At Gun.io we're about to replace our legacy home-grown system for these items with Hubspot. So far we are happy with it. It doesn't do _everything_ but it does enough and it's easy enough to use for non-technical staff. We got it up and running with about a month of dedicated work, mostly on deve...
The number one thing to do is to make sure your email template is mobile responsive. If you are using a mail service like Mail Chimp, that work is done for you. But if you are using a CRM that requires you to create the template, you want to ensure it is designed for mobile. Gmail can be especial...
I'd recommend first reading Aaron Ross' - Predictable Revenue before choosing your CRM system. Flexible and complete solutions I'd recommend Nutshell Hubspot CRM + Sidekick Feel free to contact me for a quick chat about it. Thanks David
A lot depends on the service you're offering. But I'd definitely include case studies of previous clients. Don't just offer testimonials but weave a story around your previous clients' experiences. Again, I could help more if I knew what you were offering. Another useful strategy is to offer ...
It sounds like you have their email address, so I recommend using it to target them on Facebook and Twitter through their custom audiences program. You can upload the lists there and specifically reach these users ( and lookalikes). Twitter even has an ad format that send a targeted email subsc...
The easiest pitch would be to have a base retainer (say 1000$ a month) and then % of revenue increase since the baseline. It makes it easy for them and is far compelling cause you are now a revenue cost rather than a recurring sunk cost. The typical ecomm transaction has 10-12% margins? And th...
I don't think you need to use a Virtual private server at this time unless you are getting so much traffic that GoDaddy is limiting you. Here is info from Wordpress about email forwarding: https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/ Seeing as you probably bought your domain, I really su...
You need to think about these auto-responders in terms of events. If you can put data up on MailChimp when an event takes place, you can manage auto-responders off of that data. Here is some additional information from their website. http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-do-i-create-an-autoresponder
No. In the decade plus I've been doing e-mail marketing this has never been an issue. Also, this on the sales page is a huge turn off: "Pick the most expensive plan you can."