I am currently looking at building a web app that allows a user to sign in and receive a list of their tweets from the previous week in an email this information will be stored and pulled in from a db
Now at first I thought I could use something like postmark but this is apparently only for transactional emails and not bulk newsletters. I guess mine would be a newsletter as it would send to lots of people at the same time every week. But my question is how could I use a service like mailchimp that would allow completely customised content for each recipent? Is this possible with a service like mailchimp or campaign monitor?
If you want customized content per subscriber in the one email campaign (dynamic content), MailChimp is the way to go. Campaign Monitor has yet to implement that functionality.
Another option if you're a developer is to use Sendgrid.
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I created a slack app with distribution (multiple clients)
and I subscribe to events several events like a message posted in a channel.
Beside the team_id field for identifying the client team - is there an ability to put my own key for a client?
Thank you.
No, Sack does not store any custom data for you. Its your job as an app developer to store all team related information for your app and link it to the Slack team_id. This is usually done with a database.
You can however include custom IDs with Slack requests, e.g. in the response you get from an interactive message. See this answer for more details on how this works.
In MailChimp API 2.0 there was a single command, helper/lists-for-email, that would return all of my lists that a particular email address was subscribed to.
https://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/2.0/helper/lists-for-email.php
I'm having trouble finding anything similar in MailChimp API 3.0.
http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/reference/overview/
We have our own page on our website for managing newsletter preferences, and we need to be able to have some of our list options pre-checked when a logged-in user looks at the list, based on which lists he is subscribed to. All I have been able to figure to do is to check the API for each list individually (10 different API calls) to see if a specific email address is subscribed, but this takes a very long time and I am concerned it may time out for some users depending on network traffic. Either way, it's so long that it's an awful user experience.
Is there one API 3.0 call I can make to find out which of my lists a user is subscribed to, like there was in 2.0?
There is now a solution using the following API:
http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/reference/lists/#read-get_lists
You can include the "email" field to filter by a user's email.
I have a little under 7000 newsletter subscribers. I run an online shop and would like to send out daily newsletters for my Deal Of The Day. This is currently impossible as it takes at least an entire day for my newsletter to get to all of its subscribers. Please advise
Please use some email marketing solution to send emails.
Choose from list below:
1. Mailchimp (easiest of all)
2. Netcore (provides full solution)
3. Icubes
4. Sendy.co (cheapest of all)
Using these you will also be able to track your email response like opens, clicks etc.
You can hack Magento to send more emails; however, your web hosting provider will probably pull your plug unless they specifically allow mass Commercial Email.
You will be black listed as a spammer if you don't understand how to set up domain keys, SPF and a series of other items. One of the biggies is that you shouldn't be using port 25 unencrypted traffic without authentication. Any bypassing of this changes your bulk email output to UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) in their books. The other biggie is not having an unsubscribe method present in every email sent.
If you have the technical capacity to be running your own web server (not have to use a hosting provider) then Amazon's SMS is probably a good choice if you have Ashley Shroeder's SMTP module installed.
If you don't have the technical capability, then using an ESP (eMail Service Provider) like MailChimp is a far better way. They take care of a lot of the technical detail with bounces, email list management, unsubscribe, etc. to help prevent you from being blacklisted as a UCE source.
Now am heard about mailchimp for effective email marketting
So i downloaded it form here
But i have few questions
whta is the advantage of mailchimp ?
Better tutorial for mailchimp ?
Better tutorial for mailchimp ?
Anybody please help me
I want to integrate mailchimp in magento
any help is appreciated
The advantages...
Using the Magento newsletter function will probably get you banned from sending email from your web server. Most hosting plans put a limit on the amount of transactional emails that can be sent for the following reason. If they end up sending too much spam-like email, they will be put on block lists and then all their customers get penalized for a few bad players.
They would rather that you send promotional email which can bounce, or end up being marked as unsolicited commercial email through an email service provider that monitors and cleans up any activities that cause unnecessary junk mail to enter the system and also limits through TOS, where lists can come from (existing customers, people who've subscribed, people who wish to receive promotional email and have signed up through other means).
Mail Chimp is one such email service provider, there are several, a couple have created integration modules for Magento so you don't have to export your newsletter subscribers and import them into the email service.
Mail Chimp also is able to give you statistics and will tie into Google Analytics so you can start tracking how effective your promotional emails are, can try different approaches and see what really works and what customers were interested in on the promotional email through link referral from each item you've included. With Magento, you sling stuff at a wall and hope something sticks, with the statistics Mail Chimp can tell you what you flung at the wall, how hard you flung it, how sticky it was and whether people prefer popsicles and chocolate truffles over candy apples and lemon drops. From this you can go from "Meh, whatever..." responses to "Hmm, I think I want this".
Any email service provider you choose can offer this type of statistics and analysis... Magento Newsletter can't.
This is copy/pasted straight out of a proposal I recently submitted for a Magento site with integration with a 3rd party newsletter system (in this case I am using the Fontis Campaign Monitor module, which I like);
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The default Magento email newsletter functionality is not as good as it could be. I would normally hook the email newsletter submission box up to a service like MailChimp or Campaign Monitor (I'd recommend the latter).
They allow you to manage your distribution lists and generate and customise email templates yourself which will actually arrive at the inboxes of your customers and not get spammed, bounced or look awful in their email client. These systems allow you to test your newsletter in a huge range of email clients and will advise you of any mistakes you've made (ie badly chosen spammable keywords).
They will allow you to send the comapigns to your distribution lists from thier server, and will also give statistics on your email campaigns – bounce rate, open rate, click through rate, numbers flagged as spam, users who unsubscribed, all the different geographies they went to etc.
And they are free until you get about 2000 recipients, after which you pay a small amount for a very good service.
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You can find examples and demos in Third-Party API Wrappers for PHP repositories.
If a customer schedules a service activity using my web application and I want to send them an automated confirmation email, it seems I have two options:
Have the workflow create and send a new email message. On this view (see below), you can use fields from related entities on the service activity (e.g. the customer's first name).
Have the workflow use an email template. It seems that email templates do not allow you to access fields from a related entity, like first name, so the only option here is to address the customer by their FULL name.
Are there any solutions that I missed, or am I stuck with the first option if I want to address the customer in a personal, natural way on this automated email?
Unfortunatly, the CRM is pretty limited on that aspect. The best workaround is to add the firstname to the Service Activity entity. May suit you or not. Otherwise, it is achievable through a the SDK, but that's much more complicated if you don't already use it.