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The fashion industry is one of the most competitive around and what ultimately separates successful businesses from the rest is their marketing, both online and through more traditional channels like print. At EmailOctopus we’re always keeping an eye on the latest trends in email marketing: how companies are onboarding their users, how they spread the [...]
It’s been a long time coming, but today we’re excited to launch additional list fields. Our biggest single update to EmailOctopus since our launch in 2014. For the past 3 years, we’d restricted you to only storing 3 values, a first name, last name and email address. From today onwards, you can now add additional [...]
The keener eyed of you may have noticed a couple of updates to the EmailOctopus platform over the past week. Those updates are custom domains, which allow you to use your own domain to track clicks and host unsubscribe pages, and a re-worked campaign process. The re-worked campaign flow Our campaign flow has been completely overhauled, [...]

Today we’re excited to announce a new official integration between EmailOctopus and OptinMonster. OptinMonster is one of the most widely used opt-in form providers, with over 1 billion users a month seeing an OptinMonster form. The platform introduces a wide range of beautiful opt-in form designs ranging from popup forms to forms which slide-in on [...]
At EmailOctopus we have the privilege of working with a wide and colourful customer base, offering a variety of services from insurance to erotica. Whatever their line of work, we love hearing our customers’ stories of how they built their businesses and how email has helped them grow. Recently, we caught up with Liz Gavin [...]

For the past 17 years, Popbitch has made its business spilling the secrets of the rich and famous. Now with a subscriber base in the hundreds of thousands, the weekly newsletter prides itself on dishing the very best dirt each and every Thursday. While Popbitch likes to keep its news lighthearted, it’s broken some serious [...]

This blog post was written by Hamzah Tabani. Hamzah joined the EmailOctopus team on a paid internship from Queen Mary University London during his summer break. Ten weeks can fly by in no time if you’re not careful. Working in the dynamic start-up world leaves no room for slacking off, even for an intern. That’s [...]

Ernie Smith is on a mission: to share and celebrate the dull side of the internet. With his twice-weekly newsletter Tedium, Ernie delves into the most mundane corners of the web and shares his findings with a growing fanbase. Since 2015 he’s kept 9,000 subscribers informed about everything from corduroy to walkie talkies to those [...]

Hello! The Ninja Forms team is seriously excited about our newest integration with one of the neatest email marketing solutions out there: EmailOctopus! If you’re a WordPress user, this partnership has some huge implications for how you manage your marketing efforts. If you’re not familiar with Ninja Forms already, you may not realise yet just [...]

As you grow your mailing list you may gain subscribers from different countries. Or you may be expanding your business into new regions. In any case, if you’re an international email marketer, it is important that you stay up-to-date with anti-spam regulations. New regulations are being proposed and made into law all the time. So [...]

Ninja Forms allows you to create and design sign-up forms for your WordPress website. With nearly 1,000,000 users to their platform they are easily one of the most popular form builders on the market right now. They pride themselves in being easy to use regardless of what your level of expertise might be. Their plans include [...]

Looking to convert more of your website visitors into subscribers and grow your mailing list? Want to create stunning sign-up forms and landing pages? Well, look no further. Optin Ninja is one of the best opt-in form building services. It is a premium WordPress plugin that allows you to choose from over 20 templates and [...]