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Webapp verification emails are becoming snail emails

i'm having this issue with 2 businesses i'm working on. we are sending out automated verification emails to users signing up for our saas. these emails can take up to 15 minutes to arrive in the Inbox - there appears to be no pattern.we use Mandrill as one transaction provider and sendgrid as another. the emails are shown as sent/delivered but the emails are taking far longer to show in the...

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Anyone find Hootsuite new extension invasive

does anyone find hootsuite's new chrome extension invasive? it's crashing the party everywhere, even inside our web app.when you click one of our RSS content streams the Hootsuite app pops up: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhr0g83nuqo135d/Screen%20Shot%202013-10-24%20at%209.05.19%20AM.png

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Re:Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:39AM (#6179580)
So you started charging for the service very early (almost day 1). that's not the traditional startup approach of build a biggish user base, work out the product beyond MVP and then monetize. I like hearing you got to rev early so props but is there a downside to future growth (even in the short term)?

How do you add analytics & reports to Gmail

Do you know of any Google App or Chrome plugin that lets you measure opens and clicks for emails sent through gmail. Gmail Meter gives high level analytics but not those at a campaign level.We have an export feature in http://FlashIssue.com in our product that lets you create a newsletter and send it via Gmail. We want to add some campaign analytics to the campaign?Someone else suggested...

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I posted pretty much the same question as you a couple of weeks ago for our product http://flashissue.com. at the end of the day it's important to just measure what's important in YOUR funnel.

it's taken us a while to get mixpanel installed so we can measure this properly.

our key metric is not how many people we get logging in but how many people move through our product and send out an email newsletter. we'll be a/b testing this with a "sign-up" button and an "open" app.

we should compare findings :-)

How naked should I make my product?

I'm embroiled in this debate with my cofounder about the conversion funnel for our new email marketing app.Should we open our product to users without requiring login (going naked)Our big USP is "make a newsletters from your blog or curated in minutes". We've had some great feedback and pretty good adoption of our MVP in the first 2 months but here's the issues:* the sooner someone tries our...

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