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richflyte · ‎07-11-2017

Hello! My name is John Paglio and I am a Digital Marketing Specialist with a focus in Digital Advertising and Email Marketing. I work for a Web Design + Digital Marketing firm called flyte new media, located in Portland, Maine. We just celebrated our 20th anniversary! That means next year we can drink

richflyte · ‎09-06-2016

As a marketer, I want to be able to split test different subject lines, images, and calls to action. I.e., what gets better open rates: "Save 20% off" or "Free Shipping" as an example. Unfortunately, there's no simple way to do this in CTCT. Competing platforms have had this feature for years, and I even rememeber receiving an email from CTCT on the benefits of A/B split testing. This is the most basic, most important piece of information small business and marketers need. Please upvote this if you agree!

richflyte · ‎09-06-2016

Paul, Thanks for your response. Without naming your competitors, they all seem to be offering those type of A/B split testing. I've even seen CTCT write on the importance of A/B split testing in the past. While you have some beginners as customers, many of us are smarter than you give us credit for. Split testing on subject lines would be a good start, but as marketers we need these basic tools to evaluate our campaigns. Thanks.

richflyte · ‎08-24-2016

I know you can add greeting tags in the body of an email, but I'd like to customize the subject line w/my subscribers' names. Is this possible?

richflyte · ‎08-23-2016

Sorry! I have two accounts at CC and I thought it was confusing when I realized I posted from the wrong one! So I deleted it, planning on coming back to this account and posting the same response from here, but then I got distracted. So much for not being confusing. So, the ways it works is this: your blog post goes live and the RSS feed is automatically pushed out (assuming you've set it up that way.) From there, it nudges your ESP (, , etc.) which auto-generates and email with the image and text, and sends it out to your list. Less control, but it can save you an hour a post. Some of my clients just don't want to take the extra step, and they'd prefer to save the time.

richflyte · ‎08-19-2016

While personally I prefer to tease a blog post in an email, driving traffic to the page, many of my clients would rather have their ESP automatically send an email out based on the RSS feed. Because of this, many of them have chosen or over CC, because these two companies--and many others--offer this. This feels liks basic funtionality that should be part of the CC package. I know that has had this functionality for about 10 years now, so it's not exactly cutting edge. Would love a response and explanation, thanks.

richflyte · ‎08-19-2016

Why can't we do A/B split testing in our emails so we can test things like subject lines and offers? offers this, offers this...every other ESP offers this basic functionality. Many of us have been asking for this feature for over 10 years now, and all we hear is, "it's something we're looking at." Please, stop looking and implement it. Honestly, I'm happy to bring over pizza and beers for your developers and I'm sure we can have a working beta version completed in an afternoon.

richflyte · ‎03-07-2014

I would love to be able to tighten the design a bit. I shrank my logo down, but now there's too much white space. I wish I had control over the height of the boxes, too, or they automatically tightened up as the image got smaller. There doesn't appear to be an HTML option that would let me go in and tweak that.

richflyte · ‎07-13-2011

Can someone please point me in the right direction for documentaion that deals with creating a custom welcome email for a specific email list via the API (php). I have been told by support that the documentation is here somewhere but it is certainly not easy to find if it is. Thanks!

richflyte · ‎02-14-2008

I'm a big fan of CC, but it boggles my mind how there's no a/b split tool. Although my programming background is limited, it seems like this wouldn't be a difficult tool to add, and it would be invaluable for those of us who see email marketing as an important part of our overall Web strategy. What's even odder, is that the featured topic of a CC email newsletter, recently talked about the importance of a/b splits in email marketing...but doesn't offer one! I've talked to CC staff several times asking for this tool, even blogged about it: http://www.flyteblog.com/flyte/2007/07/i-recommend-con.html Still, nothing. :-( I happened to think about this again because I saw a lot of traffic to that particular blog post b/c a CC competitor MailChimp wrote up a big piece on a/b splits and linked to the post, spiking my traffic. http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/ab-split-testing-email-marketing.phtml Please, please, please, add a/b splits so that us marketers and entrepreneurs can better utilize CC! Thanks. Rich Brooks flyte new media

richflyte · ‎06-03-2007

It is interesting that CC talks about this topic, since it doesn't offer any tools to make this easy, as far as I can tell. (And I've been asking for it for years!) While I believe you can select a bunch of subscribers, create a new interest group, do it twice and call one group "A" and one group "B", and do A/B testing, it's not really random and it does take more time than it should. It would be great if CC had some simple tools included to let you do this. So, CC, how about it? Rich Brooks flyte new media flyte blog: web marketing for small business

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