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Automate with Heart

by Bev Feldman, ConvertKit Consultant + Email Automation Strategist

If you're feeling done with overly aggressive and complicated funnels & one-size-fits-all approaches to email marketing that lack nuance, you're in the right place. Automate with Heart is the only weekly newsletter for established coaches, consultants & service-based business owners who want to be intentional and values-aligned with your email automation strategy.

5 questions you can ask

Happy Wednesday, Reader! I'm doing something that I rarely do any more - writing this at the last-minute. (School vacation week combined with my 6-year-old home sick on Friday plus my 30-day experiment of emailing 3x/week means everything is off with my newsletter at the moment. 😳) Anyway, when someone hires me for an email automation audit or ConvertKit setup, there are five steps that guide the process: Organize Opt-in Offer Onboard Optimize I’ve been calling them the Email Automation...
10 days ago • 2 min read

This isn't working

I’ve been reflecting on my email marketing, and I’m not thrilled with it, Reader. Sure, my engagement is rock steady. My open and click-through rates are the highest they’ve ever been in all of my years doing email marketing. As I shared in my guest email on Devin Lee’s newsletter last week, I love my newsletter-writing process. But my own email marketing isn’t translating into sales & booked calls in a way I’d like to see. Running a business involves experimentation to see what does and...
18 days ago • 1 min read

🍄 Double vs. single?

Happy Tuesday, Reader, A few weeks ago, Automate with Heart newsletter community member Nicki of The Ruffled Purse, emailed me with this gem of a question: “Based on the new deliverability updates, what are your thoughts on single vs double opt-in?” While Nicki's question is in light of the big deliverability updates that Google & Yahoo are putting in place, I've expanded my answer to look at it from a few different angles. This turned into a much longer newsletter today than I expected, so...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read

Let's make this more fun

The Subscriber Strategy live training is in a few days 🍄 Don't want to receive additional promotional emails? Click here to turn them off and stay on my regular email list Hey Reader- Yes, I realize it's Saturday. And while I generally don't make it a habit to work on my business or show up in your inbox on the weekend... ...I'm really excited to impart my expertise with you during the Subscriber Strategy training on Tuesday so that you can build connection with your email community. (And in...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read

A lesson in how *not* to do email marketing

Enrollment is open for the Subscriber Strategy live training, happening on Tuesday, March 19. Your consent is super important. Don't want to receive additional promotional emails? Click here to opt out of these emails moving forward. Hey Reader- In an effort to do more in-person networking, last year I signed for newsletters at about 8 different business groups in the greater Boston area. And in a matter of days I was knocked down by a giant wave of emails that flooded my inbox. 🌊 One or two...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read

760%

Enrollment is officially open for the Subscriber Strategy live training, happening on Tuesday, March 19. Your consent is super important. Don't want to receive additional promotional emails? Click here to opt out of these emails moving forward. Earlier this week I heard this stat that kinda blew my mind: "Segmented [email] campaigns can lead to a 760% increase in revenue" (Campaign Monitor)* That's pretty damn impressive. Except... ....how do you actually do that? 🤨 And if you're a...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Promotional image for Subscriber Strategy Live training. In the description it says "Improve email engagement, deliverability & conversion by creating a system for organizing your hot mess list of tags."

Emails not converting?

Enrollment is officially open for the Subscriber Strategy live training, happening on Tuesday, March 19. Your consent is super important. Don't want to receive additional promotional emails? Click here to opt out of these emails moving forward. Hey there! Last week I received my 3rd promotional postcard for a Jewish senior living facility in Boston. With the name Beverly Feldman, I can see how someone might mistake me for an old Jewish lady. 😅 Unfortunately for them, I’m actually a...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read

🔥 This has me all fired up

Enrollment is now open for the live round of Subscriber Strategy training, happening live in a few weeks. Save $10 with early bird pricing through February 29 at 8:00pm EST / 5:00pm PST. 🦤 Learn more Heyo, Reader! I'm feeling super fired up since my my suspicions were confirmed last week: An old email address of mine is on a list that at least one marketing "expert" is selling. 😤 What tipped me off is I received yet another pitch from an author about their new book that has zero connection to...
2 months ago • 3 min read

🦸 Figured out my superpower

Happy Tuesday, Reader! A few weeks ago I was teaching a live Subscriber Strategy workshop (based on the workbook by the same name) to my fellow members of Dr. Michelle Mazur's Expert Up Club when someone asked me: "Are you a librarian?" Apparently I’m very adept at cataloging information. Which in many ways explains why I nerd out on tagging & segmenting and it’s one of my superpowers 🤓 In all honesty, it took awhile to figure out tagging and segmenting and how to do it well. (And even longer...
2 months ago • 2 min read

I held on to this for way too long

Heya Reader, When I was in sixth grade and five elementary schools merged into one middle school, I became fast friends with a girl from a different elementary school named Becky. We hung out frequently after school and on the weekends, attended each others’ birthday parties, and she invited me to attend a Halloween party at her horseback riding school. Though we had different friend groups, for two years I considered Becky a very close friend. In 8th grade, something shifted. When I called...
4 months ago • 3 min read

If you're feeling done with overly aggressive and complicated funnels & one-size-fits-all approaches to email marketing that lack nuance, you're in the right place. Automate with Heart is the only weekly newsletter for established coaches, consultants & service-based business owners who want to be intentional and values-aligned with your email automation strategy.

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