Email Marketing Manager and Integrated Mailing Interface

[khaled]

Build a back office management system for handling targeted mass marketing email delivery.

Tool should allow for creation of email templates, mailing lists and merged scheduled emails.

[khaled]

See ticket #79 for more info.

[brent]

Comments from Brent on 062409

1. List builder should have <,>, filters
2. Once an email has been created we need a method to send a test message right away.
3. Need a method to upload emails as csv files (or something comparable)
4. Manage Tasks should probably be renamed to "Manage Broadcasts"
5. we need a method to either control the max number of emails sent to any email in a given time period or a method to dedupe our lists to allow the editor to manage the process. Both would be ideal but i would take either one for now.
6. We need to have an unsubscribe method that allows the users to select which of our newsletters they would like to unsubscribe from.... this page should not require a login.
7. can you create a template that matches the designs submitted by lila?

[brent]

8. Links from the email should be tracked in some way back to the email sent.... Might make sense to append an email ID# to the end of each link or something like that.

[faisal]

1. List builder should have <,>, filters

- done

2. Once an email has been created we need a method to send a test message right away.

- done

3. Need a method to upload emails as csv files (or something comparable)

- done - upload form in the mailinglist, need to generate static first before uploading to apply

4. Manage Tasks should probably be renamed to "Manage Broadcasts"

- done

5. we need a method to either control the max number of emails sent to any email in a given time period or a method to dedupe our lists to allow the editor to manage the process. Both would be ideal but i would take either one for now.

- not done, can be used by making sure the query wont duplicate till fix

6. We need to have an unsubscribe method that allows the users to select which of our newsletters they would like to unsubscribe from.... this page should not require a login.

- done, adding link /user/myaccount?unsubscribe={label:Hash} will login and popup subscribe form

7. can you create a template that matches the designs submitted by lila?

- done, Generic Template Added sample generic template on newsletter

8. Links from the email should be tracked in some way back to the email sent.... Might make sense to append an email ID# to the end of each link or something like that.

- done, added ?em

[faisal]

added ?em[newsletterID] for no.8

ready for QA except no.5

[brent]

comments:

3. Need a method to upload emails as csv files (or something comparable)

- done - upload form in the mailinglist, need to generate static first before uploading to apply

..... What about duplicate emails? is there some way to reject any contact uploaded with a dupe email?

6. We need to have an unsubscribe method that allows the users to select which of our newsletters they would like to unsubscribe from.... this page should not require a login.

- done, adding link /user/myaccount?unsubscribe={label:Hash} will login and popup subscribe form.
....can we use this rather than rely on emailbrains unsubscribe.... If not are unsubscribe precessed by emailbrain passed back to our system.

[brent]

Invocation code for banners

Banner:
http://advertising.healthguru.com/admin/zone-invocation.php?affiliateid=7&zoneid=94

Skyscraper:
http://advertising.healthguru.com/admin/zone-invocation.php?affiliateid=7&zoneid=95

[brent]

9. Invocation code for banners

Banner:
http://advertising.healthguru.com/admin/zone-invocation.php?affiliateid=7&zoneid=94

Skyscraper:
http://advertising.healthguru.com/admin/zone-invocation.php?affiliateid=7&zoneid=95

10. The email does not render properly in gmail. I'll be testing other popular email services shortly.

[faisal]

- Added AdZones? support in Generic Template
- Simple import of excel - added ignored list on import, also duplicate check when adding

- Still need to design the import from list that requires more stuff
- need more data to sync unsubscribe, if unsubscribe from emailbrain. code is ready

[brent]

Are we working on issue 10? Rendering the email so it is compatible with gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc....

[faisal]

issue 10 is template building, no php coding required. it can be fixed after template is done and using send test to test if it looks good or not.

[brent]

Sent email today with details about unsubscribe.

[faisal]

stored unsubscribes to a table as part of syncapi

[faisal]

i added the table base layout in Generic Template
some things that i think is not working on gmail are
-openx
-background
-negative margins to overlap images on corner(i made it not overlap on this one, removed the baker too

[brent]

We still need to sort out how to deliver ads in emails.... for some reason openx is not working.

[faisal]

Replying to brent:

We still need to sort out how to deliver ads in emails.... for some reason openx is not working.

- in Zone Properties there is a settings Zone Type, you should make this Email/Newsletters
then the invocation code is always <a> tag and <img> tag, but that will be added in the template, and newsletter variables will handle zone number