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What’s New in Constant Contact!   We know you're juggling a lot, so we're constantly devising new ways to take the stress out of marketing. Check out our list of recent feature updates below!     Making email easier   Quickly pick the template you need Email templates are now easier to select, with options that match your brand's style or are specific to your industry. You can also view templates you've recently used or that match the season. Quickly glance at the selection curated for you, and choose the perfect template in just a few clicks.   Improved drag and drop functionality with sections Sections are full-width structures that allow users to group content in an email. By grouping blocks and layouts in a section, users can apply more styles to multiple blocks at once or, move the section around their template with one click.   Enhancing social, SMS and event capabilities   Let AI assist you with your next social post Stop staring at the screen wondering what to write when you can use AI to create engaging social content. It’s just a few clicks! Allow our AI tool to summarize the content of your last email and suddenly you have an engaging caption for your social post. Or, type in a few words and create a stand-alone post when you click “Write with AI.” Choose from three captions or tweak what you see to get your message just right.    Pick up where left off when registering for SMS Engage your customers instantly with SMS marketing, reaching them directly on their mobile devices. Add SMS to your account, and upon registration you’ll receive a dedicated sending number. As you register, your progress is now saved so that you can pause and come back if you need to.   Post your event on your website Hosting an event? Post your event details on your website to reach a bigger audience and boost registration and attendance rates. Just add a "Attend my events" HTML widget to your website and your visitors will see a dynamic list of your upcoming events.   Digital Wallet support for events Event registrants can now pay for their tickets using Apple Pay and Google Pay. This convenient payment process allows customers to complete their transactions quickly with just a few clicks.   Grow your list with sign-up tools created for you  We've built a sign-up landing page and 3-step automated welcome series for all our new Constant Contact customers. Just review what we've built, add your personal touch, and you'll be ready to capture new contacts in no time!   Improving the mobile app experience   Access your tools faster in the mobile app A new home screen design gets you to where you need to go faster. Build an email, add contacts, or connect a social account with minimal clicks. Scroll down to check the performance of your recent campaigns. Have questions? Quickly connect with a Constant Contact specialists by calling us directly - from the app!    More control when editing email in the mobile app Are you a mobile user who's constantly jumping from one task to the next? You'll love our new autosave feature. And, as you fine tune your content, you'll enjoy more flexibility and control with easy undo and redo functions.   More ways to advance your skills   Uncover proven strategies from your peers Get inspired with our new Community Coaches program. Learn from your peers, as they share actionable strategies and share innovative ways to elevate your marketing with Constant Contact.  ... View more

What’s New in Constant Contact!   We know you're juggling a lot, so we're constantly devising new ways to take the stress out of marketing. Check out our list of our Summer updates below!     Elevate your marketing game   Introducing Campaign Builder Effortlessly launch multi-channel campaigns using email, social, and more. Just input your business details and marketing objectives into the user-friendly wizard. Campaign Builder is available to all Standard and Premium users. It allows you to assemble tailored marketing assets to meet your goals.   Add your brand look and feel instantly Want to incorporate your brand elements in your email templates, but short on time? With our new BrandKit feature, just input your website URL and we will pull in your logo and brand colors to apply them to the layout templates you see. Creating branded emails has never been so easy!   Enhanced email customization   Unlocking the footer Customers can now edit the content within their footer. In a matter of seconds they can update the information and customize the design to match the rest of their email.   More ways to customize your buttons  Customize the look and feel of your email even further. Change the color, shape, and font of a button with our latest enhancements to the button block.   Maximize your SMS marketing impact   SMS for Sole Proprietors With SMS marketing, small businesses can reach their target audience instantly, deliver important messages, and drive engagement or sales. We've recently expanded our SMS capabilities and made it possible for businesses without a tax ID (EIN) to register.    New quiet hours for SMS users SMS messages can now be sent between 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. This time window is based on your local timezone. Before this change, SMS sending hours were 11:00 am Eastern to 8:00 pm Eastern.   Revolutionize your event management   Prevent duplicate event registrations Prevent duplicate event registrations from the same email address with new options in our event tool. Customers can opt-in to this setting in the form setup step.   Capacity setting for events  Set an overall capacity for your next event. Previously, customers could only configure ticket quantities available at each ticket level. Now, you can set a max capacity at the event level, across all ticket types.     Customize tickets to fit your events Change tickets to registrations, annual memberships, coffee tasting entries, or any term that resonates with your audience. Tickets, add-ons, and code labels can now be edited to better represent a customer’s event.   Streamline your social media with integrated AI content generator   Create social post quickly with AI assistance  The AI content generator you love is now available directly within the social post editor, making writing content for social media faster and easier! Choose from three post types – announcement, promotion, or reminder – and select your tone. Choose from three caption variations to use as is or adjust as needed.   Maximize engagement with automated messaging for Premium users   Re-engage your contacts through automation Automatically fire an email or SMS message when a contact's engagement decreases. This feature is available to Premium customers. Just create a custom automation path leveraging this segment membership.    Send an automation when a form is completed  Premium customers can now create custom automation paths that begin when someone completes the form on a signup landing page. Now you can customize the experience your new contacts will receive from the moment of sign up.   Updated reports for Lite, Standard and Premium plans   Updated Reports for Lite, Standard and Premium plans Optimize your marketing by identifying and leveraging new email campaign metrics to grow revenue, improve performance, and monitor engagement. Customers in the Lite plan can now view email performance summary cards, the email marketing funnel, and device breakdowns. Standard and Premium plan users have additional reports that include top and lowest performing campaigns.   Integrations to keep you connected   Auto-sync your contacts with Zoho  Save time and send more targeted emails when you leverage our new integration with Zoho. Our latest integration allows users to auto-sync contact and lead data into Constant Contact.   Drive more sales with our Squarespace integration Looking to target your customer communications based on their interaction with your online store? We've recently enhanced our integration with Squarespace to help you drive more sales. Premium users can now build automations based on a contact's purchase activity.   Simplifying your account experiences   Let us guide you through creating your first email Looking for a friendly guide to help you upload a contact or create your first email? Just go to your homepage (dashboard) to begin a guided experience. Get a quick tour of Constant Contact or let us take you through adding contacts or creating an email, one step at a time.    Mobile app login made easy Have you checked out the Constant Contact mobile app recently? We've simplified the app login experience so you can access your account or create a new account faster than ever.   Shop valuable add-on options Ever wonder what is available and the full breadth of how Constant Contact can help you meet your marketing goals? There is now one place to view all available add-ons and easily make a purchase. To find this new page on, navigate to “Account settings” and select “Add-ons.”     ... View more

What’s New in Constant Contact! 2024 is off to a quick start. With all you have on your plate, it helps to know of the latest changes in Constant Contact that will save you valuable time.     Email New BrandKit makes email design easier  Creating professionally branded emails is now easier than ever! With the new BrandKit feature, you just input your website url and we’ll provide templates with your brand colors, logo, and images. All users will have access to BrandKit by mid-April.    Save your email as a template Once you build that good-looking email, you may want to reuse it for future emails. Now you can easily save your email as a template. The design will be waiting for you in your “Saved templates” tab the next time you want to apply it to a new email.    Edit toolbar is now planted in place Say goodbye to that pesky toolbar that can overlap your workspace. The editing toolbar is now docked at the top of your screen so you can focus on building your email masterpiece!    No more writer’s block with AI Content Generator  If writing is not your specialty, no problem.  Just type in a few keywords and let us generate an entire email for you. You can then customize the content and template as much as you need before sending it to your audience.   Enhancements to the editing tool In the email editor, you’ll find a handful of enhancements, including fun ways to apply color or images to your background design, add a border to any or all sides of your template, and adjust margins.   Staying ahead of new Google and Yahoo requirements Google and Yahoo threw a fastball to all email marketers at the start of the year. The Constant Contact team quickly addressed the new requirements so it wouldn’t slow you down. You can choose to self authenticate your email domain, or customize  your “from” address by following the prompts on screen.    Events Collect event payments with Stripe Stripe, the much-loved payment processor, is now available in our new event tool. With a secure, 1-click checkout experience, this means fewer drop-offs and increased conversions. Event-related payments can be processed through PayPal or Stripe - your choice!    Receive notifications for new registrations Now you can opt-in to receive a notification when someone registers for your event! Each notification email includes the event name, registrant information, order summary, and registrant form responses with a deep link to access the registrant’s order right from the email.    Check in event guests using ConstantContact  Have you hosted an event lately? Our updated events experience gives event hosts more flexibility. Easily check in guests when they arrive at your event - directly in Constant Contact.    Change event payment status  For both offline and online payments, you can now manually update the payment status for an order. From the Registration information page, select Manage Registration and choose Update Payment Status to make a change.    Export more event data Review event reports to stay on top of your event planning process. Our events tool allows you to export event data as you need it. We’ve recently added more filtering options related to ticket sales, add-on sales, and other payment information.   View event invitees who have declined Be proactive and improve future attendance at your events when you can view which event invitees have declined your event in real time. Click the Reporting tab on the event dashboard to stay up to date.    New migration tool makes moving your event easy  If you haven’t moved over to the new event experience, now’s the time! A new migration tool makes it easy to copy events in the original tool and move it over to the exciting new event management experience. On April 1, 2024, all events in the original tool will be in read-only state, where you can export your historical event data and migrate.     SMS Updates to streamline the registration process  Sending a text message is an effective way to ensure your message gets read. But activating your SMS capabilities takes a few steps. We’ve taken a close look at the process and found ways to get you sending your text messages faster.    Equipping you with the documents you need We are taking the guesswork out of the SMS registration process by providing templated documents that you can submit for SMS Terms and Conditions and SMS Privacy Policies.    Grow your SMS opt-in list with an instant landing page During the SMS registration process Constant Contact will automatically provide you with a sign-up page to begin capturing opt-ins.     Contact Management  Segment updates are reflected in real-time (available Standard/ Premium plans) Things just got a bit more dynamic! Contacts are now added or removed to segments in real time. No more hitting refresh.     Automations based on triggers (available in Premium plan)  Apply those real-time segments to create automations. An email or SMS can be triggered as soon as a contact is added to a segment. You can also tag your contacts the moment they take an action by automatically adding or removing tags from a contact when a trigger condition is met.   Add or remove tags automatically  (available in Premium plan) Tag your contact the moment they take an action. Tags can now be automatically added or removed from a contact when a trigger condition is met.     Integrations Sync your Square contacts   Connect your Square account to import contacts into Constant Contact. If you plan to send targeted messages, take advantage of the ability to automatically generate lists based on buying behavior. It will save you loads of time down the road.    Wix in the Automation Path Builder Wix is now integrated into the Automation Path Builder. When you sync your Wix account with Constant Contact you can use ecommerce templates and send custom campaigns based on shopping behaviors.   Social Add personality to your posts with GIFs and Emojis Add more pizazz to your content on social media when you include gifs and emojis in your posts.     Include Vimeo video in your next social post   Have a video to share? Include a Vimeo link in your post to drive engagement.   ... View more