Des Moines, Iowa Email marketing

The audience you already own, actually used.

Your list is the only marketing channel no algorithm can take away from you. Most businesses build one and then never send to it. We turn it into a channel that produces revenue on a schedule.

  • Written and designed for you
  • Deliverability handled
  • Revenue attributed

Welcome sequence

3 steps · 1,284 people in it

Live
  1. Immediately

    71% opened

    Welcome. Here is what happens next.

  2. Day 2

    58% opened

    The one thing most people get wrong

  3. Day 5

    46% opened

    Ready when you are

Attributed this month

$14,280

+22%
  • Written and designed for you
  • Automations built first
  • Deliverability handled
  • Revenue attributed per send
  • The list is yours to export
Before you inquire

Email rewards patience, and punishes sending for the sake of it.

Worth being honest about before you commit to building a list.

A good fit if

  • Your customers buy more than once, or refer people who do
  • You can hold a cadence, even a slow one
  • You have something to say beyond a discount code

Probably not if

  • You have no list yet and nowhere on your site to collect one
  • You want one campaign rather than a channel
  • Your product is a one-off purchase nobody repeats or recommends

If you have nowhere to collect addresses yet, a site that captures them is the honest answer, and we will say so.

Why the list you have is not earning

Three reasons your email list is worth less than it should be.

Almost every business we meet has a list. Almost none of them are sending to it on a schedule they can hold.

1

channel is genuinely yours. Every other audience you have is rented from a platform.

Reach on social is set by an algorithm. Ad costs are set by an auction. The list is the only place where reaching your customers costs you nothing and can't be taken away.

Channels no algorithm sits between

$0

is what a list earns while nobody is sending to it, however big it gets.

Collecting addresses feels like progress and is not. An unsent list decays: people change jobs, forget who you are, and mark you as spam when you finally reappear.

The return on an unsent list

Day 1

is when most of email’s value happens, in the follow-up nobody built.

The welcome sequence runs while you sleep, for every new subscriber, forever. It is the highest-return work in the channel and the piece most businesses skip straight past on their way to a newsletter.

Where the automated return concentrates

We build the automations first, because they keep earning long after the campaign calendar slips.

What the work actually is

Four parts, and the newsletter is the least important one.

Which is unfortunate, because it is the part everybody starts with and usually the only part that ever gets built.

01 Capture

A list that grows without you thinking about it.

Most businesses have one capture surface: a footer box nobody fills in. The list stays flat, and every visitor who was interested but not ready that day is gone for good. Fixing this is cheap and it compounds, because the list you build this year is the one that earns next year.

  • Signup surfaces placed where people are actually reading
  • Something worth the address, not just "join our newsletter"
  • Wired to your email platform and your CRM, not a spreadsheet
  • Every new subscriber entering the welcome sequence automatically

Where the list grows

one page, three surfaces

  • Inline, mid-article 4.1%
  • Lead magnet offer 7.8%
  • Exit intent 2.4%

New subscribers a month

184 up from 6

02 Automations

The sequences that keep sending while you work.

This is where most of email’s value actually is, and it is the piece most businesses skip on their way to a newsletter. A welcome sequence runs for every new subscriber, forever, without anybody scheduling anything. So do the quote follow-up, the post-job note, and the win-back.

  • Welcome sequence first, because it earns for every person who joins
  • Follow-ups triggered by what somebody actually did
  • Post-job notes that ask for the review at the right moment
  • Win-back for customers who have gone quiet, which is the cheapest work you will win

Sequences running

triggered by what people do

4 live
  • Welcome joins the list 3
  • Quote follow-up quote sent, no reply 2
  • After the job work marked complete 2
  • Win back no contact in 12 months 2

Built once. They keep sending to every new person who qualifies, without anybody scheduling anything.

03 Segmentation

Different people, different message.

A customer, somebody who asked for a quote and never booked, and somebody who has not heard from you in a year do not want the same email. Sending all three the same thing is the fastest way to train a list to ignore you, and it is what most businesses do because it is easier.

  • Split by what people have done with you, not by guesswork
  • Subject lines and offers written per segment
  • People who convert removed from the sequence that was chasing them
  • Kept current automatically as their status changes

One list, 1,244 people

who do not all want the same thing

Customers 412 people 68% opened

Your annual check is due

Inquired, never booked 596 people 54% opened

Still thinking about that quote?

Quiet 12 months 236 people 31% opened

It has been a while

Sent as one message to everyone, the same content would have landed somewhere near the bottom number for all of them.

04 Attribution

What each send actually earned.

Opens and clicks are the easy numbers, which is why they are the ones most agencies report. They tell you almost nothing about whether the channel is worth running. We report what each send produced downstream, including the ones that produced very little.

  • Revenue attributed per send, automated and campaign alike
  • The duds shown as duds, because a report where everything worked is not one
  • Visible in your dashboard, not only in a monthly summary
  • Used to decide what gets repeated and what gets dropped

Attributed by send

last 30 days

$13,680
  • Welcome sequence Automated $8,420
    71% opened
  • After the job Automated $3,180
    63% opened
  • October newsletter Campaign $1,840
    42% opened
  • Fall offer Campaign $240
    38% opened

The two automated sequences earned more than both campaigns combined, and nobody sent them this month.

What it is for

Email does three jobs for a local business.

None of them is "send a newsletter". Most engagements start with the first and add the others once it is running.

just joined
Day 0
Day 2
Day 5
Highest return

Turn a new subscriber into a customer

Somebody just gave you their address, which is the most interested they will ever be. The sequence that runs in the next five days does more work than anything you will send them later.

Best for

Every business with a list, and the first thing we build in every engagement.

twice a month, held
Compounds

Stay in mind between jobs

Most customers do not need you today. They need you in eight months, and they will call whoever they remember. A steady cadence is how you are the one they remember.

Best for

Trades and services with a long gap between purchases.

quiet 12 mo booked
cheapest job you will win
Cheapest work

Bring back the ones who drifted

A customer who used you two years ago already trusts you and costs nothing to reach. Winning one back is the least expensive job in your pipeline and almost nobody asks for it.

Best for

Any business with more past customers than current ones, which is most of them.

The unglamorous half

Writing the email is the easy part. Landing in the inbox is not.

Deliverability is where email quietly fails. Everything looks fine from your side: the campaign sent, the report says delivered, and a chunk of it went to spam.

  • Authentication set up properly

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC are what tell a receiving server your mail is really from you. Misconfigured, they are the single most common reason good email lands in spam.

  • A clean list, kept clean

    Hard bounces and long-dead addresses drag your sending reputation down for everyone else on the list. We prune them rather than pad the subscriber count.

  • Sending volume warmed, not dumped

    A quiet domain that suddenly sends ten thousand emails looks exactly like a compromised one. Ramping matters, especially on a first big send.

  • Placement watched, not assumed

    "Delivered" in your email platform only means it was accepted. We check where it actually landed.

Deliverability check

yourbusiness.com
  • SPF v=spf1 include:_spf.sender.net ~all
  • DKIM 2048-bit key published, selector s1
  • DMARC p=quarantine, rua reporting on
  • Reverse DNS sending IP resolves to your domain

Where the last send landed

seed test, 42 mailboxes
  • Primary inbox 84%
  • Promotions 13%
  • Spam 3%

Your email platform would report all 42 of these as delivered.

Why this one is different

Every other audience you have is rented.

Your reach on social is set by an algorithm that has cut it before and will again. What a click costs you is set by an auction you do not control. Neither of those is a decision you get to make.

The list is the one channel where nothing sits between you and your customers. It is also the only marketing asset on this site that you can export and take with you, including away from us.

Twelve months, indexed

illustrative
  • Your list nothing between you and them Yours
  • Organic social reach set by an algorithm
  • What a dollar of ads buys set by an auction

Export it whenever you like. It is the only marketing asset here that leaves with you.

What's included

Everything in Email Marketing

Email Marketing

Every item below is in every engagement.

01

Build the list

List growth built into your site

Signup forms, lead magnets, and popups that earn the address instead of demanding it, wired to your email platform and your CRM.

Welcome and nurture sequences

The automated follow-up that runs the moment someone joins. This is where most of the revenue in email actually happens, and it is the piece most businesses never build.

02

Send to it

Regular campaigns and newsletters

Written, designed, and scheduled on a cadence you can sustain. We handle the production so the send never slips because the week got busy.

Segmentation

Different messages for customers, prospects, and lapsed buyers. Sending everyone the same email is the fastest way to train people to ignore you.

03

Make it land

Deliverability setup

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configured correctly, plus list hygiene, so your email reaches the inbox rather than the spam folder.

Reporting that ties to revenue

Opens and clicks are the easy numbers. Your dashboard shows what each send produced downstream so you can tell which emails are worth repeating.

How the work runs

Automations before campaigns, because they never stop running.

A newsletter earns once. A welcome sequence earns for every new subscriber, forever, which is why it gets built first even though it feels less urgent.

1

Audit the list

What you have, where it came from, how healthy it is, and what is already working. We check deliverability before anything else.

2

Build the automations

Welcome sequence first, then the follow-ups tied to what someone did. These run forever once built, which is why they come before campaigns.

3

Set the cadence

A calendar you can actually hold, with the production handled. Consistency beats cleverness in email by a wide margin.

4

Measure and prune

We keep what earns and drop what does not, and keep the list clean so the sending reputation holds.

Included, never an upsell

What the list is actually worth.

Subscribers, open rates and revenue per send in one place, updated continuously. The automated sequences usually out-earn the campaigns, and this is where you get to see that rather than take our word for it.

  • List growth and where it came from
  • Revenue attributed to each send
  • The tasks we are working, as we work them
  • Invoices and hours, nothing hidden

Morales Plumbing

example Live

On list

1,244

+184

Opened

62%

average

Earned

$13.7k

+22%

Visitors

last 90 days

This month's work

  • Build the win-back sequence
  • Segment the quote-no-booking list
  • October campaign for approval
Questions

The things people ask first.

I have almost no list. Is this too early?

No, and starting now is the point. The list you build this year is the one that produces revenue next year. We start with capture and the welcome sequence so every new visitor counts from day one.

Which email platform do you use?

Whichever fits. We work in the major platforms and will recommend one based on your list size, your ecommerce setup, and what you already pay for. We do not resell anyone.

Will you write the emails?

Yes. Writing, design, build, and send are all included. You approve before anything goes out.

How often should we send?

For most local and service businesses, twice a month is the floor that keeps you remembered without wearing the list out. Ecommerce can support more. We will recommend a cadence and adjust based on what your list actually does.

Ready when you are

Let’s make your marketing feel like magic.

Start with the audit. It reads your site the way Google and the AI assistants do, and tells you what is wrong with it. Free, about sixty seconds, and nobody has to call you.