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Free / open source email copytexts for Startups? [closed]
Writing good copy is critical to the success of any online business; customers judge operations by subtle hints of wording, phrases, and design.
Places like eg. copyhackers provide an awesome ...
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Operational email policy
We've recently launched a platform and we start aquiring emails from users, partly from facebook and partly on their own merit.
We want to start sending operational emails to our users, for example: ...
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App pre-sell strategy [closed]
I am developing a niche social networking app for the iPhone.
I have an eMail list of about 45000 (Facebook users) and I plan on building a slightly more targeted list of about 2000 users. I will ...
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Advertising based on user's email address
I have a website where in some instances I will know the user's email address. Is there an advertising network, where I would submit an email address to retrieve relevant ads and could then display ...
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Web-based professional alternative to Exchange? [closed]
I am looking for a web-based professional solution to replace an Exchange server. Although I'm basically quite confident with Exchange, it's not our core competence - hence we are using a hosted one, ...
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Is it ever okay to send marketing emails to a list of emails that didn't request them?
Is it ever okay to send emails regarding your start up to a scraped or purchased list?
Is this okay in any scenario? For example, if my start up sold software for managing mobile-hairdressing ...
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Direct Email Marketing?
I've validated a solution, have a few committed customers, and want to move forward with development and subsequent marketing of my app. In validating the solution, I simply went onto the yellow ...
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Best practices for finding customers via email
We want to create a start-up, it offers computational services to biotechs for drug discovery. We want to find customers out of our country. Besides options such as traveling, or attending forums, ...
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How bad is not to have e-mail campaigns?
I'm working to "relaunch" my diagramming/modeling software product in november and wondering about having or not a user-approved e-mail campaign (with whatever these types of campaigns should have for ...
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Best Email Services for a Maturing Startup
I run a small but very successful startup, that has been around for 13 months now. We are a 10 person team, but are rely on an aging Exchange 2003 server for our email, calendar, and contact support.
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How valuable is a targeted listed of 40,000 emails?
I'm about to release a software as a service targeted at university students. Through the university I currently attend, I was able to export the global email address list (this information is ...
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What job position to put into email signature?
We are a new company of 3 people with equal share. What should we put into email signature?
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Who should I contact if I want to sell my website to big company?
I am a founder. I'm planning to write a letter/email to sell one of my website to big company, but the question is: Who should I contact?
The CEO of company, the product manager or just anyone that ...
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Managing automatic emails [closed]
I have a marketplace website. There are several types of emails that I am having the coders develop to be sent to users. For example, when a seller's item is sold they are alerted, when they have ...
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Email format: which is more professional
I own a domain which is my first and last name dot com and I was wondering if it is better to have [my first name]@[my domain] or me@[my domain]?
Which is more professional? Does having [my first ...
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What email address convention does your SaaS startup use?
We run a small SaaS startup and we're using GMail for Business. Each member of staff currently has a personal email address using their first name. For example john@example.com, steve@example.com...
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Sending emails on behalf of customers in a whitelabelable app
We built a multi-tenant or whilabelable app so that each of our customers use it to communicate with their users and those users never know we exist. This is quite similar to Zendesk, Basecamp, etc.
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Are there any 'rules of thumb' regarding email response rates?
I am running a startup and I reached out to an industry publication that I read while I was working for my last employer (for advertising our product with them). I am interested in their email blast ...
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B2B email marketing spam laws
When sending commercial emails to people you do not know, is there any difference between targeting b2b or b2c. For example, assume I send an email to a contact info of another company (for example, ...
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Newsletter systems used by startups
Is there an existing system that startups or websites uses to send their newsletters out to users that are signed up to their site? I don't really want to go build a subsystem just for that so I'm ...
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India/Asia based hosted exchange email provider
I run a small startup in India and we're using Outlook 2010 for email. We're currently using a US-based top-tier hosted-exchange (exchange 2010) provider but wish to switch to one that has India/Asia ...
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Placing Ads in highly targeted email
I run a mail service for a particular community of users. This email system goes far beyond an occasional email to a basic mailing list - it is the fabric that holds the community together. I would ...
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Elevator pitch by email
I am developing a web application.
As part of my marketing attempts, I am trying to send messages to different companies that might have interest in my product.
Unfortunately I only have an email ...
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Best way to email 100k customers
We offer a free and paid version of our product. We have about 100k users who have used one or the other. We'd like to start sending a monthly email newsletter to them (that they can opt out of). ...
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recommend free email client for synching desktop/laptop/blackberry
looking for recommendations for email eco-system allowing small-business to:
let users log into email from desktop, viewing multiple email domains, and reply to each where the outgoing email matches ...
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Emailing prospects: plain text or HTML?
I provide a web-based service for small & local businesses and sending emails is one method of getting new customers.
However, should the first email you send them be an introductory plain text ...
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Placing ads in or otherwise monetizing email messages
I'm working on a voting website that allows people to run elections using ranked-choice voting. Everything is currently free and without advertising, and I'm considering the best ways to monetize it.
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Do any services provide email management to allow a limited number of 'shareable' invites? Or are there alternatives to that system out there?
Here is the backstory - we are launching a service in the next few weeks, but wish to invite a limited number of contacts initially. A major part of the plan is to allow these contacts to invite ...
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Iphone-like email management on the web
I have multiple email accounts from different domains that I currently manage in Outlook at home. Lately I had some issues with Outlook breaking and I've decided to move my emails on the web.
I love ...
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Obtaining new clients through email marketing
Right now I'm sitting behind my desk at a top 100 company, and quite frankly I started to hate my corporate job. I feel like it is killing my soul everyday.
I have always dreamed of owning my ...
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Using Google Apps for Business for all my sites?
Currently I have a standard Gmail account. Each site has email forwarders set up and the mail gets forwarded to that Gmail account, and I can reply with different email profiles.
Due to the ...
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Strategy for sending email reminders for a SaaS
I'm building a free-to-use SaaS to help people understand the energy efficiency of their homes and I'm planning to send email reminders to help promote activity in the site e.g. users who registered ...
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Best way to organize emails?
In the past, I have setup several emails for my business. For example, support@example.com, admin@example.com, sales@example.com. From there I would make a gmail account called example@gmail.com. ...
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How to track customer email support metrics with gmail?
We're using Gmail to field customer support requests. I am looking for a way to track key metrics of how we serve customers: average response time, %% of inquiries left unanswered, customer ...
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Is reading someone's address book with his permission and knowledge and sending bulk email an act of spam?
There is this scenario.
I registered dropbox.com (hereafter DB) and were using it. And DB offered me a referral program that I'll get 250mb for every free register from my referrer. So I gave DB my ...
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How to offer BETA Codes?
I have launched a web app a couple of days ago in closed BETA and I have been trying quite hard to contact relevant bloggers (about 12 of them now) to post/tweet about my startup and to offer BETA ...
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E-mail marketing to prospective clients / users?
Don't laugh, but I'm working on a website idea that isn't novel in any particular way. It doesn't do anything new except service a niche industry in my world view of "better". I very well understand ...
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"D or E? mail… (direct mail or email?)
Direct Mail (letter), Direct Mail (postcard), or email?
I'm starting a series of web directories for some specific white collar service professionals (lawyer, accountant, consultant, etc.)
As I'm ...
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Web service with subscription/payment and with automated email
I am considering starting a business based on daily/regular emails that will be fed an automated process getting data from a MySQL database.
I am looking for a service that:
offers a ready-made ...
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Solutions for sending large amount of opted-in mails
We are launching a web application which will send large amount of emails to user's first degree connections (OPTED IN, NOT SPAM). Now this is a sensitive issue and most hosting providers doesn't ...
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Is it safe to auto-junk customers emails with a combination of letters and numbers by default?
We ask for customer feedback about our software on uninstallation via a web form.
In our experience, we only rarely get anything valuable our of this. It is even worse. Particularly, emails from ...
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How To Organize Information For Multiple Personal Businesses
I want to start multiple businesses. For these businesses I would like to have a separate checking account, telephone number, mailing address.
What do you suggest to make this as simple as possible ...
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Should I provide newsletter archive online?
I'm starting a newsletter about Japan and I'm not sure whether it should have an online archive of past issues. If yes, only available to subscribers, or widely publicized all over the net?
I think ...
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can-spam advice, are these messages transactional, relationship or commercial?
I'm running a dating site and as the volume of emails is growing dramatically, I want to be 200% sure that I am can-spam compliant. Here is the types of emails that I send and how I classify them :
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Any company will accept an email/XML, print it, stamp it and mail it for my company? [closed]
I am running a 1 man company and I need to mail a number of letters to my clients (invoices, etc). I would like to avoid doing all the work myself, and focus instead on what I do best. Does anyone ...
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Is there a CRM software that
I'm looking for a low-cost or hopefully free for 1-3 users CRM software that has the following features:
1) Integrates with my email automatically (I'd like for all the email conversations, with a ...
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Are “invite your friends” emails can-spam compliant?
I've added an "invite your friends" feature to my site but reading through can-spam, it seems as if invites should be classified as unsolicited emails.
But invites must be can-spam compliant because ...
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How much should I charge for email marketing services?
It's basically a fashion site where subscribers get updates on sample sales, discounts, clearance sales, latest arrivals etc. The emails are given out on a weekly basis. (At least once a week) So how ...
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What's the best way to discourage junk data submission to my site?
I'm working on a search site. But the data being searched is only the data submitted by the public. I have no need for users, but I want to discourage people/bots from submitting complete junk that ...
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“Invite your Friends” feature - best practices
We're in the process of adding an "invite your friends" feature to our dating site, and I was wondering if anybody has any tips/past experience in the best way to utilize the invites. Here's what I ...
