Introducing a new email marketing software that is smarter, simpler, and more accessible.

Pirate Labs has launched its latest product, ahoy!, a SaaS email marketing solution designed for ecommerce businesses to sell more while doing less. Available to Shopify and Shopify Plus stores, ahoy! makes it easy to send campaigns containing the right products to the right customers at the right times. ahoy! users can easily create, send, and manage beautifully-designed, responsive emails themselves, or they can opt for a more collaborative approach with the Matey managed email services program.

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As customers renounce the traditional shopping experience in favor of the ease of ecommerce, businesses are increasingly exploring digital marketing solutions. Email is the leading marketing channel for ROI, especially for online businesses, and with other email providers no longer directly integrating with Shopify, ahoy! is ready to jump in as the leading expert. The best part? It doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.

Messy third party apps have made email marketing difficult for Shopify business owners – an issue that directly spurred the founders of ahoy! to begin a journey toward “making email suck less.”

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“We’re excited to set sail in our partnership with Shopify,” said Dan Waltzer, ahoy!’s CEO. “After extensive vetting, we have concluded that Shopify’s data practices are appropriate for delivering the best merchant experiences possible and in line with security and privacy best practices. Tools like Shopify and ahoy! exist to help small businesses win.”

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