Email Marketing in Iraq

Email campaigns for Iraqi companies

Your customer contacts live in a sales rep’s phone and an old Excel file, and every offer goes out as a WhatsApp broadcast that risks getting the number blocked. We set up email as a second channel you own: a sending account and domain in your name, contacts imported only where people agreed, Arabic and English templates that read well on phones, automatic welcome and follow-up emails, and reports on opens and clicks.

  • A subscriber list you own
  • Templates that read on phones
  • Welcome and follow-up sequences
  • Open and click reports
Quote my email campaigns
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Do you collect customer emails today?

Yes, we have a list
Tell us roughly how many addresses you hold and where they came from. We quote for cleaning the list and running the first campaigns.

Use the list we have

No, not yet
We start with sign-up forms on your site and pages, plus a welcome sequence, so the list grows with people who chose to join.

Build a list from zero

Arabic & English

Templates per language, Arabic right to left

Consent only

Lists built from people who agreed to get email

17 services

Email beside social media, ads and design work

Since 2012

Websites and digital marketing for over a decade

Sign-up forms, templates, sequences and sending set-up

An email channel needs these four pieces before the first send. The quote states which ones are included and how often you send.

Sending set-up

A platform account and your domain verified to send

List and forms

Existing contacts imported, new ones joining by form

Bilingual email templates

Arabic and English layouts in your brand colours

Sequences and campaigns

Automatic emails plus offers sent on a calendar

What email should do for your customers

An email is worth sending only if it arrives, opens properly and gives a reason to act. These seven points are what we check on every send.
Each one is tested before your list sees it.

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From an Excel list to the first campaign

Templates and send dates are agreed by WhatsApp and email, and you see a test of every email on your own phone before it goes out.
Nothing reaches your list until you have approved the test email.

STEP 01. Goals

We agree what email should do for you: repeat orders, reminders, news for clients, or follow-up after an enquiry, and how often to send.

STEP 02. Platform and domain records

We open the sending account in your company’s name and add the records your domain needs, working with whoever manages it.

STEP 03. List import and consent check

Your Excel or phone contacts are cleaned and imported. Anyone with no sign of agreeing to email is left out, and you approve the final list.

STEP 04. Templates approved

You review the Arabic and English templates with your logo and colours, and ask for changes until they look right on a phone.

STEP 05. First send

We send tests to common mail apps, fix any display problem, then send the first campaign or switch on the welcome sequence.

STEP 06. Report

You get opens, clicks and the orders or enquiries we can link to each email, with what to change next time. The quote states how often.

When emails land in spam or go unopened

Three causes we find behind most disappointing first sends, and how each is put right.

Hardly anyone opens

Messages vanish into folders.

  • Sign: opens far below what you hoped
  • Common cause: sender domain not properly verified
  • What we do: domain records set and tested

People mark it as spam

Complaints after every send.

  • Sign: spam reports and angry replies
  • Common cause: contacts who never explicitly agreed
  • What we do: a consent-only list

Opened, but no clicks

Readers look, then close it.

  • Sign: almost nobody taps the links
  • Common cause: too many offers in one email
  • What we do: one offer, one button

If you stop, the subscriber file leaves with you

Your list is a business asset built over years. It should never be held hostage by a platform account you cannot open.

The list and the sending account are in your company’s name.

  • Owned by your company
  • Exported whenever you ask
  • Never sold or shared
  • Unsubscribes kept so nobody is re-added

  • Where and when each person joined
  • The form wording they agreed to
  • Imported contacts marked by source
  • Proof of consent stored beside the list

  • Sending account registered to your company
  • Platform fees paid by you directly
  • Our user removed on request
  • Questions answered on WhatsApp or email

Mailing tools and SPF/DKIM records

Sending platform

  • Chosen with you, named in the quote
  • Priced by list size, paid by you
  • Logins for your own team

Domain records

  • SPF to name who may send for you
  • DKIM to sign each message
  • Checked again after any change

Forms and links

  • Join forms placed on your pages
  • Store connection where it is possible
  • Click tracking on every link

Design and content that make emails worth opening

  • Store: send cart and order emails automatically from an online store.
  • Full plan: decide where email sits beside your other channels with digital marketing.
  • Followers: invite your page followers to join the list with social media management.
  • Domain: send from your own domain with mailboxes set up through hosting and domains.
  • Paid reach: to grow the list faster, ask about our paid social campaigns with a sign-up offer.
  • Design: get banners and email graphics in your style through graphic design.

Each one is priced on its own and added only when you ask.

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Contacts, brand files and a first offer to send

With these four things ready, the first email can go out soon after set-up. Anything missing becomes a question in our reply.

  • Contact list: the addresses you hold, and where each batch came from.
  • Brand files: logo, brand colours, fonts and some photos of what you sell.
  • First offer: one product, service or piece of news to open with.
  • Domain access: whoever can add records to your domain, or their contact.
  • Approvals: the person who signs off Arabic and English emails.

Contacts only in phones? Export them to a sheet and we sort out the rest.

Shops, schools, clinics: who emails customers, and why

Each type of business sends email for a different reason. These are common uses, not a list of clients in Iraq.

Online shops: restock alerts and forgotten baskets

Schools: term news and fee reminders for parents

Clinics: reminders for check-ups and return visits

B2B suppliers: monthly price sheets

Real estate: fresh units for buyers on the list

Events: invites, then a reminder the day before

Training centres: next intake and certificate news

Hotels: seasonal stays and return guests

List size, templates and automations: the email budget

Email has two costs: the platform, which charges you by list size, and our work on set-up, writing and sending. A clear quote keeps them apart.

Three lines your quote should show:

  • Set-up: platform, domain records, templates and list import, once.
  • Monthly sends: the emails agreed each month, written, designed and sent.
  • Platform fees: paid by you to the provider, usually by list size.

Tell us your list size and goal in a quote request, and we reply with the sends and sequences we would quote.

List size

Most platforms charge more as the subscriber count grows.

Templates

Separate Arabic and English layouts add design and testing.

Automations

Each automatic sequence is written, built and tested once.

Provider fees

Platform charges sit on their own line, apart from our fee.

Message us on WhatsApp about your list

Write to us on WhatsApp at +964 784 684 3068, or use the quote form. Tell us what you have, for example: “We have about 3,000 customer emails from our store orders; we want a monthly offer email in Arabic.”

Questions to ask before sending to your list

Before the first send, ask: did these people agree to receive email from us? Is our sending domain verified? Whose name is the platform account in? Can we export the list at any time? What will the report show? WhatsApp broadcasts stay useful for short notices, but sending offers to people who never saved your number risks a ban; email gives you a second channel you control.

If email is not the right channel yet

  • No list and few followers: build the community on social media first
  • Need reach this month: look at paid social ads
  • No overall plan: start with digital marketing
  • Staff need company mailboxes: see hosting and domains
  • Only a handful of customers: personal messages may be enough

Questions Iraqi companies ask about email marketing

Plain answers on lists, sending tools, spam folders, Arabic display, ownership and frequency.

No. Bought lists are full of people who never agreed, which brings spam reports and can get the sending account closed.

We choose a platform with you based on list size and budget and name it in the quote. The account is yours and its fees are paid by you directly.

Usually because the domain is not verified for sending, or the list holds people who never agreed. We fix both, though no one can promise every email reaches the inbox.

Yes. Arabic templates are built right to left and tested in the common mail apps on Android and iPhone before any send.

Yes, in Arabic and English, from your offers and news. You approve every email, and your team adds details only it knows.

You do. It sits in a platform account in your company’s name and can be exported whenever you like.

Many lists do well with one or two a month, plus automatic emails. We watch unsubscribes and adjust the pace.

They do different jobs. WhatsApp suits short notices to people who saved your number; email suits offers, news and records, and the list stays yours.

Yes. Welcome, reminder and follow-up emails can run on their own. For cart and order emails, the store needs to connect, which our ecommerce service handles.

Yes. The platform shows opens and clicks per email and per person, and our report sums up what they mean for your next send.

No, we have no office in Iraq. We work with you by video call, WhatsApp and email, and test emails go to your own phone.

Further reading on email lists and consent

Articles from our blog on building a list, consent and writing emails people open.