Drip emails are those emails you get after creating an account on a website that come after certain periods of time.

Drip, drip, drip, like a leaky faucet, and sometimes just as unwelcome.

But email is such a strong way to talk to users, and companies know it. A well-done drip campaign can educate users and re-engage them. Possibly getting these users to upgrade or lose less of them to churn. I recently signed up for You Need A Budget (YNAB) and actually quite liked their drip emails.

Useful, and hopefully effective drip emails is exactly what we were hoping to do in a recent stab at that at CodePen. But it’s likely we went a little too far, and have reeled it back a little. We’re still trying to figure it out.

Listen to me and my co-workers Jake Albaugh and Marie Mosley talk all about drip email campaigns over on the CodePen Radio podcast.