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Why you need eCommerce Marketing Automation Are you running a small business? The chances are that you feel overwhelmed managing some tasks. According to the Alternative Board, more than 70% of small business owners feel overwhelmed with simple repetitive tasks. This does not come as a surprise. Entrepreneurs often have a lot on their plates, […]
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 […]
Collecting Consent Opening notes on Collecting Consent Collecting consent is a huge challenge as everyone prepares for GDPR. It’s a complex field and different for each business based on product/service they offer, their current practices, how they process data and their existing audience. GDPR is not a small undertaking. It’s incredibly frustrating and disappointing that […]
GDPR is coming soon, only one Christmas to go If anyone ever bothers with an annual PEST analysis outside of school. GDPR compliance is the most PEST of all PEST analysis in recent years. If I was Robocop I’d be telling you (at the time of writing) you’ve got 132 days to comply. In reality, […]
Just how easy is it to migrate your email list? If I asked you why you use your email marketing provider, what would you say? Because you need to start email marketing and you chose the first one you found on Google? Did you inherit it from your predecessor? You didn’t know there were others […]
Getting to grips with Cohort Analysis If you are collecting customer data, cohort analysis is can be a hugely valuable tool to help you understand business performance, especially if you are running a successful fast moving e-commerce subscription business. Our friends at Bearded Colonel, not only know how to provide fantastic shaving kit for the […]
What’s your best ever email campaign? What you consider to be your best email subject line, may not have given you the best results. It might have been something you were really proud of, it was awesome, really really clever, super personalised and emojii-tastic. But did it perform? The subject line is only is part […]
It’s Super Bowl weekend, and it is becoming more and more popular here in the UK. So to celebrate, here are some suggested Business lessons to consider whilst watching the Super Bowl. Gridiron is the ultimate ‘lean start up’ sport. Three attempts to get at least ten yards down the field. If you don’t make […]
Breakfast Seminar. 14th October at Muckle LLC Newcastle from 8am. Click here to register Websand are delighted to invite you to a Breakfast Seminar about the importance of data to your business. How you can utilise the data you collect to grow your business and the legal issues you need to know to future proof […]
Why customer segmentation is important Does your business apply customer value segmentation? You probably do but without realising. Consider the following scene… The phone rings in the bar of a popular restaurant and the proprietor answers: “I’m sorry but I don’t have room for a party of 14 tonight” Two minutes later – he turns […]
I think John Lewis are great. The way they treat their staff is great. Their business model is great. They usually live up to their ‘never knowingly undersold’ tag line. However their loyalty program – launched Oct 2013 always seemed an odd fit. Especially one of the key benefits – free tea and cake for […]
Boyhood is being raved about as the film of the year. It’s got a load of five star reviews, 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and will be a contender at the Oscars. Now that it’s been labelled as a great thing, it has social proof. People will go and see it.
Last Friday we registered for #pitch10, as a result on Tuesday we ended up in the Tsunami of noise that followed as a result of the now infamous email to all entrants that didn’t make it.
I launched this idea as part of a talk at a Lean North East back in October. This also included historic footage of Lisa Simpson creating the Lean Start Up – but that is for another post and is subject to copyright (see the Duffless episode from Season 4).