I want to start the Boldermail blog — this is my first post! — with a story about how we (my wife and I) went from using Feedburner to developing our own email marketing plugin for WordPress.
In the Beginning…
Back in 2012, my wife, Lindsey, started an Etsy shop to sell custom wedding invitations. At the time, Lindsey was a recent graduate of the University of Kansas with a bachelor’s degree in English. After university, we moved to Boulder, Colorado, so I could pursue a PhD in Engineering. Lindsey ended up working as an office manager for a software company in downtown Boulder. A coworker at Lindsey’s job mentioned that she made some money on the side selling calligraphy. Lindsey was not content with her job, so she decided to start her own business designing and calligraphing wedding materials.
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