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Hello Again -    I LIED, sorta! (I'm still learning)   So you can TOTALLY use OLD campaigns to create your NEW segmented lists! Its probably better for campaigns with only one thing mentioned, but here is how.   Lets say you sent (5) campaigns in the past year specifically for jewelry. You can create a segmentation list for anyone who clicked on those email. You will have to create a new criteria (e.g. one for each email), but Constant Contact will automatically go back and add them to your new segmentation! - that is so neat.   You'd essentially tack on as many criteria - in this case using the "+OR"   "Clicked - a specific email - "**choose specific camping here** + OR "Clicked - a specific email - "**choose specific camping here**       Here is the page with a video for more help: Custom Segmentation ... View more

Use Click Segmentation! - that will start to automatically create lists for you. I do not think you can automatically retroactively sort them based on previous campaign clicks - however, you can look at your HEAT MAP of previous campaigns and add those contacts specifically based on where they clicked.   For example, you can create an email ad that features jewelry, men's apparel, and dresses.   Create a click segmentation for each of those three things.   Then in the future, when you run a special jewelry sale, you can target that automatically created segmentation specifically. Maybe they get the information before everyone, are invited to a pre-sale, or get a discount code.   Using Click Segmentation  ... View more

We have LOTS of lists (close to 100?) - I know the ones I frequently use are combed through.   I look forward to seeing how segmentation works and tags. We have Google Forms for interests, but having it on CC will be a nice one-stop-shop where we can edit/verify the lists instead of *constantly* asking each program year - I feel most peoples interests are pretty consistent. It also will be helpful to be able to share those names with event leaders looking for volunteers going forward.   I HOPE I STILL GET MY BADGE! - I had a very jam packed week.       ... View more

We are a non-profit, faith-based organization, specially a church. I have now added our industry to our page.   Faith-Based Industry: 41.30% (open) 2.55% (click) 9.01% bounce   Our open rate is excellent and usually increases with specific, targeted messages than a blast with many items (not just mine, but a few I looked at in our history - this is true for every department). Children/Youth emails continue to be the most opened emails compared to other departments.   We try not to send too many emails, about one email a week per department with another one that includes almost everything. An extra email may be sent out to highlight one specific event/initiative/memorial/service/etc...I think our above industry average open-rate shows that our congregation members trust us.   A new goal of mine would be to look at who is a consistent non-opener and reach out. - is there a Constant Contact metric for that? If there was an alert like: "This person has received 20 emails without opening them...maybe they should be removed from the list?"   Click-rate is down (but this is just 48 hours later...I hope that will change - the event itself just may not work for families and is a week away). Now that I see the industry average (2.55%) my goal is to exceed that; However, that industry percentage makes me feel MUCH better about people not clicking/signing up for things. My click-rate hovers around 3-10%   Bounce Rate: I was able to do a little data maintenance for the bounces which is now 0. Very rarely to we get an "unsubscribe" and our communication person reaches out when that happens. I would like to see if those "consistent non-openers" should really be unsubscribed manually.   These weeks have helped me a lot with learning the CC platform without me needed to blindly look into things. I will share my new knowledge THANK YOU!   ... View more

  I did some new things myself, but I also used some things the team created. ... View more

Hello -    I share the QR code in mailings, in the room we meet, and some eblasts through CC.   Thanks for the suggestions! I think for our purposes SMS via CC wouldn't be cost effective; However, I use REMIND.   I do like the idea of a landing page, I will have to look into our account and see who else may benefit from something like that. ... View more

All the people in my lists are already on our master list (they are on my specific lists by having a child or being a volunteer).   For that reason, the only people I am really missing are the youth themselves.   I created a QR code that brings youth to a form to be added to the eblast specifically for youth group activities. Once they fill out the form, I manually add them to CC.   ... View more

Hello -   Consistent branding across our church is a work in progress. Many of us use our own list depending on what families/age-groups we serve. For that reason, some departments almost have their own logo/colors.   Most of my emails feature a few of the next "big" things to sign up for. I try to keep it to three. This is an example of an email that just highlighted one thing.   https://conta.cc/3XGO8XX ... View more

A little different working in a church / non-profit! ... View more