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ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

Thank you for joining the community. You obviously see the temperament of the board lately. Do you have any information when some of the major issues we are complaining about will be addressed or not so we stop complaining and make other decisions. The first and foremost in many minds are the performance issues since your integration of systems has caused. I charge for my time. Your new system has caused my billable time to increase 18% in the last month. Although I love the extra income, my down stream customers don't. The small business person who does all of this now finds himself spending extra time doing what he used to do in far less time. Not withstanding all the program complaints, making us wait for screens to load is something you should be able to fix without a major rewrite. Thanks for the decision to have you join us, don't disappear. The planning team needs to get closer to the end user. I haven't felt that in 5 years.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

It would be cool if you added that in your profile, so we would know who we are addressing. ......and if you and your staff spent a lot more time here interfacing with us.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

With all due respect, no it doesn't help. We are aware of the change, even Capt Obvious can see that. Its the removal of the discreet navigation that folks are complaining about. Try going from page 6 to page 10 with "view more campaigns. Try working with 100 campaigns and going back to the beginning each time and having to start over. Its upsetting that the program people may not even realize what it is exactly your customers are having issues with.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

Keeping a low profile ? Is SherrieS46 a CTCT employee? Shows you as a member who registered 4 years agowith 2 posts. Can we assume your part of the program team ?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎03-22-2016

There is no synchronous notification available, the highest frequency you can set is once a day. See attachment:

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎02-20-2015

No change to different levels of permission in 8 years.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎12-06-2010

Scott, Outlook 2007 is historically crabby. It renders its HTML with the MS Word engine and not IE as previously done with OL 2003. You'll need to spend some time working through that and learning to code to the weakest link, which is usually OL 2007 For starters all your CSS needs to be inline, many of the form background options don't work. With OL 2007 its the KISS and TEST rule. Regards, Tony

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎10-20-2009

You need to use XHTML not HTML for Constant Contact tags to work.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎10-01-2009

You need to capture a screen grab of the video and include it has a graphic link. I have done this for clients many times and can tell you the click rate did increase a lot. Pay a lot of attention to the frame you grab and make it as compelling to open as possible. Even if the frame grab isn't the initial frame of the video.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-29-2009

Have you used the program yet?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-25-2009

You can only point to your archive page from your site. Its hosted by Constant Contact. You only get a URL of the the page not the HTML. I'm sorry to say I don't currently have a live example, but the easiest way to see this "could" look like would be to go into your own account and click Emails > Archive > Create an Archive Homepage > Preview. This will present you with a base template provided by CC that you would be able to modify. Remember you can only link to this page.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-21-2009

You can't include attachments in your email from CC. (insert paragraph here) The closest way to do this would be to have your white papers created and stored on your website first. Then modify your "Welcome email" that new sign ups get to include links to your available white papers on your website. The new user would go to a landing page that would include a link to your PDF file. (insert paragraph here) I started working on a project for a customer exactly like this, until we ran into the problem that you are allowed only one welcome email for the whole CC account and not per segmented list as I think it needs to be for more flexibility.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-21-2009

Unless a "very" large majority of your contacts use Entourage I would say that its not a very good choice for your reference. You are experiencing one of the big challenges of creating an email campaign. I agree with the previous suggestions.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-16-2009

I would say "most" don't have background images.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-15-2009

Outlook 2007 use Word 2007 for its HTML rendering as opposed to past versions which used IE. Background image isn't supported in Word 2007. Here is a link to the MS site that explains this in more detail: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-14-2009

What particular differences are you seeing? Are you seeing them in a particular mail program such as Outlook or a web based system?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-08-2009

Why not start one?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-03-2009

Did you ever make any progress on this?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-31-2009

Please share what you found in case we try to do that in the future.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-31-2009

Call the CC hotline then. Using this forum software for detailed debugging just ****. Just a couple of checks, the fields you are trying to pull all need to be populated and I wouldn't supect them to populate in a preview mode. You might have to run a test on a private group of your own. Lastly for debugging purposes stick with the CC basic field names, if that is not working I would guess your missing something on your end. :-(

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-31-2009

That link came out worse than I thought it would. Search on "custom fields" in the FAQ and look for Answer ID 2215 I think it exactly what your looking for.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-31-2009

I think I found something that will help you in this FAQ: (sorry for the ugly link but this forum software stinks for this sort of thing) http://constantcontact.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/constantcontact.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2215&p_created=1170866443&p_sid=IyjnwJGj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=1&p_lva=1961&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9ODIsODImcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1jdXN0b20gZmllbGRz&p_li=&p_topview=1

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-30-2009

Sorry but you can't insert custom fields in the Welcome letter using the GUI. You might want to try using the Custom HTML option and insert custom fields by hand or rewrite the welcome letter in your own HTML and use what ever custom fields you want to use.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2009

Does this forum software have a switch the admin folks can turn on to enable viewing new posts since last visit? That really would help the flow and usage of this community. Navagation with this current configuration really bites it.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2009

Why is it that only the original poster can use the edit tools (bold, lists, etc) can someone turn that on for the follow up posts as well? That really would help in using this forum. Can you imagine only sending out TEXT newsletters? That's what you are giving the community here.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-21-2009

Outlook 2007 has no support for CSS positioning. Ask your developer not to use CSS for that. Basically OL2007 is screwed. OL2006 used IE while the newer OL2007 uses the MS Word engine to display HTML. I'm not sure about your GMail issue though. The good news is that OL2007 presents a small footprint for the B2C audience. Here is a link to the Microsoft site where you can get the "Outlook HTML and CSS Validator." I must say I have not tried this at all. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0B764C08-0F86-431E-8BD5-EF0E9CE26A3A&displaylang=en

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-20-2009

Does it look good in other mail clients or services? i.e. Yahoo

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-18-2009

If you can't create first and go to pdf and html, here is another thought. Preview the newsletter in CC and select Print Version. Then use a program called "Screen Hunter" (google it) to capture the Newsletter to a JPG file. Bring that into word and then save as a PDF. The document gets a little fuzzy but over all is very acceptable to most.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-17-2009

Perhaps you should consider something that would allow you to output to both PDF for printing and then HTML to cut into CC for your newsletters. The first issue I can think of is how to address your image references. What do you mean the print quality is somewhat poor? What are you trying to print?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎07-30-2009

Open your control panel then go to Contacts > Site Visitor Signup >Add a Signup Box to Your Website. Done deal.

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