Fredrik

sales and marketing

8 Cold Email Memes You Know Are True

Here's a collection of cold emailing memes to make your day a little brighter. Because sometimes we all need a little boost to keep going.

sales and marketing

How to Write a Follow Up Email

Writing follow up emails for the first time can be tricky. I first learned how important it is to follow up when I did sales to find sponsors for my newsletter back in 2017. Now I'll share some tips and sample templates on how to write simple follow

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Email Tracking and Improved Contacts View

I'm super excited to share our latest features with you. We've recently made the contacts view much better and added a detailed view to it. Today we also shipped email tracking. You can read more about each feature below. 👀 Email tracking Email tracking allows you to

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How To Validate Ideas and Get Your First Customers With Email Outreach

This simple guide to direct sales using email outreach will teach you how to validate a business idea and get your first customers.

sales and marketing

How To Monetize Your Newsletter

Finding sponsors for your newsletter does not have to be difficult and is the most straight forward way to monetize your newsletter. In this article I'll share all the info you need and some simple steps you can take to find your first sponsor. From how many subscribers

clojure

How I Use Clojure to Build and Scale my SaaS

I was first introduced to Clojure in grad school where I was taking a course on building large scale software applications. We were building a clone of the card game Hearthstone, and in particular the game engine. If you have played that game, you know there are a lot of

What Exactly Is a Bcc Anyway?

Adding a Bcc to an email is a clever approach to sending a hidden copy that will not be visible to any other receipients. It is similar to its friendly cousin cc except no one will know about it. But do you really know exactly what it was created for

changelog

Better Automations, Shareable Filters and More!

We're almost a month into 2022 and what kind of CRM system would we be if we didn't have some new shiny features to share. New automation status for better analytics, fallbacks for merge tags, shareable filters and an improved contact importer. The best part? We&

Wobaka 2.0 🥳

I'm super excited to announce that we launch Wobaka 2.0 today. A lot has happened since I first got the idea of building a better CRM system for small businesses and eventually launching Wobaka back in 2019. Check out our launch on Product Hunt here 😺! What has

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Introducing Dark Mode

We're super happy to introduce dark mode for Wobaka, featuring a set of colors that are easy on your eyes for those evening and early morning CRM sessions, or when you just prefer a dark color theme. Hello darkness my friend Wobaka will automatically switch theme based on

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Update Contacts in Automations

Automations help you save hours on manual work and are a key feature on Wobaka. Last month we released bulk automations which allows you to start an automation on multiple contacts at the same time. Today we're launching a feature which makes automations even better. 🥳 ⚡️ Change status and

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Bulk Email Automations 🎉

It's been about a year since we first launched email automations on Wobaka. Today I'm happy to announce that you can now automate your email outreach and follow ups on as many contact as you want in one go, with just a few clicks! Say hello

How to Build Your Own CRM With Nocode Tools

A good CRM system will let you keep track of all your sales and help you automate some of your processes, without being messy or complicated. Sometimes when you're just starting out, you can get by with building your own CRM without any coding by gluing together popular

sales and marketing

What to Look for in a Small Business CRM?

Picking the right CRM for your business is critical since selecting the right one will help you grow while choosing poorly may even slow you down. Reaching out to potential customers and maintaining relationships should be easy and your CRM should help. These are some things to look for when

sales and marketing

How to Validate Your Startup Idea in One Day for $0

So, you've got a brand new idea for a startup and are looking to validate it to see if anyone is interested in your new thing? Sounds good! This will let you know how the market responds to it and give you valuable information and fuel to keep

changelog Featured

Better Search & Email Actions

I hope you're having a great summer so far! I'm happy to share some exciting new features which will make working with contacts and email even easier in Wobaka. 🔍 Better search We've added support for searching through your contacts' notes, messages and tasks.

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Bulk Actions and Pipeline Filters

We're super excited to share our most recent product updates with you. We've been working on some pretty neat things during the past weeks such as bulk actions, new filters for pipelines and other small improvements. 📚 Bulk actions Bulk actions makes it super easy to perform

privacy

Why We Don't Track

At Wobaka we take privacy seriously. We do not track your behavior and use a privacy friendly analytics app¹ that collects minimal data. For some of you this may seem like common sense. However in today's internet, it's becoming increasingly common for services to track you

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Tag Suggestions, Better Mailbox and More

We're very excited to share the latest additions to Wobaka with you. During the past few weeks we've made a bunch of small improvements such as better search and performance but we've also made a few bigger changes. 🎉 Tag suggestions Tag suggestions makes managing

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Customizing Contact Statuses

I have some really exciting news to share with you today. After two years we're finally making it possible to customize your contact statuses to tailor it to your sales process. When I started Wobaka I had a view of an easy-to-use and kind of opinionated CRM system

sales and marketing

How to get your first podcast sponsor

Having relevant sponsors on your podcast can be a great way to earn some money on your passion and perhaps enable you to make a good business out of it. During the past years I've learned a thing or two about contacting and closing sponsors and I'

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Task Filters, Default Opportunity Settings and Zapier

I've got three features that I'm personally super excited about to share with you today. Better task filter I've added the possibility to filter tasks by user. This is really useful when you want to see only tasks assigned to you or want to

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Custom Attributes and Edit Upcoming Emails

I've got two really nice features to show you this week. Custom attributes allows you to save any kind of data on a contact and upcoming email editor makes it possible to customize any email sequence, after it has been started 🤗. Custom attributes Custom attributes makes it super

guides

How to Use FastMail App Passwords in Third Party Apps

FastMail provides a great way to stay secure when using third party applications for sending email, managing your calendar and more. Why app passwords? FastMail requires all third party apps to use app passwords rather than your normal password to login. This is great because it provides additional security for

guides

How To Use Gmail App Passwords in Third Party Email Apps

Google App passwords are a great way to use your Gmail account with third party apps. This is how you activate and generate them. What's an App Password? It's basically a password that you can provision to some third party app to use access your account,