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How To Use The Drip Email Marketing System

One of the unfortunate things about this email marketing system is that it shares the same name as a marketing strategy. I sometimes ask myself if the creators were thinking about that juxtaposition in the strategy of marketing vs the software they created. But, what the video below is about is how to use drip email marketing system.

Now if you haven’t a clue as to what Drip is, then I invite you to press play on the video below and get a taste of the goodness that Drip is. During this video I will take you through how Drip does, or handles the various areas that a marketing email program usually provides for users such as you.

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After watching this I’m sure you have more questions – or your ready to give Drip a trial run by using your full fledged 14 day trial! In that spirit, I did create more videos all about Drip so that you have the best opportunity to know what Drip is and if it’s for you.

So let’s dig in and follow along on the instructional for using Drip.

One of the best things about using drip is that they charge you based on your total amount of subscribers across all your accounts. I know that other companies will charge you based on your accounts and subscribers. Not so with Drip.

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Currently the rate for new business owners starts at $19/mo

I have seen how much Drip has changed their platform so that they are in the conversation with other bloggers.

In the past they have solely been after the e-commerce business owner and they still are making that business owner their avatar.

HOWEVER…

They are now making it much easier to be a blogger, marketer, or most any business owner on the internet to have an interest in using Drip.

I’ve been using them for quite a while now (about 5 years) and love what they have done with the space they own on the internet.

One of the biggest complaints that bloggers had with Drip was the VERY PLAIN LOOKING forms that were the default. They simply told us to find a programmer and get the forms branded or just learn how to use CSS to make the forms look better.

NOW, things have changed so much and I’m very proud to be using these forms that they provide.

If you’ve been around much on my social accounts or on this blog, you know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE automation!

Drip makes automation very simple and basically anyone can do these automations to manage your account. Using workflows to get those who bailed on their shopping cart for one reason or another, to going out to find the “lost” subscribers and inviting them back to your world with a simple automation.

Time Savers For The Win!

Templates are a great way to save time with your emails. I use them for different subject matter to a different campaign format. It just makes it quick and easy to send out a nice looking email knowing all the formatting is done. Just type your email and click send!

Whether you are a beginner business owner or an advanced emailer / business owner, drip can and does make your life better, by presenting a great way to grab subscribers with their forms, to giving great customer service to those who need questions answered.

There are many more instructional posts for Drip on my blog here as well as on YouTube

If you’re searching for a new email system, I know there are steps to finding out everything you need to know about email systems. You first want to know the price and if it’s in your budget and then how does it stack up against the competition.

Best Email Autoresponder For Bloggers

Email Services for Bloggers

Bloggers are a breed all by themselves. To point a entire company towards them can be risky. However, there are companies that do just that. That’s why I’m going to show you why you need to have an email autoresponder and which company is the best email autoresponder for bloggers.

In a very weird world we live in right now (#2020). Strange enough, Blogging has turned into a much bigger industry that it ever has in the past. This is due to the fact that there are more people working from home than ever before.

In fact, a study that ConvertKit did recently shows that bloggers who use email marketing earn 447% more income than those who do not use email.

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Pretty encouraging to see stats like that roll through to support your blogging dreams and goals!

Drip offers an RSS feature (which must be activated by request) for bloggers. This feature will create an email digest plus the most recent post. All you need to do is review and publish.

There would be a lot less hesitancy to give the company a test drive with your blog.

Experience Matters

I’ve found that if the email marketing doesn’t feel right, then it’s time to move on and look for a better solution. Drip is what I’m using now for about 5 years and haven’t left them. I’m not going to put out a false hope that one company can satisfy your needs for a lifetime, which is why I take a look around occasionally to see what’s out there.

GetResponse was my very first email company, Convertkit, and MailChimp. These are all very good places to land a blog and but with each of them, I was not satisfied with one thing or another.

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Let’s dig in to those things and that will explain why I am using Drip, and why I believe it’s the best email autoresponder for bloggers.

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As you can tell from the video above, there’s a reason for my love for Drip. The biggest one was once not a feature (price) but now it surely is.

If you’re not currently setup for a blog, here’s a solid guide to get you started.

Now that the price is in almost everyones reach, the features are going to help you get started with your blog as well as any ecommerce you want to include on said blog. The choice is yours!

Automation

One of the best features of email systems is their ability to use automation. I’ve said this many times before. Automation is what enables the “laptop lifestyle”.

In an email marketing system such as Drip, you will see different things that you can setup but none of them work unless you have a workflow setup with rules.

Workflows are the basis of automation and if your email marketing system doesn’t offer workflows, they are about 10 years behind the curve, and it’s time to find a new system to use.

I’m really not aware of any of these competing companies that do not offer workflows or their variation of what a workflow consists of. Perhaps they call it something different.

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There are several companies that do a pretty good job with regards to getting your email(s) send and into the inbox. Alternatively, some companies are sending directly to the junk or spam folders. This sort of thing needs you to change companies for at least 6 months and by that time you’re already giving your time to a company that IS working for you.

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Companies that I would say are in the best interest for you are

…and there are at least a handful more that you could decide to partner up with to do your email marketing.

Again, the company may have prices out of your budget at the current moment. The other things that help you with deciding which company to land as your email marketing are as follows.

  1. Price (as discussed above)
  2. Ease of use
    1. is the graphical interface easy to understand?
    2. Can automation be implemented simply?
  3. What topics will get you banned
    1. Yes, some email providers will ban you for marketing certain companies, such as CBD.
  4. Customer service
    1. Response time
    2. helpfulness

The End Result

These are the top of mind items that people use to decide what email provider they are going to choose. However, the one that I left out is one that we don’t think about because it’s what our emotions tell us is the right thing to do.

Granted, this post will not attempt to pull the emotions but rather give you the facts about which email autoresponder is best for bloggers.

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Stay tuned, as I’ll be doing a review on the different email autoresponders that bloggers generally use in future posts. I hope that this post helped you get a sense of what the Best Email Autoresponder for Bloggers are in the marketplace.

How Does Drip Compare to Other Email Marketing Systems

Drip Email Marketing Review

Hey this is Jon. And today we’re going to talk a little bit about e-mail. In fact, what we are going to do in this post is learn more about how does drip compare to other email marketing systems!

Now, the e-mail automation that I’m using or that I’m going to do a review on the drip e-mail marketing review that I’m going to do, Is called drip. Obviously, because it’s a really good way to do your marketing.

Marketing is also when you are dripping on people. You know there’s a metaphor there. So, they called themselves Drip and they’re also the same people that own Leadpages (at the time of this recording). So, if they do great in Leadpages and they give you the sales tools why wouldn’t they help you further in the process and help you in your email.

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I do a video every single week and we’re going to start out doing some drip e-mails and going through how to use drip and what scenarios are best for certain people and really dig down deep on what kind of things you can do with Drip. Also how to use their liquid programming language.

Customer Service

Drip has the best customer service and it’s as fast as a click down at the bottom right hand part of your screen. You may be seeing a trend of companies going away from the phone method of doing customer service. That’s all by design due to the cost of manning phones. They certainly are doing an amazing job with their offering of email or chat. Usually if i need to get in touch with someone asap, I can check to see if they are on line at the moment. if not, I’ll use the email option which is responded to the next day or as soon as they receive the email.

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How Does Drip Compare to Other Email Marketing Systems?

Drip is a forerunner to all the other email marketing systems because it gives us the ability to run campaigns with ease. these campaigns can be made to segment your list so that you are not spending unnecessary money on people that do not respond to your emails.

Sure there are other systems that offer the same segmentation but when it comes to ease of use, I believe that Drip will make your digital email marketing much easier. Take, for instance, Automation.

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Their automation in my opinion is awesome because you set it up one time and it goes. I’ve learned so much from using the customer service help as well.

Automation is the key to your marketing. if you are marketing well, you know there’s no stress involved when you’ve got your automation running. Drip automation involves workflows, campaigns, triggers, and tags. These are the tools you have to help you deliver the right message at the right time.

There’s so many things you can do with Drip. Automation is where it’s at in today’s marketplace.

There are more and more going towards the ECRM (Electronic Customer Relationship Manager) way of doing things. So the next thing you really want to have in place, and this is huge, is deliverability.

That is another key point in drip because they are 99.9% deliverable and as long as you stay in the value group, you’re going to be at 99.9 percent. This will definitely help you stay relevant in your niche. So when it comes to knowing how does drip compare to other email marketing systems, the feeling is a great one even an hour, day, week, month, year in.

ONE CAVEAT TO DELIVERABILITY

You know it’s only the user that’s going to say things like

  • “I don’t really want to receive emails from you”
  • “I don’t really want to see this anymore and now I’ll put you in the spam folder.”
  • “I get too much email already and don’t have time to read your email.

you just cannot get around people like that because we all have lives to live. It might mean you’re creating too much noise in their world? This is why you should always send an email asking them about their situation. Provide them a way to bundle your communications with them. Drip does this really well by the way.

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Of course, you will definitely need to learn what the average deliverability is for your niche. Some are way different than others. When you know your stats, then you can tell if you are on a platform that has low deliverability or you have been pegged by the platform as a spammer.

How Drip Handles Spammers

I learned this ten years ago when I was spamming a lot of people. When you’re new, you don’t know any different. I had emails that I wanted to get out to my people that were on my list and they weren’t getting them or they were going to the spam/junk folder.

That’s just as bad as not sending an email, right?

I think back then I was at .2 percent that were actually getting the emails and I later found out that this particular platform labeled me as a spammer and they put me in a IP range that didn’t send out that well. So you have to be giving great value and always doing someone that is known for giving value. If you need a little help from a seasoned pro that travels all over, Gary Vaynerchuk is that guy. He’s a bit in your face but maybe that’s what you need to get off your butt to do something. I highly recommend his book that was written several years ago because it’s still relevant: The book is called, “Jab Jab Jab Right Hook“.

Ease of Use

The ease of use is the next on the list. It’s based on a great method of graphical presentation so you can understand what and where things are. You’ve got people instead of subscribers. It’s more personable but you’re going to have so many things presented in front of you when you first log in.

You’re going to see a graph of:

  • How your blog is doing
  • Your email stats
  • First time visitors you have on your blog.

Lastly I would like to point out that the price of drip for a 0-500 subscribers (people) is $19.

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Now I have to admit, at the time of this recording the price was $49 and it wasn’t cheapest because there are other ones out there that were much cheaper. I think when I started it was 12 dollars a month with a different provider, and went up to 15 for others and eventually other ones that start at $30. As far as price, I’ve seen some that I go up to $300 a month. They also have many more things that they can offer and personally I don’t want them handling all of my marketing because if one thing goes down it can wreak havoc on all of your marketing. Simply put, you want to have items of your marketing in different locations.

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My Thoughts On Using Drip vs Other Email Marketing Systems

Now this review is slightly biased but not because Drip is sponsoring me. I would only get a commission when you decide to continue past the 14 day trial period, or just purchase a monthly or yearly subscription. it is my sincere hope that you take the 14 day trial after reading or watching my drip email marketing review.

The others email marketing systems I ‘ve used seem to be out of their league when trying to match what Drip has to offer. The original email systems have been in the business a long time and I would have thought that they would be jumping on the changes in the industry trying to make it easier to market businesses that are using their service.

The only system that I found that is close to Drip is ConvertKit. The ideas they have work well because of the programming language they use. This language is the exact same one as Drip. So, of course, it makes sense how well they match up to Drip.

The others email marketing systems are tough to compare even though they are in the email marketing system niche. So in future blogs and videos, I’ll be doing comparisons of each system that is after your hard earned money.

I’m giving you the review because it’s what i use and I think you could get great value out of using it in your business as well. So, if you’re ready to try out Drip, I encourage you to go for it! See you in the next blog post and/or video.

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I know that this is just one topic on using Drip, and you can go through the entire series which is located on either Rumble, or YouTube. There, you’ll be able to go through all the videos – or just search this site for all posts that I have done regarding Drip Email Marketing

How To Add Opt In Forms To WordPress

In today’s vastly improving technology we have so much at the tips of our hands. We have email opt in forms that seem like they just appear without doing any real work. So in this post, I’m going to help you get your email opt in forms added so that you can begin collecting emails from your WordPress blog.

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Types of Forms

When adding forms to a WordPress blog, you have a choice of whether you want to have a pop up form, embedded form, or in the case with Drip, a slide out form. This will work with WordPress as well. However, if you choose the free plan, it may be more difficult to integrate Drip into the free blogs.

The email provider we will be using today is Drip. This is mainly because that’s who I’m using for emails these days.

…and I absolutely love them!

Here’s how simple it is to add opt in forms to WordPress using Drip.

at the onset, you are telling drip you would like to add a form to your blog. That part is quite simple.

You’ll get a pop up similar to what is pictured above. I’ve gone ahead and typed in the name ‘Test form’ as well as added a tag for those that submit the form. In this case, I’ve added “Blog_visit” as the tag.

In real world situations, you’d probably place a tag describing the form purpose, such as “Best PDF download for my program”.

Next, you’ll need to decide what is the form type that you want to add to your WordPress blog?

In this example, you see that the popup form is selected. However that is not the only choice.

Different Types of Drip Forms

  • Exit -Intent Popup Form
  • Side Tab Form (slide in)
  • Embedded HTML Form (visuals have vastly improved)

after making the selection of which form you what to add to your blog, simply click the create form button.

Subsequently, you will see a screen that looks like the photo above. This is where you will customize the look and feel of the form.

You’ll start off by choosing the fields you would like to collect from your soon to be subscriber.

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After you have customized this, move on to the design portion of the form.

Designing Your Form

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As you can see, this process is literally holding you to each step and helping you design the form by using colors, font sizes on the Style tab. Then on the text tab you are able to choose a title for the Form as well as a description.

Lastly, as you can see you are able to choose an image which Drip suggests that it be at least 300px wide. In my photos, I aim to upload an image that is (300px wide by 450px tall) so that it fills up the area that is meant for the image.

Choosing When The Form Pops Up

The next part of creating this form is to tell Drip what the behavior of the form will be. As you can see there’s a time delay, after scrolling to a certain point in the blog, or on the click of a link or button or via the JS API.

What Do You Want The Form To Do?

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Lastly, you’ll need to tell Drip how to proceed once the form is submitted. It’s as simple as that to insert a form to a WordPress blog. This can be done on each blog page or assigned to a certain tag that you create on your blog, The sky is really the limit here on how to apply each form.

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The Best Review Of The Drip Email Marketing System

Best Review Of The Drip Email Marketing System

In today’s post, we are going to review one of the top email marketing systems around call Drip. So sit back, relax, and let’s dig into this best review of the drip email marketing system.

Are you stuck and not sure what to do with your email marketing? Perhaps digging into your current email system seems like it’s just too much to learn and master?

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Review of The Drip Email Marketing System

so when it comes to doing reviews, I tend to go into the informational part of the review so that you can see how things work and get an idea of where I’m coming from when doing the review.

I know that it’s better to show than write about this and that’s why I have a video for you to watch here:

In case you really want to dig in, This video starts off the series of videos all about Drip.

The first thing that I would like to point out about Drip is Automation. This is what really got me sold in the beginning. I used to be with other email systems that said the automation was superior but when I attempted to apply my marketing to it. I was always going up against workflows not working. I’m hoping that they got their act together (they are still in business).

What Exactly Do You Use In Automation?

Automation is run by workflows. In almost all cases, you’re going to see the use of triggers, tags, goals, lead scores and conversions. This is across the board in email marketing.

However, you will see this presented to the user in a way that makes sense and is easy to use. I’ll be doing videos about this in future posts so that you can get a really good grasp on this for your marketing.

Triggers are a new technology within email marketing and Leadpages and Drip have this in place. What is it?

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Triggers That Automate

If you’re new to email marketing, you might be wondering what triggers are and what they do.

In short you are going to love them because they will do more automation for you on different platforms such as your blog.

Triggers are converted links that allow you to place the link anywhere (social media, your blog, or drip account). These converted links will act just as if you were sending an email and the subscriber clicked the link.

One caveat: you have to have a cross-domain tracking setup.

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Now, I mentioned in the video that Leadpages and Drip were both the same company. That is no longer true as Leadpages has split off from Drip. My guess is that there will be many more great things happening to Drip now that they have split off from each other. Time will tell and yes, I will do a video on these new things that come out.

This is a review and not a cheerleading post, so onward with the review of the drip email marketing system

The Downside of Drip

Some of the liquid is the programming language and it is a bit more advanced and needs to have someone who has dealt with this to handle any of this implementation.

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The other thing that I didn’t like at all with Drip was the form integration with your blog. The design was flat-out ugly. Of course, you can do some CSS to spruce it up to match your brand but I’m guessing not many bloggers know how to do CSS because they blog, not code or do graphic design.

As of this writing, there are some slight improvements in the embedded form (see above – and subscribe).

If you’re looking for a knock your socks off sort of form, you’re not going to get it (yet – crossing my fingers) from Drip. The forms were a point of contention for me because ConvertKit was much better at doing this for bloggers.

Drip Pricing

The other item I wasn’t excited about was the price. the lowest was set at $49/month. Now that has changed (after the recording of this video on youtube)

Now the prices are much different and start out with better package deals.

This price goes up to $29 and stays there until you reach 2501 subscribers, which THEN it’s a $49/month investment.

If you want a really good email marketing system and don’t want to pay the price of the ultra-expensive, you will be absolutely happy with DRIP.

The integrations that you have access to with Drip is mind-boggling. If you have your own courses to sell and you want to put them into a place such as WooCommerce (which integrates with WordPress seamlessly) you can run automation with this plug into your blog with just a few clicks.

Here are the top integrations listed on Drips website…

Another feature I absolutely love is that in my workflows, I can automatically build my Facebook custom audience by either adding to or removing subscribers.

As you can see on the list to the left, there are many more topics to peruse of integrations.

Does it seem like I’m just overjoyed about using Drip? Well, you’re spot on with that deduction.

There really is so much more to tell you about but, in the interest of time and my ability to create videos that go over such things, I’m going to give you a chance to subscribe to my email and get a notification when I upload a new youtube video. Yes, these will also be here on my blog as well.

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