New Software Update

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Velocity is now offering landing page templates.  Now you can make it easy for your customers to click and go right to any page you choose. Choose from 50+ templates.  Here are some of the full details.

How it works:

  • View templates under the email marketing tab in our software
  • Click on landing pages in right column
  • Click on landing pages template button
  • Choose a template by clicking to view
  • To order, click on request pricing information
  • Allow us to customize your template to your needs.

 

Also, we can connect your landing page or pages to our lead/crm system and build a PURL support into your landing pages.

 

Questions about our landing pages or how to locate them?  Contact us!

Delivery Tips

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We have been speaking about the importance of delivery, which is nothing new to email marketers, but nevertheless important.  After much research and reading, we’d like to share some important tips with you, according to Marketing Land.  They provided an article that provides insight on successful deliverability.  Here is just a quick sum-up of the article.

 

Tip 1: Get a good ESP to prevent hard bounces.

As an email marketer, nothing is probably more annoying than to see bad addresses or bad domains.  You’re probably also aware of being blocked, all leading to your email never being read.

Make sure to verify and validate your subscribers.  Velocity’s software can remove hard bounce email addresses.

 

Tip 2: Clean your list of users

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If your list has a high volume of users that have not engaged, they are not doing your list any good.  Marketing Land suggests that a small list of highly engaged users yields a higher ROI.

If they have not shown intent in 90 days, move them to a different list.  You can still use them in the future.

Tip 3: Personalize Emails

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The saying “you’ve only got one shot”, holds true in this instance for email marketers.  Tailoring your content to your users will help your email wind up in the right inbox.  If you are collecting their information, why not use it to increase a successful delivery.

Tip 4: Use a Single IP Address Per Each Type of Email

A lot of marketing emails end up in the spam folder.  By having one IP for every email type it helps increase the success of the delivery rate–even if people say your email is spam.

Tip 5: IP Bonding

Marketing Land suggests using IP Bonding for larger email sends.  When you are sending large amounts of emails at once, it is best to spread them out over several IPs.

 

Remember, delivery is never guaranteed.  See the full article, and see full descriptions on how to be smart when delivering.

 

Leads System Updates

Auto email followup system added to leads.  You can now setup recurring messages that are sent out to lead based on frequency. The frequency can either be one time, weekly, monthly or daily at a specific time of your choosing.  Very useful if have a series of emails ready to go to each lead which allows more communication between both parities.

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Quick notes system added which is a dropdown containing some common notes that might be used on a lead.

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Option added to delete each note item on a lead. There is now a delete link next to the to the user who left the note.

Lead questions system added. In the leads tab in the sidebar there is a lead questions link. In which you can add questions to be asked/answered when viewing a lead. Also the lead questions will appear in any subaccount that has lead management.

New Upload Zip files for Email Messages

Zip files with creative information now supported to be uploaded for email messages. The zip file can contain either a creative with multiple images, Multiple creatives, Multiple images or any combination.

For instance you can upload a zip file with an html file and the associated images.  The creative will be added to the add message page. The images will be saved to the image hosting page and if the images are not linked up in the creative the creative will be updated with the new image hosting links.

Load/Sync your own domains from your registrar

Sync/Load your own domains from your own Namecheap/Moniker account. We now support importing of domains from your own Moniker/Namecheap account this feature can be found under Domains then clicking on the Domain Registrars button.
Inside Domain Registrars you are now able to link to multiple support registrars and load the domains from the linked accounts into the system. Once loaded into the system you can either proceed with the domain setup options or delete the domains you do not want to use.

The domain setup creation automatically setups up the private nameservers for the domain and then you can put a request in with support to setup the sending profiles for that domain.

One note for the api’s you must add the system ip to the registrars api access settings in order for the sync domain process to work.

List Feature Updates

On the create/edit campaign pages for list and suppression select for lists that are inside folders.  In front the list name will be the folder name in brackets [foldername] this allows easier finding of lists in folders.

Added a copy list function under View Lists -> then clicking on the Export New List button and choose the copy list option to make a new copy of the lists that were selected.

Sequences added to Email Marketing

Sequences added!  A new extremely powerful feature for email marketing the creation of a series of campaigns that can be sent to a list based on a time schedule.  For time schedule you can choose to send every day, every week based on certain days of the week or every month on a certain day. Also the option to set how many times the sequences runs.

This feature is found in the email marketing tab in the sidebar under Sequences

Sequences List

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Add Sequence

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Edit Sequence

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Email Marketing API Additions

Email Marketing API updates:
The uploadlistbyurl api now returns the listid created for the list.
getfeedbackloopreports now has the option to return only FBL reports by campaign id
getunsubscribelist now has the option to return only unsubscribed emails by campaign id
New api createlist – allows creating a list via by posting a list of emails. Works same away as the enter small list option in email marketing just now able to use it via the api. Best to use only with small lists under 1000 records for larger lists use the uploadlistbyurl api.

System Updates in recap for Last Week

March 3, 2014, New feature for optin form builder. if you have the leads tab there is now an option to copy the data from the optin form to the leads section.Also under image hosting in email marketing there is now button that allows you to change out the image hosting domain on a message.
March 1, 2014, On the optin form builder get code page and the form build builder code page there is now a link to create a landing page based upon the generated code with one click.ISP Organization now shown on ip detail page.Replies for reply capture area are now only stored for 30 days after that they are autoarchived.

February 27, 2014, Auto handles replies capture emails that have unsubscribe or optout in the subject line to auto unsubscribe them from the account.New setting Smart IP Rotation which has been enabled by default under system settings. Now allows you turn that feature off or on.

Reply Capture System Improvements

Updated the reply capture system. Improvements include better handling of messages. There is now a link in the sidebar called View Replies which allows you to see any of the replies that came in. The old check replies link under domains will be retired shortly. On the main email marketing tab under account/package information lists the last five replies that came in. Email replies are checked for every 25 minutes there is also an option under View Replies to check for current replies from a domain.

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Also for email forwarding added a link to the view the last reply forward error if there was an error forwarding the reply.

Other interface changes:
Moved conversion tracking from the sidebar in email marketing to under system settings.
Moved Bounce SMTP Processing to under SMTP Servers