sendwithus update sixteen
Holy crap, we’ve got some cool stuff to talk about in this update. Here goes. New Experimental Editor We’ve launched a brand new template editor with full WYSIWYG support, based on the ever popular CK...
View ArticleWe’ve Made A/B Testing Better
We’ve rolled out some exciting updates to our A/B testing feature, based on recent customer feedback. So exciting in fact, we decided to write about it. We heard from a lot of our customers that they...
View Article3 Simple Ways to Write Subject Lines that Get Your Email Opened
What determines a good email? Let’s face it, we decide whether or not to open an email the same way we decide whether or not to open a book, by the cover. And that’s why the key to great email starts...
View ArticleA Better Approach to A/B Test Analysis
We’ve made some radical changes to the math behind our open-source A/B testing library, Confidence.js. Soon these updates will be available to everyone using sendwithus A/B tests, but first we want to...
View ArticleHow To: Implement Transactional Email in 1 Hour or Less
This post outlines how to quickly implement transactional email using the Sendwithus API. As an example, we show how CodeCombat uses our API to keep their players and contributors updated and engaged...
View ArticleWe’re Partnering with SendGrid to Make Transactional Email Even Easier
We’ve got some big news to share today. We’ve partnered up with our friends at SendGrid, the industry leader in email delivery. SendGrid is a cloud-based platform based in Boulder, CO. They solve the...
View ArticleA New Approach to Drip Campaigns
Introduction Patience and persistence are the most powerful forces available to people who want to make change. That’s why, for marketers, drip campaigns are such an effective tool for persuasion. Not...
View ArticleAnnouncing Sendwithus+Postmark Partnership
Sendwithus customers are amazing. We launched over a year ago and in that time we’ve met so many amazing marketers who wanted to take control of their transactional email. When you want to manage email...
View ArticleViewing Archived A/B Tests
We’ve updated sendwithus A/B testing to give you access to completed and archived test results! Now you can compare new tests against old ones, and make sure your A/B tests have long-lasting effect....
View ArticleSendwithus is upgrading to Jinja
TL;DR - We’re switching to Jinja Templating. This won’t affect your existing templates and promises great new features to come. =] Jinja Templating Engine Since the beginning, Sendwithus has used the...
View ArticlePython Templating Performance Showdown: Django vs Jinja
A few weeks ago, we announced that we would be upgrading our templating language from Django to Jinja and discussed some of the reasons for doing so. At the time we promised a follow-up with more depth...
View ArticleIntroducing Drip Campaigns 2.0
Today we’re proud to announce the launch of our new and improved drip campaigns – we’ve completely redesigned them to give you a more flexible and intuitive experience and we’re really excited to roll...
View ArticleA Pirate’s Guide to Email
During YCombinator, word got around that there was an email company in the batch, and there was a corresponding steady increase in other founders asking us how they could improve their email. We’re...
View ArticleDipping Into Data from 50M Emails
As part of our ongoing mission to help everyone send better emails, we recently brainstormed a series of questions that we could investigate in hopes of finding interesting or helpful insights for you....
View ArticleTask Monitoring Using Redis
We’ve started using Redis a lot and it’s been great. We’ve already used it to improve performance in our analytics pipeline, and to power our usage-based billing system. Most recently we’ve written a...
View ArticlePost Mortem: Sept 5th, 2014
Last Friday afternoon (September 5th, 2014), Sendwithus rolled out a major infrastructure upgrade aimed at increasing API throughput and email delivery times. This infrastructure upgrade introduced a...
View ArticleThe Myth of Deliverability: Plain-Text vs. HTML
Is there a risk associated with sending HTML email instead of just plain-text? We alluded to this debate in our guide to welcome emails – wherein we recommended HTML emails with the stipulation that...
View ArticleNew Email Survey Templates
Today we’re releasing 8 responsive email templates to help you survey your customers and gather feedback about a question or issue. Measure customer satisfaction, dive into creating a Net Promoter...
View ArticleSeed Funding
Today we’re excited to announce we’ve closed a $2.3 million seed funding round lead by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, others investing include: Initialized Capital, SV Angel, Maiden Lane, Acequia...
View ArticleDon’t Start a Drip Campaign
Don’t get me wrong, we here at sendwithus love drip campaigns. But when we sat down with our friend Noah Kagan of AppSumo to talk onboarding emails, it became very clear that – especially for startups...
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