Constant Contact is an online contact management service with options to follow-up with your contacts via an email newsletter, promotion, event invitation, or to send them online surveys - an easy way to connect with your possible (or existing) customers and find out what you could do to improve their experience with your company.
Some of Constant Contact's main features:
- Email Personalization option (you can define what name/address/email to use for sending the emails as it is mandatory to include in each email your complete address - CAN SPAM act - email has to be verified before using it through Constant Contact)
- Option to Preview emails and send test emails to a designated address
- Spell check (12 languages) and anti-spam check (based on spam rules)
- Option to schedule the delivery of the email (send immediatelly, or set up to send at specific dates/times)
- Possibility to choose from over 200 email newsletter templates
- Option to use your own HTML code for the email template
- It generates automatically text versions (you don't have to define a HTML and a text version, only HTML will suffice)
- You can integrate PayPal click-to-buy option (uses the PayPal api)
- Option to set up Amazon ASIN promotion
- Possibility to import a list of contacts (automatic from a .csv file, or manual copy/paste list of emails - email addresses that you add are not checked for validity by sending a confirmation email)
- Microsoft® Outlook® & Outlook Express® Quick Import plug-in
- Insert visitor sign-up form option (only one sign-up form per account, which is a problem if you have more than one website)
- Create up to 15 custom fields with information saved from contacts
- Bounces are processed automatically
- List can be segmented based on filters
- "Do not mail" list with users that will never receive an email again from you
- Host up to 5 images free (premium image hosting is paid separately)
- Open & Click tracking
- Sent email archive (hosted by Constant Contact)
- SafeUnsubscribe management with Unsubscribe comments box
- "Send page to a friend" link, "Refer a Friend" banner
- Free phone, email, chat support
Pricing information (contact their online website for updated pricing):
| Email List Size |
Monthly Fee |
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Email Marketing |
Survey | Bundle | ||||
| 0-500 | $15 | $15 | $22.50 | |||
| 501-2,500 | $30 | $30 | $45.00 | |||
| 2,501-5,000 | $50 | $50 | $75.00 | |||
| 5,001-10,000 | $75 | $75 | $112.50 | |||
| 10,001-25,000 | $150 | $150 | $225.00 | |||
| 25,000+ | Call for Special Pricing | |||||
| Prepay Options | Standard Prepay | Nonprofit/Education | ||
| 6 Month Prepay | 10% Discount | 20% Discount | ||
| 12 Month Prepay | 15% Discount | 30% Discount |
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More information: ConstantContact.com