Hot on the heels of Subscriber Notifications, we’re excited to announce the all new Subscribe Button. The easiest way to add an elegant, unobtrusive subscribe form to any page on your site.

The Subscribe Button is perfect for your sidebar, footer or any page with limited screen real-estate. Slot the button in where you like, and once it’s pressed a simple subscribe form instantly appears through a modal window.

Customize Everything

The button itself is available in two colors and sizes. You can use your own button text, and also choose to show or hide the number of subscribers in that list.

We’ve also given you lots of control over the subscribe form. Choose which fields you’d like to show and in what order, set the important stuff as required and add your own intro copy.

You’ll find the feature under a simplified sidebar for each subscriber list in your account. Just click on Grow your audience option to get started.

This update is one of a number of nice improvements we have planned around making it easy as possible for people to join your lists. As always, feel free to give us a call if you have any questions!

We’re very excited to announce that we have released a beautiful, flexible new way to keep up with the people who are joining your subscriber lists.  We’ve given you complete control over what notifications you’d like to receive and when.

Instant Updates

If you’re interested in learning everything you can about each person that joins your list, you’re going to love our instant notifications. You can set them on a list-by-list basis, and every time someone signs up, we’ll send you something like this…

Each email will include all the data they might have supplied when subscribing. Plus, we’ll show you exactly where they subscribed from and if available, what they look like. It’s amazing how quickly this turns them into a real person instead of just another email address. These notifications can be set on a list-by-list basis, so you’re only updated instantly when you need to be.

Daily, Weekly or Monthly Summaries

As well as instant notifications, you can also choose a daily, weekly or monthly summary that gives an overview of all the new subscribers across every list for each client. We’ll show you where they’re from, which lists they’ve been added to and even pull out a few friendly faces.

Notifications

First things first, notifications will be turned off by default for you. But, if you would find these notifications useful, you can easily enable them from your account. These notifications are set on a per-person basis. As long as you have permission to manage your own subscribers, you can head into your notification preferences and choose the types of updates that suit you best.

How to turn notifications on
You’ll notice a new option in the sidebar of “Lists & Subscribers” like this…

From there you can select any lists you’d like instant updates for, and if you’d like to receive a daily, weekly or monthly summary across all the lists for that subscriber.

One final point worth mentioning, these notifications are all about organic subscribers joining your lists.  This means we won’t notify you about subscribers you manually import yourself, only those that join from your subscribe forms, an integration you might have set up or the API.

We’ve got another exciting subscriber related announcement coming up, so stay tuned for another heads up.

This upcoming Saturday morning, December 10th eConnect Email will be experiencing some downtime due to a planned database server migration. To minimize disruption, the migration will begin at 11:00 PM (PST) and will run until complete – during this period the application will be unable to create or send emails. We’re expecting it to take 24 hours to complete and you will be able to resume sending as soon as it’s live again.

In preparation for the move we will be trying to minimize any campaigns in the sending queue by Friday evening. Please plan to send any large volume campaigns at the start of the the day Friday and plan to taper off by the end of that day.

During the migration, we will be implementing some new security enhancements. We’ve recently discovered some areas that we’d like to update and this database move will be a good opportunity to do so.

This migration is a milestone in bringing you all the greatly improved features we intend to offer our clients on eConnect Email and will be the only disruptive maintenance we require during the migration to our new infrastructure. We appreciate your understanding and co-operation!

Thanks!

In an effort to better serve our clients and solidify our place in the market, our creative team has been hard at work redeveloping our brand and website from the ground up. Our main goal was to simplify the user experience to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for. This being said, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new eConnect Email website!

To all of our current, past and future client we’d like to extend a warm thank you for your support! We hope you like what we’ve done. If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback we would love to hear from you.

Free 30-Day Trial
No Credit Card Required. No Contracts. eConnect Email is totally free for 30 days, so give it a spin. Activate your free account today and see why it’s is simply, email done better.

Affordable Pricing Plans
Starting at just $19.95, eConnect Email offers affordable pricing plans to fit all different types of businesses. No contracts. Upgrade or downgrade your plan when needed.

Expansive Help Center
The new eConnect Email website features an expansive help center, complete with video tutorials to guide your throught the application.

Interactive Features Overview
Explore all that eConnect Email has to offer through our new interactive features section.

We are happy to announce that we’ve rolled out a series of instructional video tutorials to help familiarize you with some of the basic functions offered within eConnect Email.  So if you’re a visual learner sit back, turn up your speakers and grab a cup of joe while we walk you through some of the basic functionality within your eConnect Email account.

Getting Started Video Tutorials

• Creating a contact/ mailing list overview
• Importing contacts into your account
• Building an email campaign overview
• Image Manager overview
• Sending email campaign overview
• Manually adding contacts

Over the coming months we will be adding to our video library as we walk you through some of the more advanced email marketing features offered by eConnect Email (ex. email auto responders, email triggers, customer segmentation and more).  Is there a specific feature you’d like us to cover?  If so, please respond to this post and let us know!   As always we welcome your feedback.

To honor Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for earning Time’s Person Of The Year Award, we integrated the Facebook “Like” feature into eConnect Email.

You can now include a Facebook “Like” button into your emails.

With the simple inclusion of a merge tag, email recipients can click the “Like” button and the email will be shared on their Facebook wall. How cool is that?

Try it now! Let us know if you “Like” this new feature!

To learn more about this awesome feature, here’s our help center article.

Happy Holidays!

The team at eConnect Email would like to wish you and your family a very wonderful Thanksgiving. eConnect Email has a lot to be thankful for this year! We are continuing to work on providing a superior email marketing platform and wanted to share with you our latest product updates. As always we welcome your feedback!

Update Your Social Share Message

This feature allows all of our clients and partners to update the default messaging that appears when a user clicks the Social Share icon.

For our private-label partners, they can even edit the system-wide default message in their agency model, found on the Admin page.

It’s easy to use and easy to update. If you can type in a text box and click ‘Save’, you’ll be able to figure it out!

To try out this new feature, read our help article first and then jump into the application.

Highlights

• Social share text is fully customizable
• Easy to update for admin and accounts
• Available and fully operational now

Label and change your links easily with Link Labeling

Experience complete control of links…even after you send a campaign.

One of our most requested new features is now live as Link Labeling is available for all clients and partners.

Link Labeling includes two key features:

Labeling: Instead of trying to figure out what a ridiculously long URL was in your campaign, just apply a label to your links after you send. Easy, simple, done.

Changing: We’ve all made the mistake of including an incorrect link in an email. Now we’ve removed that helpless feeling with a great one: the ability to completely change a link after you’ve sent it out. Even better, the change is immediate!

To try out this new feature, read our help article first and then jump into the application. Link Labeling is ready and waiting for you!

Highlights

• Label long URLs with shorter names
• Change incorrect links after deployment of a campaign
• Available and fully operational now

Scheduled Maintenance This Sunday At 6:30 PM

eConnect Email will be undergoing scheduled maintenance Sunday, November 28th, from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM (PST), giving our clients and partners a chance to spend more time with their Thanksgiving leftovers.

We recommend that any sends be deployed outside this maintenance window.

As always, we thank you for your business!

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The most wonderful time of year is upon us! This goes for business as well…so let your client/customers know how much you appreciate them with an email. As things get hectic it’s best to map out a well planned campaign for the next couple of months and keep your brand in people’s minds as they dream of sugar plums and candy canes 😉

Happy emailing, and have a safe and warm Thanksgiving!

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Mobile Previews have arrived, along with a long-awaited adjustment in the unsubscribe process.

Now see your email rendering in five popular devices in addition to 29 email clients

An exciting addition to eConnect Email launched over the weekend: Mobile Previews! This is an addition to our already awesome Inbox Previews, an add-on service inside eConnect Email’s core email marketing application.

As you send off your email to see how it renders across 29 different email clients, you also will see that same email rendering in five different devices: the iPhone 3GS, Blackberry Curve, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile 6.5 and the iPad.

Highlights

• See email renders in five different mobile devices
• Inbox Previews now features 29 different email clients

Try for yourself by running an Inbox Preview on your next email campaign! Not currently using Inbox/ Mobile Previews? Contact our sales team for more information, (866) 596-9997.

Unsubscribe by mistake? With a single click, re-subscribe!

With the single-click unsubscribe in eConnect Email, we understand that sometimes you or your clients accidentally unsubscribe and it’s somewhat of a process to re-subscribe them. No more!

Now anyone that unsubcribes will have the option to immediately re-subscribe with a single click. They won’t have to leave the page or go through any lengthy hassle. One click and they’re back on the list…just like that.

If you have any questions let us know!

Exciting things are happening at eConnect Email.  Our October Newsletter will give you the low down on the release of the new interface and what to expect as we move forward.  Over the last month we have also rolled out our new affiliate program… so make sure to click on the link before for all the details.

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