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Constant Contact Email Marketing

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ConstantContact is an email marketing service that helps you create and send attractive, professional-looking email communications to stay in regular touch with your customers and prospects, and build strong customer relationships. It's better and more effective than regular email.

The ProfitSystem can send emails via Constant Contact instead of using your SMTP server.

Getting started with Constant Contact

First, sign up for a Constant Contact account

http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?pn=bblsystems

You must sign up using the link above, if you sign up any other way, you will have to contact BBL Systems to have your Constant Contact account linked to BBL Systems before the ProfitSystem will be able to send emails via Constant Contact.

Then, create a Marketing campaign in the ProfitSystem to send to Constant Contact

  1. Go to Marketing->Marketing
  2. Select one of the three options, enter criteria, and click Ok
  3. It will display the Select Letter/tag/Mailing label form to prompt for the letter or email to send. In the list, locate Constant Contact and click Ok.
  4. It will display a dialog box asking for a List name. It will use this List name to create a list of email addresses at Contact Contact. The list name defaults to the current date and time but can be changed to any unique name. Two lists cannot have the same name. Either leave the name as/is, or edit it and click Continue.
  5. Since this is the first time the Constant Contact integration is being used, the Constant Contact Registration dialog is displayed.
  6. Click the Continue button, and the web browser will open and you will be prompted to log into Constant Contact.
  7. Constant Contact will then ask if you want to grant access to The Profit System from BBL Systems, Inc. Click Grant Access.
  8. Click the Done button the web page to close it.
  9. The email addresses from the marketing query will be sent to Constant Contact using the list name.
  10. At this point, log into Constant Contact and click the Contacts menu at the top of the page. This will display the Lists page, which should show your new list, along with the number of contacts in the list.
  11. Click on the Email menu option, and create a new email campaign using your new email list.