Owned audience
Email marketing for businesses that already have an audience
Search brings people once. Email is how you stay in front of the ones who were not ready to buy yet, and the ones who already did.
Email marketing is the use of an owned list to keep a business in front of prospects and customers with messages they agreed to receive.
It is the one channel where you are not renting access to your audience from a platform, which is why it usually shows the strongest return per pound of the work we do.
Where email is wasted
- Traffic arrives, leaves and is never captured, so all acquisition spend is one-shot.
- The list exists but has not been emailed in months, so open rates have collapsed.
- Every send is a broadcast to everyone, regardless of what the recipient has shown interest in.
- No automation, so every enquiry depends on someone remembering to follow up.
Who this is for
- Ecommerce brands with repeat purchase potential
- Service businesses with long decision cycles
- Businesses running events, courses or seasonal offers
- Any site with reasonable traffic and no capture mechanism
What email work involves
- List building and lead magnets
- Welcome and nurture sequences
- Abandoned basket and browse recovery
- Segmentation and personalisation
- Newsletter strategy and editorial calendars
- Deliverability, SPF, DKIM and DMARC
- List hygiene and re-engagement
- A/B testing and send timing
- Lifecycle and retention marketing
- UK GDPR and PECR compliance
- Platform setup and migration
- Revenue attribution
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What Rank Magnus does
List growth
Capture that fits the page and the visitor’s stage rather than a popup on arrival.
Automated sequences
Welcome, enquiry follow-up, abandoned basket, post-purchase and reactivation flows.
Campaigns and newsletters
A sustainable rhythm of content people actually open.
Segmentation
Sending based on behaviour and interest instead of broadcasting to everyone.
Deliverability
Authentication, list hygiene and sender reputation so email reaches the inbox.
Compliance
UK GDPR and PECR-aware consent, preferences and record keeping.
How the work runs
The same sequence every time, so you always know what stage you are at.
01
Audit
List health, deliverability, existing flows and what the data says about your buyers.
02
Plan
The flows and campaigns worth building first, ranked by likely revenue.
03
Build
Templates, automations and segments set up in your platform.
04
Send and test
Subject lines, timing and content tested with enough volume to mean something.
05
Report
Revenue and enquiries attributed to email, not just opens.
What you get
- A written plan with an order and a reason
- Work delivered in visible increments
- Reporting tied to enquiries, not impressions
- Full ownership of everything produced
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Email Marketing questions
Is email marketing still effective?
Yes. For most businesses with an existing audience it remains the highest-return channel, because you are not paying for reach each time.
How often should I email my list?
Consistently enough to be remembered. For most B2B service businesses that is monthly to fortnightly; for ecommerce it is usually weekly.
Can I email people who enquired but did not buy?
Usually yes under legitimate interest for closely related services, provided you offer an easy opt-out. We will set consent up correctly for your situation.
What platform do you recommend?
It depends on whether you are ecommerce or services and what your site runs on. We will work with whatever you already have unless there is a real reason to move.
Why are my emails going to spam?
Most often authentication is missing or the list contains old, unengaged addresses. Both are fixable.
How does email support SEO?
Indirectly but usefully. Email drives returning visits, brand searches and engagement with new content, all of which help.
Find out what this would look like for your business
Send us your site and what you want to change. We will tell you whether this is the right service to start with.