Leads Email Marketing

 

How to sort our lists to use in a Email marketing campaign program

Now that you have access to our database, you will see that we update our database with new lists. In order to store all the excel files on your computer to keep track of which ones you have uploaded, you will need to build a few folders on your computer. Below is a step by step process that we recommend you follow in order to be organized and send out campaigns properly and most effectively.

The steps below will show you how to download the excel files from our database into a folder named “ORIGINAL” onto your computer. Then it will instruct you on how to separate the “other” email accounts from the “yahoo/aol” email accounts to use in your campaigns.

 

1a) Go onto our leads list database drive

2a) Click on folder you would like to open: example: 2015

3a) Click on the excel file to open it in view-mode on your screen. Click the Download icon at the top. (this will automatically download the excel file onto your “download” folder on your computer.)

4a) You will need to do this process for all the excel files: Repeat #3 for all excel files.

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Now your files are all stored in your “download” folder on your computer. We now need to save the files that are now downloaded in your “downloads” folder INTO a new folder on your computer named ORIGINAL.

1b) Create a new folder on your computer to store all new downloaded excel files. Name it ORIGINAL. 

2b) Go to your “Downloads” folder on your computer. Move these files into the new ORIGINAL folder you created.

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ALWAYS KEEP THE ORIGINAL FILES THAT YOU DOWNLOAD FROM THE DATABASE IN THE “ORIGINAL” FOLDER ON YOUR COMPUTER. DO NOT RENAME THESE.

VERY IMPORTANT: To remain out of SPAM and risk of your email account being deleted or Marked as spam, you must separate the “others” email accounts in one folder and “yahoo/aol” accounts in another folder to be sent out in separate campaigns. To do so, follow instructions below:

 

1c) Create a folder named: OTHER

2c) Open the excel file in your ORIGINAL folder and save it into OTHER folder with “other” in name. Example: MAR_2015_CT_1_other.xls

3c) Delete the top portion which is the Yahoo/Aol accounts. Save file.

4c) Repeat #2c for all excel files in ORIGINAL folder.

This will make sure you are not overwriting the files in the ORIGINAL folder.

You now have a clean list to use in your email marketing program which is saved in your OTHER folder.

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Always use an email marketing program when sending out campaigns.

Now you can upload these clean lists that are in your OTHER folder into your email marketing program as a list to use for your campaigns. The email marketing program will clean out any duplicates.

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Repeat steps 1c-4c if you would like to store the yahoo and aol files and name new folder YAHOO/AOL.

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When new files come into our database, you will need to download and save these files into your ORIGINAL folder. Use steps #3a and #2b to download new file and move it from your documents folder to your ORIGINALS folder. Then continue to steps #2c.

Compatible browsers

Google Drive and the Docs editors work with the two most recent versions of the following browsers:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari (not supported on Windows)

Note: While other browsers may work with the Google Docs editors, we can’t guarantee that all features will work as intended.

No matter what browser you use, you should enable cookies and JavaScript.

Desktop

For Windows

• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows 7
• Windows 8

For Mac

• Mavericks (10.9)
• Mountain Lion (10.8)
• Lion (10.7)
• Snow Leopard (10.6)

For Linux

Google Drive isn’t currently available for the Linux operating system. Linux users can still access Google Drive on the web –drive.google.com or through the Google Drive mobile app.

Mobile devices and tablets

Starting on May 31, 2014, our mobile apps will require the most recent versions of the Android and iOS operating systems.

For Android phones or tablets

• Android 4.0+

For iPhone or iPad

• iOS 7.0+

Users on the following outdated mobile operating systems will be able to view, but not edit, their files. We encourage these users to upgrade to the versions above if possible.

• Android 2.3-3.2
• iOS 6.0+

Yahoo and Aol accounts are very strict on Spam Compliance. They need the bride to double opt-in to the list. Meaning you will need to send out a separate campaign to them asking them to subscribe to your list. We have sorted the yahoo’s and all’s separate from all other emails to the top on each list.

All other emails are good to go! You can email to these emails using an email marketing program such as MailChimp, iContact or Constant Contact ect, to send out most efficient email campaigns.

We also offer Email Marketing Campaign packages. Below are the prices:

Pricing for our Direct Marketing Solutions Package is below:

$100 a month for a 6 consecutive month agreement

$85 a month for a 12 consecutive month agreement

plus the cost of a email marketing program such as iContact or Constant Contact (if you don’t already have one)

1) We would sort the lists by your campaign strategy (2,500-5,000 emails)

2) We would design the campaign each month

3) Send it to you for approval

4) Send out the campaign

5) You will have complete control over all reports

Have a great wedding season!