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Pluck - Smarter cold emails for the savvy social marketer

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Vinay Khosla
Like others here, I'm wondering about the legality of sending unsolicited emails. Twitter users global and you cannot rely on the laws of one country. Eg. In the UK the regulation is clear: You’re only allowed to send marketing emails to individual customers if they’ve given you permission.
Ryan Angilly
@vinay123 yeah we really care about this, and that's something that we think makes Pluck special in this space. We're working to ensure we abide by all laws. This includes a myriad of techniques to figure out where the person is located and where their business operates. It's not perfect yet, but we're constantly refining it. It's worth noting that we don't recommend Pluck for B2C marketing. Not only are B2B recipients easier to find email addresses for, but going B2B puts our emails in a different class in many jurisdictions. Edit: typo
Vinay Khosla
@angilly 👍 appreciate the prompt and thoughtful response. You are right, B2B has different regulations. Great idea. I'm going to give it a go too!
Sam Sexton
@vinay123 @angilly Not entirely true, in the UK, even B2B emails to individuals within a company still need to have permission. Only those going to company mailboxes are exempt from permission over here.
Vinay Khosla
Having said that. I in favour of any tool that enables growth.
David Hoos
Is there a minimum subscription length? Could I try it for a month and then cancel if it's not working out?
Ryan Angilly
@davidhoos the minimum length is just 1 month. You could absolutely try it for a month and cancel. After canceling, any links in your emails will continue to work.
David Hoos
@angilly Thanks Ryan. Is the email that we sign up under going to be the email that all emails are sent from? In other words, would it be better if we signed up with a personal vs a marketing@ email?
Ryan Angilly
@davidhoos no, it doesn't matter. you can signup with one email address, and then your account will have a "verified reply-to email address". You'll be able to set that address (and also set your physical address, which we need for CAN-SPAM compliance) after your submit your account and we review it.
Louis Magnotti
I wish this was a desktop app that could just extract the emails for me..I feel like that's all people need anyways, and that's the unique selling prop that you guys offer. Everyone can figure out how to send emails, and keeping it capped at $250 a mo for 1000 emails is extremely expensive.
Ryan Angilly
@kingliv_ There are a few apps & Chrome extensions that let you find email addresses. They're escaping me at the moment; I think Clearbit has one. I just saw another one a few days ago too. When I come across it, I'll come back and comment again. One of the biggest values of Pluck is that we do everything for you in an automated fashion across multiple concurrent campaigns. While it may be too expensive for individual users (think prosumers), it's probably priced too cheaply for more mature businesses.
Nolan Clemmons
@kingliv_ The question of cost for any tool, is how much is your time worth?
Blake Rubin
I love this idea, i have specific clients where I have to do a monitoring report that finds out when they or certain aspects of their businesses are mentioned in social media.
Ryan Angilly
@blakerubin1 awesome, Blake! Hope we can be helpful!
Clark \
This looks compelling and might even mean fewer emails for some assuming the targeting was good. I'm a salesman, I send lots of cold emails +2 or more follow ups which would almost certainly be fewer if the timing could be effective. Having a shot at timing an email when there's potential interest would be a big win. Alas, the pricing makes me hesitate. Cheers!
Ryan Angilly
@clarkchambers yeah that's the idea! As far as pricing goes, if we enable you to create just relationship per quarter that yielded a new customer at your Enterprise level, it would pay for itself 33x :)
Elizabeth
Wow. This is nuts... If their spam score is low then this is a no-brainer to test at least. Hope everyone tweeting about old episodes of Community will enjoy my thesis paper in their inboxes...
Lants / Atlanta Daniel
Looks great. Just signed up.
Ryan Angilly
@lants thanks Lants!
Matt Douglas
Sounds really interesting. Will give it a whirl.
Ryan Angilly
@mattdouglas thanks, Matt!
Kieran Tie
Hey Ryan - Pluck looks great! Definitely something I could find useful. Bonus points for having it look awesome and work well on mobile as well!
Ryan Angilly
@kierantie thank you! Bootstrap FTW! 😎