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New timezone select feature to adjust the system dates for all display areas in the system. To set this click on the Home tab then click on My Account and choose your timezone.

Note: campaign creation and other select box/input fields are still in CST time. But anywhere else were the time is displayed  should be in the timezone you select.

FTP import and export system added for email lists.

Under Add List there is a section called Import FTP/Manage FTP Accounts where you can add ftp accounts and import data from those accounts into your account. FTP import works with any of the following file types .csv, .txt, .xls, .xlsx and .zip containing any of the previous file formats.

In addition to importing data there is an option to export your list now to an FTP account from that same Manage FTP Accounts area. The option can be found when viewing a list in the export list button. When clicked shows a select where you can choose to export to an FTP account.

Engagement scoring system added to Velocity Email Marketing. Each list in email marketing now contains an enagementscore column. Every email in a list starts off at zero.

When a view or click occurs a points are added to the engamentscore column. More points are awarded for clicks then views.

Using this engagement score system will allow you to see which emails/users are responding the most and to generate a responsive list.

New spinning text feature for email marketing allows better message randomization.
The spin tag works both in the html and text part of the messages.

Spin Tag Syntax {SPIN=TEXTTOSPINHERE|ANOTHERWORD}  You can have multiple words to spin just by adding the | character to seperate each word.

Examples below:
{SPIN=This|Here} is {SPIN=some|a {SPIN=little|wee} bit of} {SPIN=example|sample|paragraph} text.

{SPIN=Word|Cat|Dog|Horse|Pig|Coat}

We have added a new settings and features for email marketing.
Under Email Marketing – System Settings:
1. Default Max Connections Per Domain  – This setting limits the number of connections for all domains that are tried at a time. The sending speed setting does not matter as much since you can now send very fast but with max connections limits how much mail goes out at a time.  Domains that are part of Domain Delivery Groups overrides this setting if you have domain delivery groups enabled for the campaign. The default setting is 5.  Use 0 to disable this feature
2. Timedout and Blocked Retry Attempts  – Number of times to retry timedout and blocked response.
3. Timed Out Wait Time – The time to wait between each blocked and timed out before retrying again.
4. Character Set for Email Messages  – Two settings ascii or utf8. Utf8 allows encoding of the subject line/from name and supports more international characters. – The default setting is ASCII

New campaign feature:
When creating a campaign under advanced settings there is now an option to use a different domain for tracking then the sending domain.
The tracking domain can be any other profile used in the account.

A couple neat updates in the message editor we added to source viewline numbers and syntax editing and new options for editing html headers and background properties for email messages and landing pages using the message editor. There is now an icon called document properties which allows you to edit the title tag, other head tag settings, and control the background appearance. Also landing pages now have the insert from imagehosting button to insert images into a landing page from your imagehosting.

Lead Personalization added. You can now personalize using any of the following in a quick send email to a lead. <#firstname#> <#lastname#> <#company#> <#jobtitle#> <#address#> <#city#> <#region#> <#zip#> <#country#> <#email#> <#phone#> <#ip#> <#websiteurl#>

File hosting is now supported under the image hosting feature for email marketing. All file types supported and provides an easy way to link to a pdf or file in your email message. This is the preferred method is better than email attachments which many people today are fearful to open.