Email previews also available on the latest Apple clients!

More and more mail clients, webmails and mobile devices on the list of those on which you can view your emails preview, directly within the Marketing Cloud interface, without changing applications and in a matter of seconds.

email previewThe latest additions include:

  • iPhone 12 iOS15
  • iPhone 12 Pro Max iOS15
  • iPhone 13 iOS15
  • iPhone 13 (Dark Mode) iOS15
  • iPhone 13 Pro Max iOS15

So there’s no need to send tests to check how your recipients will see your email communications, each with their own email client, desktop or mobile, or webmail, for the different operating systems. Everything extremely simple and with considerable time savings in creating your campaigns.

You will find the feature already active on the platform with an interesting number of free previews. For customised plans, please contact your contact person in Contactlab.

 

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We have simplified the management of unsubscription systems – Flow API v.2.27.0-200 & UI v.2.44.0 Release

From January, 20th, 2022 a new version of Flow, the Marketing Cloud feature that allows you to design your customer journeys and activate marketing communication campaigns with content, channels and timing tailored to each individual contact, will be available. The release is planned from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm CET.

What can you do with this release?

You can select which subscription system should record the unsubscription event in case one of your contacts submits the request, and you can select it during the configuration of the email delivery within the automation.

Introducing this functionality is extremely useful when your organisation operates different systems or if there are multiple brands, which is not so uncommon.

It opens up the possibility to not only exclude a contact from the journey at the right time, but to associate the removal with the correct subscription and not, for example, the first one it finds in a completely arbitrary way.

And it doesn’t end there. You can select either a single subscription or several and activate them in combination.

 

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What does this mean?

Having the option to choose which subscription system to check in the journey allows you to collect more accurate data for up-to-date communications, greater compliance to all regulations and the certainty that your contacts will not receive messages they do not wish to spend time on. For more information, our experts are always at your disposal.

 

 

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Tracking link in your email becomes easier – Plan Release UI v.1.41.0 & API v.1.36.1-2264

From December, 1st, 2021, a new version of the platform segmentation functionality will be available.
The release is scheduled between 2:30 pm and 3:00 pm CET.

What can you do with this release?

You can add Google Analytics parameters to the links in your emails while you are creating a delivery starting from audience selection, directly in the content building wizard.

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What it means

Simplicity in managing your campaigns and saving time. An intuitive and comprehensive UI, with the functions you need right where you need them, allows you to get the most out of your marketing cloud platform and your mailings.

Thanks to the ability to configure defaults and set specific values for each single links, you have the opportunity to understand what your audiences are most interested in and provide customised journeys for them, right from that click.

 

 

 

 

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LIVE the new single customer view UI!

We can’t reveal everything, so to find out about the many new features contact us or enter the platform and start browsing. It will be easier than you can imagine. However, we would like to give you a sneak peek, because this is a great piece of work that we have carried out as part of the – always open – project to improve your user experience. Yes, because offering you tools that are fast, intuitive, easy to use and at the same time rich and with every response to your needs, is fundamental for us.

The impetus behind this lies in the fact that, with the collection and tracking of your customers’ data and behavior, and with the multiple points of contact and opportunities for communication, you find yourself with a truly vast amount of information. But not all of it is equally useful to your business. That’s why we think you need a marketing platform that can get you to what you’re looking for as quickly as possible, in the best possible way and in just a few steps.

Some news

Reorganisation and simplification of the contact database

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From cards with all the information available – but not always necessary and often too much for your goals – to structured and organised profiles, where the really important data is immediately displayed. An optimisation of the header, an area with a clean design, which always remains visible even when you scroll the page. Maximum contextualisation to always remind you where you are and the information you need for your activities. Information spread over several tabs, immediately accessible.

 

New table navigation and filters

Dynamic tables where you can select the columns to be displayed and scroll through them, always keeping the email as a fixed point. Opportunity to sort rows by any visible field. A simplified contact search function and a new customer creation tab.

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New smart components

The interface has been enriched with components aimed at improving the use of content both on the desktop and on mobile, with navigation further optimised for the tablet. A date and time selection mode, where it is possible to quickly indicate the period concerned by clicking on a mask that opens with the various options.

In addition, a secure interface that chooses illustrations to increase the protection of operations. The possibility of making irreparable mistakes, such as deleting a contact, is reduced, with the support of messages accompanied by clear, self-explanatory images that help avoid non-reversible actions.

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Drill down into individual events

No more endless, long and scattered lists of events. From a vertical timeline to a heatmap where the events in the database are grouped into 5 categories that can be easily viewed on the screen. A set of events that can be consulted in detail by clicking on the box of interest. Applying an automatic filter on the selected category opens a complete drill-down. Possibility of creating new events in a data entry form with revised and lighter graphics to make the operation quick and safe.

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Concluding

We have a lot more in the pipeline, so send us your feedback and requests through the Contactlab experts you are in contact with. Follow us and together we will live user experiences at the cutting edge.

 

 

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Create your targets based on your surveys – Plan UI v.1.40.0 & API v.1.36.1-2241 Release

From October, 24th, 2021 a new version of the platform segmentation functionality will be available
The release is planned from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm CEST.

What can you do with this release?

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The fields you can use to create and refine your audiences have been expanded. This release introduces a new rule for segmenting on the basis of the data you obtain from surveys to your contacts, whether they are customers or prospects.

You can send surveys, publish them on your ecommerce or even collect the thoughts of your customers directly in store, maybe with the support of one of your salespeople or through totems, and thanks to a few simple questions about the quality of the relationship with the brand or the satisfaction of the service, you are able to direct your marketing actions and improve the customer experience, increasing engagement, the return on investment and your revenue.

You can listen to your customers and on the basis of their ratings summarised in KPIs, design customer journeys or trigger campaigns.

For example, you can thank them for providing you with feedbacks and basing on the Completed Survey data, send them a discount coupon as soon as they submit their answers. Or you may decide to design an automation that takes into account one or more of the data captured in the responses.

What it means

First of all, a demonstration of great attention towards customers. Secondly, a further improvement of the customer experience. Not only personal and behavioral data to create your targets, but also their ideas and thoughts translated into actionable data. Start with your customers to personalise your relationship with them and make it last.

 

 

 

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Your html templates at the click of a button – Send Email Designer UI v.1.5.0 Release

From October, 14th, 2021 a new version of Email Designer, the drag & drop email editor in Send and the Marketing Cloud, will be available.
The release is scheduled from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm CEST.

What can you do with this release?

You can easily download the HTML of your email templates and share it with whoever you want! How? Wherever you are on the platform, you can save the document to your PC in a few simple steps.

Option 1: go to the gallery of your templates and move your mouse over the one you want to use to find the new Download button. By clicking it, you can save it directly to the default location on your PC. The name of the downloaded file is by default the name of the template with the date and time of the last saving. The downloaded version is the one that corresponds to the last save, even if the template is being edited: any unsaved changes do not appear in the downloaded html.

 

Option 1

Option 2: If you go to the Email Designer and open the template you want, you will find the option to download the template in the top right of the editing window. The downloaded version is the one that is currently displayed, including any changes you have made since the last save.

 

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Option 3: You can also choose to download html from the delivery creation wizard. In this case, when you select the template that you want to use in your delivery from the Email Designer gallery, you will find the new Download HTML button in the editing window, next to the Export HTML button, which allows you to download the html.

 

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What it means

With a simple click on the new button, you can immediately download the html of your email content. Contactlab’s commitment to improving and optimising your user experience continues.

 

 

 

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Email editor: more functionality and improved usability

The month of August has brought us interesting news for our email editor. New features that enhance Email Designer and make it more and more the ideal tool for the creation of your email marketing campaigns.

What can you do with these releases?

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You can now hide the side bar that offers all the tools you need to design and edit your template. Especially when you are working on smaller screens or on html with larger widths, it is now possible to increase the visible area for a better editing experience.
 

 

Social Icons

Now including TikTok, Whatsapp and Tripadvisor. More possibilities to connect with your contacts in a few quick steps on all the communication channels they use.

 

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What does it mean?

  • Enhance your experience as a Marketing Cloud user.
  • Find all available features without missing any.
  • Save time and focus on activities of greater value to your business.
  • Stay in touch with your customers on all channels, including social, that they use on a daily basis.
  • Leverage all possible modes of interaction to maximise your sales.

 

 

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Remove contacts from your journey at the right time! – Flow UI release v.2.41.0 & API v.2.26.1-121

Keep high the quality of the experiences you give your contacts, remove them from the journey they are in when they no longer respond to the conditions assumed or have reached the objective you set.

From September 2nd, 2021, a new version of the marketing automation is available.
The release is planned between 2:30 pm and 3:00 pm CEST.

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Not only when an event occurs such as the opening of an email or the conclusion of a purchase: you can now choose to have a contact exit a customised automation even when one or more demographic data changes, choosing the or or and operator according to your needs.

Further enhance their experience with your brand by preventing them from continuing to receive communications and attention on topics that have become of little interest or not entirely relevant.

What it means

Imagine the customers in your store who have a points card. If you design customer journeys for each level of loyalty, when one of them crosses the threshold and becomes a VIP customer, for example, they should leave their current journey and enter one built specifically for those who prove to be loyal customers with higher levels of spending.

Or think how easy it would be to comply with GDPR and privacy regulations by being able to modify your actions towards contacts in your automations as the status of individual consents changes.

The aim of this release is part of the great journey undertaken by Contactlab to offer a tool capable of managing each individual relationship automatically, simply and with savings in time and costs.

 

 

 

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See immediately if your plans were successful – Plan UI release v.1.38.0 & API v.1.36.1-2107

From July 6th, 2021, a new version of the platform segmentation functionality is available.
The release is planned between 2.30 pm and 3.00 pm CEST.

What can you do with this release?

It becomes even easier to manage your plans and make sure everything runs smoothly. When you create a segment and plan its use in an automation, you must be sure that the automation is in an active state, otherwise an error will occur and your journey will not be executed correctly at the time you decide.

To make this easier for you and to ensure that all your plans are successful, we have introduced a new field that appears when the plan is created and displays the status of the automation. You can now choose the automation to which you want to direct your segments. If you choose an automation that is not in active status, you will still be able to complete the creation of the schedule but you will find it among those in error status. It will therefore be necessary to bring the reference automation in active status before the creation of the planning or reopen the planning in error and assign another active automation.

 

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What it means

With the introduction of this new information, the management of your campaigns will be simpler and more immediate. By having the data available at the planning stage, you can save valuable time on the one hand by not having to navigate the platform in search of it, and you have the certainty that no errors will occur and everything will go smoothly. In this sense, this release is designed in the process of constant evolution and optimisation of the user experience when using the Marketing Cloud.

 

 

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Pre-configured journeys available in platform for customisable automations – Flow UI release v.2.40.0 & API v.2.26.1-109

From July 6th, 2021, a new version of the marketing automation is available.
The release is planned between 11:00 am and 11:30 am CEST.

What can you do with this release?

You can start from journeys already present in the platform that we have designed for you, to build your own automations. Make as many changes as you like and create new journeys to suit your campaigns and objectives.

Enter the marketing automation area of the platform and access the new Preset section.

 

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You will find four different examples to choose from. Select the automation you want and by clicking the clone button, you will find it immediately available in the Drafts for editing. Open it and start working on it to make it suitable for your target group.

 

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The pre-configured customer journeys you can access are:

  • Recall on a very popular product in a short period to address those of your contacts who repeatedly visit the same product or service on your ecommerce site but do not complete a purchase.
  • Completed order and post purchase survey to thank your customers and ask for their opinion on the product they bought, on their shopping experience, on particular preferences and thus collect information for a personalised follow-up.
  • Abandoned Cart to remind your contacts of the item left in their shopping cart and to keep them interested. Making the most of the moment is important, not letting too much time pass is essential for the purchase to be concluded.
  • Welcome them, perhaps with some further guidance or discount coupons, following their subscription to your newsletter.

What it means

By providing pre-configured templates from which to start, you can save time in the initial design of your flows, free up resources for other valuable activities and reduce the possibility of errors that could impact the operation of the whole route.

 

 

 

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