#1. Debunking 3 Email Marketing Myths | Podcast

Vira: 0:37

Delivering the right message to the right person at the right time is is very, very powerful. Your marketing work for you even when you are not, like, doing anything.

Alissa: 1:17

We’re super excited. This is our first podcast episode ever. We are two email marketers at an email marketing agency called Flowium. We’re super passionate about email marketing, and because we love what we do, we wanna share our insights with you. So today’s episode, we’re going to shatter some of the fake news and rumors that we’ve seen floating around about email marketing and around the industry. There are way too many misconceptions out there. People saying that email marketing is dying, that it doesn’t work, that it’s useless, it’s lame, whatever. It’s just not true.

Alissa: 1:51

So we wanna go through all of that with you today. But before we get started, in honor of our very first episode, we wanna paint a bit of a better picture of those voices that you are listening to. So, Vira, if you wanna go ahead and start, that’d be great.

Vira: 2:21

Thank you for the quick introduction. Thank you, Alissa. I’m so happy to be here. Oh my god. I’m so pumped. This is literally our first podcast ever, and I’m sure we can share a lot of interesting and relevant stuff with you guys. So my name is Vira. I’m Vancouver based, email marketers. Originally, I’m from Europe. I’m from Ukraine, so you’d better get used to my accent. I was a girl scout growing up, and I was always, like, up for a challenge. We had this all cool and crazy challenges. Like, you have to go to the forest and spend three days alone there with, like, no tent or nothing just, like, survive for three days. So I was always for a challenge, and my kind of passion for adventure brought me to Canada and The US. And that’s where I met Andre, the CEO of the Flowium, marketing. And we started working together. First, I started as a copywriter, Then I started managing this, like, small businesses, and now I manage this huge account. And honestly, it still, like, fascinates me every time I see our clients’ numbers and sales grow. Honestly, this is why I wake up every morning. That’s the first thing that I do before I make myself a cup of coffee. I go and check the sales of our clients because that’s a that’s an exciting part of our job. So I’m really pumped to be here and stay tuned because we do have a lot of cool stuff that we’ll be sharing with you guys.

Alissa: 3:46

Awesome. So, really quick. My name is Alissa, and I am based in Boca Raton, Florida. So, one of my childhood dreams was actually to become the first non native born US Female President. But so non native born because I was actually born in England, but then I decided to take over the world through email marketing instead. So here I am.

Vira: 4:09

Where is your cute accent, Alissa? Can you do that? That?

Alissa: 4:11

Yeah. I know. Right? Seriously. So I actually moved to The US when I was five years old. And, I lost it within six months because I wanted to be like all my American friends. So I lost it, and here I am. I sound like everybody else now. Well, I still don’t sound like everybody else. I know. You’re lucky though. You have a cool accent. I just have a lame Floridian accent now. So no offense to my Floridians who are listening out there.

Vira: 4:35

And another fun fact about you, you just got married and we all Yes. Were watching your, your Facebook wedding because it was during the quarantine time. So that was fun.

Alissa: 4:46

Yeah. It’s been a 2020 has definitely been a crazy year. I’m sure everyone can agree with everything that’s going on. I just recently got married a couple months like Vira mentioned. So it’s, yeah, it’s it’s been a year full of crazy changes.

Vira: 5:00

So your entire life is now online. You’re getting you’ve got married online. You work online. So

Alissa: 5:06

Yeah. Exactly. So you could say that email marketing is probably, pretty important to me because it all has to do with the digital world, which is where it seems like my whole life is now given the quarantine state of things. So, yeah. So one of the reasons why I actually got into email marketing is because I am the queen of subscribing

Vira: 5:27

email list. Emails with us all the time.

Alissa: 5:31

Yeah. Constantly constantly. Every mailing list that’s put in front of me, even if I’m not interested, I subscribe. I add my email shamelessly, and it’s just crazy. So in the last couple of years, I actually started to realize how much I hated checking my inbox because of all the junk that I

Vira: 5:47

How many unread emails do you have now?

Alissa: 5:50

Well, okay. So I’m a little bit OCD, so I actually read through every single email. So I open every single one, which means

Vira: 5:57

I don’t really help with

Alissa: 5:59

the open rate for a lot of these companies. But, so I don’t have any unread messages in my inbox. But I’ve actually started to unsubscribe a lot because I realized that I wasn’t doing anyone any justice by just subscribing to everything. So now I subscribe to brands that I really like or that are competitors to the clients that I work with. So then I can kinda get an insight to what other people are doing. But, yeah. I’m trying to be better about it. It’s a it’s a weird habit that I formed in the last few years, and I’m trying to be good. So.

Vira: 6:28

Well, now since you worked in email marketing for, like, a few months or almost a year now. So what’s your kinda quick tip or, like, what is the quick advice that you can give to anyone who’s starting in in email marketing?

Alissa: 6:44

So that’s actually a great question, Vira. So one of the things that what that we want to start doing on this podcast every single episode is we wanna include a pro tip for all of our subscribers out there who are listening. And we’ll usually pick something that’s based on the relevance to the topic that we’ll be discussing. Because today is more of an introductory, sort of episode for us. We wanna just kinda give a quick tip about when the best day and time to send an email is. So there have been tons and tons of studies done around this, But it seems like the best time that all the data has collectively shown is 10AM on a Tuesday, which is kinda weird and kinda interesting to hear stuff. Right? Yeah. Not at all. You’d think like, oh, maybe, like, 9AM on a Saturday or something like that. But people are checking their emails religiously, usually around kinda like that sort of lasing point of the morning during the work day. And so Tuesday Tuesday still kinda boggles my mind. Apparently, the best days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Vira: 7:49

But Yeah. But it’s

Alissa: 7:50

In any case

Vira: 7:50

Case by case. Right? So Right. 

Alissa: 7:53

Depends on the right. Exactly. And like for and it also really depends on your audience. %. Exactly. So, that’s definitely something that we will be covering in future podcasts. But if you are stuck on trying to figure out when to send an email, try 10AM on a Tuesday and send us some feedback and let us know if that works for you and and your audience that you’re working with.

Vira: 8:15

Yeah. Definitely. And I remember we were discussing that for some, like, female, audience for, like, female brands, Sunday works good as well because it’s a part of, like, girls’ routine often, like, drinking coffee on Sunday morning and, like, going through some emails and, like, buying some stuff. So I I know that I do that. So, again, it’s very, like, case by case. Yeah.

Alissa: 8:39

For sure. For sure. Yeah. And we find that some of our client ecommerce brands that are more focused on females tend to do really well when they send out campaigns on Sunday mornings because it’s like you said, Vira. You know, women are more often than not, they have a little bit of quiet time on a Sunday morning and they’re like,

Vira: 8:56

hey, let’s get into some

Alissa: 8:58

e commerce. Let’s get into some online shopping. So, that’s definitely something that we see too. But again, it’s all based on on your audience and how you segment them and what you’re selling and, definitely something to to keep an eye out for, from us that we’ll be discussing in in future episodes.

Vira: 9:15

Right. Well, now, Alissa, since you worked in the industry for a bit now, what were kinda your biggest, like, misconceptions about email marketing before you started, working in the industry?

Alissa: 9:29

So I’ll tell you what, Vira. One of my first things that I was really, really skeptical about is, and kind of the first myth that we’re gonna be talking about today is that email marketing is dying. And honestly, this was one that I fully believed with my whole heart before I got into email marketing. Yeah. It’s like, I just thought, emails, like, I get so many and they’re all in my junk box and I don’t care and they’re terrible and I just have there’s no way that email marketing is something that actually works. But it’s interesting because people say that primarily because social media is taking over the world, what it feels like. But he but here, for us, working at Flowium and also even us here at Email Einstein, we really beg to differ with that kind of a claim. So what I’m gonna do is I’m actually gonna throw out some studies and numbers at all of you to paint a better picture of what we’re trying to get at. So Sure.

Vira: 10:25

Okay.

Alissa: 10:26

According to Ascend, 51% of marketers say that the success of email marketing is often limited by the lack of relevant information about their contacts, which really makes us think that people only think email marketing is dying because companies are dying out on their relevance. So this is a word that we really wanna focus on because it’s something that we focus on in at Flowium at our email marketing agency, but it’s also something that we really wanna press hard here through our episodes with Email Einstein. Relevance is super, super important. It’s bolded on every page of notes that I have. It’s bolded in all my documents, all my emails to my my clients. So, it’s something that we wanna highlight here is just remember that word relevance. So according to another study that was done in 02/2016 by HubSpot, seventy eight percent of email marketing recipients claim to have canceled their email subscriptions because they are receiving way too many emails. Now if I had to guess, I would imagine that recipients were receiving too many irrelevant emails, but that’s just kind of a caveat that we’re adding here based on what we know about email marketing. So in another study that was done by McKinsey and Company, email marketing is up to 40 times more effective than social media. And in the same study, they show that the buying process happens three times faster with email than in social media, which honestly, like and, Vira, I don’t know if this applies for you too, but I can totally relate. Like, if I see an ad on my Instagram, for example, and I’m scrolling through and it’s a pair of yoga pants or something, and I click on that ad and I go to the store and I’m, like, all hyped up because I’ve seen a really cool ad. I add that item into my cart and then I’m, like, I don’t really wanna pay $40 for leggings. I’m just gonna kinda swerve it. But I’ve gone through that whole process. I just didn’t press purchase and then I leave. The thing that’s got me to purchase those yoga pants is because I got an abandoned cart email in my inbox a few hours later.

Vira: 12:27

Happens to me all the time. And not having those emails is just, like, leaving the money on the table. Right? And, often small businesses don’t realize that because they think that email marketing is only for, like, big dogs and stuff like that. We’ll discuss it a bit later, but % emails is actually how you build the relationship with the brand. Because I’ve heard that you need to hear about the brand for, like, 13 times or something just like to Mhmm. Recognize the brand. Right? So one Instagram ad is not enough to start having that relationship with the brand. So that’s an excellent point, Alissa.

Alissa: 13:02

Yeah. No. For sure. And it kinda tying back to what you had just mentioned, Vira. So in email marketing, companies already have a base of subscribers who are actually interested in the subjects that companies send out. So they have people that have an interest because they’ve subscribed. They’ve opted in. Whereas with social media, you don’t have that. With email marketing, you can choose whether or not you wanna open and read the emails. But in social media, you can’t. You’re constantly flogged with ads, and you have to see them whether you like it or not. Now they do have methods in how they can target those ads. But if you’re tired of seeing leggings, you know, it’s you can’t just speak into your phone and say, hey, listen, Instagram. Stop sending me ads about leggings. You know, it’s not that’s not how it works. So with email marketing, it’s nice because there’s a little more strategy around sending personalized and interest based content to people who want to receive that content, not necessarily just targeting twenty to forty year olds who are women that have maybe gone to a gym in the last year, you know? So

Vira: 14:05

Yep.

Alissa: 14:06

Okay. So another study here, according to the fourth source website, 92% of Internet users have at least one email account. This is huge, because this shows that most people actually have an email address, which means that your range of who you can actually reach is way larger than social media. I mean, honestly, like, how many people do you know that do not have any social media accounts? I can name five off the top of my head, and one of those people is actually my husband. Yeah. He’s, like, not about Instagram, doesn’t have any social media. He has a Facebook account but hasn’t logged on in the last six months. I tag him and stuff, and he never likes it or anything. And I’m like, dude.

Vira: 14:47

That’s why he didn’t like your wedding post. Right? Yeah. He doesn’t like the only one on your friends list who didn’t like your wedding pictures.

Alissa: 14:56

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So it’s just because some you can rely on people having an email address or an email account versus having a social media account. You’re way more likely to target that audience that isn’t necessarily plugged in into, like, the social media savvy world, but they are plugged into companies and brands that they’re actually interested in knowing more about. So that’s that’s another big thing. Another kind of and this is sort of like the final fact, hard fact that I’m gonna throw out at all of you is, according to the Red Academy Group, the number of email users will grow to 3,000,000,000 in 2020. I told you this year is crazy. Twenty twenty is like the year of craziness. How many people do you know personally that are actually disabling or deleting their social media accounts these days to help with their mental health or because they don’t use it or because they’re tired of everything that’s going on on social media versus how many people you know that are deleting their email address. There’s no there’s no comparison to me.

Vira: 15:58

Well, basically, to to even register on Facebook or Instagram, you still need to have the email. Right? So it doesn’t have a social media without having an email. So

Alissa: 16:10

Right. Exactly. So, just a couple of perks of email marketing to kinda support all these all these different studies. Email marketing is actually fairly inexpensive in comparison to what a lot of people think. There are even some platforms out there that offer clients the ability to send thousands of emails a month for free, but, of course, to a limited amount of subscribers, but still you’re able to use that platform to send emails for free. That’s crazy. That doesn’t exist with social media. You have to pay for your ads. There’s no there’s no way around it. With email marketing, you also have the ability to AB test what emails work best for different segments of your audience, what emails work best with copy, design. There are thousands and thousands of different tests that you can do with emails. And with emails, you also have the ability to send personalized messages to your subscribers between and you can go anywhere from calling them by their first name to adding a dynamic content block that will show them the exact item that they’re interested in. So going back to that abandonment card example that I was giving before, when I got that email, there was a picture of the exact pair of leggings in the exact color and the exact size that I was looking at. That’s huge. An ad is rare that you see an ad that will do that for you. And when you give that personalized touch in your emails, it’s just there’s such a greater impact. So listen, I know y’all wanna call us bias, call us email nerds, you can call us whatever you want. But there is no denying that email marketing is doing the very opposite of dive dying. It’s actually thriving. And I’m definitely a convert when it comes to that because I thought it was dying and now I know that it’s not. So our our take on that is really as long as you’re investing time, effort, and most importantly, relevant strategy into your emails, there’s that word again, there is no way that you and your e commerce store can’t thrive too. So there’s that. Vira, if you wanna hit us with a couple of your biggest misconceptions about email marketing before you started working in the industry, I’m I’m really keen to know what you thought as well.

Vira: 18:12

Yeah. Well, your email is not wanted. It’s kinda like a big of big misconceptions that I believed in. Like, all email is spam is another big one. And when I try to explain to people, like, what I do, they and I say that I’m in email marketing, they automatically think that I’m sending them those, like, spammy email marketing messages. And, yes, the term spam is very, very scary word in this industry when when it comes to email marketing. But I’ll tell you what, in reality, only about, like, 005% of people will hit this palm button. That’s less than 1%. That’s less basically than one person per 2,000 emails if you think about it. And here at Flowium, our, like, motto or something that we strongly believe in is that delivering the right message to the right person at the right time is is very, very powerful. At Flowium, we consider spam to be any unwanted email. So whether it’s like a batch and blast of emails or just like poor segmentation, spam email is untimely and irrelevant email. And believe me, your customers, they want to hear from you. They just don’t want you to be sending them something that is like not relevant, not interested. And this is where segmentation actually comes, comes into the picture. We tell people to segment their list for many reasons. One of them is to avoid spam folders, obviously. And because email clients like Gmail, or Yahoo, they learn from users behavior. The more people mark your emails as spam, the more email clients see your IP address as the one that is sending this, like, unwanted messages, and that’s when they will begin sending your emails to spam folders in their, emails. So I I had a great example. For example, we have this client who’s selling parrot’s collars. So that’s actually an issue. Yeah. We we worked with, like, gazillion different brands and turned out that, when parrots get anxious, they start, like, plucking their feathers. So she’s selling this, like, super cute little collars to prevent them from plucking. But can you imagine if she would send, like, a promotion for these collars to other pet owners? Because she works with, like, other, pet owners, like cat owners or or dog owners or something. That would simply be irrelevant, and, of course, people don’t wanna be getting, like, this kind of emails. But believe me, as long as you’re providing helpful, informative content, you’re unlikely to be flagged for spam. So for example, there are, like, a few a few brands that I’m, like, opening grill all their emails religiously. I really, really love, this brand called Chubby’s. Mhmm. It’s the, it’s a really fun brand. If you haven’t subscribed to them, you should.

Alissa: 21:07

Oh, they’re the it’s the bathing suit company. Right?

Vira: 21:09

Yeah. I mean, they are selling everything. They are selling Yep. Their originally started the shirts. Yep. So their shirt shirts is their thing. And they are also sending selling, like, all kinds of clothes now, but I’m looking forward to their email every Friday. Or, like, every Tuesday, I wake up to this other newsletter from company called Intelligent Change where they just, like, give you the list of, like, relevant resources for the week. People want to hear from you. People want to have a relationship with your brand if they they want to associate with your brand. And, again, as long as you are providing helpful content, you will unlikely end up in their spam.

Alissa: 21:49

Yeah.

Vira: 21:50

So that that was a that was a big one for me.

Alissa: 21:52

That’s a really good point actually is people people wanna feel like they’re part of a brand that’s bigger than just selling something. They wanna feel like they’re part of something bigger. And if you can form that relationship between your brand and your customer base, then there’s I mean, yeah. You’re gonna win. You’re gonna win no matter what. So that’s a really good point.

Vira: 22:12

And what are your kind of favorite, brands that you’re looking forward to receive emails from?

Alissa: 22:18

So one of the brands that I love is it’s called Andy Swim. They sell bathing suits for women primarily. And now they just launched a maternity line and then also a little kids line, which is really, really cute to look at. But I love their emails, because they send really fun content. And even though it’s a bit of a plug to get you to buy their their bathing suits, which I have two of now, but their their emails are awesome. Like, in the in the height of all the quarantine, they sent out an email that linked you to several different YouTube videos where if you, based on the kind of vacation that you like, So whether you like, being in a hot tub in the mountains or being in a tropical paradise on the beach or something like that, they would give you a recommendation of which bathing suit you should be wearing and then also a link to a YouTube video that would take you to that vacation virtually.

Vira: 23:11

Oh, my goodness. That’s

Alissa: 23:12

It was dude. It was genius. It was it was such a good email because even though I didn’t necessarily purchase a bathing suit from that company, I was on that YouTube video for, like, a good several minutes until I kind of I kinda knocked myself out of it. And I was like, what am I doing? I live I live practically at the beach. So but it was really cool because they they gave the customer an opportunity to be taken through a journey, and you were able to kind of connect and relate to the fact that everyone is suffering through this quarantine and everyone wants to go on a vacation. And and it it helped you feel like you were part of a bit more of a a a greater collective. So, I love their emails. I think they do such a good job. Their design is awesome. They definitely don’t send too many emails. They send them at the right time when there’s new product launching or when there’s a new kind of scheme to their loyalty program or anything like that. So, that’s definitely a brand that I love love love receiving emails from.

Vira: 24:08

And that’s interesting that you mentioned, Ed, because one of my other misconceptions, is that, like, targeted and personalized email marketing is only for, like, big players, you know, only for the big dogs of the industry. That’s actually one of the things that I did not understand before coming into email marketing is that email marketing, a, is not just campaigns, and, b, it’s not just for big, big, expensive brands who can afford this fancy, marketing and who have, like, super long email list. If you thought so too, buckle up because we do have a lot of information to share here. Yeah. When I started to work in the industry, I realized that the heart and the soul of email marketing is actually the automated flows, those, like, highly targeted, very, like, on point automations, and they can be so, so powerful. So, basically, in email marketing, there are two biggest terms, automations, also known as flows, and campaigns. So campaigns are your one time emails that you send to, like, a particular small segments. For example, your fourth of July, your newsletter, your Black Friday promotion, your, donut day. Yes. That’s the thing. Actually, we’ve done it in the past with one of our customers, and this got this, campaign was, like, super successful. Each time you send a campaign, you’ll have to manually build it out. You’ll have to manually, like, create the copy again. You’ll have to create the design every time. So something that people don’t realize is don’t realize often is that flows is actually where all the magic happens. Flows is, like, your automated emails that are based on, like, set of triggers and filters. You can think of this flows as your little, like, employees that are doing your marketing work for you even if you’re even when you are not, like, doing it. And the beauty of this little fairies in the background. %. I I I believe in fairies now. So yeah. So customers will basically enter the flow automatically every time they meet the conditions or do, like, a certain behavior in the flow. So for example, every time someone leaves something in their cart and, like, like, forget about the cart and leave, they will start going through the abandoned cart flow. Or every time they opt in into your newsletter list, they will start going through your welcome series. And and you don’t need to do anything for that. This is like this is the beauty. Right? So these emails are always super timely, super personalized, and super, super relevant to your readers. That’s how, Alissa, that’s how you mentioned, in your example with the bathing suit companies. All of those emails, they were, like, highly, highly relevant to you. They were, like, based on your personal preferences. They were not, like

Alissa: 27:18

Yep.

Vira: 27:18

Sending you gazillions of different irrelevant emails. They were not, like, bombarding you, like, exhausting you almost with the messages. They sent something that specifically Alissa will like. So that’s Right. So that’s kinda like the the beauty of it. And, and as I mentioned, you can set up the email once, and then as more people continue to meet the trigger you defined, the email will continue to be sent, like, without even you having to, like, lift lift a finger. And despite the popular misconception that, by the way, I did have as well, automations are not only for, like, big dogs of ecommerce. Right? A lot a lot of small business owners, can actually, like, benefit from, from, like, email automation. So, Alissa, probably you you have a lot of small businesses that you work, with as well that can, that can benefit from, from email marketing automation. So can you can you give us some, like, cool example of, like, how it can help a little business to to to thrive?

Alissa: 28:30

Sure. Yeah. So, I don’t work with this company specifically, but there is actually a a brand that’s local here to South Florida. It’s called the Hubs and Hers. Mhmm. They’re they have really cool posts on Instagram. They actually find, husband and wife couples all around, South Florida that they they find who’ve purchased their merchandise, and then they take pictures of them and post them all over their Instagram and everything. So it’s cool because you have the opportunity to kind of feature as a brand ambassador without that title, you know? But I recently purchased, a couple of t shirts for my husband and I, through their through their website. And I popped it into my cart and I was like, oh, you know what? I’m gonna leave it and I’ll come back to it later on. And sure enough, like, two hours later, I got an abandoned cart email with a 20% discount. And I was like I was shocked that I got that email because knowing what I know about automations and knowing that I what I know about this very small local brand, most of these most brands don’t have these kinds of automations in place.

Vira: 29:36

Right.

Alissa: 29:36

And it was really impressive to me to see such a small local brand having something like that in in place. So as soon as I got that email, I wanted to take advantage of the 20% anyways. But I bought the product right away, a, because of the discount, but also, b, I was super impressed by the fact that they had something like that in place. So just because you might be a small local brand or you have a small inventory or whatever it is, it does not mean that automations, and I’m sure that Hubs and Hers does really, really well and probably makes a lot of sales just from that abandoned cart flow alone. You know? So it’s, yeah. It’s it’s definitely it’s definitely a misconception that people think, automations are too complex or too complicated, too expensive, whatever it is. But it’s not. They’re easy to put in place, and, it’s a great opportunity to take advantage of of, capitalizing on customers that are just need an extra little push to convert.

Vira: 30:31

Yeah. And knowing what I know about email marketing now and about those automations, I just, like, I’m shocked how often people just, like, decide to leave the money on the table just because they don’t know about the power of this tool. And, like, going back to your abandoned cart example, like, since I work in the industry now, I never purchase anything, like, right away. I always put it in into the card. I leave for, like, a day. And, like, in very, very often, I get some kind of, like, discount or incentive that I can use. And that’s what I I’m telling, like, to all of my girlfriends and all of my friends, like, hey. Don’t don’t buy, like, right away. Just, like, wait for some kind of incentive. Well, anyways, that’s a that’s a really cool little feature. And just think about it. You you mentioned about the small business. As a business owner, you have to think of so many small things. And, like, small business owners, they basically have so many stuff on their plate. The production, distribution, shipping, consulting, support. Often you’re like a one one person show. Right? So and often email marketing does not seem like a high priority. Yeah. But often it is what actually brings sales into the business. Yep. I know because, like, me and my husband, we own a small business and often sales are, like, overlooked. You you you like juggling production. You’re talking to your manufacturer, like, doing the ads and everything. But but email marketing is marketing. Email marketing is what actually, like, converts and what brings sales into the business. Mhmm. And as your business grows, like automation of any kind is, like, inevitable. Right? So better set those system in place proactively, like, early. And, like, I’d say that the very minimum that you can do for your brand are, like, flows, like, welcome flow. So you can start building the relationship with your customer. Post purchase flow, so you can say, like, hey. Thank you for joining the tribe. Here is like, thank you for being in the part of the brand and stuff like that. The abandoned cart is your huge moneymaker as well. So these are the very, like, minimum that you can do, but believe me, email marketing is so much more than, like, this three flows and those, like, few few campaigns. So our our big message is that when your marketing is targeted, when it’s personalized So personalized marketing actually equals relevant marketing. And we will be using this word relevant so many times because this what the entire owned marketing is about relevant marketing drives revenue. So that’s that’s why we are actually so passionate about what we do.

Alissa: 33:13

Yeah. It’s true. I’m a little nervous here. I feel like we’re giving away all our email marketing secrets to everybody. People everyone’s gonna discover the abandonment cart situation and all the customers that we know for our clients are gonna start waiting for that that next discount email.

Vira: 33:28

Come on, Alissa. You know that email marketing is so much more than than that one, abandoned cart flow. But, hey, that’s why we created this, podcast. Right? So we can share the how tos of the industry. Because, again, we believe that email marketing is, like, affordable tool that, like, any kind of business can benefit from. For sure. Even if you, like, even if you don’t have, like, gazillion people on your email list, still take the advantage of this tool. That’s that’s what we are here for. We’ll be, like, giving you a lot of, like, secrets and how to, so stay tuned.

Alissa: 34:05

Yeah. I love it. I love it. So, before we wrap up, just a quick other component to most of our episodes that you’ll see is, we wanna hear back from all of you. As you’re listening to our podcast episodes, we wanna hear what you have to say. We wanna know about your questions. Are there certain things that you wanna know more about for email marketing? So, every week, what we’re gonna start doing is answering a community question at the end of each episode. In order to send over your questions, best way to do that is to submit them directly to, Vira and myself, Alissa. So, you can either send your questions to vira@flowium.com. So that’s v i r a @flowium.com or Alissa, a l I s s a @flowium.com. The other thing to note is we do have a Facebook community. It’s called Klaviyo Community. It’s a Facebook group that is open to the public, so you’re more than welcome to join and put your questions in there. And we’ve built up a bit of a community, so we have people answering for each other and and providing tips and feedback and things like that. So, we definitely wanna make email marketing something that is more accessible for everybody, and that’s really why we’re here. So, make sure that you take advantage of these of these resources that we have for all of you so that we can, we can all grow together a little more in email marketing.

Vira: 35:26

Yay. Thank you, Alisa. We’re so excited to be here. You guys stay tuned. We will be releasing one episode per week and a lot of cool and exciting stuff are coming. So stay tuned.

Alissa: 35:38

Awesome. Thanks, guys.

Vira: 35:39

Thanks, guys. Bye.