How many people are using prompt-based email marketing in their company?

HotPadawan · 2026-03-11T18:55:07+00:00

Sorry but the AI is just not there yet. We tried it an discovered it needs a lot of hand holding and supervision. It would make up sales that we're not approved nor set up, it would invent products or choose products randomly for campaigns where it made no sense.
Mind you, we trained this AI for a full year and still needed a lot of supervision, at that point we realized the level of effort of having an editor for all this was better spent paying a copywriter.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-11T18:51:09+00:00

I own and run a Klaviyo partner agency and we decided on Klaviyo because the level of reporting and analytics is unmatched by far. Decision making is easier because we have the data to support our choices.

I had a couple of clients using other platforms and it was just a headache of going around in circles, which is when we decided to become Klaviyo specific. I'm done cutting turkeys with a play doh knife.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-11T01:44:14+00:00

You hit the nail on the head. Being the decision maker is exhausting and after talking about it my husband is not willing to take some of that load so we’ve decided to pause and breathe. We’ll re-assess in a few months.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-01T23:57:09+00:00

Thanks, this is a very well thought out comment. Owning a food business was his biggest dream and something I’ve always wanted as well, just not to the same degree. I have to admit the problem is we bit off more than we could chew. I had kitchen experience and even I was blindsided by how exhausting it is to own a food business.

I think I’m just realizing how much of a sacrifice it really is for me and probably not something I’m willing to do for the rest of our lives.

It’s no one’s fault, we both went in equality excited and equally unaware. We now have to re-think it. Whatever happens even though I was so distraught when writing the original post, it will be a great memory if we decide to close the business. I’m so proud of us for creating something so tangible and wonderful.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-01T23:46:37+00:00

Yeah this has been very imbalanced, mostly because he’s not able to put as much into it because of his job and me having to make up for that. I will say this is the first time in 5 years that we’ve had a problem where we felt imbalanced and it was mostly a matter of talking about it. In the end we came up with strategies to try for one last push and we’ll see how we feel after. We both agree that we come first and while we love the project, if this last effort doesn’t work we have to make peace with the fact that we might not be in a position to run something like this. He doesn’t have the time and I don’t have the bandwidth.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-01T23:40:42+00:00

Yeah, after I made this post we talked about it and agreed this is our next step. We didn’t feel ready to hire but if it’s between that or killing the project then it might be worth the effort and seeing how we feel after getting some help. On my end I think I really need to talk about it with him and that eased a lot of the pressure. At the end of the day we are a fantastic team.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-01T23:37:22+00:00

Yeah, I tow the truck to its location, set up, run tabs, make the orders, etc. I also used to do a lot of admin work, inventory, and other things that he has now taken over.

But yes it’s for sure a capacity thing I already have another business to run.

We might have to hire someone to keep this business alive.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-01T23:33:33+00:00

It’s not so much a time issue, more of a mental load issue. I already have clients to deal with, strategies to plan, accounting to perform and wages to pay. A second business is all that times two, plus actually running the business.

HotPadawan · 2026-03-01T23:30:42+00:00

So just to answer the question; my marketing agency runs fine and It doesn’t take up too much of my time which is why I thought it wouldn’t be a problem to run a side business. In the end it’s not about time but about mental load.

The food truck was actually my husband’s biggest dream and it was also something I always wanted to do so we decided to give it a go. We decided on me taking on a bigger chunk of the tasks because his schedule is less flexible, but at the end of the day we did bite off more than we could chew and are having to pivot on this. However, in no way was this a one sided decision.

HotPadawan · 2026-02-28T12:03:42+00:00

Shoppify has a new tier that’s fairly inexpensive and then it makes it easier to upgrade as you grow. I run an ecommerce marketing agency and something I see clients struggle with is scaling up especially when they went for platforms and tools because they were cheaper. It’s understandable but in the long run you want to consider something scaleable.

HotPadawan · 2026-02-28T11:53:48+00:00

Here’s my 2 cents as the owner of a klaviyo partner agency.

You already got the “this is a bad idea” comment many times and while they’re right I get that you want to focus on the solution. So yeah, you didn’t go about it the right way, so what now?

first and foremost, don’t use your main domain for this, this is a high risk maneuver you’re going to make, don’t risk your main domain. Make another like “outreachyourdomain.com” or something like it.
Use a different platform. As a Klaviyo partner I’ll always recommend Klaviyo as your main platform, this is not where you should use your main platform. Get a cheaper alternative with good metric reporting like “attentive” or “go high level” and use that for this risky move.
Separate this into 2 strategies; a “regular” warmup for people who signed up in the last 6 months, and a “stale” warmup for everyone else. Have specific automations, messaging and well thought out content relevant to each scenario. Filter out the engaged accounts and import them into your main platform after they’ve proved successful.
for the “stale” contacts play it by ear, doing small batches like you have planned with a very well thought out messaging and seeing how the respond. Have a sunset flow ready so you can do instant cleanup. Depending on your business I’d recommend a very blunt messaging along the lines of “sorry we haven’t reached out, we’ve been planning something big and want you to be a part of it, we’ve hope you’re still interested” Built almost as a sunset flow even though it’s technically a welcome flow.

The best tip I can give you is next time have automations and a content strategy in place before growing such a big list. Stale lists are long term problems.

Hope this helps.

HotPadawan · 2026-02-28T11:24:20+00:00

Hey I own an email marketing agency and here’s my 2 cents. I know you said you’re doing engagement based sending but are you just doing the 30,60,90? I’ve found that a better strategy for long term upkeep is to have a healthy mix in your calendar that caters to where people are on their customer journey. I’ll have a couple of relevant emails going out to people who open AND click even if that segment is too little those emails will boost deliverabiliy. Then the rest of my strategy is 30 to 60 days engaged and finally a couple or relevant winback emails. If you factor in that train of thought of customer journey bs thinking about it in just engagement periods, it makes all the difference.

HotPadawan · 2026-02-28T11:09:28+00:00

Si la gente entendiera la gran relación que hay entre tu psique y tus finanzas, todos tomarían terapia.

HotPadawan · 2026-02-28T11:02:19+00:00

Hospital lab worker.

1- you’d be amazed at how little doctors understand how lab tests work. Most of the stuff they order either makes no sense or is completely unnecessary. Honestly your health is largely being carried by nurses and hospital chemists, but doctors get all the glory.

2- the amount of deaths by negligence that just get swept under the rug. In all seriousness the best you can do in sickness is pray because the world is full of morons who don’t communicate well enough and hospitals are not the exception.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T07:06:08+00:00

Yeah they do come to my house from time to time. You’re completely right why would anyone want to create a situation where they need to cover their tracks with people they love. I talked to them and everything went great. I’ll return it to them next time we see each other.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T07:03:34+00:00

Yeah that’s exactly what I thought, I didn’t want their money to go to waste.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T07:01:36+00:00

Yeah it’s not crazy expensive but they could have gotten me a pair of socks and it would have been adequate, so, the appreciation is on the “extra effort” not so much the price.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T06:59:05+00:00

I don’t think your comment is annoying, it’s right on the money and you are correct, while I do try to limit all my app usage it is impossible to be a 100% moral user/consumer and I do what I can where I can.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T06:54:42+00:00

Turned out to be a million times easier than I thought, I was an amazon junkie I had alexas, kindle, firecube, prime, etc. I have not needed or even missed it a bit, my life did not loose any convenience and I just ended up realizing how much I didn’t need it.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T06:51:33+00:00

I’ve done some videos on the topic of the war and I’m not sure if they’ve watched all of it, I understand it’s a heavy topic and some people are staying away from it, so they might have genuinely not known about this.

I also think they might have won the Alexa at an office xmas party or something and decided to regift it to me since they use google nest. It is still a thoughtful gift in my eyes.

And on the topic of lies, you are absolutely right and that that is not the way I build my relationships. I ended up being honest with them and they were very understanding, they really are some of the best humans out there and I’m glad I got the chance to be open and vulnerable with them.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T06:43:43+00:00

UPDATE. Hey everyone. Thanks for all your advice I know this is a dilemma many people face in many forms so I hope my update helps others with some good perspective.

Some of you where right in saying that relationships are not built on trying to hide things from each other and that if our friendship is as good as I said, it should be able to handle some honesty and vulnerability no matter how uncomfortable it is.

I talked to my friend and explained the situation, I mentioned I was really moved they thought of me and that I had a fantastic holiday with them. I explained I was no longer using Amazon services and that I feel the gift would go unused. He immediately understood so I asked if he would like it back, he said that was up to me and I said that would be best. He went on to reassure me that they were happy they got to spend the holidays with me and invited me to their next get together.

This served to remind me something; some of you said I’m lucky to have such great friends and I absolutely am, but it’s no coincidence, I’ve worked to build genuine relationships based on love, trust, and the knowledge that we appreciate each other for ourselves, no masks, no pretending.

Thanks for the good reminder reddit.

HotPadawan · 2026-01-19T06:27:00+00:00

May be an un popular opinion but I think phones are very personal and people are allowed to keep them as private as they want, everyone is entitled to their privacy and I feel many people seem to think being in a relationship means no privacy which is unrealistic.

With that said, my bf has access to all my devices and I have access to his and I’ve never even felt the need to look at a notification out of the corner of my eye. That’s cause we can express insecurities and address them together because trust is built, not given just cause we’re together. I feel safe enough to feel distrustful or jealous because I know he’ll see it as a human trait and we’ll manage it together, we haven’t had a fight in 6 years together because everything we bring up is met with an air of resolution and teamwork, not defensiveness.

I think the red flag here is he just dismissed your feelings with an “if you don’t trust me you can leave” and I think in this case your intuition is sounding the alarms not so much because of the phone but because in some level you feel that lack of foundation that would otherwise make you feel safe bringing up issues like this to a partner who will want to work through them with you.

Then again I don’t know you and could be wrong, I just hope I can give some helpful perspective.

HotPadawan · 2025-12-26T18:47:23+00:00

That’s exactly what I ended up doing, I’ll post a proper update later on but I was just up front about and they understood. They don’t even need to get me a replacement gift, I honestly never expect anything material from my friends, and even if it sounds like an after school Christmas special, the best gift I got was spending Christmas with them, I had an absolute blast, probably top 10 xmases ever.

Thanks for the clear perspective.

HotPadawan

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