I think Constant Contact is missing a broader issue of its email service. If I send an email out to our contact list that has embedded links to information in the email and the reader cannot access that information then the potential sale or capture of an interested party is lost. It could be advert blocking software, security scans or spam blocking among others that does not allow the link to be satisfied and a web page rendered. Even if I add the URL ink as the text of a link button, the reader cannot copy and paste the link because the copy of it is the r20 link and will still not work. It is impossible to analyze the specifics requested for every user contact. I myself have received Constant Contact emails from others with "Click Here for more Information" buttons in them and they are totally useless to me as the interested reader because the links will not render, nor can I find out what the real link URL address is. Your preview test emails do not have the links encoded. Why not just let that version go through as the published email if I as the account owner does not want to count clicks? To me having an "option" that allows the intended information to get through to the reader is more important than knowing the number of clicks a particular email received. After all, you still have the knowledge of how many contacts and who opened the email. The fact that other email providers do the same thing as Constant Contact is not a benefit. How about Constant Contact being better than the others by offering this option? You should really consider the importance of getting your users information through to its contacts. Respectfully, Jim Osborn, account administrator
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