The Automated Emails Every Small Business Should Send
Not campaigns. The messages that fire when something happens: a booking, an order, an enquiry, a signup. Six triggers and what each one should say.
The broadest collection on the blog, written for owner-run businesses. It covers websites, bookings and enquiries, payments, reviews, email, privacy and consent, local search and AI visibility, with worked examples drawn from clinics, shops, restaurants, rental firms, letting agents and service trades.
Not campaigns. The messages that fire when something happens: a booking, an order, an enquiry, a signup. Six triggers and what each one should say.
Orders here, bookings there, a newsletter list somewhere else and a spreadsheet nobody trusts. What it costs, and what a single contact record fixes.
Tenants search on different fields to buyers, and a letting advertised like a sale gets filtered out before anybody reads it. What lettings actually need.
Most property leads are lost in the hour after they arrive, not at the viewing. What to capture, where enquiries should land, and what to automate.
A listing can collect clicks all week and produce no viewings. What the fields do, which ones buyers filter on, and the order that gets a booking.
A gift card is cash today for work later, and a new customer arriving with a reason to try you. What to set up, and what to think about first.
Photographs are almost always the heaviest thing on a small business page. How to size them, which format to use, and what to write in alt text.
Most consent banners on small sites do not do the one thing they exist for. When you need one, and what a working one actually has to do.
Every spam filter has a false-positive rate, and on a contact form a false positive is a lost customer. What to use, and what to avoid.