Referral programs don’t seem to suffer the same overcrowding effects as most other messaging. Giving a user multiple opportunities (within reason) to like, share, review, or refer others can only ever increase engagement. Of course, user engagement can drop-off over time, but this effect holds out longer than…
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Getting the Most Out of Your Preheader Real Estate
What Exactly Is a Preheader? When your email client displays the contents of your inbox, it gives you a couple of pieces of information. Most obviously there’s the sender and subject – these are handled pretty much the same universally. Then there’s some information on when the email…
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Our Favorite Tools for Powering Happiness and Transparency
Last week, there was a thread on GrowthHackers about the ways in which different growth teams use Slack. I answered in the comments but thought it might be useful to run through a couple of points in more depth. Plus it’s a great opportunity to talk about two…
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Building the Mall of the Future
“Sendwithus really improves collaboration between our design and editorial teams. Setting up and editing templates is simple and intuitive – even for non-technical users – and snippets are perfect for creating reusable bits of code. Sendwithus has been a great tool for our team and we look forward…
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SparkPost + Sendwithus
Today we’re excited to announce our newest ESP integration: SparkPost, the slightly less enterprise-y version of Message Systems’ Momentum platform. When I say slightly less, you should know that the Momentum platform powers email for companies like Twitter and Facebook, so some of the highest volume transactional senders…
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Measuring NPS with WuFoo and Free Survey Templates
Here’s a Net Promoter Score (NPS) program that you can launch today to grow your product or service. It’s easy to implement on a limited budget, and it’s a great place to start when you don’t have a lot of resources to invest.
Seed Funding
Today we’re excited to announce we’ve closed a $2.3 million seed funding round lead by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures. Others investing include Initialized Capital, SV Angel, Maiden Lane, Acequia Capital, and some amazing angel investors. You can check out the full list on Angel List. The goal…
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Task Monitoring Using Redis
We’ve started using Redis a lot and it’s been great. We’ve already used it to improve performance in our analytics pipeline, and to power our usage-based billing system. Most recently we’ve written a leaner, faster version of our background task monitoring system based on Redis. Here’s how we did it…
Sendwithus is Upgrading to Jinja
**UPDATED: See our latest Jinja v. Django Benchmarks, here** TL;DR – We’re switching to Jinja Templating. This won’t affect your existing templates and promises great new features to come. =] Since the beginning, Sendwithus has used the Django Templating Language to power your email templates. This decision came with…
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