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If you know J. Cole, you probably know him as a rapper, singer and songwriter with a back catalogue full of top ten hits and Grammy-nominated records. You might not know that he’s also the head of Dreamville Records, a record label he co-founded in 2007 that boasts a roster of eight rappers and hip [...]
Black Friday is always a busy day for email marketers, and this year it seemed to start early than ever before. ‘Black Friday week’ deals launched as early as the 16 November, one week before the main event, and on EmailOctopus we saw hundreds of millions of emails sent out over the period. Our own [...]
[Updated for 2021] Black Friday – the day best known for fights over cut-price televisions in Walmart is now an unmissable event in the calendar for all ecommerce brands. And increasingly, more and more industries are jumping on the band wagon from SaaS to travel. It’s a consumer holiday that has moved increasingly online, hurried [...]
Hot off the back of announcing our new drag and drop editor last week, today we have a whole host of product enhancements to share with you. We’ve been listening to your feedback on our WordPress integration, and we’re excited to launch six big improvements to make building your subscriber lists easier than ever. 1. [...]
At EmailOctopus, we do everything we can to keep our prices as low as possible. Our mission is to help you save up to 90% on your email marketing – while still ensuring first-class deliverability. We’re everything you need from an email marketing platform, but for a fraction of the cost. So how do we [...]
Almost five months on from the implementation of the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation, that question might seem a little overdramatic. But in the height of pre-regulation speculation in May 2018, many marketers and commentators were concerned that the new rules and enhanced data protection enforcement could be the final blow to email [...]
We have two aims at EmailOctopus: making your email marketing affordable, and building an easy-to-use platform. We’ve already ticked the low cost box, so our focus over the past few months has been to make improvements to how our customers build campaigns. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature which will make it incredibly simple [...]
I rehearse my opening line one more time for good measure. Wiping away a bead of nervous sweat, I open the office door and walk in for my interview. Just like that, I forget everything I needed and wanted to say. Perhaps the most adorable dog – Alfie – jumps at me, wraps his paws [...]
Our customers use EmailOctopus to promote everything from celeb gossip to erotic fiction. Whatever you’re using email for, we’re happy to have you on board. This post is for all the event promoters out there: we caught up with Jonny from ticketing platform Ticket Tailor to find out why email should be your go-to marketing [...]
Last month, my wife and I moved from London to Vancouver. It was a great opportunity for us: to see new places, meet new people and take a break from our hectic London commutes. But for me, it meant saying a reluctant goodbye to the EmailOctopus office and our small but mighty team in the [...]
With just a week until the new GDPR legislation is introduced, inboxes are overflowing with re-consent emails. These emails ask the recipient to re-confirm their interest in receiving communications, and state that no further emails will be sent after May 25th if they decline (or ignore the email altogether). Over the past two weeks we’ve collected [...]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the new marketing regulations coming into force on 25 May, 2018, and many marketers are wondering what changes they need to make to their email list to be compliant. Do I need to re-opt-in my subscribers? Not necessarily. The guidance from the ICO is that you [...]