ActiveCampaign learns about Contactually
A couple of weeks ago, ActiveCampaign hosted a webinar interview with Tony Cappaert from Contactually. ActiveCampaign recently added Contactually to our new Automatic Importing feature. As our integration with Contactually is brand new, we wanted to get strong sense of who and what Contactually is and the web interview below will certainly do that. We have provided a video of the interview in which Tony demonstrates their platform, and also…
A Marketing Coach’s view on Email Marketing for Small Businesses
This week’s Marketer’s Spotlight picks the brain of marketing expert Chris Fourgere, owner and creator of Freedom Marketing Coach.
Chris, I see that Freedom Marketing Coach offers a wide range of marketing services. How did you get started in this industry and how has it evolved since you started?
I started helping people with just marketing and sales. Then it morphed into fixing and creating systems and organization for their businesses…
A quick preview of how you can create custom templates for the new email designer
We will be including many new email templates when we release the new email designer. But what if you wanted to have your own custom email template that utilizes all of the new email designer functionality? Just like the email designer – we made this easy to do. (If you haven’t watched our first preview video I would suggest watching that first) When creating a custom template you need to think about 3 different things: Editable Regions = These are the regions that…
“Subscribers” have become “Contacts”
Today we rolled out an important change to our platform. In an effort to make email marketing more understandable and closer to our clients, we decided to change the way we address your contacts. They will no longer be called “Subscribers” in the system, but “Contacts”. A couple of things worth knowing: Subscribers are from now known as Contacts Opted-in subscribers will now be “confirmed contacts” If a contact does not have a name we will refer to them as “Recipient” for any personalized content The API has changed to reflect…
A new subscriber/contact list page
Today we released a new version of our subscriber list page (which we will be referring to as “Contacts” in the near future)
In our on-going mission to help you know your subscribers at a deeper personal level, we are now including personal details about them right in the list view. This includes:
A photo of your contact is shown when available
The location of the contact is shown when available
Social profiles (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) are shown when available. (currently requires you to subscribe to
Helping You Succeed With Our API
The ActiveCampaign API is a great way to interact with the software through your own interface, providing you full access to data and functionality to use in any way you can imagine.
Even though our API is well documented and we provide examples and language-specific wrappers, often times you’ll run into an issue that you can’t find a solution for and need to contact ActiveCampaign support.
We welcome all support requests so you should never feel embarrassed or silly for contacting us. In fact,…
Why Panties.com loves ActiveCampaign!
Recently, I had the opportunity to ask Lila from panties.com a few questions about her experience with email marketing, while being a customer of ActiveCampaign. She provided incredibly insightful answers, and more than obliged us to give many tips and tricks she has learned while developing their email marketing.
1. What provided the inspiration to create panties.com?
We had been in business since 1985…
A quick preview of the new email designer…
A common gripe about our platform is the lack of a modern email designer. We know it lacks many things and at times find our current email designer to be a pain as well. Subsequently we have been devoting a good portion of our development efforts on a new email designer. Having gone through many iterations of our new designer we have ended up with quite a beautiful designer and framework that offers up some pretty exciting capabilities for what we can do within an email. We have…
The Trouble with Imports (APC & PHP setlocale bizarreness)
As some of you may have noticed, we had a few problems with our import system last week. After several hours of investigation and a fix gratefully being applied, we wanted to share some of the details of what happened. The Short Version As of late last week, we noticed some problems when people were visiting the Subscriber Import page. Many times, things would work fine; sometimes, you might be shown a server error. That’s pretty confusing (and frustrating!) for anyone; the worst part was, though we could reproduce it,…
Marketers Spotlight: Informatix
In this weeks “Marketers Spotlight,” I interviewed John Makras, an Account Manager with Informatix in Queensland, Austrailia. John provides insight into how digital marketing is a multi-faceted tool which should be well rounded and versatile in order to optimize success.
1. Let’s start with a basic get to know you question. What is Informatix and what need is the business trying to meet?
Informatix is an online marketing agency that offers a variety…
