I actually misspoke. The "Schedule for Later" is the default when you go into Send mode. It automatically sets a Send Later time for 60 minutes later. Because there is no Data Reporting area in Constant Contact (which would be very helpful if we want to generate reports) we need to go into the Send area to set up the filters to see the counts. If you are on the Send page setting up filters AND save without changing the default from "Schedule for Later", your campaign will be automatically queued up for Send, even though you only wanted to check the filters. This happened to us once. All I am suggesting is a third option that says: "Not Ready to Send" and that should be the default. But the better option would be a reporting area (with multi-level filtering functions) so we can generate counts for different filtering options, and even generate a .csv report if desired. And do so without going into the send area. I like the tagging capabilities of CC. But I often need to apply "And/Or" or "And-Not" logic but those muti-level filtering and reporting capabilities are absent from CC. If I need to run an "And-Not" filter, (ABC tag but Not XYZ tag), I need to download the two tags, do some spreadsheet work, and then upload the new data setting up a new tag. A lot of extra work which could be avoided if there were multi-level filtering. Final comment: Speaking of reports. I need to show our leadership "email effectiveness" reports for our campaigns. It's just a linear report with the rows being the different campaigns, and the columns being the email metrics (Sent, Opened, Bounces, Clicks, etc.) But unless I am missing something in CC, I have to tediously construct this report by going into the reporting of each individual campaign and copying pasting (and transposing) into a spreadsheet. I think every customer of yours would jump for joy with these types of filtering and reporting capabilities.
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