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UK AI Chipmaker Graphcore Acquired by SoftBank
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SoftBank, a Japanese multinational, has formally acquired Graphcore, a UK-based AI chipmaker. The terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but Graphcore's CEO Nigel Toon has confirmed that the acquisition is a positive outcome for the company.
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Founded in 2016 in Bristol, Graphcore has developed a new type of processor called an "intelligence processing unit" (IPU), designed specifically for AI workloads. The company had raised around $700 million since its inception and was valued at nearly $3 billion in 2020. Despite its promising start, Graphcore faced challenges, including the loss of potential lucrative cloud deals and a forced exit from China due to US export rules.
The acquisition by SoftBank, which has a history of investing in UK semiconductor companies, including Arm, is seen as a strategic move to bolster its AI aspirations. SoftBank has been expanding its presence in the AI space, investing in data centers, robotics, and semiconductors.
Graphcore's CEO Nigel Toon has expressed optimism about the acquisition, stating that there will be no layoffs and the company plans to add to its headcount in the UK. Both Toon and CTO Simon Knowles will remain in their executive and directorship roles.
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While Graphcore's early promise may not have been fully realized, the acquisition by SoftBank is seen as a positive step forward for the company and the AI industry as a whole.
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ough the original HipChat terms as much as we should have, and they have caused considerable pain for many users over the years. (Note to other startups: get someone to look over your terms because they're tough to change!) Anyway, we know this stuff can be boring, but it's important, so we hope you'll take the time to read them.
Here's an overview of the major differences between the HipChat terms and privacy policy and the Atlassian terms that will replace them:
- The Atlassian terms are better for your company. The Atlassian terms have the structure and provisions that many businesses expect, which larger companies may appreciate. These include more specific termination provisions (rather than the right to terminate in our sole discretion), as well more favorable liability limitations for paying customers. Atlassian's liability for paid accounts is now capped at amounts we've received from you in the last 12 months, rather than $100. In addition, the Atlassian terms include liability caps and disclaimers for customers, rather than being only in Atlassian's favor. - To accommodate our increased liability to paying customers, our liability for free products is being reduced to $20.
- The Atlassian terms require binding arbitration for disputes. As HipChat grows, we need to have a cost-effective alternative to going to court. Our terms now mandate that we resolve disputes via arbitration. We expect binding arbitration to help contain legal costs and offer a faster path to resolution for both parties.
- The Atlassian terms include a more comprehensive privacy policy. The Atlassian Privacy Policy covers the information we collect and how we use that information in much more detail. For example, it includes an explicit discussion of how we collect analytics information to improve our products and services. This analytics information could include elements of user content related to the function being performed.
- The Atlassian terms allow companies to access 1-to-1 chat history (for future chats, not retroactively). The Atlassian Privacy Policy also removes a HipChat restriction that has caused a lot of confusion for business customers. Under HipChat's support documentation (which is referenced in the HipChat privacy policy), HipChat administrators cannot view other users' 1-to-1 chat history or the files that were shared. In many cases, this is inconsistent with an employer's policy about employee communications occurring in the workplace, which employers typically have the right to access. Under the Atlassian Privacy Policy, HipChat administrators will have the right to access all information in the HipChat accounts they manage, including 1-to-1 chat history and files shared in those 1-to-1 chats. The HipChat Specific Terms require customers (e.g. the account holder) to secure all required consents from users to allow for this level of access. Note that this change does not apply retroactively; 1-to-1 chats occurring before the Atlassian terms become effective are still covered by the prior HipChat policies.
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Adopting the Atlassian terms will bring HipChat in line with the other Atlassian products you might be using and will help us stay focused on building a great product for you. If you have any questions you can direct them to customer-agreement@hipchat.com.
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—Michael and Lorna 116. Subject: Important Cameo App Update Body: Hi there,
Three years ago, the Cameo team set off with a big mission: to make filmmaking more accessible and fun. We were amazed at the response from our community, and continue to be inspired by the films you create. We also heard a lot of great feedback and ideas directly from people like you.
With this feedback, we spent over a year at Vimeo designing and building a brand-new app. The new Cameo app has tons of great features, like full HD editing and rendering, completely customizable themes, and more refined editing controls (just to name a few).
As we focus our attention on the new app, we will be shutting down version 1.0 of Cameo. The original version of Cameo will no longer function after Thursday, October 1.
You can continue to edit your current project, just make sure to finish and save it by October 1. You can save all your existing videos to your Camera Roll via the app, or you can use this easy web tool to transfer all your videos at once: Save your Cameo videos
If you haven’t checked out the new app, we highly recommend downloading it for free: Download the brand-new Cameo
Should you have any questions or need help, please let us know.
Thanks for all your support and feedback over the past year and a half! We’re excited to be entering this next phase of an even- more-awesome Cameo.
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TL;DR We’re focusing on the all-new, all-awesome Cameo 2.0 app. The original Cameo app will no longer function after Thursday October 1. Save your videos via the app or the manage tool on the web, and download the brand new Cameo app in the App Store. 117. Subject: Our #1 most-requested feature: grocery delivery is back! Body: It's here: the moment you've been waiting for! We’re excited to announce same-day grocery delivery via PlateJoy + Instacart, to make healthy eating effortless.
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106. Subject: HipChat Security Notice: Account Password Reset Body: Hello Mathilde,
This weekend, our Security Intelligence Team detected an incident affecting HipChat.com that may have resulted in unauthorized access to user account information (including name, email address and hashed password). HipChat hashes passwords using bcrypt with a random salt. In our security investigation, we found no evidence of unauthorized access to financial and/or credit card information. We can also confirm that we have found no evidence of other Atlassian systems or products being affected.
As an added precaution, we have reset the password for your HipChat account. Please go to https://www.hipchat.com/forgot_password and enter your email address to trigger a password reset email for your www.hipchat.com account.
If you have been using your HipChat password on other sites, services or online accounts, we recommend that you immediately change those passwords as well.
Please refer to the HipChat Blog at http://blog.hipchat.com for additional information about this incident. We regret any disruption this may have caused and appreciate your immediate attention. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact HipChat Support via our support portal or by sending email directly to support@hipchat.com.
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in stability problems that disproportionally hit longer-term customers, including ourselves. Since all Evernote employees are power users by definition, no one is more motivated to make Evernote better just for the sake of our own productivity and sanity. I’ve never seen people happier to just fix bugs.
Quality improvements are the sort of thing that you ought to show, not just talk about, so we hadn’t planned on discussing this theme until closer to the end of 2014. However, Jason’s article hit too close to home to leave unremarked, so I decided to be up front about what we’ve done in the past few months and what we’re going to do in the next few.
Staffing
Today, there are 164 engineers and designers working at Evernote. About 150 of them are currently assigned to our core software products. The total number will increase quite a bit in 2014, but the proportion will stay the same: over 90% of our resources will go towards improving our core experiences.
Past Two Months: Stability
Starting last November, our first priority was to drastically improve the stability and performance of our main apps, especially for long-term users with many notes. We’ve made significant progress, and Evernote is measurably less buggy than it was two months ago.
We’re starting to see the initial results of this effort in our app store ratings. For instance, when we started this effort in November, Evernote for iOS 7 was at a frustratingly low 2 stars. Today, it’s at 4.5. Our customer support volumes for iOS have been cut by more than half: from an average of 366 per day in November, to 148 now. We’ve made similar improvements to many of the other apps as well. I’m proud of the progress we’ve made in this area, but just because an app has a good rating, doesn’t mean that our work is finished; there are countless improvements to stability and performance that we’ll continue to make.
These are recent improvements, but the perception of stability is a lagging indicator of actual stability; you judge how solid or buggy an app feels based on your past few months of experience with it. So even though Evernote is a lot better already, and will get much better still, it’ll take longer for this feeling to really sink in. We understand that we have to maintain a high level of quality for the long term, if we want Evernote to be seen as a truly high-quality product.
Near Future: Design and Simplicity
As we get nearer to achieving our stability and performance goals, we’ve turned our attention to the other important component of quality: great design. Over the next few months, we’ll be releasing new versions of all the apps that incorporate our many lessons learned about what does and doesn’t work. All of our apps will be getting significant improvements and simplifications to the user experience starting in the next few weeks. The five most important areas of improvement that we’re targeting on all platforms are note editing, navigation, search, sync and collaboration.
Our new philosophy is to find every spot in our products where we’ve been forced to make a trade-off between doing what’s simple and doing what’s powerful, then rethink it so that the simplest approach is also the most powerful. We know we’ve found a good design for something when that conflict disappears. It feels like magic when that happens, and we’ll have several bits of magic in the coming months.
I turned 42 yesterday, which is the year that, according to classics of western literature, life, the universe and everything will start to make sense. This isn’t the way I imagined it starting, but I’m glad to have the chance to tell you what we started a few months ago, and what we’re going to be focusing on in 2014.
Thanks to Jason and to the millions of Evernote users who depend on us every day and who go through the effort of fighting for a better Evernote. Our goal isn’t to have a product that’s just good enough that users rely on it despite its warts, it’s to have a world class product, built with solid[...]
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We've been having a ton of fun with video lately here at Drift.
So today we launched a new weekly video series called Office Hours.
Each week we're going to take questions from customers, fans, and friends -- and share a little bit of the behind the scenes stuff that we're doing here at Drift.
Here's the first episode (and a little bit more on our blog).
- Dave
PS. I took a ton of heat for my "outfit" in this video. I didn't get the memo from Cara that we were supposed to dress nice 😂 97. Subject: how we use Drift (200 spots open) Body: We're running two free sessions this month where we break down how we use Drift every day.
(We try and keep it small so there are only 200 spots open for February).
I'm going to tell you the story of Kevin.
He's one of our top sales reps here at Drift, and last month he closed 81 deals.
And he didn't have to make a single cold call.
I'm not kidding.
He sits right across from me.
Anyway.
Imagine you could close deals without making cold calls or sending cold emails?
That's exactly what Kevin is doing.
See, 9 out of 10 people want to use messaging to talk to businesses these days, and Kevin has figured out how to crack that channel for sales.
His messages routinely get 50% click rates because he can be super targeted (and he has to keep messages short and engaging).
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Dave 98. Subject: Milestones: we've hit 1,000 customers! Body: Hi there,
It's been a big month at Clearbit, and I wanted to share a few things with you all.
First, we've officially hit 1,000 business customers and 100,000 daily active users across all our products. Both huge milestones for us and we couldn't be more excited about what's next.
Second, we recently launched the new clearbit.com, beautifully re-designed to help our different user groups quickly find the solutions and products that fit their needs.
Third, our team has taken a deep dive on the subject of lead qualification – one of the most common ways our customers first use Clearbit data. We've read everything we can find on the subject and combined that with what we've learned from our customers to write our own Modern Guide to Lead Qualification. As an added bonus, we've also put together a guide to building your own lead qualification system within Salesforce.
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about it?
- What would compel you to start using it on a regular basis?
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It’s been a few months since we’ve seen you, and well… we kinda miss you! Since our Magic 8-Ball told us you missed us too, swing by our blog to read about what we’ve been doing. We’ve got some new features we’re really proud of and we’ve been showcasing some great event stories lately.
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- The Eventbrite Team 87. Subject: Was Pipedrive recommended by a friend? Body: Ashley,
That’s how we get most of our new customers, by our current users recommending us to their friends. Here’s what they say about us:
"Best program we have used for tracking sales. We have tried many others but this is the first one that the sales guys really like and most importantly... they use it!" Dan Seto, COO and Founder, CircuitMeter Inc.
"Simple interface, without a lot of clutter. A tool that can actually be used without a mile-high learning curve. More time working, less time wrestling with software." John Wahl, Insurance Agent.
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See why thousands of sales teams use Pipedrive to increase sales productivity.
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-Kipp 89. Subject: Stay in Touch! Body: Hi,
I'm sad to see you go, but I want to let you know that you don't have to be a Treehouse student to enjoy the free content that we offer:
- The Treehouse blog (http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/) offers news, tutorials, and articles from industry professionals.
- The Treehouse YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/gotreehouse/videos) puts out educational videos every week.
If you ever want to reactivate your account, it's really easy. Just click here!
Before I let you go, here are some interesting stats on Treehouse students.
Treehouse Students:
- Typically increase their salary by 30% after only three months of learning.
- Earn $10,000 more per year, after only six months of learning.
- Typically earn $73,000 per year (41% higher than the national average) after learning web design.
Good luck and thanks for giving Treehouse a chance!
Faye Bridge
Treehouse Community Manager 90. Subject: Give / Get Body: Hey,
Henry here, head of product at Cloudapp. I hope you don’t mind me reaching out but i noticed you've slowed your usage of CloudApp recently. I was wondering if you could spare a second to let me know what you thought of the product and what we could improve on?
In return, I’ve gone ahead and added one month of the pro plan to your account for free. Just click this button to enable it:
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Thanks so much in advance for any thoughts on what we can improve. Hearing from you is how we get better.
Henry and the team 91. Subject: The most popular integrations for your dashboard Body: Hi Ashley,
We figured it would be a good idea to share the integrations our users love the most. They’ve all said bye-bye to manual reports and embraced the ease of real-time access to their most im[...]
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We're happy you're here.
When you created Front Onboarding, we didn't ask you to set a password. It's time to do that now.
If you don't set a password within two days, we'll automatically log you out. 72. Subject: Thanks for Subscribing! Body: Welcome to the Zapier blog!
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Read Our Most Recent Post 73. Subject: Thanks a billion Body: Thanks for helping us reach a huge milestone!
We just had our greatest month ever for video impressions. In January, videos shared using Graybo generated over 1,000,000,000 impressions - that’s a lot of zeros!
Want to learn how we did it?
Yes! (button) 74. Subject: tookapic turns one! Body: Hi, Pawal here. It’s hard to describe how excited we are. On October 9th last year the very first photo was uploaded to tookapic.
We’ve created a little page to celebrate our first 365 days. We made it! We’re proud. We’re thankful. We’re motivated! We want to thank you all for being with us.
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On Friday, MINDBODY hit an important milestone. We successfully completed our IPO and started trading publicly on the NASDAQ as “MB.”
Every vision starts somewhere; ours started in my garage 15 years ago. Since those early days, our efforts have been inspired by the wellness community. The amazing teachers, trainers, stylists, therapists and coaches who help us all live healthier, happier lives. We share your passion and it drives us every day.
To the millions of wellness business owners and professionals practicing around the world, and to the hundreds of millions of people they serve, we dedicate this IPO to you.
We are grateful for the businesses you run, the lives you change and the good work you do each day. Thank you.
Now, our focus is to build even more powerful products and services for you and to reach even more people like you.
By doing so, the MINDBODY Team intends to to continue leveraging technology to improve the wellness of the world.
We thank you for your business and look forward to serving you for many years to come.
Rick Stollmeyer
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As you’re gearing up for a big launch, send an email in the week leading up to it informing your users or waiting list subscribers of the launch. This gets them excited about what’s to come and reminds them about your product.
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Targeting people who work for companies in the right industry can be a great way to segment your traffic. Be sure to test multiple audiences as performance can be very different depending on how they're bucketed by the advertising platform. This tactic works particularly well in B2B advertising.
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When you want to reach your current audience of fans with ads on Facebook, target them by choosing “People who like your Page” in the Targeting section of Facebook’s ad creation. You can go a step further by targeting the friends of your fans to further expand your reach.
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Pull people back to your site with a CTA on your YouTube videos. Add an annotation link, a link in the video description, or directly reference your site and URL in your video.
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Data Blog Post: Click here to view resource
Content around interesting data you have on your users or industry is a great way to get attention and PR for your business. You collect a lot of data and insights about your customers that can shine a revealing light on different parts of your industry and your own business’ performance. Sharing that data with the world as content is sure to grab attention with journalists and in your industry.
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Get press by scraping emails from journalists and emailing them to write up an article about you. Ensure you're only targeting journalists who write articles relevant to your business/products. Draw their interest with a highly catered email referencing a specific article they wrote and why they and their audience would be interested in hearing more about you.
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Add a link back to your landing page or to a page specific to the content of the video in the YouTube video description. It serves as a great way to direct an audience of interested viewers that want to learn more right back to your page.
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When trying to reach specific individuals who have indicated that they need something similar to your product, try reaching out to them in direct private messages on social networks or aggregators like Reddit. They’ve already expressed an interest and informing them of your product is a great way to introduce yourself and let them know it exists. As you see people talking about the needs your product covers, send them a quick personal introductory note.
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When you send emails at "3pm" you aren't really hitting your users at that time - for some people in earlier time zones it's early morning, and late evening for others. Using something like Mailchimp's Time Warp or Intercom's advanced time zone feature, you can make sure it hits them at the right time.
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Experiment with the number of hashtags you add to your social posts to find optimum engagement levels. Readers on different social media platforms respond differently to hashtags, so be sure to vary your approach based on what works best for each platform. If you normally use only one hashtag, try two or more. If you use a lot of hashtags, try toning it down. Use whatever works best for each platform to increase click rates and social sharing.
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Another SEO best practice for all blogs, instead of having random strings or the blog post title as your URL, use the keyword you’re trying to rank the blog post for as your URL slu[...]
it easy to collect leads from the nearly 500 million professionals, influencers, and business decision-makers who use LinkedIn. When members click on one of your ads, their LinkedIn profile information automatically populates an in-app form that they can submit instantly -- without having to type in their info by hand." - LinkedIn
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New Ad Platform: Click here to view resource
Different advertising platforms take different approaches to the way they reach audiences. Targeting the same audience with the same creative across multiple platforms can be a good way to determine relative volume and efficiency. You’ll be able to see how your audience on each network responds to your creative and adjust your ad spending and copy.
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Dynamic Retargeting: Click here to view resource
When retargeting users who have visited your site in the past, try using a dynamic creative that’s based on the products they’ve browsed through. Doing so directly reminds them of the awesome products they saw and encourages them to return. Each ad impression will be relevant to the individual that sees it based on prior interest rather than generic for all viewers.
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Informal Ad Copy: Click here to view resource
Some audiences react well to a friendly tone. When creating ad campaigns, first understand how your users would respond to a more informal approach. Speak to them the way they speak to others and they will respond.
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Email Subscription Confirmation: Click here to view resource
When you get a user’s email address, prompt them to give you a confirmation. Double Opt-In email marketing sounds like it shouldn’t be more effective: after all, you’re asking a user to go through a two-step process when giving you their email address instead of one. However, a two-step process is crucial for weeding out spam signups. Email marketing is not just about the breadth of your email list, but also about the quality of the leads.
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Quality Ad Copy: Click here to view resource
“Highest quality razor on the market”Comparing the quality of your service against the alternatives can be a good way to position your product. Whether comparing on price, customer service, ease of use, or quality, a favorable comparison against your competition can drive customers to buy from you instead. A great way to do this is to target alternatives to your service based on their negative customer feedback i.e. 'tired of lousy service?'
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Transcribe Video/Audio Content: Click here to view resource
When you create audio or video content (podcasts, explainer videos, live talks, etc…), transcribe them into text and publish them alongside the video. This is a simple and easy way to get keyword-rich content. The transcribing process can also be outsourced easily via freelancing sites like Fiverr or UpWork.
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From 500 Startups (500.co):Medium has horrible click throughs / email signups, but solid domain authority and built-in mechanics to distribute your content to more people through notifications and more.What should you do?1. Publish on your own site first2. Wait 3 days then use the Medium Import tool to bring it into Medium (so Google will know your version is canonical)3. Consider submitting to a Collection for better / new / untapped reach 4. Write in a call to action: go to the full site for more
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Adding Social share buttons to your website makes it incredibly easy for your users to share your content with their social networks. They create benefits for your brand on a number of key marketing fronts including brand exposure, site traffic, user experience, and SEO.
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You read a lot of newsletters in your field and follow a lot of blogs that promote best practices and news in your industry. You could reach out to those newsletters with an offer to promote their product to your list in exchange for a promotion of your product to theirs. This mutual exchange of spo[...]
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Quality Score has a major effect on ad performance. A poor quality score will cause impressions and ranking to drop, and CPC to rise (as you'll be paying a premium to be seen). Increasing your quality score (best practices are platform specific) can drastically help you campaign and your budget.
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If your product or service solves a problem, its benefits--that is the outcomes or results customer will (hopefully) experience by using your product or service--in your ad copy.
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Run an ad touting the novelty of your product offering. Whether it’s standout because it’s new and original or you provide the latest new product lines from other suppliers, novelty can be a powerful way to get people to click an ad. Examples:“Check out our new line of razors.”“Winter is coming! Try our new designer winter jackets! ''Get all the latest email marketing tools on one platform.”
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Google Shopping allows you to show a price and image of the product in your ad. This often dramatically increases performance as people are more likely to click on an ad when they know the price up front. It helps you set expectations for an item’s price immediately rather than allowing the ad viewer to assume your product is too expensive.
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If a major selling point of your product is its uniqueness compared to anything else on the market, you should be using that point in your ad copy. Promote your products with a copy that depicts its unique features, comparing it to your competition.Examples:“The only razor with 3 rotating blades.”“Rated the warmest winter jacket on Earth!”“The only email marketing software to allow subscriber segmentation.”
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Subscriber Retargeting: Click here to view resource
You will have many subscribers to your email list that haven't yet purchased from you. These people potentially have high intent and definitely have high brand recognition - by using custom audiences on Facebook and Twitter you can target these people and convince them to purchase your product.
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The vast majority of SEO traffic comes from links in the top 3 positions in any given search results page. If you can crack the top 3 by optimizing anything in position 4-5, you'll see a big boost in traffic. This works regardless of whether you’re on page 1 or page 3, so even if you can’t crack the top 10 for a search, put in a bit of effort to make sure you’re top of the specific page you’re ranking on.
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Highly Specific Ad Copy: Click here to view resource
If you offer multiple products, or a broad category of products, test honing in on just one specific product or aspect of your product offering. You can target a different product or category to each audience. For example, if you’re a fashion retailer, target men who love watches with ad copy and creative showcasing men’s watches.
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Try rephrasing your ad copy as a leading question to give your customers something to respond to. The answer should indicate why your service is valuable to them! i.e. "Want more customers?" "Need higher conversion rates?"
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Scraped Email Drip: Click here to view resource
Scraping emails of businesses from company data aggregators can help you regularly fill the top of your sales funnel with potential highly qualified leads. Use tools like Import.io or Kimono to scrape data on relevant businesses. Get really narrow with your scraping to target specific businesses by geography, size, funding, and more. Once you have your list, create an email drip campaign pitching your product or service.
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Top Tips Drip: Click here to view resource
Set up an email drip campaign to regularly share top tips for your industry. This typically works best as a 10 part series with one tip per week, or a five part series with one per day.
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Rather than a dedicated account manager that can cause bottlenecks, have dynamic routing so that anyone from the team can provide support depending on what you need.
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Since You've Been Gone Emails:Click here to view resource
Email users about activity that has happened since they last logged in. This tactic will remind users of all the valuable activity on your platform. It may also give users the fear of missing out (FOMO) on future activity.
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Try adding multiple images in a gallery to your pages. Create a gallery that depicts your product at all angles and with all features, giving a detailed visual walkthrough of what it's like to experience. This display of your product will give interested customers more information about what they will be getting for buying in or signing up.
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Host a summit, but do it virtually. Bring together content (typically webinars or videos) from respected individuals within your industry to provide value to your target audience. Give full-access to the summit for a specific period of time, and then ask users to pay if they would like lifetime access to the materials.
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Send emails promoting partners' complementary products to demonstrate that you ultimately care about providing value to your customers over padding your own pockets. In exchange, have partners do the same for your product. (Tip: avoid cannibalizing your own offerings.)
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When you launch a new feature for your platform, send out an email to your users to inform them of the news. This will reactivate many users whose use of your platform may have dropped off while informing your current active users of what they can expect when they log in next. Highlight user-requested features to show responsiveness in development and attract users that may have dropped off due to a missing or broken feature.
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Most people that enter contests don't win them. Send out emails to the contestants that did not win and offer them a discount on your product. This tactic works particularly well if the contest was for a specific product because the CTA can be aligned with the user's interest. Traffic https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT-kJcFcMmpXYqHv4hoVrtEf-dgYzHWSTNArtGadvhU7DAgjK7Y3u1vUyiU-50iuqGiFt8l1SFUkFyDjEHVk9Fq5bEZaUF0bVNorSQV4BJ-GCpiBBa38gf9C_V-l67BWE9DXCTLDF3oHk/w640-h480/traffic.gif Next comes the Traffic Category which has 30+ growth hacks for scaling businesses.
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Incorporating social proof into your copy can drive conversions by strengthening the validity of your offer. Social proof can be demonstrated by mentioning experts, celebrities, or groups of people that love your product. Another way to demonstrate social proof is stating the sheer amount of users of your product. Regardless of your strategy, make sure to connect your offer to people or groups your target audience cares about. Examples:“Most popular growth hacking tool in Silicon Valley.” “Used by NFL athletes.”“Trendy purse that all celebrities are carrying.”
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You can target central commercial areas (places with high business presences i.e. restaurants, offices, malls, etc...) to quickly segment high traffic areas of a specific geography. This lets you exclusively target tightly packed, narrow geographies that might be more relevant audiences for your ads.
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Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but Graphcore CEO Nigel Toon views it as a positive outcome. Full regulatory approval has been granted.
Image: Graphcore CEO Nigel Toon speaking at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in London on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.
UK-based chip company Graphcore has been formally acquired by Japan's SoftBank. Rumors of the deal have been circulating for some time, but neither company has confirmed the details until now. While the figure of $500 million has been reported, Graphcore co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon remains tight-lipped on the details. "We have agreed with SoftBank that we're not going into the details of the deal; whether anything comes out in the future, we'll see," Toon said.
Toon did, however, dismiss the $500 million figure as inaccurate.
When the Chips are Down
Founded in Bristol in 2016, Graphcore has developed a new kind of processor dubbed an "intelligence processing unit" (IPU), distinct from traditional graphics processing units (GPUs). IPUs are designed from the ground-up for AI workloads, with a focus on supporting large-scale parallel processing and executing complex machine learning models. Graphcore pitches its chips as a more efficient alternative to GPUs.
Graphcore had raised around $700 million since its inception, reaching a valuation just shy of $3 billion in late 2020. With big-name corporate and institutional investors like Microsoft and Sequoia, and angels such as DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, hopes were high that Graphcore could become an AI beacon in the UK or Europe. However, AI hardware is a resource-intensive business, and Graphcore ultimately couldn't hit the heights many had hoped it could reach.
SoftBank, for its part, is no stranger to UK semiconductor companies, having previously acquired Arm for £24 billion ($31 billion) and then retained a stake as it spun Arm out as a $55 billion publicly traded company last year. Arm is now worth close to $200 billion — a sign, perhaps, that SoftBank might not be the worst bedfellow for Graphcore, as the well-financed Japanese powerhouse seeks to bolster its AI aspirations.
Toon views the sale to SoftBank as a positive outcome, with no layoffs expected across its UK, Polish, and Taiwanese hubs. In fact, he expects the company to add "quite significantly" to its headcount in the UK. Both Toon and CTO co-founder Simon Knowles will be staying put in their executive and directorship roles.
Image: Graphcore co-founder and CTO Simon Knowles
However, in most people's eyes, Graphcore hasn't fulfilled its early promise. So what happened? According to Toon, the expenditure required in the space that Graphcore operates is an order of magnitude higher than what Graphcore was able to access as an independent company.
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Every year we extend the value of our products by adding hundreds of new features, increasing our datacenter capacity, making our systems more secure and reliable, and much more. To support continued investments in our products, infrastructure and services, our standard contracts include an option for an incremental price increase at the time of renewal.
Your Salesforce subscription for Front App will be expiring on 4/30/2016. If this is something you plan to renew, a 7% increase will be applied at the time of your upcoming renewal.
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The KISSmetrics team 135. Subject: Goodbye from Homejoy Body:Three years ago, we set out to inspire and shape a new future for home services. Our dream was to help people keep their homes clean and cared for-- and empower our partners to enjoy flexible work so they could study, raise families or ease into retirement.
We came far and we thrived in many ways--but we also faced challenges. We gave it our all, but regret to announce that it is time to say goodbye. Homejoy will close its doors on July 31st. If you have upcoming appointments, please read the details below and more from our Founder on the Homejoy Blog.
Thank you for your support and for sharing this journey with us. It was our privilege to serve you, and have you as part of our community.
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Introducing Our House Rules
First, we've built a brand new section on Etsy that will make it easier for you to find the information from our legal terms and policies that's relevant for you. We're calling it Our House Rules because it covers all of your rights and responsibilities when you use our services and participate in the Etsy community.
Clearer language – in more languages
We've renamed, reorganized and even rewritten most of our policies to make them clearer and easier to understand. For example, we've renamed our Seller Guidelines to be called our Seller Policy, which we've expanded to give you more detailed guidance (but please note: even though the policy looks different, we didn't make any material changes to it). We've also translated our policies, including our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, into French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian.
Legal changes
The terms and policies in Our House Rules make up a legally-binding agreement between you and Etsy that spells out each party's rights and obligations when it comes to your use of our services. Here are the main changes to our previous agreement:
• Your contract with Etsy: Users living in North or South America will continue to contract with Etsy, Inc., but Etsy users living elsewhere are now contracting with Etsy Ireland, a subsidiary of Etsy, Inc. You won't notice any difference in our services. We made this change to reflect the international nature of our business.
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You don't need to take any further action to accept the updated Terms of Use, Privacy Policy or other policies. The changes will go into effect for you on August 29, 2015. By continuing to use our services after that time, you agree to the updated terms.
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This email is just to let you know that we've updated our Terms of Service. You can read them here.
We've launched a handful of new services in the last year, including:
- One-tap shipping for eBay sellers
- Scheduled pickups
- New packaging options
- Address-free shipping with your Shyp username
- and more! (It's been a busy year.)
With all of these changes, our goal remains the same: We're here to make shipping easy and affordable.
Thanks for reading, and here's to never standing in line for shipping again.
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Today, we are proud to announce the new $2,000,000 Host Insurance.
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Founder & CEO 120. Subject: Uber's New Privacy Statement Body: Your privacy is really important to us. We're committed to being transparent about how we treat your data, so we've re-written our privacy policy using a simpler format and a clearer language. Our New Privacy Statement will take effect on July 15th, 2015, so we encourage you to find time to review it. Using the Uber app on or after that date will tell us you have read and agreed to the terms of the Privacy Statement. You can learn more about the update Statement in our blog post.
Sincerely,
The Uber Team 121. Subject: We've updated our privacy statement Body: Hello Ashley,
We just wanted to let you know that we'll be making some changes to our privacy policy on August 12. Your privacy is precious, and we're committed to being completely transparent about how your data is used. If you'd like tor read our updated terms, you can do so here.
There's no need to respond to this email, by continuing to use Headspace you're agreeing to these updated terms.
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- The Headspace Team 122. Subject: Updated Terms of Service for GOOD Body: As the Good Platform and community have evolved over time, we've learned more about how we can best serve a global community of conscious citizens. Based on what we've learned, we've updated our Terms of Service.
You can review Good's full Terms of Service here. This update aligns with the present values and needs of GOOD's community and GOOD Magazine subscribers. In the future, if the way people use GOOD changes, we may revisit these Terms,
If you haven't visited Good in a while, we invite you to stop by and see what else is new!
Thank you for being a GOOD member. We look forward to continuing to live well and do good together. If you'd like to ask a question or share your thoughts, you can reach us at help@goodinc.com or by replying to this email.
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All of us at GOOD 123. Subject: HipChat moving to standard Atlassian legal terms Body: Hey, we're changing our Terms of Service.
It has been two years since HipChat joined the Atlassian family, and we're bigger and better because of it. Of course, when a product grows this quickly, there are always lots of big changes going on. We need to rewrite certain bits of code to make them faster, change the way our servers run to make them more reliable, improve the way our team is organized so we can keep it productive, and implement new ways to support our users.
Today, we're announcing a change that many of you have asked us for: bringing HipChat under the same terms as other Atlassian products (currently the Atlassian Customer Agreement and the Atlassian Privacy Policy – together referred to as the "Atlassian terms"). No, seriously, we get asked about this a lot.
Unfortunately, we didn't think thr[...]
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It looks like you’ll need to upgrade your account.
You’ve currently sent 22,235 of your 25,000 data points so far this month. Don’t worry, we won’t stop recording your data if you go over, but you’ll need to upgrade to a paid plan if you want to keep using Mixpanel.
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The Mixpanel Team 115. Subject: f.lux has been updated to a new version Body: t’s been a few years since f.lux for Windows got an update, but this new version is finally out of beta. We have a ton of new features and bugfixes to tell you about, and we hope you enjoy trying them out in the new version.
Big new cool stuff
- f.lux can go warmer than 3400K now, down to 2700K. Or even 1200K if you really want it to.
- Support for color profiles from a hardware calibrator
- Movie mode. This setting warms up your display, but it preserves shadow detail, skintones, and sky colors better than f.lux’s typical colors. It lasts 2½ hours, which lets you watch most feature films
- Disable until morning, for late-night crunch mode
- A new “darkroom” mode, which inverts colors and gets very red
- A map to help you find your location
- Hotkeys to dim your display (Alt-PgDn, Alt-PgUp) late at night, so desktop users can dim too
- A hotkey to disable/enable f.lux quickly: Alt-End
- If you have a laptop, f.lux gets warmer when your backlight dims, like an incandescent lamp
- A [...]
technology and with a fit and finish worthy of our users’ love and loyalty.
We’re the biggest Evernote users around, and it’s important to be in love with what you build.
It’s going to be a great year.
- Phil Libin, CEO 104. Subject: Important Security Notice from Slack Body: Dear Ashley,
We are writing to inform you that we were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database containing user profile information. We have since blocked this unauthorized access and made additional changes to our technical infrastructure to prevent future incidents. We have made all relevant details available on our blog. No specific action is required of you.
However, we have also just released Two Factor Authentication (“2FA”; also known as “two step verification”) and we strongly recommend that all users enable this feature, which provides an additional layer of security for their account. Additional details are available in our help center and you can enable 2FA directly on your account settings page.
Since the compromised system was first discovered, we have been working 24 hours a day to methodically examine, rebuild and test each component of our system to ensure it is safe. We are very aware that our service is essential to many teams. Earning your trust through the operation of a secure service will always be our highest priority. We deeply regret this incident and apologize to you and to everyone who relies on Slack for the inconvenience.
For more on our security practices and policies, see https://slack.com/security. Again, for additional information, we encourage you to read the blog post for more details.
Sincerely,
The team at Slack 105. Subject:Monday and Tuesday Outage Body: Hello -
I'm emailing to update you on our service outages on Monday and Tuesday this week.
Service was fully restored at about 11:00am PST Tuesday and all systems are still stable as of this morning.
I know this has been a very frustrating and trying time for you as an Olark customer, and for that I apologize. Please know that, since Monday, our team has been working through the night to resolve two different incidents. (The post mortems on these incidents are here and here.)
This has been a tough two days knowing that we've let you down, and we want to make amends.
We failed to provide you with the service you deserve. I wish I could tell you this outage was unpredictable, or it was all an external party's fault, but it wasn't.
On Monday night, our upstream service provider experienced an unexpected outage caused by maintenance of its entire data center, which lasted for hours. By 9:06pm PST, the Olark team identified the network outage. At 10:44pm PST, the service provider acknowledged its routine maintenance had problems and was affecting its customers, including Olark. Once the issue was resolved on their end, we began to restart our servers at around midnight.
We have been aware that it was possible that a cascading reboot of Olark’s system could lead to an outage. This is the kind of exceptionally rare event that could only happen during a major data center disruption like the one on Monday night. We have in fact been working on hardening our system to this kind of risk for months.
That’s why we know it was preventable. In the end, we did not execute quickly enough to prevent these two issues from affecting you.
We feel no great irony in the fact the specific component that lead to this outage was scheduled to be replaced this week. The positive news is that we spent the last months rewriting how the particular servers affected today are set up. Had the servers been using this new set up, it would have helped avoid this issue. These updates are still due to be released imminently as they were scheduled to do so regardless of this particular outage.
You can rest assured, we are taking this seriously.
I realize that doesn't make up for lost business Monday and Tuesda[...]
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Mary Catherine 101. Subject: Today's 8 minutes indexing downtime Body: Dear Ashley,
You may have noticed, we experienced a downtime of our indexing API today. For about 8 minutes starting at 9:30pm UTC (Jan 29), some write operations were refused by the API with a 503 error code. Search was not impacted, every queries were served as usual.
While it's the first time that an outage happens since we launched the service last September, we are deeply sorry for the inconvenience. We published a full explanation of the problem and its resolution on our blog: http://blog.algolia.com/postmortem-todays-8min-indexing-downtime/
Should you want any details, feel free to contact us anytime.
Sincerely,
Nicolas 102. Subject: Tuesday morning outage Body: Hi there,
Today at 7:15 AM Pacific Time, some Olark operators began reporting issues with using chat.olark.com to communicate with their customers. Our engineering team was able to resolve the majority of these issues approximately 45 minutes after the initial report.
Some operators continued experiencing intermittent problems with chat.olark.com until around 1PM Pacific Time. During this time, we were able to communicate some updates via email and twitter, and chat when we weren't at capacity.
We know that you rely on Olark to communicate with your customers. This type of outage is not acceptable. We strive to provide you with reliable service, but today we failed some of you. Our engineering team is putting systems in place to prevent problems like this from happening again.
If your account was affected, please let us know so that we can appropriately credit your account.
Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help.
Ben Congleton
CEO, and Cofounder
PS: You can follow @OlarkSupport on twitter for service availability and status updates. 103. Subject: On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014 Body: I got the wrong sort of birthday present yesterday: a sincerely-written post by Jason Kincaid lamenting a perceived decline in the quality of Evernote software over the past few months. I could quibble with the specifics, but reading Jason’s article was a painful and frustrating experience because, in the big picture, he’s right. We’re going to fix this.
The past couple of years have been an amazing time for Evernote. We’ve grown massively as a company, a community and a product. And we’re still growing quickly. However, there comes a time in a booming startup’s life when it’s important to pause for a bit and look in rather than up. When it’s more important to improve existing features than to add new ones. More important to make our existing users happier than to just add more new users. More important to focus on our direction than on our speed. This is just common sense, but startups breathe growth and intentionally slowing down to focus on details and quality doesn’t come naturally to many of us. Despite this, the best product companies in the world have figured out how to make constant quality improvements part of their essential DNA. Apple and Google and Amazon and Facebook and Twitter and Tesla know how to do this. So will we. This is our central theme for 2014: constant improvement of the core promise of Evernote.
This isn’t something we just decided yesterday. We kicked off a company-wide effort to improve quality a couple of months ago. The precipitating factor was the frustrating roll-out of our iOS 7 version. We gained many new users, but rushing to completely rebuild the app for the new platform resulted[...]
portant metrics.
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The Customer Success team 92. Subject: Creating a new Trello board and need some workflow ideas? Body: Elevate Your Board Game
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Learn more 93. Subject: See how three creative businesses benefit from Hightail Body: Preview instantly
Tracie Spence uses Hightail to share photos with her retoucher and printer so the team can work together to create the best images.
"With Hightail you can see each image right away. When we were reworking 18 images recently, it saved us more than an hour per file."
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Simplify feedback
Media production firm, Blue Chalk, collects timestamped comments on videos and other visual assets from internal teams and clients in Hightail.
"I love the ability to put notes on the exact area that needs changing. Hightail is the Google Docs equivalent for our post-production process."
Rob Finch – Creative Director, Blue Chalk Media
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Track your progress
Video production firm, Digital Video Experts, tracks project progress with Hightail's versions feature, which helps highlight why changes were made.
"Versions is the most powerful tool in Hightail. It's great to be able to easily show clients that they had requested a change."
Richard Farr – Founder, Digital Video Experts
Find Out More (button) 94. Subject: How to get extra features in Buffer Body: Hey,
Did you know that you can easily get extra space in your Buffer for free?
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Of course, if you ever have any thoughts or questions simply reply to this email. We'd love to hear from you!
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Joel and the Buffer Team 95. Subject: Were You Eaten By A T-Rex? Body: Hi!
I wanted to quickly check in as I noticed you signed up but haven't posted a campaign yet. By my calculations one of two things could have happened.
1. Freak T-Rex accident
2. You had some questions on how FameBit works
I truly hope it was the latter! If you have any questions on getting started just reach out.
As a reminder, it is completely FREE to post a campaign to the Marketplace and on average you’ll receive thirty or more proposals from YouTubers interested in working with your brand.
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Adam & Team FameBit 96. Subject: Our new video series Body: OK so I know we already emailed you this week.
But, I'm super excited about this and hope you don't mind.
Plus it's a Friday morning (I'm sitting here eating my breakfast burrito as I [...]
to me and will be answered by me.
Best regards,
Michael. 78. Subject: What's one thing Olark could do better for you? Body: Hey!
We're making plans at Olark for 2014. In order to understand what our customers want and need from Olark, please write me back and let me know your answer to this question:
What is one thing that you wish Olark could do better for you?
Thank you!
Cheers,
Sunir Shah,
Chief Marketing Olarker 79. Subject: Let's Talk Body: Hi Ashley,
As you know we are committed to transparency in everything we do. It's why we always share our costs and information about our factories. It's also why we sent you our first ever customer survey.
We want to know more so that we can keep working to make Everlane better and our products and services truly reflect your wants and needs.
This survey will only take about 10 minutes. Your participation will mean a lot to us.
Follow the link here.
All the best,
Everlane Marketing
Everlane 80. Subject: 2 minutes to tell us what you think Body: Hey Ashley,
Your experience with DocuSign is important. Please take a few moments to give us feedback and comments in this quick survey.
We promise to make good use of your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Marisabel Agosto
Free Customer Advocate
81. Subject: A quick question for you Body: Yes, it's a survey. But not boring.
As a Headspacer who's been using our product, we want to hear from you.
We want Headspace to be the best resource possible, so we’re looking for users to chat with and give feedback to help us improve the experience for everyone. If you’re interested, just fill out this super-short survey and someone from our team will be in touch. Thanks!
Thank you,
The Headspace Team 82. Subject: Offering you my personal email Body: Hi Ashley,
I noticed that you added some Ugmonk items to your cart but have yet to close the deal.
I wanted to check in and make sure all your questions are answered, and that you're not having any programs with the checkout process.
I'm committed to doing everything I can to help out. Whether you have a question about the products, the designs, or need a recommendation, I'd love to hear from you! Shoot me an email - or feel free to finish checking out your purchases.
I'm incredibly passionate about design. I love the products that we make, and I think you will too!
I look forward to hearing from you,
Jeff
Owner and Designer www.Ugmonk.com 83. Subject: Hi Leads Body: Hi Leads,
We noticed that you signed up for Dropbox a while ago, but never installed the software. Installing Dropbox lets you:
- Easily save files to your Dropbox
- Get to your files from any computer or phone
- Share photos or docs straight from your desktop
Download Dropbox here
Enjoy!
- The Dropbox Team
If you need a refresh, check out our tour. 84. Subject: Harry's checking in Body: Hi there,
Hope you’re doing great. I just wanted to check-in and see how everything was going.
We’ve got some pretty fancy algorithms here at Harry’s that tell me that you may be running low on razor blades. If you would like to order more blades or other shaving supplies, you can always do so online at harrys.com. And, of course, I’d be more than happy to take care of it for you as well. You can just email me back or call me at (888) 212-6855 and I’ll place your order for you.
Thanks so much for your support. I look forward to keeping in touch.
All the best,
Katie 85. Subject: What Didn't Work For You About MeetingHero? Body: Hi Ashley,
I noticed you tried out MeetingHero, but haven't used it again in the last few weeks. I'd really appreciate you taking just a minute or two do share your feedback:
- What were you hoping MeetingHero would help you do when you signed up?
- What didn't work for you[...]
’m in awe of all the creative ways educators use Edmodo. I can’t wait to see how you’ll inspire or be inspired on our platform.
Best,
Vibhu Mittal
CEO, Edmodo
67. Subject: Welcome to the Zendesk Family Body: Hi Ashley,
I just wanted to personally welcome you to the Zendesk family. My co-founders and I wanted to create something that was easy and fun to use—something different from the IT and customer support tools out there at the time. I am so humbled by our customers, all using our product to provide better customer support. I want to thank you so much for being here.
As you get started with Zendesk, I wanted to point you to some resources to help you make the most:
1) Reach out for help: Our education team has built a library of resources at your disposal. This getting started guide provides the basics or you can dive into our knowledge base for tutorials on everything.
2) Get your team trained up: Support is collaborative, and we want to make sure that all your colleagues are ready to use Zendesk. We have a fantastic free self-guided agent training course available: Zendesk Essentials for Agents - Online
3) Come meet us in-person: We have events and user groups all over the globe. Our product experts travel to cities near you to offer free training and best practices to support teams. It’s free, fun, and we buy the drinks :)
I know that’s probably a lot of information, but our support team is standing by to help. Thanks again for being a Zendesk customer.
Cheers,
Mikkel
CEO 68
. Subject: Yo, you signed up for Rabbut Body: Ashley,
Do you know who’s awesome? You are.
Do you know why? Because your blogs are about to get more action than you got on your honeymoon. Thats right, more email collections and more personalized updates than ever before (what did you think I meant?)
Before you pull your head out of the gutter, answer me one thing. Why did you sign up for Rabbut?
I ask because:
1.) I want to build the best tool that you can possibly get
2.) I can’t read your mind
3.) Who doesn’t want more action? (Still talking about your blog!)
And lets be honest, no one wants to spend all night long figuring out how to setup your emails, so take this, it’s a quick start guide: https://rabbut.com/a-hand-held-guide-to-start-on-rabbut/
If that doesn’t work, hurry up and email me so I can help you solve your problems. That way you’ll have more time for your personal life. (This time I don't mean your blog.)
Thank me later,
Elmer Founder 69. Subject: Get started today... Body: Hi there,
Larry Kim here, founder of WordStream. I want to personally welcome you to your free trial of WordStream Advisor. I’m happy you’ve decided to give us a try!
I want to make sure you get the most out of your free trial and see firsthand how our software can help your business:
Save time: efficiently manage and optimize your PPC campaigns
Increase ROI: improve key metrics like CTR and CPC
Stretch your budget: get more from your current investment
Questions on how WordStream Advisor can help you do this?
I highly recommend speaking with one of our in-house AdWords Certified Consultants to review your account and uncover areas of improvement and opportunities for growth. It's totally free and totally worth it.
Cheers,
Larry Kim
Founder & CTO, WordStream
70. Subject: We're pleased to meet you Body: Hi 👋,
Just by signing up you've taken the first step towards a life of less stress, more sleep and better focus. We'll be popping in now and again to help make sure you're getting the most from Headspace Take10: your 10 x 10-minute sessions of gently and expertly guided meditation.
Getting started
To begin with we recommend that you try one session a day. Start by setting aside a little time when you'll be undisturbed. Just 10 minutes. The time it takes to get dressed, have a coffee, or change your shirt (if you spilled the coffee. Too [...]
Welcome to SumAll.
Thank you for joining our growing community of 90,000 companies who are using data every day to make better decisions.
If you have already connected your platforms we will notify you by email when they are ready. If you haven't connected anything yet, please do it here:
Connect more platforms (button)
Thank you,
Team SumAll 62. Subject: Welcome to Basecamp! Body: Hi Ashley,
Welcome to Basecamp and thanks for signing up! You've joined over 1,500,000 organizations just like yours who manage their projects with Basecamp.
Sign in to your account: https://basecamp.com/login
Username: examples@domain.com
We hope you enjoy this opportunity to take Basecamp for a spin. Feel free to kick the tires and get acquainted with no limits and no obligation during your free trial.
P.S. Don't forget to download Basecamp for Android and iPhone too!
Help us improve Basecamp by telling us a little more about yourself. 63. Subject: Welcome to Samu Body: Hey,
I really appreciate you signing up for Samu, and I'm sure you'll love it when you see how easy it is to get the right things done.
We built Samu to help individuals (from managers via freelancers through to students) improve their productivity, and I hope that we can achieve that for you.
If you wouldn’t mind, I’d love it if you answered one quick question: why did you sign up for Samu?
I’m asking because knowing what made you sign up is really helpful for us in making sure that we’re delivering on what our users want. Just hit “reply” and let me know.
Thanks, Val CEO, Samu 64. Subject: Welcome to Pinterest! Body: Hi Ashley,
YOU are the newest member of Pinterest, a community to share collections of things you love. We're excited to have you as a member and can't wait to see what you pin.
A few tips to get the most out of Pinterest:
- Install the bookmarklet. It lets you add a pin from any website with just one click.
- Follow a few more pinboards. After all, Pinterest is as much about discovering new things as it is about sharing.
- Pin carefully! As one of the first members of Pinterest, your pins will help set the tone for the whole community. Use big images, write thoughtful descriptions, and pin things you really love. Also, no nudity :)
Thanks for joining and happy pinning!
Ben and the Pinterest Team 65. Subject: Welcome to Front! Body: Hi Ashley,
My name is Mathilde. I’m the CEO of Front and I wanted to be the first to welcome you and your team on board!
Ok, it’s true; this is an automated email, but if you have any questions simply reply to this email and I'd be more than happy to chat. :)
To help you get the most out of Front during your 14-day trial:
- We'll be sending you 5 Getting Started Tips, one every day within the next week. (if you do not wish to receive them, feel free to unsubscribe!)
- If you'd like to quickly learn how to use Front in less than 30 minutes, subscribe to our live product demo.
- Take a look at our completely public roadmap! Upvote features or see what is coming up soon. :)
- Download Front for your iPhone or Android, for those times when you're on-the-go.
Thanks again for giving Front a try!
Mathilde
ps.- One of our Sales Executives will be reaching out to you shortly, to help you with any questions you might have. 66. Subject: Welcome to the Edmodo Family Body: Hi Ashley:
Thank you for joining Edmodo! It truly is a community where educators, students, and parents alike are invested in one another’s success.
As you’ll soon discover, the people on Edmodo embody the spirit of sharing—we simply create tools to make collaboration even easier. From Groups that increase communication and engagement, to features that help you flip your classroom, find valuable resources, or fuel your professional growth, there’s something for everyone on Edmodo.
Every day, I[...]
nd let me know how I might get in touch with them? 55. Subject: Looking for an Accountant Body: I was wondering if you were looking for more business customers?
I know the majority of small businesses are always looking for a great accountant and I'd be able to generate leads for you if this is something you're interested in.
Are there any types of businesses in particular that make good clients for you?
Name
P.S. If you aren't the right person to contact about this, please let me know 56. Subject: 10 x {company} [result] in ten minutes? Body: Hello {name},
I have an idea that I can explain in 10 minutes that can get {company} it’s next [100 best clients].
I recently used this idea to help our client {competitor} almost triple their monthly run rate.
{name}, Let’s schedule a 10 minute call so I can explain. When works best for you? 57. Subject: Appropriate Person? Body: Hi {name},
This is SDR with RJMetrics. Wanted to introduce myself, as {company}'s sales development platform looks similar to many of the businesses we work with everyday.
While I've got your attention, we'd love if you guys gave RJMetrics a spin. Our clients are using us to do things like optimize customer acquisition spend, understand drivers of CLV, and standardize reporting of KPIs across internal teams and investors.
I’m assuming you’re the best person for this - If not, who would you recommend I speak with? 58. Subject: Bookkeeping sucks, let us handle it. Body: {name},
Bookkeeping sucks, and you have a business to run. You created CompanyName out of a passion to do something great, unique, and game-changing. Not to spend your limitless talents and limited time on day-to-day bookkeeping tasks. AcuityComplete’s bookkeeping professionals want you focus your time and efforts on growing CompanyName into an empire; not worrying about whether your books are reconciled correctly.
If your core business competency isn’t bookkeeping, let’s talk. I’d love to find out more about CompanyName and how we can help eliminate this headache for you.
Do you have any current issues that we can help answer?
59. Subject: Appropriate person Body: Hi {name},
I am writing in hopes of finding the appropriate person who handles multicultural media. I also wrote to Person x, Person Y and Person Z in that pursuit. If it makes sense to talk, let me know how your calendar looks?
VoodooVox helps increase the revenues of Fortune 500 companies by marketing to Hispanics. Each month we reach 25 million Spanish speakers with an audio message they must hear. We insert 30 second audio and SMS advertisements into phone calls made on calling cards. The benefit to users is they make their call free. The benefit for our clients is they can increase store revenue by providing text message coupons. Typical redemption is 3%. You can measure results online and with store sales. Advertisements can target specific ethnic groups and geographies. Some clients include Burger King, P&G and Chili's.
If you are the appropriate person to speak with, what does your calendar look like? If not, who do you recommend I talk to? 60. Subject: KiSSFLOW is *not* for everyone Body: Hi Ashley,
Thanks for signing up!
Lots of software say they can do anything and everything for you. We are *not* one of them. KiSSFLOW is not a jack of all trades. We have mastered one thing really well: *workflows*.
Now, do you have a workflow problem or a task management problem or both?! Tough, right!? That’s exactly why I am writing to you. Within 5 minutes I can assess if KiSSFLOW is best fit for the problem you have, saving you lots of time on evaluation. I value time and wish neither of us waste it.
I will call you in the next 30 minutes or do you want to do this over email?
Cheers,
Ben
61. Subject: Hi Mat, Welcome to SumAll Body: Hi Ashley,
[...]
can you please put me in touch with the right person?
I appreciate the help!
Best,
Sig 47. Subject: Referral V2 Body: Hi [first name],
I hope I'm not bothering you. Could you please refer me to the person in charge of [something that's relevant to my product]?
Thanks for your time,
Sig 48. Subject: Referral V3 Body: Hey [first name],
My name is [my name] and I'm with [my company name]. We work with organizations like [company name] to [insert one sentence pitch].
[One sentence unique benefit].
Could you direct me to the right person to talk to about this at [company name] so we can explore if this would be something valuable to incorporate into your events?
Cheers,
Sig 49. Subject: Can you point me in the right direction? Body: Hey [first name],
I'm sorry to trouble you. Would you be so kind as to tell me who is responsible for [insert your biggest pain point here that resonates with your ideal customer; OR insert function like “sales” or “recruiting”] and how I might get in touch with them?
Thank you,
Sig
Let's check out two cold email templates that are using approach #2 and pitching the decision maker directly on the value proposition and next action steps. 50. Subject: Engaging a quality prospect Body: Hi [firstname],
During some research of [company name], I came across your profile - love how passionate you've been the past [number of years they've been working at the company, look it up on their LinkedIn profile] years to help scale the [department] team, while also being that go-to advisor for your growing customers. This [software review site name] review about [highlight of the review relevant to your product].
However, I imagine you still have customers requesting [address pain point your solution solves]. I'm curious - are any customer accounts at risk that would benefit from [what you offer]? [Recognizable brand name], new [your company name] customer, needed a way to [what you offer]. Since leveraging [your company name], their [major benefit]. As a result, their customers experienced [business impact].
Does it make sense to explore ways we can help your team as well?
Best,
Sig 51. Subject: Selling V1 Body: Hey [first name],
I hope this email finds you well! I wanted to reach out because [explain how we got their contact information and how we relate to them: talked to a colleague, saw your company online, etc.].
[Name of company] has a new platform that will help (your team at) [organization name]. [One sentence pitch of benefits]. We do this by:
Benefit/feature 1
Benefit/feature 2
Benefit/feature 3 (optional)
Let's explore how [name of your software] can specifically help your business. Are you available for a quick call [time and date]?
Cheers,
Sig 52. Subject: Selling V2 Body: Hey [first name],
I hope this email finds you well! I wanted to reach out because [explain how we got their contact information and how we relate to them: talked to a colleague, saw your company online, etc.].
[Name of company] has a new platform that will help (your team at) [organization name]. [One sentence pitch of benefits].
I know that [our product] will be able to help [name of your company] [insert high level benefit here].
Are you available for a quick call [time and date]?
Cheers,
Sig 53. Subject: Where shall I start? Body: {name},
I’m hoping you can help me, who handles the [insert pain point here] decisions at {company} and how might I get in touch with them? 54. Subject: Appropriate person Body: {name}
We have a service that will help you [insert quick one liner about the value your service delivers].
Would you guide me to the person responsible for [insert the relevant department or task your service empowers — “marketing, sales, pipeline building”] a[...]
llow-up Body: Hi [NAME], I left a voice message last week regarding X and thought I’d see if now was a good time to reach out.
To remind you, we [STATE YOUR VALUE PROPOSITION]. I’d love to show you how you can generate [RESULT].
Would you like to schedule a call to learn more? 39. Subject: The Detail-Oriented Follow-Up Body: Hi [NAME], I’m calling back as requested. I hope now is still a good time, did you have a chance to check out my email?
Great! As I mentioned, we help [PERSONAS] like you generate [RESULT]. As agreed, this is a quick two-minute call to see if we might be a good fit. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions to understand more about your needs and see how we might be a fit to work together? 40. Subject: Generating user referrals Body: Hi [NAME],
It’s James from Pipedrive, I noticed [you’re a huge fan of our content/you’ve seen some great results from using our platform/other personalization] and wondered if could ask a quick favor:
Do you know of anyone else in [INDUSTRY] who would see great results from using our platform? We’d offer your friend an extended trial period, as well as X amount off your monthly subscription for each friend you refer.
Can you think of anyone who would benefit from using our platform?
41. Subject: Tie new hires to product needs Body: Hi [NAME].
My name is Eric from KiteDesk, and the reason I’m calling is that I noticed you were hiring new SDRs from [NAME OF JOB SITE]. You're most likely hiring to solve the problem of needing more meetings, and I wanted to let you know we offer a prospecting platform designed to get your current team more qualified meetings.
It would be worth a 10-minute chat to see if we’re a fit before you take your next interview. We can even show you how you can see email and contact info displayed, instantly. 42. Subject: The one-sentence value proposition Body: Hi [NAME], this is James from Pipedrive. I’m calling sales-driven organizations in our industry to see if they’d benefit from our solution.
To put what we do in a single sentence, we help sales managers empower their reps to become unstoppable by providing a CRM for maximizing the outputs from their sales process.
Is this something that would be of interest to you? 43. Subject: Forcing a quick response Body: Hi, this is Natasha Smith from Exploration Homes. My company currently has buyers looking for a home in the [AREA] neighborhood. Tell me, are you considering selling your home now or in the near future? 44. Subject: The community champion Body: Hi [NAME], this is James from Exploration Homes. I’ve been living in the [LOCATION] area for over 20 years and love my town. As a new agent with a specialization in the local market, if I could find suitable buyers for your home in the next 30 days, would you be open to meeting with me? 45. Subject: On a mission Body: Hi [NAME], this is James from Exploration Homes. I’ve made it my mission to help 100 people move into their dream home by [DATE]. I truly believe I can help you find your ideal home as quickly as possible. Is this something you’d be open to exploring? 46. Subject: Referral V1 Body: Hi [first name],
My name is [my name] and I head up business development efforts with [my company]. We recently launched a new platform that [one sentence pitch].
I am taking an educated stab in the dark here, however based on your online profile, you appear to be an appropriate person to connect with ... or might at least point me in the right direction.
I’d like to speak with someone from [company] who is responsible for [handling something that's relevant to my product].
If that’s you, are you open to a fifteen minute call on _________ [time and date] to discuss ways the [company name] platform can specifically help your business? If not you, [...]
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(I ask them qualifying questions so I know what to present.)
I'll tell you a bit more and then, if it makes sense, we'll set up an appointment before we get off our call today to go over it in more detail. Sound good?
From there I tell them more about the program, just enough for them to agree to set up an appointment, and then go into my appointment setting script.
31. Subject: Working with gatekeepers Body: Hello, my name is James. I was wondering if you could help me. I looked on the [COMPANY] LinkedIn page but I couldn’t find your name. Are you usually the person who answers the phone? I’d feel much better if I knew your name before I asked my favor.
(Repeat the gatekeeper’s name and thank them).
I’d like to speak with [NAME OF PROSPECT]/person in charge of X. What’s the best way to make that happen? 32. Subject: “A Friend Sent Me” Body: Hi [NAME],
Mike and I are seeing great results with [CLIENT COMPANY]’s marketing automation at the moment and when talking about who else would benefit your name came up.
Congratulations on [securing investment/new acquisition/other personalization]. What you’re doing at [PROSPECT COMPANY] is impressive!
I’d love to show you how we’ve helped Mike generate [RESULT] and how we may be able to do the same for you. Would this be of interest? 33. Subject: Leaving a voicemail Body: Hello, [NAME]. This is Bob Bentz with ATS Mobile.
The reason for my call is I have an idea on how to possibly help you improve the troublesome process of recruiting employees, especially nurses. I wanted to see if it would make sense for us to have a quick conversation to find out more about it.
I can be reached at [YOUR PHONE NUMBER].
Again, my name is Bob Bentz with ATS Mobile at [YOUR PHONE NUMBER].
Thanks, [NAME]. 34. Subject: Use a hyper-personalized opener Body: There’s a huge amount of insight available on your prospects.
LinkedIn is a salesperson’s best friend for a reason. Use this insight to open the call and build familiarity from the get-go.
I notice you used to work at [PAST COMPANY], how did you find the culture there?
A friend of mine also went to [UNIVERSITY], what did you study there?
I see you’ve risen through the ranks from SDR to account manager at [CURRENT COMPANY], how did you get noticed by senior management?
If they open up, continue the conversation for a little longer. Otherwise, get back on track and keep your goal in mind. 35. Subject: “I don’t have time” Body: I understand this may not be a top priority right now, or perhaps you don’t see the value. Several people have said the same, but once we had a brief discussion they were thrilled to learn more. Give me two minutes of your time and I promise you’ll be clear on whether or not this is a good use of your time. 36. Subject: Ask leading questions Body: Other than the information on their LinkedIn profile, it’s unlikely you’ll know much about your prospect on the first call.
After you’ve introduced yourself and built some rapport, ask questions that elicit specific information from your prospects. These can include:
What are the biggest challenges in your role right now?
Which tools and solutions are you using to help you with X?
What was the deciding factor to hire new SDRs at [COMPANY]?
These questions get your prospects to fill in the knowledge gaps.
Not only will it allow you to tailor the rest of the conversation, but also provide qualitative insights to enrich your buyer personas. 37. Subject: Becoming a familiar name Body: Hi [NAME], it’s James here calling from Pipedrive. I sent you an email last Thursday, did you have a chance to read it?
[PERSONALIZE BASED ON RESPONSE]
The reason I emailed is that I noticed you’re in charge of the sales processes and operations at [COMPANY]. Is that right? 38. Subject: Voicemail fo[...]
