456f

Sending via Amazon SES is a good way to save money (I actually co-founded a platform which does that).

What's the name of the service you saw on Facebook? $5 sounds like a good deal!

This looks cool. I run a platform that connects to Amazon SES (EmailOctopus) and would be super interested to hear how they stack up against the other ESPs. Do you have any data on deliverability rates across all of your providers? Would make a great blog post :)

I run EmailOctopus, which is a platform similar to Mailchimp. Although a lot cheaper.

Your open rate looks great - in excess of much. But you're right, click through is pretty poor. I'd definitely suggest moving your CTA up. I'd also suggest making the CTA stronger, as others have said.

If you're interested, I'd happily create an alternate HTML design based on my knowledge of what works (free) which you could run as an A/B test within Mailchimp. Just PM me.

The first method I mention below (pre Seth Godin) has been successful for me:

• Find out who is most likely to make a decision about this partnership
• Find their email with voilanorbert or hunter.io

• Email them with using one of these methods: http://www.yesware.com/blog/cold-email/

• If this doesn't work you can use Seth Godins approach:

• Find the 3 most likely people to do something about your partnership

• Hand write 3 letters to (one to each person), referencing in the letter that the a copy has been sent to the other 2 people (highlight the other 2 names)

• Put the letters in separate envelopes with only their names on the front

• Call the corporate office, and find out the name of the person in the mailroom

• Put the letters in a manila envelope, and send it addressed to the person in the mailroom with a note to distribute the contents

• The 3 people you reach out to will be guaranteed to get the letters and will see the names of the other two people you sent it to

• These 3 people will contact each other to see who's going to handle your request

• You should hear back from the person assigned to handle the task

I had read this very long case study on how a copywriter was able to do it. I wish I could find the article but I never bookmarked it.

However, there has been tons written on the subject. Here's a thread from Quora that can help

And another article. It's very dense

There's alot to be said about this topic but in a nutshell what works for me; personalize it, be informal and casual, be concise, and speak like an actual human being.

Hope that helps

There's a great article on this from Yesware here here!

ps - I'm a sales and email geek. Founder of sellhack Holler back with specific questions. There are a lot of different methods to use for finding contact info.

YesWare does a lot of things. But the feature I'm finding most useful (and it's included in the free version) allows you to select from a number of scripted responses, so you don't have to keep typing the same e-mails over and over. Just select a response. Gmail has a feature that does this but it doesn't work as good.

http://www.yesware.com/product-tour/custom-templates

Here's ours:

Hi {{first_name}}

Congratulations on your recent round of funding from {{venture capital group}}! That’s no small feat. With this new funding, what projects are you looking to take on now? The world is your oyster!

We recently ran across a 50,000 person and 20 country survey called the Globality Study (insert link) which tracked millennial mentalities and it validated our hunch that the next generation of top coders don’t want to be locked in to corporate culture. Instead, they want to work on projects they are passionate about and value the freedom to work whenever and wherever they like. With my company, 10x Management, we are helping drive innovation by aligning the incentives of top performers and companies, making it easier than ever to drive innovation and build great technology. If you’re interested in learning more, check out The New Yorker’s article (insert link) featuring 10x.

If there is any way we can help you with your company’s critical projects and technical needs, I am happy to connect 1 on 1 and advise you on the ways we or our folks in our network can help you thrive.

We look forward to hearing from you.

To greater success,

ALWAYS PROVIDE VALUE. NOBODY CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING, unless you provide significant value and address their primary concerns.

Also, read 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'

EDIT: check Yesware's article here: http://www.yesware.com/blog/2014/03/14/emails-that-get-replies/

Sign up for yesware (free) (a gmail plugin) and you will be able to track exactly who opens it.

(Full disclosure - I signed up, and liked it so much I bought the paid version)

some of my fave tools on here! scribe for documentation, hotjar for user analytics, intercom for support, clearbit to enrich leads. we use customer.io for email marketing, it's okay

I was recommended to check out Segment + Amplitude, so I spent an hour or so today setting them up. So far, I'm impressed. I used the expo-analytics-segment package and routed everything through Segment. Segment has an iOS source and an Android source, and I added Amplitude as the destination for both (I'm still deciding whether I want to have both platforms route to the same project in Amplitude or different ones). I'm using React Navigation 5, so it's easy to hook into the state change event to track screen views. So far, I haven't set up any additional event tracking (other than screen views), but I've been pleased with how easy everything was to set up as well as how in depth Amplitude's analytics are. The web app is easy to use and understand.

I want to start adding custom events and flow/funnel related stuff (like user sign up, logout, etc), and I imagine it will be easy to do as well. Not sure if this helps, but I thought I'd at least offer my initial impressions from my experience today.

EDIT: I wanted to clarify the roles of Segment and Amplitude, respectively. Amplitude is the main analytics tracking tool. Segment captures all activity and routes it to whatever services you have set up. I plan to have Segment send screen views + custom events to Amplitude, while setting up an additional funnel for a marketing tool like customer.io. Not sure exactly how that will work, but that's my plan.

We've definitely heard plenty of "war stories" about the UI on the more enterprise focused marketing clouds like Marketo and Responsys. We just (like literally last week) launched a UI refresh that's pretty slick. Our old UI was already great, but the redesign is paving the way for a lot of major improvements we've been planning (visual workflow builder as an example).

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We don't measure web property engagement (yet) in Customer.io, instead we're focusing on being the best solution for any kind of customer communication. I think most "enterprise" players in this space do themselves a disservice by trying to do too much. It's a slippery slope leading to super complex products that are overloaded with features (and prices!) you never needed in the first place.

Check out Customer.io

Disclaimer: I work there

MarTech is a huge space though so there’s plenty of options depending on your needs. Some other notable names are Iterable, Braze, and Drip.

Are you looking for something email specific or Omnichannel (email, SMS, push, etc.)?

Does "compounds internally" mean IRR or CAGR or either?

https://www.drift.com/blog/what-is-hypergrowth/

The above link describes 20% as "rapid growth", and 40% and above as "hyper-growth". Would we characterize either stripe or Starlink as merely rapid? Not to say that the above link is definitive anything.

Nothing. Signal is considerably more secure.

Telegram does not e2e encrypt chats by default, while Signal does (at the expense of cloud backups).

Plus, Telegram rolled their own crypto, which is a big no-no. Mistakes like this happened: https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cryptography-dispatches-the-most-backdoor-looking/

This will tell you basically everything you need to know: https://buttondown.email/rhcpsessions/archive/c2a6ef77-37e6-4fc1-9e04-865f48241fb9

It wasn’t just a bad mix of styles, it was much much more than that.

I recently wrote a post about this in my newsletter here (it talks about what a self learner would have to do in order to reach parity with a undergrad student who took DS+Algos at a university).

What is your goal with DS and Algos? Is it just to learn them to be a better programmer? Is it to prepare for job interviews? I think the best way to learn DS & Algos. is to first learn the theory of them i.e. learn how they operate and how to use them. That's step one and step two is actually using them using them with code. Programming is one of those things where if you don't actually use it then it won't make sense intuitively.If I have some guidance on why you want to learn these I can provide some more details as what you might want to do.

Yeah some but not all, I just keep an excel file for now and will reformat/print them once the goal is reached. I've written a few down but haven't sat down to go over all of them.

Mailchimp actually introduced this postcard function recently. Would be wonderful to make some kind of post card and send it out. Alan Jacobs wrote about this old tradition a few weeks ago. But that might put pressure on singlestateserenity to produce stuff (which I wouldn't want to do), plus I don't know how people feel about that stuff in general. I like things like that though.

While this does not answer your question directly you might want to look into the "Intercom on X" ebook series which is 100% free.

Given that you're looking for knowledge around SaaS marketing you'll find "Intercom on Marketing" useful (https://www.intercom.com/resources/books/intercom-marketing).

It's been around for a few years now but basically the entire industry has caught on, at least in B2B SaaS.

Intercom used to actually champion this style but recently switched to a new style (minimalistic with on-page animations), likely to help differentiate themselves from the saturation of this style in the software market.

Don't be surprised if you notice more major SaaS websites moving away from this and exploring new illustration styles in 2020.