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Why GDPR is a good thing (or how to stop fearing your data) Yes, we’re going to use a dirty word in this post. And we’ll use it repeatedly. GDPR. But it doesn’t need to be a dirty word. We’ve been working under GDPR for a year now. People hated it at first because they […]
The 4 Best Proven Email Copywriting Formulas for E-commerce. If you want success for your email marketing, you need to use proven email copywriting formulas. Why email? Well, despite continual death knells, email marketing still generates £29bn in sales every year. You’ve already embraced the power of segmentation. Only the right people get the right emails […]
Integration and Segmentation: Your Awesome Email Marketing BFFs Henry Ford first put the moving assembly line into operation in 1913. This manufacturing innovation slashed production time to less than three hours. It depended on individual workers doing a single task. The parts moved along the line, assembled in isolation until they finished the car. Too […]
Top 10 best email newsletter listing Marketers use Websand to send email marketing, and that means we are responsible for the sending of a lot of email marketing. For a lot of people, email marketing means sending a newsletter. So we thought it time to put together our list of the top 10 best email newsletters […]
Setting Up A Drip Email Marketing Sequence We’re big fans of automation here at Websand. We love the kind of email marketing where customers only receive emails when they need to. They trigger the emails by interacting – or not interacting – with your website. We realise that sometimes that isn’t enough. Or it may […]
Use Email to Deliver A Curated Newsletter The word ‘newsletter’ can conjure a range of images for email. Some businesses use them to update customers on their latest news. Community groups send them to let subscribers know what’s happening in the area. Companies send internal newsletters to help employees stay in touch with the business. […]
Let’s make your email marketing strategy work for you. Way back in May 2018, inboxes all over the EU groaned beneath the weight of the endless ‘do you still want to hear from us?’ emails. Not the finest hour for email marketing. The effects of GDPR inspired countless memes, lampooning the efforts of subscriber-hungry businesses. […]
The Websand Guide to Setting Email Marketing Goals Let me ask you a question. Do you know how effective your email marketing is? How would you answer that question? Sure, you can check your metrics. As of April 2018, the average open rate across all industries was 18.09%. Is yours higher or lower? But what […]
Subscribers: Activate! aka Getting Subscribers Onboard Introduction You’ve set up your email marketing software, Websand of course. It’s connected to your website, using our API, Zapier or our WordPress Widget. And you’ve got those carefully crafted welcome emails are landing with a digital thud into inboxes. That’s only the start of your journey in email […]