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Email & SMS Marketing

Revenue you can
trace back to
a send.

Ads stop working the moment you stop paying. SEO takes months. But a well-managed email and SMS program compounds quietly in the background — turning the customers you've already earned into the revenue stream that keeps paying back.

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✉️ Email Campaigns 💬 SMS Automation 🔄 Drip Sequences 📋 List Segmentation
38%
Open rate
last campaign
Inbox — Your Business
✉ Inbox 4
⭐ Starred
📤 Sent
📋 Drafts
🗑 Trash
📬 Monthly Newsletter Sent
9:04 AM
🌟 October Update — Offers Inside
847 delivered · 38% open rate · 12% clicked
💬 SMS Campaign Delivered
8:30 AM
Flash offer SMS — 312 sent · 94% delivered
6 replies received · 4 bookings confirmed
🔄 Re-engagement Flow
Yesterday
Win-back sequence — Day 7 sent
43 contacts · 22% re-opened · 8 converted
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$6.40
Revenue per email sent
The Case for Email

The most profitable
channel most businesses
are ignoring.

Email is the oldest digital marketing channel — and it's still the one with the highest measurable return. The reason most local businesses don't prioritize it isn't that it doesn't work. It's that running it well takes time and consistency they don't have. That's where we come in.

$36
returned for every $1 spent on email marketing — the highest ROI of any digital channel
Litmus Email Marketing ROI Report
4B+
daily email users worldwide — more than every social platform combined
Statista, 2024
98%
SMS open rate — the highest open rate of any marketing channel by a significant margin
SimpleTexting Research
3×
more likely to make a purchase via email than through social media — for the same audience
McKinsey & Company
What We Build

Campaigns that run
while you sleep.

One-off campaigns are valuable. But automated sequences — triggered by behavior, timing, or customer status — work around the clock without any ongoing effort from you or us. These are the flows we build for every client.

New Customer
→
Welcome Email
→
Day 3 Follow-up
→
Review Request
Welcome & Onboarding Sequence
Triggered the moment a new customer enters your system. Sets expectations, introduces your story, delivers any promised offer, and requests a review at exactly the right moment — when the experience is still fresh.
90 Days Inactive
→
Re-engagement Email
→
SMS Nudge
→
Booked or Removed
Win-Back Campaign
Customers who haven't returned in 90 days enter a win-back sequence automatically. A personalized email, a follow-up SMS, and a targeted offer — designed to recover lapsed revenue before those contacts go cold permanently.
Job Completed
→
Thank You Email
→
Review SMS
→
Referral Ask
Post-Service Follow-Up
Triggered after every completed job. A thank-you message reinforces the relationship, a timed SMS requests a Google review while the experience is top of mind, and a referral prompt turns one happy customer into two.
Appointment Booked
→
Confirmation
→
24hr Reminder
→
2hr SMS Alert
Appointment Reminder Sequence
Confirmation email on booking, a 24-hour reminder the day before, and a short-lead SMS two hours out. Reduces no-shows by up to 30% without any manual outreach from your team on any individual appointment.
Two Channels, One Strategy

Email and SMS are
better together.

They serve different roles in the customer relationship. Email builds depth and nurtures over time. SMS creates urgency and gets immediate action. Running both in coordination — with the right message in the right channel at the right moment — is where the real returns come from.

✉️
Email Marketing
"The relationship channel — where you build trust over time."
Monthly newsletters that keep your brand front of mind between purchases
Promotional campaigns for seasonal offers, new services, or limited-time pricing
Educational content that positions you as the trusted expert in your field
Automated sequences that run without ongoing effort from you
Deep analytics — opens, clicks, revenue per send, unsubscribes tracked and reported
Best for: Nurturing, newsletters, promotions, onboarding
💬
SMS Marketing
"The action channel — where you get an immediate response."
Appointment reminders that reduce no-shows without manual follow-up
Flash offers and last-minute availability fills sent directly to a customer's phone
Review requests timed 30 minutes after service completion — when sentiment is highest
Two-way conversations that let customers reply directly to confirm or reschedule
98% open rate — most messages read within 3 minutes of delivery
Best for: Reminders, flash offers, review requests, quick responses
Email campaign
Marketing automation
List growth analytics
Local business
Every Month

Managed end-to-end.
Reported in plain numbers.

We write the copy, design the templates, build the automations, manage the list, and report the results. You approve the calendar, watch the numbers go up, and focus on serving the customers who come back.

📅
Monthly Campaign Calendar
Every campaign planned and submitted for approval before anything gets sent. You see the send dates, the subject lines, the offers, and the audience segments — and give the green light before we pull the trigger.
✍️
Copywriting & Design
Every email written in your brand voice and designed on your template — not a generic blast that looks like it came from a random newsletter. Subject lines A/B tested on campaigns where volume supports it.
👥
List Management & Segmentation
Your list cleaned, tagged, and segmented by customer type, purchase history, and engagement level. The right message to the right contact — not the same email to everyone whether it's relevant to them or not.
🔄
Automation Maintenance
Existing automations reviewed and updated monthly. Open rates and click rates monitored — flows that underperform get rewritten. New triggers built as your business adds services or changes its customer journey.
📊
Performance Report
Delivered opens, clicks, unsubscribes, revenue attributed to specific campaigns, and list health metrics — once a month, in a format your team can actually use to make decisions.
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List Growth Strategy
Your list only works if it keeps growing. We build opt-in touchpoints into your website, post-job follow-up, and in-store interactions — so your subscriber count compounds over time rather than decays.
A Northeast Ohio Service Business. Real Numbers.

"We sent one email about a seasonal promotion and booked out the next three weeks."

A Northeast Ohio home services company had collected over 600 customer emails but had never sent a single campaign. We set up their automation stack, cleaned the list, and launched their first monthly newsletter alongside a seasonal promotion sequence. That first promotional send generated 22 direct booking requests within 48 hours — from a list they'd had sitting idle for two years.

— Home Services Client, Summit County Ohio
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22
Direct bookings from their very first email send
600+
Contacts that had never been emailed — sitting idle for 2 years
48hrs
Until the bookings rolled in after first send
Common Questions

What people ask
before getting started.

Email and SMS come with more hesitation than most channels — usually because people have been on the receiving end of bad campaigns. Here's what we tell clients who aren't sure.

Ask us anything →
What if my list is small — is it worth starting now?
Yes — and the sooner you start, the better. A list of 200 engaged customers is more valuable than a list of 5,000 disengaged ones. We'll help you build the right foundation from the start: a clean subscriber base, solid automations, and a consistent send cadence. What starts small grows fast when the strategy is right.
How do I grow my email list?
We build opt-in touchpoints wherever your customers already interact with your business — your website, your booking confirmation flow, your post-job follow-up sequence, and your social profiles. For businesses with physical locations, we set up in-store opt-in processes too. List growth is an ongoing part of what we manage, not a one-time setup.
Won't people just unsubscribe if I email them?
Only if what you send isn't worth reading. The businesses that see high unsubscribe rates are the ones sending generic blasts to people who don't remember signing up, at frequencies that feel like spam. We send at the right cadence, to the right segments, with content that's actually relevant — unsubscribe rates on well-run campaigns are consistently below 0.5%.
Do I need to be on a specific email platform?
We work within GoHighLevel for clients on the Araceli platform, which gives you native CRM integration, automation, and list management all in one place. For clients on other systems, we'll assess what you're already using and either work within it or recommend a migration if the current setup is limiting your results.
Is SMS marketing legal — do I need permission?
Yes, SMS requires explicit opt-in consent under TCPA regulations. We handle all compliance — double opt-in flows, unsubscribe honoring, and proper disclosures — so you're never exposed to legal risk. Every contact in your SMS list has given clear permission, and every message includes a compliant opt-out option.

Your customers want
to hear from you. Start sending.

We'll assess your current list, your automation gaps, and what a realistic email and SMS program would look like for your business — before you commit to anything.

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