Liberty Tax

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“The fact that I can manage 2,000 accounts from one dashboard is fantastic.”

kathleen guzman

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Industry: franchise

About Liberty Tax Service

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Consistent messaging: Liberty Tax’s email marketing strategy.

Liberty Tax is known for the total support they provide their franchisees. Their tax return preparation franchise is consistently recognized as a leader among distributed businesses spanning all industries. Liberty Tax uses Emma to manage communications across all their locations to protect the Liberty Tax brand and maintain a consistent message to all their customers.

Using Emma to optimize thousands of franchises.

Liberty Tax has 2,000 sub-accounts; most of which are franchise owners. “I want the franchisees to understand the power of email in the inbox. It’s that brand recognition, so when tax time comes around, the customer doesn’t think twice about going somewhere else,” said Liberty Tax’s Marketing Communications Specialist, Kathleen Guzman.

Kathleen provides Emma training to her franchisees and explains the added value they will see when they start using the tool. “Emma is so easy to use. I give them the training login and they can experiment with that,” Kathleen continues, “I had a franchisee say to me, ‘I sent out my first email and the next day I had three new customers’ — it blew me away!”

Most of the franchisees have zero marketing experience, so ease of use is critical. Kathleen added, “I have a full range of templates that I’m able to quickly edit and all the franchisee has to do is send it out.”

Switching to Emma meant zero downtime.

Liberty Tax chose to enlist the help of Emma’s Professional Services team to migrate their data from their previous provider to Emma. “Everybody’s account was already set up with their current list, so I was ready to go,” Kathleen added.

In addition to data migration, Emma offers services such as email design creation, training, and strategic guidance. Emma also provides free topical webinars. “I was on a template webinar and I had the template done and in all the franchisees accounts before the webinar was even over,” shared Kathleen. “Everything has just been so easy.”

Why did Liberty Tax choose Emma?

When asked ‘Why did you choose Emma?’, Kathleen’s response was, “Oh geez, where do I begin?!”

Liberty Tax’s contract with their previous provider was up for renewal, so Kathleen did her due diligence and researched other options. “{The Account Executive} started to go through all the features and my jaw was on the ground. And then the price was perfect for what we needed. You made it really, really simple for me,” explained Kathleen.

What the future looks like:

As Liberty Tax connects their reporting data to Emma, they’ll be ready to take their email strategy to the next level with automation. “Segmentation and automation are my keys for this coming year,” highlighted Kathleen.

Utilizing customer sign-in data, Kathleen’s team will be able to deliver the most timely and relevant emails possible using Emma’s automation workflows.

By The Numbers 

2,000%

sub accounts

TOOLKIT

With automation, reaching the right people with the right message at just the right time is a breeze.

An entire team of email specialists obsessed with driving the results you care about.

Power highly targeted campaigns using segmentation to organize and manage your subscriber data.

Our Case Studies 

We love our customers & they love us, too! 

Not only did using Emma help us improve our emails – it also helped us tailor programs to better meet the needs and interests of our students.

Angie & Collin

Assistant Director of Student Activities, Student Affairs

Emma is a solid email marketing management platform that provided campaign performance insights, tracking, and a fair amount of customization. Additionally, building out an API so that it spoke to our personnel database made updating contact information and managing unsubscribes considerably easier.

Ben E.

Director of Communication, Higher Education

The fact that our store managers are able to log into Emma and feel comfortable creating emails really means a lot. That, plus the approvals process have saved us a ton of time and keep the brand on point—which is crucial.

Carl Dickerson

Digital Content Strategist

Emma has been a helpful tool for our organization. We recognize that students get inundated with emails so using Emma allows us to be more strategic and create messages that are more engaging to students.

Christian B.

Director of Housing, Higher Education

The best thing about Emma is that it is one of the most influential platforms for marketing and comes with great features. You cannot resist its impeccable ability to boost sales through the best email transactions.

James C.

Digital Marketing Manager

Emma allows you to send blast emails to different audiences. Emma’s “Segments” allow you to slice your contact list into different segments based on different criteria. Creating emails is fairly easy and it’s not too hard to make something look good. We use Emma to send ~ 300K emails at a time, which it does well.

Jeremy A.

Project Coordinator

The approvals dashboard has really knocked it out of the park: It saves us so much time and makes it seamless to manage over 1,000 studio newsletters each month.

Meredith Parks

Marketing Strategist

Emma enables us to design email campaigns that consistently reflect our organization’s brand, while also making it simple to switch between different templates tailored to various audiences. The insight dashboards provide valuable analytics, and the builder itself is both intuitive and user-friendly.

Katie M.

Marketing Manager

We are much happier with it in comparison to our formal software Constant Contact – the customer service is just more responsive, and the interface is so easy to use that we are able to have interns use with little direction.

Monica S.

Marketing, Marketing and Advertising

I really like the email editors and ability to create segments based on your data. The Emma team is great about helping set up external APIs in order for your data to get automatically added into their system.

Nikki R.

Digital Marketing Manager

The thing I like most about Emma is how easy things are to manage. The UI is laid out in a way that makes it very straightforward to get what you need to do, done.

Trevor A.

Founder, Marketing and Advertising

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