Drip marketing

A drip campaign is a timed email sequence. Mailsoftly runs it for you.

Welcome a new subscriber, nurture a lead across several days, win back someone who went quiet. You set the emails and the timing once, and Mailsoftly sends each one at the right moment, to the right person, automatically.
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Drip marketing sequences in Mailsoftly ready to run: welcome, double opt-in, birthday, re-engage passive contacts, post-campaign follow-up and webhook lead capture
Send and wait steps in a Mailsoftly drip sequence: the first email goes, then a two day wait before the next one
Open rate on a Mailsoftly welcome drip: 58.4 percent, up 7.2 points versus the previous period
Branch in a Mailsoftly drip: contacts who click are tagged Engaged Subscriber, everyone else gets a follow-up email
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What is drip marketing

A sequence of emails, timed to how people behave

Instead of one blast to everyone, a drip sends a planned series: a first email now, the next after a wait, the one after that only if they clicked. Each contact moves through at their own pace.
Timed, not manualSends fire on a schedule you set in hours or days, so the sequence keeps moving without you pressing send.
Triggered by an actionA signup, a tag, a birthday or a quiet stretch starts the drip for that one contact, right when it should.
Reacts as it goesA click, an open or a tag can branch the path, so nobody keeps getting an email that no longer fits them.
An onboarding drip sequence on the Mailsoftly canvas: triggered when a contact is created, it sends a welcome email, waits two days, sends a getting started email, waits three days, then sends a first win email
Three drips you can copy

Onboarding, nurture, win-back. Real sequences, ready to run.

These ship inside Mailsoftly, one part of its marketing automation platform. Open any of them, put your own words in, switch it on.
👋 Onboarding

Welcome new subscribers

The moment someone submits your form, the drip sends a welcome, waits two days, then branches on the click: engaged contacts get tagged, everyone else gets a gentler second hello.

Onboarding drip in Mailsoftly: the sequence starts when a signup form is submitted, with a consent gate as the entry filter
🌱 Nurture

Warm up a new lead

Add a tag like Interested and the drip takes over: send a useful email, wait two days, send the next, spacing the sequence so it educates a lead instead of overwhelming them.

Nurture drip in Mailsoftly: send an email, then a two day wait, then the next email, pacing a lead-nurturing sequence
🔄 Win-back

Re-engage quiet contacts

When a contact stops opening for a set stretch, the drip reaches back out, then branches on whether they return, so active people and lost ones take different paths from there.

Win-back drip in Mailsoftly: a branch splits contacts who re-engage from those who stay quiet, sending each group a different email
How it is built

Every drip is built on one visual canvas

There is no separate drip tool to learn. Each sequence here is built in the same visual automation builder: drop a trigger, chain your sends and waits, add a branch on a click. Test the whole path in the simulator before a single email goes out.
The step palette in the Mailsoftly automation builder: send email, wait, add or remove a tag, branch on a condition and more, ready to drop into a drip sequence
A closer look

Inside the automation builder

The same flow, up close: where it can start, every step you can drop in, and how one branch fans a list into as many paths as you sell.
Value split step in the Mailsoftly automation builder branching contacts into Retainer, Project and Otherwise lanes, each with its own next step
Value split sends every contact down its own lane by any field, a plan tier, a country, a signup source, and the Otherwise lane catches everyone else. Add as many lanes as you have segments.
Trigger settings in Mailsoftly with a form response start event plus an Also start when section adding more parallel entry points to one automation
Start a flow from a form response, a new tag, a birthday and more, then add extra start events so several entry points feed one automation.
Add action menu in the Mailsoftly automation builder grouping Messaging, Tags and Lists, Integration and Flow Control steps including Wait, Wait until and Stop
Every step in one place: send an email or save a draft, add or remove tags and lists, call a webhook, or wait, wait until and stop.

One welcome drip. Thirty days. Zero touches.

Here is what a single welcome sequence did after a month on autopilot: 346 emails sent, and no one at the keyboard once it was switched on.
58.4%
open rate
+7.2pts
vs previous period
144
contacts enrolled
Welcome drip performance in Mailsoftly after 30 days: 346 emails sent, 58.4 percent open rate, 144 contacts enrolled, bots excluded
FAQ

Drip marketing, answered

What is a drip campaign?

A drip campaign is a series of emails sent automatically on a schedule or in response to what a contact does. Instead of one message to your whole list, each person receives the next email in the sequence at the right time, for example a welcome now and a follow-up two days later.

How is a drip campaign different from a newsletter?

A newsletter is one email sent to everyone at once. A drip is a pre-built sequence that each contact enters on their own timeline, so a subscriber who joined today and one who joined last month both receive email one first, then email two after the wait.

How many emails should a drip have, and how far apart?

As many as the job needs. A welcome drip is often two or three emails a couple of days apart; a nurture sequence can run longer. In Mailsoftly you set the wait between each step in hours or days, so you control the pace of the whole sequence.

Is drip marketing free to start?

Yes. Create your account free with Google or Microsoft sign-in and build drip sequences on the free plan, no credit card required. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 accounts get the quickest start; personal Gmail or Outlook.com works too, with lower sending limits while your account builds trust. Paid plans add higher sending volumes.

Can a drip react to what someone does?

Yes. A drip can branch on a real action: whether a contact opened or clicked, or whether a tag was added. Clickers can be tagged and moved forward, while everyone else can get a different email, so the sequence fits each person instead of treating them the same.

Do drip emails respect consent and unsubscribes?

Yes. A sequence can gate entry on a consent field, so only confirmed contacts continue, and every send honors unsubscribes and GDPR consent. Bot and scanner activity is filtered out of the reports, so your numbers and your sender reputation stay clean.

Start your first drip tonight

Sign up free with your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account, import your contacts, and let a welcome sequence do the introductions.

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