Email

Explore email solutions in WordPress, covering email hosting, configuration, and best practices for sending and receiving emails from your WordPress website. Learn about SMTP plugins, email setup, and how to ensure reliable email communication.

Effective CRM Data Cleansing Strategies for WordPress Users

Wow, we’re thrilled! We’ve just installed Groundhogg, and its potential for managing customer communications has us buzzing. We’re seeing possibilities everywhere! Think streamlined workflows, personalized customer touchpoints, and ultimate CRM data organization. Groundhogg is truly a game-changer for us.

While working on this integration I found the need to clean our own CRM data and thought I would share some of the tasks and information I encountered while undertaking this project.

Email Marketing Platforms

7 Top Email Marketing Platforms That Integrate With WordPress

A well-rounded marketing plan should without a doubt consider email. Whether you’re sending out a regular newsletter, purchase follow-up messages, or other content, carefully selecting which platform you use to do it is vital.

In this post, we take a look at seven email marketing platforms you might want to use to promote your WordPress site. With easy site integration and automation for key tasks, these options should be top contenders!

Send Email Newsletters in 20 minutes

How to Set up and Send Email Newsletters Inside WordPress (in just 20 mins!)

Email marketing is a solid strategy for driving traffic to your website – but starting from scratch can be intimidating. In this guide, we’ll show you how to send your first newsletter with Newsletter Glue, including details on selecting your email service provider and collecting emails from subscribers.

Mailster

Mailster Review: Send Emails Right From Your WordPress Dashboard (Including Autoresponders)

Ever wished that you could grow an email list and send newsletters without needing to leave the comfy confines of your WordPress admin dashboard?

Mailster is a WordPress newsletter plugin that lets you run all of your email marketing efforts right from your WordPress site. Beyond helping you grow your list and create emails using a drag-and-drop editor, it also lets you send autoresponders and set up other email automation rules.

Grow and Engage Your Mailing Lists with MailOptin

It seems as if every marketing blog or podcast over the past few years has been obsessed with mailing lists. It has been made clear that if you have a popular website but are not doing all you can to capture your visitors’ email addresses, you are an idiot.

The idea is that your website is only the starting point in your relationship with your readers. If the trust you establish through your content is enough for them to give you their email address, you now have the ability to regularly reach out and update them on what is going on at your site (or, more realistically, to remind them that your site exists).

7 Best Popup Plugins For WordPress To Grow Your List + More

Love them or hate them, popups, especially those that push people to subscribe to your email list, are a digital marketing tactic that is here to stay.

But if you want to dip your toes into the world of popups, you’re going to need a WordPress popup plugin to help you do it.

To help you find the plugin that’s right for your needs, I collected some of the best free and premium popup plugins for WordPress.

Help Scout Desk – An Alternative to Email Support

HelpScout is one of the most useful ways of running your help desk online. While being invisible to your customers, it can be very helpful to your support or customer care teams.

Sprout Apps have brought this great service into WordPress with the HelpScout Desk plugin. What it does is add the ability for your customers to create new support tickets and reply to existing ones directly from your site, without having to use email.

5 Easy and Effective Techniques to Boost Your Email Sign-ups

Building your email list too slowly could be losing you money. Your email list represents the most effective way to reach out to people who have already shown you a degree of trust. If you are a blogger, these are your loyal readers. If you’re building a business, these are the customers who’ll be returning with more work.

How to Receive RSS Feed Updates via Email

In my daily work supporting and developing the WP RSS Aggregator plugin, I get many requests from people needing to do quite interesting things with RSS feeds. One of these is sending RSS feed updates to their email inbox. Many times users would have created a custom feed on their website which aggregates content from several other websites, and want that feed delivered to their inbox. That’s one of the use case of WP RSS Aggregator and this functionality is built into the core plugin itself.

Turns out that RSS to Email is a very easy thing to do.

12 Creative Ways for Freelance WordPress Developers to Get and Handle Clients

First things first, this isn’t yet another article talking about how essential it is to be active on Twitter or bid on various publicly available gigs on the internet. I’ve really kind of had it with this type of advice. In 2013, it’s bringing nothing to the table and I highly doubt that any freelancer would consider it useful at this point.