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I would like to do the following:
Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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What version of Outlook are you using?
You can use categories to assign contacts to different levels (A, B, C). Sending the e-mails to a category of people isn't that hard, but it would be hard to track which Category A person got a message 30 days ago versus 25 days ago versus 17 days ago, etc. Before we go too far with this, are you going to have consent from these prospects and buyers to send them e-mail every 30 days? Otherwise it sounds like a good way to get yourself blacklisted as a spammer; and that won't be good for business. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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I'm not too concerned with getting blacklisted because The email would go out
to less than 100 people. That being said, I don't understand why MS has not set up something like this. I understand that i could create Category A and then send them an email and put them on the same campaign. But that would defeat the purpose of creating letters in a particular order. Why can't MS incorporate this? There are a number of companies already doing this but i do not wish to buy their product because I'm not able to synch the info with my PDA. It is a simple process that they could build: Have a holding area for a campaign Then have a drop down menu in the Contact that you can pick which campaign you would like to start with that particular contact. There is a major need for this. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: What version of Outlook are you using? You can use categories to assign contacts to different levels (A, B, C). Sending the e-mails to a category of people isn't that hard, but it would be hard to track which Category A person got a message 30 days ago versus 25 days ago versus 17 days ago, etc. Before we go too far with this, are you going to have consent from these prospects and buyers to send them e-mail every 30 days? Otherwise it sounds like a good way to get yourself blacklisted as a spammer; and that won't be good for business. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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You can get blacklisted sending e-mail to 3 people. It just takes
enough of them to complain and report you to a spamlisting authority. MS hasn't set up anything like this because it's not a very common request and BECAUSE of the massive push-back against e-mail marketing the value of a feature like this is increasingly limited. That said... The easiest solution is to do your campaign mailings on specific dates instead of specific intervals. If you don't want to do it that way then you'd probably need to incorporate a custom field in which you enter (either manually or with custom code) the date of last mailing. Then you'd need to script the ability to read that field, calculate the delta and send the appropriate message at the appropriate time. Or you might check he http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.asp#massmail and see if somebody else has already written something you could use. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I'm not too concerned with getting blacklisted because The email would go out to less than 100 people. That being said, I don't understand why MS has not set up something like this. I understand that i could create Category A and then send them an email and put them on the same campaign. But that would defeat the purpose of creating letters in a particular order. Why can't MS incorporate this? There are a number of companies already doing this but i do not wish to buy their product because I'm not able to synch the info with my PDA. It is a simple process that they could build: Have a holding area for a campaign Then have a drop down menu in the Contact that you can pick which campaign you would like to start with that particular contact. There is a major need for this. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: What version of Outlook are you using? You can use categories to assign contacts to different levels (A, B, C). Sending the e-mails to a category of people isn't that hard, but it would be hard to track which Category A person got a message 30 days ago versus 25 days ago versus 17 days ago, etc. Before we go too far with this, are you going to have consent from these prospects and buyers to send them e-mail every 30 days? Otherwise it sounds like a good way to get yourself blacklisted as a spammer; and that won't be good for business. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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I forgot I am using outlook 2007.
And Yes i have permission to send these people emails. I am not a spammer. These are personal contacts. Yes I have been to slipstick and its not what I'm looking for. Question: Who could i contact directly to talk to about the implementation of this request? thank you. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: You can get blacklisted sending e-mail to 3 people. It just takes enough of them to complain and report you to a spamlisting authority. MS hasn't set up anything like this because it's not a very common request and BECAUSE of the massive push-back against e-mail marketing the value of a feature like this is increasingly limited. That said... The easiest solution is to do your campaign mailings on specific dates instead of specific intervals. If you don't want to do it that way then you'd probably need to incorporate a custom field in which you enter (either manually or with custom code) the date of last mailing. Then you'd need to script the ability to read that field, calculate the delta and send the appropriate message at the appropriate time. Or you might check he http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.asp#massmail and see if somebody else has already written something you could use. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I'm not too concerned with getting blacklisted because The email would go out to less than 100 people. That being said, I don't understand why MS has not set up something like this. I understand that i could create Category A and then send them an email and put them on the same campaign. But that would defeat the purpose of creating letters in a particular order. Why can't MS incorporate this? There are a number of companies already doing this but i do not wish to buy their product because I'm not able to synch the info with my PDA. It is a simple process that they could build: Have a holding area for a campaign Then have a drop down menu in the Contact that you can pick which campaign you would like to start with that particular contact. There is a major need for this. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: What version of Outlook are you using? You can use categories to assign contacts to different levels (A, B, C). Sending the e-mails to a category of people isn't that hard, but it would be hard to track which Category A person got a message 30 days ago versus 25 days ago versus 17 days ago, etc. Before we go too far with this, are you going to have consent from these prospects and buyers to send them e-mail every 30 days? Otherwise it sounds like a good way to get yourself blacklisted as a spammer; and that won't be good for business. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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I"m not a programmer but I am curious if you wanted to have an add on for MS
Outlook what programing language would you want to use? Thank You Again. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: You can get blacklisted sending e-mail to 3 people. It just takes enough of them to complain and report you to a spamlisting authority. MS hasn't set up anything like this because it's not a very common request and BECAUSE of the massive push-back against e-mail marketing the value of a feature like this is increasingly limited. That said... The easiest solution is to do your campaign mailings on specific dates instead of specific intervals. If you don't want to do it that way then you'd probably need to incorporate a custom field in which you enter (either manually or with custom code) the date of last mailing. Then you'd need to script the ability to read that field, calculate the delta and send the appropriate message at the appropriate time. Or you might check he http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.asp#massmail and see if somebody else has already written something you could use. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I'm not too concerned with getting blacklisted because The email would go out to less than 100 people. That being said, I don't understand why MS has not set up something like this. I understand that i could create Category A and then send them an email and put them on the same campaign. But that would defeat the purpose of creating letters in a particular order. Why can't MS incorporate this? There are a number of companies already doing this but i do not wish to buy their product because I'm not able to synch the info with my PDA. It is a simple process that they could build: Have a holding area for a campaign Then have a drop down menu in the Contact that you can pick which campaign you would like to start with that particular contact. There is a major need for this. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: What version of Outlook are you using? You can use categories to assign contacts to different levels (A, B, C). Sending the e-mails to a category of people isn't that hard, but it would be hard to track which Category A person got a message 30 days ago versus 25 days ago versus 17 days ago, etc. Before we go too far with this, are you going to have consent from these prospects and buyers to send them e-mail every 30 days? Otherwise it sounds like a good way to get yourself blacklisted as a spammer; and that won't be good for business. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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Well, there may not be anybody you can talk to DIRECTLY about it - but
you can go to Connect (https://connect.microsoft.com/default.aspx) and submit it as a request. If they like the idea somebody might contact you or they might just run with it on their own. You might also take a look at Business Contact Manager (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/co...674171033.aspx) and see if it will do what you want. (or can be more easily customized to do it) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I forgot I am using outlook 2007. And Yes i have permission to send these people emails. I am not a spammer. These are personal contacts. Yes I have been to slipstick and its not what I'm looking for. Question: Who could i contact directly to talk to about the implementation of this request? thank you. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: You can get blacklisted sending e-mail to 3 people. It just takes enough of them to complain and report you to a spamlisting authority. MS hasn't set up anything like this because it's not a very common request and BECAUSE of the massive push-back against e-mail marketing the value of a feature like this is increasingly limited. That said... The easiest solution is to do your campaign mailings on specific dates instead of specific intervals. If you don't want to do it that way then you'd probably need to incorporate a custom field in which you enter (either manually or with custom code) the date of last mailing. Then you'd need to script the ability to read that field, calculate the delta and send the appropriate message at the appropriate time. Or you might check he http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.asp#massmail and see if somebody else has already written something you could use. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I'm not too concerned with getting blacklisted because The email would go out to less than 100 people. That being said, I don't understand why MS has not set up something like this. I understand that i could create Category A and then send them an email and put them on the same campaign. But that would defeat the purpose of creating letters in a particular order. Why can't MS incorporate this? There are a number of companies already doing this but i do not wish to buy their product because I'm not able to synch the info with my PDA. It is a simple process that they could build: Have a holding area for a campaign Then have a drop down menu in the Contact that you can pick which campaign you would like to start with that particular contact. There is a major need for this. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: What version of Outlook are you using? You can use categories to assign contacts to different levels (A, B, C). Sending the e-mails to a category of people isn't that hard, but it would be hard to track which Category A person got a message 30 days ago versus 25 days ago versus 17 days ago, etc. Before we go too far with this, are you going to have consent from these prospects and buyers to send them e-mail every 30 days? Otherwise it sounds like a good way to get yourself blacklisted as a spammer; and that won't be good for business. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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I'm not a programmer either but if I were going to attempt it I guess
I'd use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Some of the good Outlook programmers around here (like Ken Slovak or Sue Mosher) might have better ideas. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I"m not a programmer but I am curious if you wanted to have an add on for MS Outlook what programing language would you want to use? Thank You Again. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: You can get blacklisted sending e-mail to 3 people. It just takes enough of them to complain and report you to a spamlisting authority. MS hasn't set up anything like this because it's not a very common request and BECAUSE of the massive push-back against e-mail marketing the value of a feature like this is increasingly limited. That said... The easiest solution is to do your campaign mailings on specific dates instead of specific intervals. If you don't want to do it that way then you'd probably need to incorporate a custom field in which you enter (either manually or with custom code) the date of last mailing. Then you'd need to script the ability to read that field, calculate the delta and send the appropriate message at the appropriate time. Or you might check he http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.asp#massmail and see if somebody else has already written something you could use. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I'm not too concerned with getting blacklisted because The email would go out to less than 100 people. That being said, I don't understand why MS has not set up something like this. I understand that i could create Category A and then send them an email and put them on the same campaign. But that would defeat the purpose of creating letters in a particular order. Why can't MS incorporate this? There are a number of companies already doing this but i do not wish to buy their product because I'm not able to synch the info with my PDA. It is a simple process that they could build: Have a holding area for a campaign Then have a drop down menu in the Contact that you can pick which campaign you would like to start with that particular contact. There is a major need for this. "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: What version of Outlook are you using? You can use categories to assign contacts to different levels (A, B, C). Sending the e-mails to a category of people isn't that hard, but it would be hard to track which Category A person got a message 30 days ago versus 25 days ago versus 17 days ago, etc. Before we go too far with this, are you going to have consent from these prospects and buyers to send them e-mail every 30 days? Otherwise it sounds like a good way to get yourself blacklisted as a spammer; and that won't be good for business. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Davedug" wrote in message : I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. |
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"Davedug" wrote in message
... That being said, I don't understand why MS has not set up something like this. I think the it's because that unless you're using the BCM additon to Outlook, it's not really a business contact manager. I don't know anything about BCM's abilities, but ask your question in microsoft.public.outlook.bcm and see if that feature has the ability you want. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Davedug wrote:
I would like to do the following: Create Campaign A, B & C. I meet Buyer X, put them in contacts, assign campaign A. So Now Buyer X will receive emails every 30 days from the time I entered them into contacts. Somewhere down the line I want to change that campaign from A to B. So on and So on. The campaigns, for example, are for a A. potential buyer, B. buyer, C. buyer under contract. Now everyday that I open outlook each buyer will be at a different email in the system and will be on diferent days. This is also a drip campaign. For One person. Not for a group and Its not a one time use. Its on going. Thanks you. Please try our email scheduler (http://www.repeatmail.com) which will allow you to send multiple individual emails, html or plain text, with attachments, either as a one-off or regularly at a specified time and interval. The recipients list can be drawn from your Outlook Contacts, a plain text file,database or spreadsheet. It also allows you to specify the interval between each send so as to avoid triggering any spam limits on your account. Outlook is not needed to send. Your machine needs to be switched on, but you don't even have to be logged in. Works with Win 98/XP/2003/Vista I would create 3 campaign projects, then, e.g Campaign A's recipients is drawn from your Outlook contacts that have Category "Campaign A", Campaign B's recipients is drawn from your Outlook contacts that have Category "Campaign B", etc. -- John Blessing http://www.LbeHelpdesk.com - Help Desk software http://www.room-booking-software.com - Schedule rooms & equipment bookings http://www.lbetoolbox.com - De-Duplicates MS Outlook http://www.repeatmail.com - schedule mass individual emails |
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