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Why I use G Merge for Drive – Maxence Lacroix, CEO, javry.com

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Maxence Lacroix, CEO of the Belgian subscription coffee company Javry, was looking for a better way to communicate with his clients when he discovered G Merge by wizy.io.

He had decided to start emailing his customers in a more personal manner. There was, after all, much good news to share. The company had found an investor, and with an expanded product line, they were set to start delivering their freshly ground coffee selections right to the mailboxes of clients in three more countries. From the current customer base located in Belgium, France and Luxembourg, they were ready to serve subscribers in Germany, Switzerland and Holland, as well.

Mailchimp was already being used to send newsletters to a database of 10,000 email addresses, but the mass email marketing service was not what Maxence wanted for his new purpose.

Most of the people in their database were companies and individuals who had signed up to receive javry.com news, but were not paying customers. “These are two different kinds of contacts,” says Maxence, differentiating between the former and latter groups. “We want to treat our clients as unique,” he says, “not one in a list of 1,500 emails.  We want to personally send news about the company to them. I don’t think Mailchimp is the right solution for that.”

After some research, Maxence decided that for the kind of targeted, personalized email communication he needed, G Merge by wizy.io was just what his company was looking for.

screenshotG Merge allows you to send personalized emails in 3 steps right from your spreadsheet.

It is part of G Merge, a Google Sheets add-on developed by wizy.io that offers two functionalities: One is Document Merge, which allows the user to transform his spreadsheet into a document generation tool. The other function, Mail Merge, lets a user create and send personalized emails without ever leaving his data-source spreadsheet.

Maxence tried other mail merge solutions before making his final choice. For example, he tested Yet Another Mail Merge. “I didn’t like it. It was simply not as obvious as yours.” He continues, “I like the way you put the pop-up box on the right side of the spreadsheet, and that you have just 3 steps. The email template is very well done. I like the fact that you can do it all in your Drive. With Yet Another Mail Merge, I think that you first have to write the draft in your Gmail account… There were several tools available, but I found that your solution was the easiest to use.”

He is above all satisfied with the results that he has been getting with the personalized email approach. Using Mail Merge for Drive, Maxence has succeeded in better connecting with Javry’s coffee-loving clients. “My customers feel more respected. They have the impression that I am taking the time to write a personal email. This is the main reason we use G Merge.”

Proof of his success is that his clients write back. “One said, ‘Hi Maxence, I wish you good luck and enjoy this new challenge.’ Customers also feel happy for the company,” he says. “This was exactly my goal.”

You can try G Merge by clicking here.

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Manage the provisioning of new employees with Gmail and Google Forms

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Working in the HR department of a publishing company, Anna takes care of making sure that new hires get all their IT needs, such as laptops, mobiles, software, and access to the right systems.

She used to accomplish the task by emailing each new employee a spreadsheet listing all their requirements and having them confirm if they had received these. Once she got the spreadsheet back, she would email it again, this time to the person’s immediate supervisor for counter-checking. The spreadsheet returned to her a second time, she would add the information to another spreadsheet, where she logs each employee’s provisioned details. Whew! A bit tedious, right?

Anna thought so too. So she started using Form Workflow Plus, and her work has gotten much simpler.

Using the add-on from wizy.io to get the job done, Anna now merely has to open her Google spreadsheet, and from there send a quick Q-and-A on Google Forms to the latest hire.

When the employee submits the form, an email is automatically sent to his supervisor, asking him to validate the responses. This takes place right in Gmail, so the process is easier for the supervisor as well. He clicks on Send, everything is instantly recorded in Anna’s spreadsheet.

Notice that Anna doesn’t even have to send one single email herself, and no juggling of spreadsheets either.

You can get Form Workflow here.

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Invoice your clients with Google Docs and Sheets

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Adam manages an IT support company for homes and small businesses. The company offers services covering hardware and software, as well as phones and networks. They’ll even come to your home to give you a lesson or two.

He used to make their monthly invoices one by one, by copying information that he would enter into a Google spreadsheet as clients’ requirements came in.

Then he discovered G Merge, and what used to take him an entire afternoon at the end of each month now takes him just 5 minutes.

G Merge is an add-on from wizy.io that transforms Google Sheets into a document generation and mail merge tool.

Adam makes a template for his invoice on Google Docs once. (You can use the template we have prepared here.) Then, at month’s end, all he has to do is run the add-on from his spreadsheet and G Merge takes care of filling his invoice template with the details specific to the client.

Because Adam chooses the mail merge option, all the invoices made are automatically sent to their clients as PDF files.

You can get G Merge here.

Or schedule a free demo with us.

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