In case you’ve had your head buried in paperwork, social media is only getting more popular. In an effort to foster the growing relationship between email marketing and the world of status updates, eConnect Email has integrated Social Sharing into our application and now it can easily be added into your emails with the addition of a tiny little tag, Welcome to Social Email 1.0.
Any emails sent through eConnect Email that include the social sharing tag can now be shared with the following social networks with ease:
Email (of course)
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
Google Buzz
Our email marketing application simply grabs your email’s subject line and creates a tiny URL using bit.ly to share a copy of your email to your social media world. We have also integrated the Forward-To-A-Friend functionality in the Social Sharing center, making it easier to send your email to another inbox, although that is so last year.
So now that you’ve done the work to create your campaign you can leverage it to another audience with the click of a button. Easy right?
Awesome. How easy is it?
Super, duper easy. If you are coding your emails by hand, you’ll simply include the following tags where you want a share prompt. If your using the editor, simply click Custom Fields and you can insert either a text link or share image automatically.
%%socialshare-icon%% will give you this: 
%%socialshare-link%% will give you this: Share this
Below you will find a screen shot of what the Social Sharing landing page looks like once the “Share This” link or image is clicked.
So, can I tell how often it was shared?
Of course! When you log into your Reports area, you will see a Share Statistics tab. Every time someone shares with a specific network, that number will be displayed in the reports, broken down by network.
What else should I know?
We started with the most popular social networks to share to, but may add more down the road depending on user feedback (so send us your feedback!).