Blog Module ICE - Email Marketing

We are trying to insert the blog module in an ICE powered email marketing template.
I had to remove the ICE call from the module because it was causing the module to spit out all blog posts instead of just the single latest or the last 3 posts.
Has anyone mastered inserting blog posts

Hi Liam
This screencast better explains. Basically, I have hand coded in to show 3 blog posts. But ICE only gives the option to display ALL blog posts. How do show 1, 2, or 3 blog posts by calling up ICE ?
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How can I get the Email Campaigns Blog module to display correctly in Outlook?

I'm having a bit of trouble with this. I've used the email campaign builder to build a campaign; added the blog module to it and applied a custom template to it so that it should display correctly, but outlook has other ideas...
Here's what it should look like:
and here's what outlook gives me:
this is built within tables and the tables and cells all have set widths of 520px, yet the blog module seems to ignore this and somehow sit outside of them, breaking the template (BUT only in outlook).
Is this a problem anyone has experienced before?
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Thanks
Sam

HTML Email Campaign design is still a very tricky beast. There are no standards like the makers of the major web browsers have been pushing for and adhering to over the years for web designers so since there are any number of email clients like your native mobile phone email clients, desktop clients like Outlook and Thunderbird and then web-based email clients like Gmail, Yahoo!, etc. there's no standard to display HTML in emails so each client does things differently.
Outlook and Gmail in the past have been the worst offenders. Fixing it is nothing simple. You need to go into your markup and make sure every table has a width set both in the inline STYLE attribute as well as the WIDTH attribute on the TABLE element.
Outlook 2007 and 2010 are both horrendous at displaying HTML uniformly- as it relies on the Microsoft Word rendering engine. Most of the time for my clients I tell them that if the end user can read and click links in Outlook then it's a win-- they're used to seeing horrible formatted emails no doubt. But, if you find most of your email list is using Outlook (corporate/enterprise customers) then you should keep tweaking it.
It's impossible to tell from screenshots what the issue is-- it's likely a markup issue if there is one.

What is the process to RETAIN all client history including email marketing history, blogs, events et

We have a client that we imported their existing website into the BC platform about a year ago. They have now contracted with us to build them a new site and we will be using one of the templates we have from BC Gurus. There is already a lot of email marketing history, blog history, orders, customer contact record activity/history within their current active BC site from this past year.
We contacted BC chat to find out if there is a process to support the retention or migration of all of the client history that is already within their existing BC site. Their basic response was we have to start with a new create site - and we would be able to do multiple contact record exports/imports(very disappointed we cannot do one mass export to re-import!!) to get "most" of their contact record data imported in the new site (also very disappointed that we will lose some of the contact activity history). ** BUT they said all of the other history such as email marketing, blogs, events, orders etc are not able to be migrated or exported/imported at all, so would be completely lost.
We need support for a workaround process. Logically there should be a way to prevent loss of history as we are staying on the platform. Is it an option to bring the new template site elements into their existing site and associate it with their existing blogs etc - OR???

Hi Ruth,
The recommended option to retain all your data history is to apply the template to the existing site. Once you create a completely new site there's no way to have all that history seamlessly carry over. You can import but that will only meet part of your requirements.
So basically I would suggest keeping the existing site and somehow getting the new template files and apply to the original site in this case.
Kind regards,
-Sidney

Questions regarding Email Marketing and Campaign Management

Hi,
i am facing some problem is using Email marketing and campaign module of CRM On Demand. Need help in solving few queries.
1. I am trying to create the email template and save it for future purpose. I am using fields data column to make email personalize automatically. Problem i am facing is when ever i am opening this template for using it again for another campaign these dynamix fields doesn't come. ONlyu the static text xomes.
2. Second, how can i get the status of email delivered, read etc.
3. And in last, what ever email i am sending, how can i attach them with the receipient (Contact) record.
Nisman

1 - ?
2 - email receipt status is automatic by Email marketing. You should see it in the Campaign Detail - section Recipients
3 - Campaign Detail - section Recipients > You can insert Contacts manually or via Data Import or via Segmentation Wizard.
Good Luck
Antonio
BExpert, Brazil
Siebel & OBI Consulting and training

Trouble with editing BC Blog Modules in Dreamweaver

I was wondering how to customize blog modules in dreamweaver. In dreamweaver when I add the "list of post module" into a template, then click on data, I do not see the tags to insert archive blog posts, or older and newer posts tags. How can I add and edit those tags. In the end I am looking to get a blog that looks like this. Also, is there not a way to edit the blog post detail in Dreamweaver? In BC I see that it is possible to add an image in the older and newer blog post tags. How do I do that? Thanks for all the help!

SummumBonum000 wrote:
Is WordPress a better option for creating a custom blog?
It depends on what exactly do you mean by "Custom". If you mean to say that you want to redesign the layout like Adobe has done than yes WP is definitely the best. Adobe's blog is here: <http://blogs.adobe.com/> Yahoo India is here: <http://in.news.yahoo.com/blogs/> Main Yahoo is here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/. Other major organization is NYTimes. Other Yahoo blog: <http://ycorpblog.com/>
I think WP has won the battle for CMS market and all they now need to do is to monetize their market position. Can you imagine if users start paying $20 a year what they can make? They have about 80 million users and so you can do the math!!

Can you set up a subscription service so blog posts are emailed to subscribers

I would like to allow people to sign up to receive my blog posts via email (ie like how they can in blogger etc) but can't see anywhere to do this?
Is it possible?
Thanks

I guess it depends who your targets are - do they have any interest in modern forms of social media or is email even a push for them.
To be able to add a blog post about an important update/thing to do and have it emailed out provides both an easy online place for people to look back over the information as well as the immediate provision of information via email, without me having to both email the people the information and also provide an online back up of that information.
In this case it is creating double the work.
I know I check my email several times a day (OK more than that, lol), social media - facebook - a couple of times a week (so I miss a lot), twitter - nearly never.
How have I found out about most things (personally) in the last two years? - via word of mouth or email.
The market I am working with I would say mostly word of mouth (or frustratingly not enough of that) so am hoping to provide the information via the website and encourage people to check the website more regularly but also know when there is important updates available.
I don't want to have to email out the updates and also blog them for posterity.
It doesn't appear every other blogging software company agrees with you as a subscription service is always available and well utilised.
(oh and I will say I don't think business catalyst was the perfect platform for this site, but I inherited it).

Emails from Constant Contact (or other Email marketing systems) not reaching BC Email Accounts

I have a few accounts that use Constant Contact to send out emails. Starting around August 5th, all accounts that receive email through the BC system have had these emails blocked coming form the Constant Contact serrvers. So email coming from Constant Contact is not reaching email accounts that are setup as hosting accounts through BC. For 4 years this all worked fine, but now all of a sudden it has stopped. BC or OpenSRS have not been able to resolve this issue It is very apparent that OpenSRS is blocking Constant Contact emails for no apparent reason. This also seems to coincide with the Blog posting from BC in early August regarding the DNS server attack
Is there anyone else that uses Constant Contact (or possibly other email marketing services) experiencing the same issue? If you fall into this category you may want to check into this.

Hello tomfulks,
This community is meant mainly for peer-to-peer support. If you need to provide information to a Verizon representative, you should contact customer service directly.

How do I enable bold/italic text formatting in blog module on website?

For some reason I can't figure out how to enable more text formatting options on our blog. We used the blog module on a muse template. I customized the module to apply fonts we used on our website. The main text on the blog is Lato.
Link to blog: Coupar Consulting
When we go in to write a post you can use the bold/italics options and it shows up in the edit window as shown in the screenshot below:
The font is not correct, but because I set the font in the module to use Lato it does show as lato when you publish, see preview below (notice no bold or italic text):
What am I missing??
Thanks in advance!!

Use your browsers console and inspect tool. This stuff becomes very easy.
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var,optgroup
font-style: inherit;
font-weight: inherit;
Line 34 ish in - http://www.couparconsulting.com/css/site_global.css?3869595648
This overides the font bold style on strong.

No longer able to edit images inside the blog module? Has BC removed this function?

When inserting images into a blog post I used to be able to resize images, add margins, etc. I tried to do this recently but those tools were no longer there. Is this no longer available? Below is a screenshot of what it used to look like.
Since there is no featured image for blog posts I've been inserting images into the first paragraph as a work around. Not being able to edit those images directly in the blog module is going to make that more difficult.
I've been able to resize the image through code, but this is not exactly user friendly for clients.

Hi Beth, Liam answered this for me on another post.
Go into site settings / beta features/ untick active beta feature untick "enable for everybody". That should do the trick.
Check this link to see the conversation I am having with liam as I think we are on the same page....or maybe you can help with my questions...
is it possible to truncate the blog so 2 paragraphs show up?
cheers,
d

Can you filter a custom report by postcode? I want to send an email marketing campaign to customers

Can you filter a custom report by postcode? I want to send an email marketing campaign to customers within a postcode range. How do you do this? Thanks.

Hey RP in Oz,
You can run a contacts report and select 'Default Address Type' as an 'Address Details Field' which will include the zip code a customer has inputted. You can then export the report, open it up in Excel (or similar) and filter based on the postcode. Once you have modified the list in excel, formatted it correctly and are satisfied, you can then import the report as a mailing list via E-Mail Marketing > Mailing Lists.

Firefox doesn't display text properly on pages created with email marketing tool (Constant Contact).

Pages that are built with Constant Contact email marketing application don't display correctly. Different sections of text, usually a paragraph or list group, are readable but "shaded out." This is happening on Mac and Windows platforms.
The pages are built using standard HTML tags and the problem doesn't appear with other browsers.

Can you post a link to one or more of such pages?
* "Clear the Cache": Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
* "Remove the Cookies" from sites that cause problems: Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] and [[Troubleshooting plugins]]

Interactive PDF / Email marketing

I have a 20 page newsletter that I'm sending out through an eblast. I have several paragraphs in the eblast summarizing exciting points in the newsletter. What I'm trying to do is where it says "read more on page 14" in the eblast, have a link that takes the viewer directly to page 20 instead of just opening the generic PDF. I'm also trying to make it so in the PDF version where it says "story continued on page 4" the reader can click that and it will take them to page 4 instead of having to scroll through the newsletter manually. Our newsletters are hosted on our website so we usually link to the website like: www.website.org/newsletters/fall2009 and the newsletter opens from there.
Does anyone know how to make this happen? I've never done it before and haven't worked with this type of PDF/email marketing so I'm at a loss. If you have any suggestions please send links to detailed instructions and be detailed so I can figure it out!

You will have to set up bookmarks and links to those bookmarks. Several folks should be around tomorrow who are good at this type of action, so please be patient.

Png or jpg not displaying in BC email marketing

I'm dropping both pngs and jpgs into BC's email marketing tool. For some reason, they display correctly in BC, but when I send a test email out to myself, the images do not display. Help!

Spaces and funny characters in file names on the web is basically something to NOT do.
A few browsers, coding solutions, API work, Email clients can all be effected by this and cause rendering issues. Just stick to the lower case, no spaces or character rule on file names.
Also avoid scaling the images in the editor - May look good and may come out in some email clients but some like Outlook will keep the image size as its natural size and emails will come out not as you expect because of this.

Is there a trick to publishing iWeb page html in email marketing campaigns?

I've searched around on this forum but haven't come across an answer. What I'd like to do is create a webpage in iWeb and use it with GoDaddy Express Email marketing. When I do it, it comes up all funky. I've tried it with Constant Contact, too, but no luck. Can this be done or do the iWeb html codes not jibe with other applications? I'd really love to use my own webpage design consistently through email marketing campaigns. Their templates are pretty ugly.
If someone knows any tricks, I'd love to learn them. If it's not doable, then go ahead and break the news to me.

KimberleeJo wrote:
I've searched around on this forum...
In case you haven't already seen this old thread...
_Emailing an iweb designed page_.

Email Marketing, Mail Merge, Segmentation wizard documentation

Hello folks,
Pls. anyone knows where I can get any documentation on all or any of the 3 subjects above ? I tried metalink unsucessfully...
Txs. for any hints.
Antonio

None of these need any configuration.
Email Marketing - Once you have your EMOD agreement signed with oracle, your sys admin will be able to set up individual Email marketing admins and from there you will be able to design your email campaigns
Mail Merge and Segmentation Wizard - this is a word/Excel document with Web services built in that will perform the functions. You can get it from the Metalink - you click on Knowledge and search for them.

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