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Emily Downer
Content Marketing Manager
Emily is a Content Marketing Manager at GoCardless. She specialises in writing content helping business optimise their payments stratagies. Prior to GoCardless, Emily gained her experience at a number FinTech businesses, focussing on personal finance and business related content. She most recently worked for Wagestream writing content for their marketing activities.
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Manual process could be costing you time, money and customers. Find out more.
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US businesses are stuck with slow, outdated and expensive payment methods.
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ACH Pull is perfect for scaling insurance businesses.
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In an uncertain economy, you can make collecting premiums a certainty.
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Learn everything you need to know about bank payments.
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Find out some of the key findings from our discussion on customer churn
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Find out everything you need to know about reducing payment failure