How Do I Use Google Streak for free?
Have you heard the news? Google is retiring their free tier in their Streak plugin on June 20, 2024!
What is Google Streak? Good question! I have been using Streak for the past few years to automate my outreach emails. I didn’t even know this was a thing you could do three years ago. Essentially, I set up an email and all the scheduled emails to follow in one sitting and Streak will do the work for me. What’s really cool about Streak is that you can add multiple emails and Streak will pull personalized information that you have added to your spreadsheet and make each email personalized! For example, it will pull a shop buyer’s name and a personal note that I have created about that shop and why I think my products are a good fit for their shop. This is an absolute game changer for cold outreach!
So, do you need to pay for Streak? I have been getting asked this a lot and it feels worthy of an entire blog post. I am passionate about keeping costs down in my business and also about passing along information at an affordable, inplementable rate to you. I am always trying to keep subscription costs low, I mean, how many do you have in your household right now? They are so commonplace, we often lose track and sometimes it means we aren’t running our businesses in a profitable way.
So, back to the question- NO! You do not need to pay for Streak to get access to some of my favorite features.
Let’s focus on what you can use for free:
Email tracking: know when someone looks at your email
Link tracking: see when someone clicks a link
Email sharing: share your contacts easily
Snippets: stored templates for easy email scheduling
Mail merges: probably my favorite feature, get ready to send personalized emails in bulk
Amazingly, these are all the features I use the most! Winning! To access these features, you will need to still download the plugin and use a gmail email to use the plugin with.
Last year I created a class all about how to use Streak to grow your business, Automate and Scale. When I discovered that they were doing away with the free option, I felt a deep punch to the gut, then got mad, then sat on customer support for an hour asking all the questions.
Looking for someone to show you how? Automate and Scale has now been updated to show you how to use the free features and not pay $50/month for a pipeline (a really cool spreadsheet). In my opinion, if you are starting out and wanting to create bulk cold pitches for wholesale or licensing, this is still a SUPER valuable tool! And my class costs only $37. One time- no monthly fee. The bonus is that you still get access to the entire class for using a paid version too!
I am not an affiliate for Streak. I am really pumped on building my business with whatever free tools I can and also love to share information. Automate and Scale is proof of that!