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OwlSend – Email marketing for small business

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Re: OwlSend – Email marketing for small business

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Hmm, the setup looks like you're claiming to be the cheapest - MailChimp have a free tier and CM have an $8 tier. It seems a bit dishonest to me.

If you need to pick the 10,000 emails level before you can compete on price then I think I'd be more inclined to lead with USP or just with benefits (ignoring the competition).

That said it looks nice and is easy to navigate. Might be worth saying that account creation is free (CM highlight it with "create free account" as button text) - having a paid lowest tier can make it seem you have to pay to even log in. MailChimp don't ask for my Full Name right off the bat, I'd save that until someone is initiating a campaign as I think it increases friction with those who just want to fiddle and get a feel with the app first.

The email builder needs some descriptive pointers and/or a video walkthrough. It's fine for me, but things like double-click on an image and it just opening a "file upload" dialog could confuse users. It's not necessarily obvious that it's just a template; presumably you'll add other templates later?

Nice work.

Re: OwlSend – Email marketing for small business

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Nice Sendy alternative, the auto responder looks pretty cool. Good job

Yeh with Sendy you need to install it and configure it on your hosting. You also need to update it every time new features get released. With OwlSend we take care of all the hosting for you. All you need to do is log in to the OwlSend app and away you go. All new features are free for customers.

We're really focusing on making sending emails and managing email campaigns easy and simple.

Re: OwlSend – Email marketing for small business

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post #4

Hmm, the setup looks like you're claiming to be the cheapest - MailChimp have a free tier and CM have an $8 tier. It seems a bit dishonest to me. If you need to pick the 10,000 emails level before you can compete on price then I think I'd be more inclined to lead with USP or just with benefits (ignoring the competition). That said it looks nice and is easy to navigate. Might be worth saying that account creation is f…

Thanks for the feedback. We're the cheapest if you have 10,000 subscribers or more.

Good point in regards to saying account creation is free.

Re: OwlSend – Email marketing for small business

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...Is this built by the same company behind SendOwl? https://www.sendowl.com

Hi bdunn, No this is a new product altogether. We are unrelated.

This is very confusing - you might want to think about another name or at least changing your design.

The name, logo and theme/color-scheme are all very similar to sendowl. So much so that I assumed that this was another project by the sendowl team until I saw this comment.

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