I recently had a chat with Andrew from Email Love, and shared some thoughts on:
- The email marketing space
- A super effective email tactic
- Everyone’s favourite email client from the early 2000s – Outlook Express
Tell us a little about yourself and how you got to where you are today.
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Do you remember Outlook Express? My first experience sending email (newsletter or marketing) was using Outlook Express. There was no tracking code, no html, just paragraphs of plain text, with a hope that someone would reply and say ‘I liked this’. I used the old trick to send to myself, then BCC to batches of 50 people. I had a list of a few hundred from a hobby website – but I was hooked.
After starting myself on a hobby website, I connected with a friend and grew a thriving agency – where we taught ourselves everything: web design & development, ecommerce, graphic design, digital marketing, seo, and email marketing – but email was my favourite thing to do by far.
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