Community Roundup: January 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:

• February Holidays and Newsletter Ideas - 2024: It’s not too late to get inspired by February holidays!
• Customer Spotlight: Gindo’s Spice of Life: Learn how integrating their account with Shopify helped them achieve 12x return on investment!
• Community Ask Me Anything: Email Deliverability with Tara Natanson: Google and Yahoo are implementing new guidelines for bulk email senders and if this is the first you’re hearing about it, check this out!
• Be a Marketer, Ep. 41 - Taking a Leap of Kindness with Todd Shimkus and Maggie Fronk: One extra day in the year means one extra day to do some good in the world. On that note…
• Leap of Kindness Day: Inspiring Positive Change and Community Engagement: You can learn more about the event and how you might be able to participate.

Recently accepted solutions:

• Getting Started: KimberlyJ416 was feeling a bit overwhelmed, but William_A got them on the right track!
• Why Click Rate 0% with proof of click: This is a good, little tip to know -  ‘mailto:’ links can’t be tracked like regular URLs.
• Improving the export report on the new events tool: LauraB763 thought they were given some (totally understandable) feedback, but it turns out William_A shined a light on just the exact feature they needed! I love a happy ending.

Constant Tips:

• Shape the Future of Community Content!: This tip got the most views for the month. We would love to hear from you about what content you want to see on Community!
• Have you joined our Retail and Nonprofit Groups?: We created spaces so your industry peers and you can mingle, share advice, and find resources. Help us make them grow!
• Have you listened to the Be a Marketer podcast?: It’s mentioned twice in this roundup because it’s just that good. If you haven’t listened to it, every episode is packed with valuable insights from your marketing peers!
• Valentine’s Day is coming up and we have new templates to celebrate!: Our crack team of template designers did it again with a new selection of Valentine’s themed templates. Check ‘em out!

New Ideas:

• Allow Recovery of Previous Saved Versions of Emails: @MarisaH36 has some great ideas to add more functionality to the email editor’s save feature.
• [Events 2.0] Ability to Decline Someone on the Event Dashboard: @PeterT4965 would like to see a ‘Decline’ button added to the Event Dashboard.
• Ability to end Automation on a “yes” path for condition split: @EmuTherapy offers some additional suggestions for enhancing automation workflow with the Automation Path Builder.

If you like what you see, add to the choir!

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!