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Text messaging, also known as SMS marketing, is a powerful tool that enables you to contact people directly. But carrier violations may be preventing your texts from being delivered. According to Smart Insights, 97 percent of text messages are read within 15 minutes of delivery, … Continue reading “Carrier violations: What to avoid during SMS text marketing”

For cannabis retailers and dispensaries, text messaging (SMS) is one of the primary ways they communicate offers, deals and updates to their customers. And staying in compliance is not only important, it’s the law. This guide provides helpful information about text marketing rules and keep … Continue reading “How cannabis retailers and dispensaries stay in compliance with text messaging”

You might have received an email recently that looked like this: This email contains a branded logo as well as Google’s verified checkmark. After a little bit of research you ended up here and are wondering what this is, how you get it, and, most … Continue reading “Google’s Verified Checkmark”

Your business can either thrive or barely survive based on your customer responsiveness in this fast-moving digital world. How long does it take your team members to respond to a question from a customer or potential customer? Simple answer: The longer it takes, the worse … Continue reading “8 ways to improve customer responsiveness”

90% of business leads would rather receive a text message than a phone call. Is text messaging part of your digital marketing strategy? Email remains one of the best tools for digital marketers to reach their intended audience. But if text messaging isn’t part of … Continue reading “Text messaging – is it part of your B2B marketing strategy?”

To send text messages through Mindbody, you need the Mindbody Marketing Suite add-on. An alternative option is DailyStory, which is cost-effective and packed with features. It seamlessly integrates with Mindbody and offers more powerful text messaging functions. How simple? You can send your first text … Continue reading “Send text messages to Mindbody clients”

New to automated emails? The good news is that they are an incredibly effective tool when blended into your larger marketing strategy. We’ve put together 17 automated email examples you can start using today. Depending on your brand and business, there are a number of … Continue reading “Automated email examples – 17 you can start using today”

DailyStory is an automated digital marketing platform you can trust. Whether sending newsletters, welcome campaigns, reminder messages, cart abandons, or virtually any other type of email or text message marketing, our features will help you grow sales and build loyalty among your customers. DailyStory has … Continue reading “Email and text message marketing for Lightspeed”

DailyStory is an automated digital marketing platform you can trust. Whether sending newsletters, welcome campaigns, reminder messages, cart abandons, or virtually any other type of email or text message marketing, our features will help you grow sales and build loyalty among your customers. DailyStory has … Continue reading “Email and text message marketing for Square”

Social proof can help convert your potential customers into paying customers. This marketing technique refers to potential customers assuming that what others are doing is correct based on how often they see those actions. In other words, social proof is about looking to others to … Continue reading “17 of the best social proof tools to boost your sales”

Whether you’ve heard of search engine optimization before or not, your franchise website could already be making common SEO mistakes. Why does this matter? The more SEO mistakes you’re making, the less likely your franchise will rank anywhere significant (or at all) on a search … Continue reading “13 common SEO mistakes your franchise could be making right now”

Email marketing is a strong tool for any small business. About 91 percent of U.S. consumers use email, and it is estimated that for every $1 spent on email marketing, an average of $38 is gained, making the ROI (return on investment) a potential 3,800 … Continue reading “Cold emailing? 11 tips to increase your open rate”

What is email automation? Email automation is a series of emails you automatically send to your prospects or customers and use extensive personalization. And while businesses are often focusing their marketing efforts on getting new customers, email automation can do the work on nurturing and … Continue reading “Email automation matters to your marketing”

SMS marketing, or text messaging, is a popular way that businesses can share offers, deals and updates with their customers. SMS text messaging is a channel of communication available to upwards of 98 percent of consumers. And, according to research conducted for the Cellular Telecommunications … Continue reading “Sample terms of service for SMS marketing”

One of the most important tools for lead generation and sales conversion is the landing page. Landing pages are standalone web pages that are disconnected from your website’s navigation. Their purpose is to present focused content that aims to convince visitors to act, whether that’s … Continue reading “10 tips to create effective landing pages”

What is image alt text The alt text is the text that is shown in an email when the image cannot be loaded. And setting the alt text for images used in your email marketing is a best practice. Similar to how SEO gurus and … Continue reading “Email alt text Best Practices”

DailyStory is an automated digital marketing platform you can trust. Whether sending newsletters, welcome campaigns, reminder messages, cart abandons, or virtually any other type of email or text message marketing, our features will help you grow sales and build loyalty among your customers. DailyStory has … Continue reading “Email and text message marketing for BigCommerce”

It’s important to measure email marketing when running campaigns. Email marketing platforms, such as DailyStory, include built-in analytics tools you can use to understand how your emails are performing. The good news is that email marketing is easy to measure. Most email marketing services, including … Continue reading “How to measure the success of your email marketing campaign”

These exit intent popup best practices will help you capture more leads using exit intent popups. Popups shown when your website visitor is about to leave your site. Visitors have a short attention span What we sometimes forget is that we have only mere seconds … Continue reading “Exit intent popup best practices to convert website visitors”

With more than 3.6 billion people using social media worldwide, this form of digital marketing isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Social media is one of several major ways to reach your target audience online. In particular, social media is great for building brand awareness, creating … Continue reading “Level up your social media skills with these 17 free online courses”

No one launches an email marketing campaign with the hope to land in a recipient’s spam folder. Email inbox placement is imperative to a successful campaign. Inbox placement success vs failure Email inbox placement is successful when your email is delivered and appears in the … Continue reading “Email inbox placement and avoiding the junk folder”

While SMS marketing is an effective tool to reach your customers and new leads, there are important rules to follow for text compliance. A text message sent through an SMS marketing campaign, on average, should experience a 98 percent open rate. This easily beats email … Continue reading “Text compliance: 9 tips to keep your business out of trouble”

We’ve read a lot recently about a resurgence of plain text emails. And, some email marketers even promote writing exclusively plain text instead of using HTML. We at DailyStory want to share some of the research we’ve done and the recommendations we give our customers. … Continue reading “Plain text or HTML email – which to use in your next campaign”

Integrating with Salesforce to capture leads from any web form on your website doesn’t need to be difficult or require custom code. Since starting DailyStory we’ve had the opportunity to work with several customers that use our Salesforce integration. But they didn’t have the budget … Continue reading “Simple Salesforce integration for any website”

Capturing, storing, and using customer data is part of any modern marketing experience. Specifically for email and content targeting and personalization. Customer data drives customer experience Customer data is vital for matching content to the context of the visitor or audience. This is known as … Continue reading “Customer data best practices for digital marketing”

Facebook Reels and Instagram Reels are new features you’ve likely noticed on Facebook, Instagram or both. You might be wondering what it is and how you can use this for your marketing. What are Facebook Reel and Instagram Reels? Reels is a feature where users … Continue reading “Facebook and Instagram Reels explained”

DailyStory is an automated digital marketing platform you can trust. Whether sending newsletters, welcome campaigns, reminder messages, cart abandons, or virtually any other type of email or text message marketing, our features will help you grow sales and build loyalty among your customers. DailyStory has … Continue reading “Email and text message marketing for Flowhub”

Getting Started With Marketing Automation Webinar on August 15 Learn all the basics (and ask any questions you have) about marketing automation in this free DailyStory webinar. Anytime support with our 24/7 chat Your digital marketing efforts work around the clock, and now our chat … Continue reading “What’s New in DailyStory – July 2023 highlights”

DailyStory is an automated digital marketing platform you can trust. Whether sending newsletters, welcome campaigns, reminder messages, cart abandons, or virtually any other type of email or text message marketing, our features will help you grow sales and build loyalty among your customers. DailyStory has … Continue reading “Email and text message marketing for WooCommerce”

We’ve put together the top 10 exit intent examples to capture visitors before they leave. Plus an extra bonus example! We recommend targeting the type of exit intent based on rules driven by actions of the visitor – depending upon the rule they trigger you … Continue reading “Top 10 Exit Intent Popup Examples”

Customer testimonials are a critical component of effectively promoting your business to consumers who are getting to know you and your brand. Simply put, customer testimonials are short quotes or personal anecdotes from past customers that describe how a particular product or service has helped … Continue reading “6 tips for collecting effective customer testimonials”

DailyStory is an automated digital marketing platform you can trust. Whether sending newsletters, welcome campaigns, reminder messages, cart abandons, or virtually any other type of email or text message marketing, our features will help you grow sales and build loyalty among your customers. DailyStory has … Continue reading “Email and text message marketing for Shopify”

Videos matter. And they should for your franchise business as well. In fact, about 92 percent of marketers say that videos are an important part of their marketing strategy. See our five reasons why your business should consider creating more video content. If you’re just … Continue reading “10 types of videos you can use in your franchise marketing strategy”