356 - 5 Costly Holiday Email Mistakes That Hurt Your BFCM Sales
Release Date: 10/26/2025
381 - We Need to Talk About Your Customer Winback Flow
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Klaviyo makes it easy to set up a win back flow. There's a default template ready to go, so most brands turn it on, move on, and assume it's working. And technically it is - it's running. But running and working are two very different things. When I go into a new client's account and look at their win back flow, what I almost always find is something that was set up once, never really thought through, and is running on default settings that nobody ever questioned. The timing is off. The re-entry settings are wrong. The emails are leading with a discount when they should be leading with...
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380 - Why I Went All In on Email Marketing (And What Took Me So Long)
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This month marks 10 years since I officially started Joy Joya. And I've been sitting with that for a while, trying to figure out what I actually want to say about it. There's a version of this episode that writes itself - the highlight reel, the wins, the listicle wrapped up in a bow. I didn't want to do that. What I wanted to do was be honest, because that's more useful. So that's what this episode is. It's the real version - the messy pivot, the gradual realization, the external pressures that made staying put feel untenable, and the thing I kept coming back to through all of it: email. Not...
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379 - What Actually Makes a Last Chance Email Work
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Almost every brand sends last chance emails. End of a sale, final hours of a promotion, last day before something's gone. They're a completely normal part of any email calendar. And yet - we've all been on the receiving end of one that felt off. A little frantic. A little hollow. Like the brand was more stressed about hitting a number than genuinely trying to help you not miss something. The difference between a last chance email that works and one that doesn't usually isn't the format. It's not the countdown timer or the headline size. It goes deeper than that - into the credibility you've...
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378 - Email Urgency Tactics That Are Costing You Subscriber Trust
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377 - Lists vs. Segments: The Email Marketing Mistake That Breaks Your Klaviyo Account Over Time
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Lists and segments both group people. They both show you a number. They both show up when you're sending emails. So it's easy to assume they're basically the same thing with different names - especially when you're moving fast and just trying to get a campaign out the door. But that assumption is one of the most common structural mistakes I see inside email accounts, and the tricky part is that nothing breaks immediately. Your campaigns still send. Your flows still run. People still get your emails. The damage is quieter than that. What actually happens is that the logic underneath your...
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376 - Should You Send Plain Text Emails? When They Work (And When They Don't)
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Plain text emails can feel almost too simple. No design, no product blocks, no polished layout. So why do they sometimes outperform emails that took way more time to build? A lot of ecommerce brands either dismiss plain text emails as unfinished - or overcorrect and treat them like a silver bullet. The truth is more nuanced than that. Plain text isn't a shortcut. It's a strategic format choice - and when it's used well, it can change how your audience experiences your message entirely. But here's the catch: without design to lean on, your writing has to do all the heavy lifting. And if the...
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375 - Is Your Welcome Discount Hurting Your Email Performance?
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Episode #375 – Is Your Welcome Discount Hurting Your Email Performance? When it comes to growing your email list, most ecommerce brands are focused on one thing: more. More subscribers. More signups. Higher pop-up conversion rates. But what if the way you’re growing your list - especially through your welcome discount - is actually making your email performance worse over time? At first, it can feel like everything is working. Your list is growing quickly, your pop-up is converting, and new subscribers are coming in every day. But underneath that growth, something else might be happening....
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374 - The Email Bottleneck That's Quietly Limiting Your Growth
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Episode #374 - The Email Bottleneck That’s Quietly Limiting Your Growth When ecommerce revenue stalls, the instinct is almost always the same: we need more traffic. More ads. More eyeballs. More list growth. But what if the real problem isn’t how many people are coming in - it’s what happens after they arrive? In this episode, I’m breaking down the email bottleneck that quietly limits growth for so many online stores - and why adding more traffic on top of a weak system only makes the problem bigger. Because if your email ecosystem isn’t built to convert, recover, and retain,...
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373 - Why Your Email Campaigns Might All Sound the Same
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372 - Why Your Abandoned Cart Flow Won’t Recover Every Sale
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Episode #372 – Why Your Abandoned Cart Flow Won’t Recover Every Sale Cart abandonment automations are powerful - but they’re not a magic net that catches every abandoned cart you see in Shopify. If you’ve ever opened your Shopify analytics, seen a huge list of abandoned carts, and thought “Why aren’t we getting all of these sales back?” - this episode will reset your expectations fast. Because here’s the truth: an abandoned cart is not the same thing as a lost sale. In this episode, I explain what cart abandonment actually represents, why recovery rates are naturally lower than...
info_outlineEpisode #356 - 5 Costly Holiday Email Mistakes That Hurt Your BFCM Sales
You know what’s more painful than hearing “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” for the 100th time in November? Hitting send on a holiday email that costs you sales. Every year, I see brands make the same email mistakes that drain real revenue during BFCM. The good news? They’re totally avoidable once you know what to watch for.
In this episode, I’m breaking down the five biggest holiday email mistakes I see brands make year after year — and how to fix them before it’s too late. Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or DIY-ing your BFCM strategy for the first time, this episode will help you avoid inbox fatigue, improve deliverability, and make sure your campaigns convert when it matters most.
This episode is part of my ongoing BFCM Prep Series — where we’re making sure your holiday marketing is strategic, intentional, and built to perform.
👉 Grab my official 2025 BFCM Briefing, a 15+ page strategic guide serious brands are already using to stay ahead of the chaos: https://joyjoya.com/bfcm
💡 In this episode, you’ll learn:
✨ The #1 mistake that instantly weakens your Q4 results
✨ Why sending too many emails too suddenly can tank engagement
✨ How to keep your emails landing in inboxes (not spam)
✨ Why “spray-and-pray” campaigns waste your best opportunities
✨ How stronger CTAs can double — even triple — your click-through rate
🪙 In the Gold Mine segment, I’m sharing a personal reflection on my complicated relationship with numbers — how they’ve made me feel brilliant one day and defeated the next. I’ll talk about analytics paralysis, the emotional rollercoaster of metrics, and how reframing numbers as stories instead of verdicts has changed the way I approach marketing, leadership, and growth.
👉 Ready to send emails that actually perform this holiday season? This episode will help you ditch the guesswork, avoid preventable mistakes, and send campaigns that convert with confidence.
Dive deeper with the blog post: https://joyjoya.com/blogs/podcast/5-holiday-email-mistakes-that-quietly-eat-your-sales