Service · 09

The channel you actually own.

Newsletters, nurture journeys and transactional email - designed, built and measured on clicks and outcomes rather than open rates.

Deliverables
6
Phases
3
Sectors
4
Practice
Studio
01 · The discipline

What email marketing & automation actually is - and when it earns its place.

Email is the only audience you own. Reach on social is rented and priced by auction; a permission-based list is an asset that keeps working when budgets pause. Most businesses we meet already have one, sitting unused in a platform nobody logs into, with contacts collected in five different ways and no segmentation.

We build the programme rather than the individual send: which segments exist, what each one should receive, which journeys should be automated, and how consent is captured and honoured. Then we design templates your team can actually reuse, and wire the platform into the website, GA4 and, where it exists, the CRM.

We separate the two jobs email does. Mailchimp handles marketing - newsletters, segmentation, campaigns and automations. Resend handles transactional and operational messages sent by the website itself: enquiry confirmations, internal lead notifications, booking confirmations, authentication. Mixing them is how businesses end up with marketing email in a spam folder and confirmations that never arrive.

02 · In this market

What changes when email marketing & automation is practised in Cyprus rather than copied from a playbook written somewhere else.

  1. 01

    Open rates stopped being a metric

    Mail privacy features pre-load images and inflate opens. We report clicks, website engagement, enquiries and bookings, and treat opens as directional only.

  2. 02

    Deliverability is a DNS problem first

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment on your sending domain matters more than subject lines. We set this up properly before volume goes anywhere near a list.

  3. 03

    Seasonality is severe here

    Hospitality, F&B and property all run on sharp seasonal curves. A calendar built around those curves outperforms a fixed monthly newsletter every time.

From the partners

A newsletter should look like the brand and read like a person. Most look like a template and read like a memo, which is why nobody opens the second one.
Raphaela Stylianou · Founder
The confirmation email after an enquiry is a brand moment and a conversion tool. Treating it as plumbing is a missed opportunity every single time.
George Petrides · Partner
03 · What you get

6 defined deliverables. Open a row to read the detail - skip what you don't need.

01
Email strategy

Programme design: audience segments, cadence, content pillars and the journeys worth automating.

02
Campaign design & copy

Responsive templates, campaign artwork and copy in your tone of voice - built once, reusable by your team.

03
Marketing platform (Mailchimp)

Audience organisation with lists, tags, groups and segments; signup forms and website integrations; welcome, nurture, re-engagement, event and launch sequences; scheduling, A/B testing, consent and unsubscribe handling, data cleanup and contact migration.

04
Transactional email (Resend)

Form delivery, internal lead notifications, branded enquiry and booking confirmations, authentication and event-triggered messages - implemented server-side with domain verification and SPF, DKIM and DMARC readiness.

05
Integration & tracking

UTM conventions, GA4 integration, website and CRM integrations, delivery monitoring, bounce and complaint handling, and email event tracking.

06
Reporting & optimisation

Click, engagement and conversion reporting tied to enquiries, bookings and qualified leads - with open rates treated as directional only.

04 · How we work

A short, senior process in 3 phases - no over-produced decks, no delegated thinking.

01
Plan

Segments, journeys, cadence, consent.

02
Build

Templates, automations, integrations, deliverability.

03
Measure

Clicks, enquiries, bookings, qualified leads.

05 · The engagement

Scope, duration and what we need from you - stated before you commit, not discovered halfway through.

Typical duration
Three to six weeks to set up, then ongoing campaigns
Platforms
Mailchimp for marketing, Resend for transactional and website email
What we need from you
Platform access, DNS access for domain verification, and your existing contact data
Working rhythm
Monthly campaign calendar, quarterly automation review
Leaves you with
Templates, segments, automations, verified sending domain and reporting
06 · Questions

Answered the way we would answer them on a call.

01
Why two platforms instead of one?

They solve different problems. Mailchimp is built for audiences, segmentation and campaigns. Resend is built for reliable, application-triggered messages sent by your website. Using one for both usually degrades either deliverability or flexibility.

02
Can you migrate our existing list?

Yes, with a cleanup pass first: deduplication, invalid addresses, consent status and segmentation. We do not import contacts whose consent basis cannot be established.

03
Are open rates reliable?

No. Privacy protections mean opens are inflated and inconsistent between mail clients. We prioritise clicks, website engagement, enquiries, bookings, qualified leads and sales wherever those are available.

07 · Applied in

Sectors where this discipline is doing most of the work right now.

Talk to a senior strategist about email marketing & automation.

Prefer to read first? See how the studio works - the principles we apply on every engagement.