Team of the Week: Ambassador always has their Live Feed running

Our featured Team of the Week entry comes from Derek from Ambassador, writing this on behalf of his sales team. Every week or so, we'll profile a different person who uses our app to improve their email productivity. If you would like to be featured in the future, you can apply here.

At Ambassador, we help companies track and manage customer referrals. We'll let you reward your customers (or affiliates) for referring their friends, family, community, or users to you. Once you've tracked referrals, you can issue cash rewards using our integrations with Paypal and Dwolla. We're a hustling Techstars NYC startup in the one and only Detroit, Michigan. I'm managing our sales and customer service communications.

We LOVE ToutApp because we can see how effective our emails are at educating new customers about our product and its features.

ToutApp also lets us see which attachments are opened, when people reference them, and when they go back to review them. Tout also lets us know that a follow-up email has been read or clicked, letting us know that it was compelling to the recipient. Really useful - I always have my Live Feed running!

User of the Week: Shane Scales Outreach and PR using ToutApp

Every week or so, we'll profile a different person who uses our app to improve their email productivity. If you would like to be featured in the future, you can apply here.

I'm, Shane Jones, the Senior Social Outreach Specialist over at WebpageFX, a full service Internet Marketing Firm. I oversee our Outreach team and manage online PR for our company, so I'm constantly connected to about 3 or 4 email accounts 24/7. WebpageFX offers so many unique opportunities for our clients to expand their online presence and gain exposure for their brand so we always have to be ready to go. We're constantly trying to find scalable ways to build relationships and increase engagement with web influencers. 

Because of the success of our department, very much due to ToutApp, it's one of the fastest growing portions of our business.

Why do I love ToutApp? Because without it my whole department's structure would crumble! Maybe that's an exaggeration, but we would definitely have a really hard time living without it.

We represent so many different companies when doing their PR efforts, so we need to manage various email accounts. And when you are pitching to people on a mass scale, it's important to maintain consistent efforts across all of your emails. Tout's templating helps us keep it all straight, making sure we don't have to tailor every email when we find we're typically saying the same things. Templates allow us to focus on what's important. Now that we've done several product giveaway promotions, we don't need to spend too much extra time planning out our email structures and strategy. 

Because of Tout's tracking and analytics, we know exactly what communications work through A/B testing different subject lines, tones, and approaches.

Finally, the greatest impact is not only ToutApp's ability to help us scale our processes up personally, but also as a team. By being able to add team members, it's so easy to share our experiences and knowledge about what's working for us, and share our email templates with other members. And we LOVE the "Feedback" section on all the templates. We can offer suggestions for improvements and really monitor whats working for each team member!

So thanks, ToutApp, because you've had a huge role in our growth, and we cannot wait for more to come from you guys!

User of the Week: David Robinson’s Torrid Affair with ToutApp

I run musician services for a music-ed, tech-startup called Chromatik. I oversee outreach and customer service for the company and am constantly emailing people, telling them about our product and getting them on board. We have been building Chromatik for over a year and have had a tremendous response, including getting the American Idol band, Bruno Mars and tons of schools and institutions to use our product already! 

From an outsiders perspective, one might think we have a seriously unhealthy love affair with ToutApp at Chromatik. And to be honest, the outsider might be right. 

We thoroughly love ToutApp and use it daily in our office for reaching out to potential new users. I blame this torrid affair on ToutApp's email tracking and analytics, especially the Live Feed... not to mention the total integration with my browsers! Emailing has never been easier. We are able to A/B test emails and subject lines that are all tracked and neatly organized - and in return, it effectively helps us grow our company. We're looking forward to using ToutApp for a long time.

Every other week, we'll profile a different person who uses our app to improve their email productivity. If you would like to be featured in the future, you can apply here.

User of the Week: Eric Wu from Bracket Labs

I'm one of the founders of Bracket Labs. We're a Boulder, CO startup building enterprise software apps for the Salesforce AppExchange. Our apps are TaskRay and Campaign Calendar, and together they're helping thousands of sales and marketing people around the world work more productively in Salesforce.

We're a small company, so as a founder I wear a lot of different hats. One of my primary roles is sales, so I spend a lot of time talking to customers who have found our apps through the AppExchange and are looking for more information so they can make a purchase.

I love ToutApp for three big reasons:

1) It helps me do more faster! We have a set of emails we send to new leads to help them understand the apps and determine whether there's a good fit for their team.

ToutApp has allowed me to send (and schedule) my emails in a way that has reduced my time per lead by about 30%.

2) The ability to deliver nicely formatted, trackable follow-up email responses from within the Salesforce Leads tab but sent from my own email address (rather than Salesforce's mailer) is great because I don't always trust the deliverability of the Salesforce mailer.

3) The Live Feed of activity on my sent emails is awesome and gives me new insight on customer engagement with my emails. I can prioritize my follow-ups based on their activity and interest level, timely response to an engaged customer is a big part of showing them you're paying attention and you are ready to help.

Every other week, we'll profile a different person who uses our app to improve their email productivity. If you would like to be featured in the future, you can apply here.

User of the Week: Reese Miller from Superhero IT Services

Hi, I'm Reese Miller, the head of Business Development for Superhero IT Services. I help identify and reach out to people who could benefit with some help with their IT infrastructure.

We do everything from cloud consulting to email marketing, so I need to stay productive and organized with my emails. Once I have a list of leads to reach out to, I'll send them each a personalized, templated email.

Seeing which leads have the most engagement through ToutApp lets me prioritize them.

I'll usually give a call to the people who have the most views or clicks on an email, and this helps me close a lot more deals. We've been using Tout for nearly six months now, and it's made a huge improvement to our sales process.

If you are a small to medium-sized business and need help with your IT, shoot me an email and I'll connect you with one of our superheroes. 

Every other week, we'll profile a different person who uses our app to improve their email productivity. If you would like to be featured in the future, you can apply here.