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Constant Contact html email site

Apr 25, 2012 4:11 AM

Anyone had any experience with http://www.constantcontact.com ?

 

My problem is this:

 

I create about 5 or 6 html emailers a month for a client and ALL images are stored in individual folders on their server because they are named slice_1, slice_2, slice_3 etc. Plus its easier to manage should they have the necessity to change a slice which contains a price or something which is easily amended.

 

I have another similar client who use constantcontact.com. It appears that in constantcontact you can't create folders to store your images???.......they just give you a single image library. Obviously the naming convention slice_1, slice_2 etc won't work as presumably the old image will be overwritten if I upload another one with the same name.

 

Anyone else had this issue. I don't want to have to give each image an individual name because it will be a nightmare to manage. I really need the facility to contain different html email images in seperate folders. Maybe there is an option in constantcontact but I'm not seeing it?

 

Thanks

 

Oz

 

 

P.S. I guess the other option would be to house the folder/images on the clients web server and just send the html through constantcontact. Its my clients choice of html emailer handler so I can't switch to an alternative.

508 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: Sudarshan Thiagarajan, Apr 25, 2012 9:39 AM
 
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  • Sudarshan Thiagarajan
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    1. Sudarshan Thiagarajan,
    Apr 25, 2012 5:29 AM   in reply to osgood_
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    At present, there are no 'folders' in ConstantContact. This is a most-requested-for feature and they're planning to roll it out this year.

     

    You can read the official 'word' here: http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Email-Marketing-Product-Board/ Is-there-a-way-to-create-folders-for-email-campaigns/m-p/52223

     
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  • Jim Carpenter
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    Apr 25, 2012 5:30 AM   in reply to osgood_
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    All images I use in my newsletters are stored on my webserver. I just put them in with a full path url <img src=www.mydomail.com/newsletter/2012/may-2012/images/myimage.jpg width="600" height="124" alt="my image"  />

     

    You will need access to the webserver.

     

    I store everything in the newsletter folder as I am a real stickler for directory structure. It works and I send out about 3,000 newsletters a month.

     

    Jim

     
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    Apr 25, 2012 7:38 AM   in reply to Sudarshan Thiagarajan
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    Sudarshan Thiagarajan wrote:

     

    At present, there are no 'folders' in ConstantContact. This is a most-requested-for feature and they're planning to roll it out this year.

     

    You can read the official 'word' here: http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Email-Marketing-Product-Board/ Is-there-a-way-to-create-folders-for-email-campaigns/m-p/52223

     

    Ok thanks for the info -  that's what I thought after looking around........that's a massive, massive bloop on their part as its a prerequisite of organizing files...ouch!

     

    I'll also read the link you supplied.

     
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    Apr 25, 2012 7:44 AM   in reply to Jim Carpenter
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    Jim Carpenter wrote:

     

    All images I use in my newsletters are stored on my webserver. I just put them in with a full path url <img src=www.mydomail.com/newsletter/2012/may-2012/images/myimage.jpg width="600" height="124" alt="my image"  />

     

    You will need access to the webserver.

     

    I store everything in the newsletter folder as I am a real stickler for directory structure. It works and I send out about 3,000 newsletters a month.

     

    Jim

     

    Jim, yes I could do that but prefer not to clog up my server with client images. I could always buy some dedicated server space for the client. Its no big deal just makes things a little more complex than it should do when trying to explain issues to the client.

     

    I agree, I like to organise my html emails so they are in their own folder. Don't want to go raking around 100's of loose images just to find what belongs to what........that would be a slow process.

     
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  • Sudarshan Thiagarajan
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    Apr 25, 2012 9:28 AM   in reply to osgood_
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    You could probably even try MailChimp - very reliable service. Their workflow management is lot simpler and very well organized.

     
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    Apr 25, 2012 9:36 AM   in reply to Sudarshan Thiagarajan
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    Sudarshan Thiagarajan wrote:

     

    You could probably even try MailChimp - very reliable service. Their workflow management is lot simpler and very well organized.

     

    Yup, I had a look at Mail Chimp a few months back. Not sure I found it less confusing than Constant Contact to be honest but that's most probably because I wasn't seriously investigating it at the time, so gave up. I think I will need to stick with Constant Contact because the client is familar with how that works so trying to get them to investigate an alternative is not likely to happen.

     
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  • Sudarshan Thiagarajan
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    Apr 25, 2012 9:39 AM   in reply to osgood_
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    Ah, I get it!

     

    But then, just to let you know - I've transitioned about 6 clients in the past 1 year from ConstantContact to MailChimp. I briefed them about the differences and let them research internally and take a call. And so far, no complaints.

     
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