Every month, we’re working hard to make SendFox better for our customers, so here’s a list of our August feature updates. These features are included in our customers’ plans at no extra cost.
#1 – Improved Smart Page promotion 💫
Promote your Smart Page, like Chief Sumo Noah.
Sharing your beautiful Smart Page (aka landing page) is now easier than ever.
Click the “Promote” button on your “Smart Pages” view to see new ways to promote and get more subscribers to your list.
We have a comprehensive FAQ on our site — but sometimes seeing is believing.
Last month, we created a YouTube channel. And in August, we added a few tutorials with step-by-step tips, strategies, and advice on how to get the most out of your SendFox account.
Check out the new feature updates we’ve added in July to SendFox.
#1 Improved Smart Campaigns 📱
Smart Campaigns take your best content and puts it into a single, digestible email.
Recently, we made Smart Campaigns even better.
More optimized text truncation. Better text output. Highlighting content item titles… all nerdy ways of saying your emails will look nice — and get nicer results, too.
Check out our tutorial below on how to create a Smart Campaign:
#2 “Send Now” functionality ⏰
One of our most requested features, well, ever.
We added the option to send an email immediately. So now you can choose to send an email right away, or schedule it for another time.
All test emails now have “[Test]” pre-pended to the subject line. So you no longer have the mini-panic: “oh $%&*, did I accidentally send that to everyone?!’
In June, we released a lot of new features and updates.
#1 – Cleaner Smart Pages 🎉
A new Smart Page, from Chief Sumo Noah’s account.
The new subscribe with Google and Facebook buttons make it easy for people to join your list.
Smart Pages showcase your best content.
Redesigned from the ground up in June, Smart Pages now shows your content — emails, YouTube videos, blog posts, podcasts, and Tweets — more beautifully than ever.
We also added subscribe via Facebook and Google to help you get more subscribers fast.
An auto-created Smart Campaign. It took a YouTube channel, and it made this email in one click!
Smart Campaigns turn your best content into an email.
No more procrastinating because you’re not sure what to write. Just one click, and your email is auto-created.
In June, we made auto-generation better. And, you can now generate Smart Campaigns manually by clicking the circle icon on your Email Dashboard.
Watch our video tutorial for instructions on how to create your own smart campaign:
#3 – Subscriber Referral improvements 🎆
The improved Subscriber Referrals footer, using Chief Sumo Noah’s emails as an example.
An example Referral Hub leaderboard.
Turn your existing subscribers into salespeople. With Subscriber Referrals, your current readers can refer more readers to your newsletter — and get prizes when they do.
We cleaned up the Subscriber Referrals footer design in emails to make it more effective. And, we added a leaderboard to your Referral Hub.
Tons of great feature updates for our customers inside of SendFox this month.
#1 –Smart Pages 🌎
Noah’s Smart Page — he highlights his videos, podcast, newsletters, blog, and social.
Noah’s Smart Page “Social” tab, showing Twitter.
Keep all your best content in one place with our new Smart Pages.
These pages are the evolution of Landing Pages — but with some HUGE new features:
Show off your YouTube videos, newsletters, blog posts, podcasts, and Tweets in one place.
Make it easy for your subscribers to not miss anything you create.
These new Smart Pages are your central hub for all your content. Share it with everyone.
To set up your Smart Page content hub, just add your feeds to any existing or new Smart Page. Then, click “Enable Feed”. Voilà! All your best content will be shown on your Smart Page.
#2 – Smart Campaigns 🤓
The Smart Campaign view, accessible from your dashboard.
An example of a Smart Campaign, automatically pulling one of Noah’s YouTube videos.
With this month’s Smart Page update, you’re showing off your best content…
What about making it easier to send an email with your best content?
Smart Campaigns make this possible:
Weekly Newsletter. Automatically-drafted email with your best content every Sunday — including your YouTube videos, blog posts, podcast episodes, and social media posts.
Content Updates. Automatically-drafted email with your new content (aka auto-RSS).
#3 – Improved Subscriber Referrals 📩
An example “Referral Hub” page for Noah’s list.
The improved Subscriber Referral footer available in emails, using Noah’s list as an example.
Last month, we introduced you to our Subscriber Referrals feature. This feature allowed you to give prizes to subscribers who refer more subscribers to your list.
This month, we made Subscriber Referrals better than EVER:
Her URL is sendfox.com/jenny, so it’s easy to share on social media and any other platform.
Looks great on mobile too:
Besides making it easy for you to create a landing page in less than 5 minutes, we help you promote it.
After you create your landing page, we have a “promotion” page that has the easiest and most effective actions you can take to grow your mailing list.
Psst the above is based on marketing experts advice
And in SendFox, your emails don’t get lost anymore — you can now publish them on your landing page as a blog.
Showcasing your most popular emails as a blog will attract more people to your mailing list. Subscribers can also comment and easily share your emails on social media.
Providing the Best Deliverability 🏆
Email marketing ONLY matters if your emails arrive in the inbox.
Here’s what we do to make sure that happens:
Use SendGrid, a world-class platform, to send our customer’s emails from SendFox.
Check our IP reputations DAILY to ensure the quality deliverability.
SendFox’s IP reputation in mid-April.
An automatic optimization process to help customers with poor emails stats improve their sender reputation — so their emails arrive into the inbox more often.
A spam filter that checks emails for spam triggers before sending.
Active-Only Sending Feature ✉️
Your sender reputation and deliverability matter if you want your emails to land in the inbox. We’ve not only got deliverability covered for you but also your sender reputation.
To get a great sender reputation you need a good open rate.
To help, we have a feature that gives our customers the option to send emails only to their active subscribers. We do this ourselves to follow best practices and get better open and click rates.
When you click on this checkbox you are sending to your new and active contacts.
SendFox makes it easy for you to improve your open rate and send to your MOST engaged contacts.
Create an Automation in Less Than 10 Seconds 🚀
We make it easy for customers to start automations.
On average, 40% of SendFox customers create automation within 24 hours of setting up their account.
If you don’t know where to start with automations – don’t worry!
We have customizable templates for you. All you need to do is use our Automation Assistant. It takes less than 10 seconds! Check it out below:
You know email marketing works, but those high monthly costs from Mailchimp, AWeber, and ConvertKit are painful. You can save hundreds or THOUSANDS of dollars per year on SendFox, a free MailChimp alternative.
SendFox helps you create, schedule, and automate customized emails without breaking the bank.
How SendFox Compares to Other Email Marketing Tools:
SendFox
MailChimp
AWeber
ConvertKit
Price for 3,000 contacts
Free
Cost after 12 months = $0
$49.99 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $599.88
$46.15 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $193.80
$49 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $588
Price for 5,000 contacts
A one-time cost of $49
Cost after 12 months = $49
$49.99 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $599.88
$49 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $588
$79 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $948
Price for 10,000 contacts
A one-time cost of $99
Cost after 12 months = $99
$74.99 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $899.88
$66.15 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $793.80
$119 per month.
Cost after 12 months = $1,428
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Spam testing
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Automations
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Domain validation
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Ideal for
Content creators and small businesses.
Small to large-sized businesses and Fortune 500s in a variety of industries.
Small businesses and email marketing beginners.
Online “creators”.
Integrations
Zapier, Sumo, KingSumo, Integromat, WordPress plugin, and more.
Integrations with many eCommerce and social media platforms.
Zapier, WordPress, and more.
Zapier, e-commerce and customer payment, course sites, and more.
SendFox Features — Get More Results With Less Work:
Import and store your contacts’ information
Automations with subscriber segmentation
Landing pages that showcase your content from social media, blog, newsletters, and more
Email campaigns and weekly newsletters automatically created from RSS feeds
Email and contact analytics
GDPR compliant features (double opt-in, GDPR consent for forms and landing pages)
You can create unlimited smart pages using SendFox
SendFox’s smart pages are different because you can showcase not only your past newsletters but also content from your social media accounts, blogs, podcast, YouTube channel, and more — helping viewers get a sneak peek of your content.
Smart page by Chief Sumo, Noah Kagan. You can showcase the best content on your Smart page.
Learn how you can create your FREE smart page in this video tutorial.
Smart Campaigns
We want to make email marketing easier so that’s why we created smart campaigns.
Smart campaigns take your best content and puts it into a single, digestible email. Just one click and your email is automatically created.
Email created using smart campaigns.
Automations
A key feature of SendFox is automation. This feature helps you automatically send a series of emails when contacts are added to a mailing list.
Automations are great for creating a welcome email series that can help push your subscribers to your social media channels and best content.
In SendFox automations, you can choose the delay times of your emails, move contacts into different lists, and remove subscribers from an automation.
Check out how automations look like in SendFox
SendFox makes it easy for its customers to create and schedule automated emails. Find out more about automations here.
A referral program is one of the best ways to grow your mailing list by rewarding your subscribers for sharing your newsletter.
Once, you’ve set it up, you’ll have a footer automatically added to your emails where your subscribers can easily share your newsletters to gain referral points.
Referral blurb added to the footer of your SendFox emails.
When yous subscribers click on the footer, they will also be redirected to a referral hub where they can keep track on their progress and referrals
Example referral hub. The SendFox referral hub also includes a leaderboard.
Mailing Lists
It’s super easy to upload your existing list of contacts to SendFox. You can either upload a .CSV file, import your contacts from Google or use our MailChimp auto-import tool.
Importing CSV
You can create an unlimited number of lists within SendFox and view each list’s analytics on the list tab.
Lists View
Active-Only Sending
SendFox makes it super easy for you to send to your best and most active contacts. All you need to do is check the box in your email editor that says “Send to active subscribers only”.
SendFox email editor.
This is an email marketing best practice that will help you improve your email stats and protect your sender reputation.
SendFox: The BEST Affordable Email Marketing Tool
Email marketing works and it’s one of the best ways to communicate with your customers.
Your costly email marketing tool works but it’s not worth the price.
Save on those monthly bills and get the best free MailChimp alternative here or if your’e still not convinced, check out this great SendFox review from our friends at wittysparks.com!
