Turbocharge Your Community with Email Marketing

Posted by: irwan on Jul 16, 2010  

iContact

Email is most probably older than Internet but as with Internet, it is still highly relevant today. Now, there are a lot of tools  that might supersede email such as Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites that makes email look archaic. However, as old as it may seem, email is still a powerful communication tool. As an open source community software user, it will be even more useful.

JomSocial team has created a plugin that will help you to leverage the power of email. This plugin will synchronize your user's contacts with iContact, one of the popular email service providers. Now you can send automated welcome emails, scheduled emails based on days of subscription, and you can keep you members up to date with events and news. Plus, with iContact's special arrangement with major internet providers, you can expect 99% deliverability for all your emails. iContact has an excellent reporting tool to see how each email blast perform.

We have been using iContact for quite a long time and for all the while the experience has been great. iContact has proven itself to us and we think you will find it invaluable tool in creating social networking sites.

iContact Plugin is available to all JomSocial members. You can create a free trial account at iContact.com and you can try the service without any risk.

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Toyce Francis
Toyce
April 01, 2011
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Does this plugin pull in any standard and custom fields that we can use to segment the lists later? For example, can I include profile fields about member preferences like club events, lounge events, live music events... and if those items are checked, I can filter the litss by member preferences. And if so, would it update if the member updates their preferences? Or even simple filters by location? All users in New York state get targeted messages for example? This is intriguing... I just want to figure out if this will work or if I need custom work.
Thanks.
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Vorwaerts
Vorwaerts
July 28, 2010
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Sounds great, but what is the name or vendor of this commenting system that's in use here?
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Greg Hyer
Greg H
July 23, 2010
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Thanks for the plugin! It works as expected! Now I can segment my members in my iContact account from my main list without having to do an export. iContact's deliverability is awesome, the tools are great and the price is right (actually competitive and better). Definitely and Email Marketer's tool! So stay away Spammers!
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ben robertson
ben robertson
July 19, 2010
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Any chance of doing this for Aweber too? It's a much more affordable solution...
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Richard Dib
Richard Dib
July 19, 2010
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I have more than 70,000 users in Jomsocial and at the rate my user base is expanding, by year end I will have 200K ... it seems like iContact.com is way too expensive if you have over 10,000 users.
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irwan
irwan
July 19, 2010
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Richard, that's a big site. Would you mind telling me your url? I think we can feature it on our showcase page.
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