Community Roundup: February 2024

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Community Roundup is a monthly roundup of some of the notable articles and user activity in the last month.

Welcome to our monthly "What You May Have Missed" roundup! In this post, I’ll highlight some of the top articles and posts that you might have missed on the Constant Contact Community in the last month. Whether you're a small business owner, nonprofit professional, or marketing enthusiast, we've got valuable insights and discussions to share. So, let's dive in and catch up on the latest happenings!

Latest Articles:

• March Holidays and Newsletter Ideas - 2024: It’s not too late to get inspired by March holidays!
• Customer Spotlight: House of Guitars: Unleash your inner rockstar at House of Guitars in Rochester, NY—a rock 'n' roll museum like no other. They sell guitars, host live performances, offer lessons, and have their own record label. With Constant Contact, they reach fans through email, social media, and more.
• Be a Marketer, Ep. 47 - Coping with ADHD as an Entrepreneur with Dave Delaney: Dave Delaney, a keynote speaker, author, and business owner, shares his journey of discovering his ADHD diagnosis as an adult and how it's impacted his entrepreneurial journey and strategies.
• Leap of Kindness Day is almost here! 2/29/24: Actually, the event was today! But it was a big deal for February, so we’re mentioning it! Learn more about the event and talk with other people in our Nonprofit Group and get jazzed for the next event four years from now!

Recently accepted solutions:

• Deleting Old Contact Lists, Campaign Engagement History, and Campaign Stats: MVEA2016 had some questions about how editing and removing contacts affected their reporting and the short answer is that it won’t!
• contact list privacy: It’s not always obvious, but 100% when you send an email from Constant Contact, the recipient won’t see the email addresses of every other recipient!
• Event Registration: JeanS513 shared that some prospective registrants were having trouble and wasn’t sure how to direct them and William_A gave them a great place to start!

Constant Tips:

• Introducing Template Feedback, Your Space for Inspiration!: If you’ve been around the community before, you might remember Critique My Campaign? It’s back, yeah! Share the template you’re working on and get feedback from your peers!
• Check out all our webinars!: Webinars, webinars everywhere! I bet we have one that’s just right for you, so check ‘em out!
• Don't be shy to share your ideas!: We love hearing from our customers! Visit our Ideas board and let us know what cutting edge considerations you’ve thought of for Constant Contact and we’ll get it in front of our developers!
• What can I include in an SMS text message?: SMS text message marketing is BIG and you should get in on it. Before you do, there’s a lot of stuff to keep top of mind when you’re creating your SMS marketing plan!

Ideas:

You share ideas and we let our developers know!

• [Events 2.0] Ability to update payment status manually:  I always love to share good news and I’m happy to report that the ability to manually update the payment status of an event registrant is coming next month!

I hope you found these articles and posts informative and valuable! Check back next month for more great Community shenanigans! Stay tuned for exciting updates, discussions, and valuable insights. Happy reading and happy marketing!