WrapMail
  • Pitch Posted: June 19, 2008
  • Rating: 6.69
  • Votes: vote button 1010 vote button 151

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Z-Portal.uni.cc 6/19/08 6:33PM
Umm... Or, for free, you could just add the advertisements to your mail signatures...
Z-Portal.uni.cc 6/19/08 6:58PM
Also, it was interesting at first... but... you sorta lost me there... yeah... right... whatever... bye... see... just... like... that................... OKAY CYA BYE NOW!!!!!
Rolv Heggenhougen 6/20/08 11:28AM
Let me reply to your post above: Advertisement to your email signature will be added on every reply to reply making the file size increase. Advertisement to your signature will not be clickable, nor trackable. The whole idea here is to NOT install anything on any desktop - imagine changing the signature across a large network. The wraps are added AFTER the email has left the desktop or cell phone.
Mike 6/20/08 11:47AM
Pretty great idea and a massive market.
Hans Flekkefjord 6/20/08 11:49AM
$5 x 1b corporate email accounts - hm - I say that's a large market (and residual)
Scott 6/20/08 11:50AM
Z-Portal obviously does not "get it." Adding your corporate collateral to every email that gets sent out is pretty damn smart. And you can track who is clicking on the wrap. This essentially increases the sales and marketing team without hiring anyone new. Very cool.
Nancy 6/20/08 11:51AM
Wonder if I could charge our vendors to be in a wrap?
Harry Eadon 6/20/08 11:54AM
I have been using WrapMail for about six weeks. Most of the comments >90% have been positive. The only stumbling block to date is the proces in which two identical emails are sent, until the recipient acknowledges receiving the wrapped email. Not a big problem though.
Chad Jacobson 6/20/08 12:7PM
We have used WrapMail successfully during a test period of six weeks. The ability to change the Wrap based on current marketing needs is valuable. It is also easy to update the wrap. We have added a Click&Go Live call button to route interested clients directly to us from a link on the wrap and it is working.
Heather 6/20/08 12:12PM
Awesome concept. A no-brainer. How can I get me a Wrap?
David 6/20/08 12:19PM
Very cool concept. Given the volume of email sent daily and the fact that it only costs $5 per employee per month, it could be a good return on investment.
Marcy Hoffman 6/20/08 12:23PM
Any company that sends out emails will benefit from 'wrapping'. The comments above remind me of people who thought they didn't see the point of having a well designed web site or a blog. Emails are the most prevalant method of communication and 'wrapping' each email reinforces your brand and your message. Try it and be convinced.
Sean 6/20/08 1:21PM
Why wouldn't you wrap? Great idea Rolv -- you are going to be a billionaire.
Jorge 6/20/08 2:6PM
This has to be the best idea I EVER saw - every business in the world will be using letterheads for their emails - no-brainer. Stock for sale? Seriously!
David M 6/20/08 2:19PM
I like the idea of having control of what is on the wrapper... some of the examples looked a little busy but if it works for them then great. I really like the idea and see the possibilities. As a small business operator this type of low cost marketing is genius.
David M, part 2 6/20/08 2:20PM
My only question/concern would be for the recipients... how do they feel opening these emails on a regular bases, especially the people you email multiple times in one day?? Can it be turned off based on the recipient or can they "opt out" of the email like can be done today for email blast software?
Stu Parker 6/20/08 9:2PM
Sorry to rain on your parade, but this is nothing new. I am aware of two providers of an identical product, each of which has been running for over 4 years! See Auakland, New Zealand-based http://www.mailprimer.com for example. (I have no connection to these guys at all, I just happen to know they exist). There's also another crowd based in Sth Africa, but am damned if I can remember their name.
Jorge 6/20/08 9:15PM
This has to be the best idea I EVER saw - every business in the world will be using letterheads for their emails - no-brainer. Stock for sale? Seriously!
Jorge 6/21/08 5:18AM
This has to be the best idea I EVER saw - every business in the world will be using letterheads for their emails - no-brainer. Stock for sale? Seriously!
Jorge 6/21/08 7:46AM
This has to be the best idea I EVER saw - every business in the world will be using letterheads for their emails - no-brainer. Stock for sale? Seriously!
Linn 6/21/08 2:16PM
I love this. Checked out what Stu said above but seems that WrapMail has a lot more features with their WrapMaker and all the variables that can be build in. Plus they're a US company and mailprimer is in New Zealand. So, local and more features for less money makes it an easy decision for me.
Rolv Heggenhougen 6/21/08 2:36PM
David: yes, wraps can be turned on or off based on sender and/or recipient. wraps can also change on-the-fly or based on sender, recipient, time, subject, rotation, and/or dynamic feed
Mark 6/22/08 2:52AM
Seems like a good idea, but i do wonder at how the recipient feels? It would be like getting junk mail or bacon for me. Nice idea though and i think that you will go far.
Tom 6/22/08 5:4AM
It funny how some feel that an email with a picture is junk - junk to me are emails from people I don't know that push Viagra etc. I think an interactive letterhead really would improve the email - Coke has proved that braning works and all wrapmail does is to utilize those emails that get sent every day anyway. I think it's a GREAT idea
Petter Syse 6/22/08 5:38AM
Great tool to promote our business as well as get specific sales pitches out. To bad we didn't have this when we started in 1989. Good work Wrapmail
Scott Barnett 6/22/08 6:30AM
Great Idea! Marketing is the key to a successful business.
David M 6/22/08 8:33AM
Great concept. Concise pitch. Endless possibilities. I think you're scratching the surface with your offering.
Michael 6/22/08 12:26PM
Strange that this has not been around before. Very logic idea, with a great potential.
The Great Samboni 6/22/08 4:59PM
This is a no brainer...great idea...
Jørgen Waaler 6/23/08 5:25AM
We will defently try out WrapMail this fall in Norway. We will probalby be the first public company in Europe pursuing WrapMail!
Steve 6/23/08 5:34AM
Great idea. Adds inventory to be sold to potential sponsors while providing them with additional exposure promoting partnership. Also like the tracking feature. Know that this will be a huge success.
Matt B 6/23/08 7:29AM
Fantastic idea. Very sellable! But is it patentable?...
Michele S 6/23/08 8:28AM
It's an unbelievable concept when you think about how many business emails get sent everyday. Utilizing this automatic marketing tool for such a low cost has to be a no brainer for any company. The trick is to get the word out and get the ball rolling. Every company should use Wrapmail to brand themselves with their clients. It will take off, just need to find the perfect avenue to achieve it.
Geoffrey (Australia) 6/23/08 9:35AM
We've been using WrapMail for 3 months and love it! We circle 5 different wraps, each one focusing on a specific product group. The Instant Click notification is amazing - it's like a real live lead. making unlimited wraps in the Wrapmaker is a breeze - absolutely love it and would reccomend to anyone.
Harold, Result Corporation, Pompano Beach, FL. 6/23/08 11:0AM
This is certainly a great way to promote your business through emails. Instead of sending out plain emails to your clients, it is now wrapped with links to your website....Great concept!
Jason 6/23/08 2:10PM
I have seen a demo of this product and I haven't this impressed with a viral marketing tool in ages.
Stephanie 6/23/08 3:43PM
Your pitch is very well done. Who would send a blank piece of paper to a potential client? I think it's great links would be clickable and trackable. This saves time trying to find someone's website and lets the company be aware of what is working or not working marketing-wise with their audience. When is this company going public so I can buy stock??
Thomas G 6/23/08 4:58PM
As a Realtor this is the best ever! I set up the wraps so all the properties for sale rotate on the left side - when people click I know exactly what they're interested in. I have some clicks go directly to the MLS and some to 360 tours. The best part is that we did it for all the brokers and nobody had to learn anything - almost to obvious of a product - I was sold in about 2 minutes.
Hmmmm 6/23/08 8:33PM
@Rolv, yes you can add a image with a link in your signature and track how many clicks it gets with a page set up to that product with Google analytics. (free) I had to watch it twice to see if I missed anything, but this can easily be done for free with HTML and clickable to a page that is tracked by Google Analytics. Am I missing something?
Henning - Denmark 6/24/08 5:27AM
Hmmmm: I tried that - not the same at all. We have an exchange server and 233 users - WrapMail adds the wrap after the email has left the exchange server - actually we have many wraps and some rotate and some are sender specific. There's also a lot of reports including instant click alerts. Google analytics is nowhere near this solution. I suggest you look at that website again or email Rolv - he always answers. Customer service also the very best!
darren 6/24/08 6:18AM
like many great ideas when you first hear of it you wonder how it has possibly taken this long for it to happen. simple, elegant, with massive brand communication potential.
Rolv Heggenhougen 6/24/08 6:42AM
Thanks to all for all the great feedback - impossible for me to keep track and answer questions here so please email me any quations to rolv@wrapmailinc.com Thanks again and don't forget to WRAP IT UP!
Todd 6/24/08 9:40AM
This seems like one of the times you say "Why didn't i think of that?" Genius. So, theres no spam? Impressive. Im in the marketing/sales business. Seems like an excellent tool.
Chris 6/24/08 10:2AM
Right on. I want it.
Paul 6/24/08 10:49AM
I am Remax realtor in the Cayman Islands and have been a "wrapper" for the last 2 years and it is amazing the response I get from my vendors and buyers. I have sold many homes using wrapmail. IT is an awesome marketing tool.
Daniel S. 6/25/08 12:19PM
My business (chamber of commerce) started using WrapMail about 4 months ago and we have had a very positive response and experience thus far! Their staff has been a pleasure to work with and the product WORKS! I have also been able to turn it into a revenue generating tool for the business. So it pays for itself and then-some. Great service, product, and marketing solution! Recommend to all!
Elaine 6/26/08 2:12PM
excellent
Jim 6/27/08 2:40PM
cheese
Smoke 6/27/08 3:53PM
The idea is OK albeit a bit mis guided. For new customers this is good but if I am sending emails to my existing clients or non sales related emails do I really want to spam them with banner ads? NO Has some uses but with all the blocking of images and Jscript in email I see more technical problems than financial gains. 5 per user per month - I send out about 250 emails a month - thats a pretty high CPM for ads that are going to existing customers.
thomas 6/27/08 4:37PM
Smoke - r u nuts? do your customers know all you have to offer? mine sure don't and I see wrapmail as a great way to "teach" my existing customers, friends and others about ALL we have to offer.
Josh 6/27/08 4:38PM
If 5 bucks is too much for you then you have problems - you can't even get business cards for 5 bucks dude. Bottom line - if ONE of your 250 monthly emails got you a new client, what would it be worth to you (and I guarantee you that some of those emails will be forwarded to people you don't know? What do you mean SPAM? Do you email people you don't know? If so that is spam - spam has NOTHING to do with pictures or links!
Nicole 6/27/08 5:49PM
I want to WRAP you :-)
Tom 6/27/08 7:54PM
Can't wait to see the porn equivalent of this...
Ollie 6/28/08 3:32AM
This product would be made much better with some higher quality wraps created by designers
Phillip 6/29/08 10:25AM
Great idea - we all send emails these days and must admit they are very bare. Some times the best ideas are the simplest!
Kevin 6/29/08 11:6PM
Why are you charging people $40 to join the WrapMail affiliate program?
Tom 6/30/08 5:28AM
Wrapmail has helped me increase my website traffic. The reports also help show me what parts of my site are most popular. I used hyperlinks in my signature, but it did not have the same click throough as Wrapmail.
Sales 101 6/30/08 8:5AM
Incubate, not innudate.
Ollie 6/30/08 10:0AM
If i was regularly receiving emails with wraps on each day I would stop dealing with that company - too busy, too much noise, too distracting
Aussie Phil 6/30/08 3:50PM
I like the idea a question I do have however is, whether the wrap component would display always or whether it would be just visible as an attachment which the recipient would have to click on. When I sometimes receive emails in Outlook, any pictures, even in the signature can only be viewed by clicking on a attachment. What is the situation with Wraps, and do we know how anti-virus email checking software would handle it.
REH 6/30/08 4:29PM
WrapMail shows up with all pictures as opposed to most mass emails where you get the rex x and message to "right-click to download images". no problems experienced with antivirus filters
SB 7/2/08 3:26PM
Just tried wrapmail for the first time...our wrap was designed overnight, and I had it within 24 hours. Our email now has letterhead with interactive links to our two sites, where email recipients can access our clients, our products, and even online photo albums, with one click on the email. And it cost our company $40 (for two months) to try it. I love this concept.
Zaf 7/3/08 1:14AM
more like crap mail. its dumb... i dnt want my mail to be surrounded by dumb ads!
Carlos 7/3/08 11:48AM
awesome idea - just like an old-fashioned letterhead just better being interactive. My company and my advertising driving more people to my site - chances are good I'll sell more - love it!
illiana 7/3/08 5:46PM
best new idea I've seen in a long time
Michael L. 7/4/08 6:38AM
Its all about getting traffic on the website. What better way to do it! We are a boutique hotel have being wrapping for over a year and are always finding new ways for it to meet our needs.
Wolfgang 7/4/08 7:55AM
sounds like WackMail ;)
Jamie 7/5/08 8:47PM
Uhh... I'd guess our presenter here has just made a whole bunch of accounts and voted for this video a heap of times. Look at the comments above. Language looking pretty similar with alot of the comments. Hmm.. clever idea for getting to the top of 'highest rating' though.
robert 7/5/08 9:58PM
I agree - but great idea or no?
Spamala 7/8/08 11:15AM
Boo, I hate this idea... Just what we need, more advertising to invade our personal space. Stay out of my inbox!
Theo 7/8/08 11:38AM
what a simple idea. Great way to show what we do, a picture is worth...... Well done!
Hello 7/8/08 12:52PM
An elevator pitch with an lcd screen? Unlikely...
Fred H 7/9/08 10:37AM
great concept, I got it in 10 seconds
Andrea 7/9/08 7:20PM
I like that using this as a tool for find missing children like your website describes is GENIUS. Could be a modern day milk carton.
Kevin 7/10/08 2:4AM
I tested this and it doesn't work in Outlook or Entourage. The banners are rearranged and the links within the banners are stripped when the user receives them. Haven't tested Gmail or Yahoo mail but I bet they treat WrapMail generated email the same. Unless they can prevent email programs from removing and rearranging the WrapMail content within a given WrapMail generated email, then using WrapMail would be a complete waste of time and money. It would actually reflects bad on a company that uses it; what would you think of a company that sends you scrambled and randomly placed banners within an email? They will either think your company is so incompetent that you can't even send a functional email or wonder if you are spamming them.
REH 7/10/08 10:7AM
Kevin: We use Outlook and Entourage and have also tested just about every email client and web-based system out there without any problems. Feel free to email me at rolv@wrapmailincDOTcom and I'll reply with a wrapped email.
Dave Kustin 7/10/08 11:50AM
@ Kevin - I use Entourage and it works perfectly. To echo Rolv, if you want to see a wrapped email from a computer using Entourage feel free to email me as well (dave@wrapmailinc.com) and I will reply with a perfectly wrapped email. Dave Kustin EVP Marketing, WrapMail
gene m 7/12/08 5:29PM
There's got to be a lot of people saying "why didn't I think of that". Billion $ idea, congrats!
R. Getty 7/16/08 6:40PM
Pretty cool. I suppose certain companies could include 3rd party advertising in their wraps...sports teams, arenas, travel companies.
esteban 7/17/08 12:10AM
c'on people web 2.0? i would not put a dollar into this.
Régis 7/17/08 9:5AM
This is crap. It's just another way to make emails even more unreadable, by adding more and more spam. In my company, as a client, if I ever receive this kind of email, I will just end my relationship with my provider.
George B 7/17/08 11:16AM
Good idea. Don't understand the guy above, it is my letterhead and in my view that's not spam. Great way to promote my company for $5 a month.
Janice 7/17/08 5:59PM
google potential or beyond!
Neil Patel 7/21/08 7:39AM
Free with taking a cut or fee when the ad gets clicked is a better business model....
Oliver 7/23/08 8:24AM
Turning my email into adverts, whether for my own company or not. I don't get it.
Rolv Heggenhougen 7/23/08 12:57PM
It is called marketing. Do you have a letterhead or business card? Website? We use all these things to brand and market our repsctive companies and today most written communication is email - why not use that to market/Brand your company and drive traffic to your website? REH
Jerry 7/23/08 5:39PM
I remember when almost everyone questioned having a website, now I am wondering why I don't have wrapmail. This will change right now! Great (and inexpesive) concept.
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David Peterson 8/7/08 12:36PM
Rolv, I think that your company might be of some use within the entertainment industry. I was thinking that if you guys offered a different service towards the entertainment industry it would be a lot more profitable as well. If you would like to hear what I am thinking, please feel free to contact me at: worldwidetalentsearch@gmail.com
rick 8/9/08 2:26PM
I get it, but it looks too much like my hotmail account interface.
Dave Kustin 8/10/08 5:4AM
@Rick Rick, there is no interface for the the paid version. Employees send emails using their email client as they normally would. There is nothing to install and nothing to learn. There is an interface that we created for the Customer Control Panel where every account can be managed (create wraps, assign wraps to users, generate reports, etc..). Dave Kustin - CMO, WrapMail
LIsa Gibbons 8/26/08 2:2PM
smartest idea I've seen! there's probably more emails sent every day than hits on google - that's a lot of available real estate to sell ones own company. brilliant!
Dave Kustin 8/26/08 6:9PM
Lisa - thanks for the noticing. We are close to implementing another revenue model where organizations like government entities, colleges and large employers that are in the distribution business can actually monetize their emails. Think about that. We have a business model where we are paid per user AND a business model where we provide a way for organizations to make money (and us) with an existing asset. Pretty cool.

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