Queued Emails

[Dan Cole]

Here are those Anniversary Advanced Schedulers as promised. You should be able to drop them into your modules/outgoing directory and they will just work as expected. If you have any issues please don't hesitate to let me know.

Scheduler - Anniversary Advanced.zip

Dan

[Dan Cole]

Thought it was time for another update but spring is in full bloom now and will keep me from staying focused on my Queued Emails until the fall.

I haven't received any feedback or suggestions on how to handle the Add and End Special Schedulers but I'm thinking that I might set up some sort of Scheduler for targeted emails. I think it would be useful to target a particular brand and customers who have ordered those branded products in the past. In addition perhaps we could also target those who have ordered a particular product or group of products, with specials for those brands or products. I'm still chewing on this a bit but I think that would make for a useful scheduler or two.

In the meantime I've circuled back to the new product scheduler to see what I could do to improve it. I was not happy with it initially so I took another run at it. It needs some further testing but it does seem to work so I've moved it to my live site to see if it survives there. Here is what I came up with for now.

New-Product-Template_002.jpg

Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

Dan

[artfulweb]

Thought it was time for another update but spring is in full bloom now and will keep me from staying focused on my Queued Emails until the fall.

I haven't received any feedback or suggestions on how to handle the Add and End Special Schedulers but I'm thinking that I might set up some sort of Scheduler for targeted emails. I think it would be useful to target a particular brand and customers who have ordered those branded products in the past. In addition perhaps we could also target those who have ordered a particular product or group of products, with specials for those brands or products. I'm still chewing on this a bit but I think that would make for a useful scheduler or two.

In the meantime I've circuled back to the new product scheduler to see what I could do to improve it. I was not happy with it initially so I took another run at it. It needs some further testing but it does seem to work so I've moved it to my live site to see if it survives there. Here is what I came up with for now.


New-Product-Template_002.jpg


Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

Dan

Hi Dan,
I love the idea concerning brands customers have purchased and new products as well. I do have a question : how to you add the logo and footers to the queued email templates? Yours look so professional whereas the standard queued emails are not really personalized..

Thanks for all your efforts!

[Dan Cole]

@artfulweb

I love the idea concerning brands customers have purchased and new products as well. I do have a question : how to you add the logo and footers to the queued email templates? Yours look so professional whereas the standard queued emails are not really personalized.

The system is very flexible and all you need to do is add the html code to the particular template you want to change. To get you started here is one of my templates....obviously you'll need to add the appropriate images but hopefully this will get you started and you can see how I did it. One thing to keep in mind is that spaces are interpreted as line breaks ie <br> so if you have trouble spacing things the way you want, remove the extra spaces especially within the html table codes, which makes for some ugly formatting, but it works.

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<div style="display:none; font-size:1px; color:#ffffff; line-height:1px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden;">
   Come back to MOPS.ca and save 5%
</div><table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center' width='550'><tr class="email-template"><td class="email-template" align='center'><font color="red">To ensure receipt of our emails, please add service@mops.ca to your Address Book or Contacts List.</font></td></tr><tr align='top'><td class="email-template"><a href='http://www.aquariumshop.ca'><img src='http://www.aquariumshop.ca/PH820/images/MOPS_email_header.jpg' border='0' hspace='0' vspace='0' width='550' height='144'></a></td></tr></table><table width='550' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='1' align='center' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr  class="email-template"><td class="email-template"><p><a href="https://www.aquariumshop.ca/PH820/index..php"><img src="https://www.aquariumshop.ca/PH820/newsletter/images/Happy_Anniversary.jpg" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" align="right" ></a></p><b>Hi {{FNAME}}:</b>

Gosh how time flies...you might not remember but we do. 

It was {{SIGN_UP_DATE}} -- {{YEARS_NUMBER}} {{YEARS_TEXT}} ago.  Can you believe it? You created your account with us that day. 

To recognize this special occasion and thank you for your business, we have prepared a special Customer Exclusive "ANNIVERSARY" coupon.   This coupon will enable you to take 10% off the price of any items that you purchase from us in the next 30 days.

This is our way of saying THANK-YOU for your business during the past  {{YEARS_NUMBER}} {{YEARS_TEXT}}!

We really do appreciate having you as a customer and hope you can take advantage of this Customer Exclusive discount.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Yours truly,<br>
<div style="text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="55" src="https://www.aquariumshop.ca/PH820/images/Dan_Cole_Signature.png" width="200"></div>Dan Cole
Mail Order Pet Supplies, Inc.<br>
Tel: 1-888-648-6677
<hr>PS: To claim this special discount, just use the coupon code "ANNIVERSARY" when you place your order.
</div>
</td>
</tr></table>

If you have any issues or questions just let me know.

Dan

[AsTecModels]

Hi @Dan Cole ,
I have 1 question, how do you automatically add and then remove the discount to products? I have noticed you have done that on a few of your messages.

[Dan Cole]

@AsTecModels I use the Advanced Specials add-on from Rainer....see the link below. I will often use the same discount code and if anyone uses it when they shouldn't, it's not a big deal. If it becomes an issue I'll probably have the queued module just create a unique discount code with an expiry date. I've done that in the past but just haven't bothered to do that yet with the queued mailings.

app.php/addons/paid_addon/advanced_specials

Dan

[Dan Cole]

Testing of what, I'm calling my new_product_advanced scheduler, is proceeding but going a bit slower than I would like. It is on my live site now but scheduled to be sent whenever I add six new products, which is usually every week or two. In the meantime I've messed around with both the pages for the Outgoing Queue and Outgoing Archive to add the ability to sort on both the date and email columns and to move the page heading to each of those pages. In the past the code for the heading was located in outgoing.php found in the admin root. Moving that allows for different page headings. Here is what my outgoing archive page now looks like. The Outgoing Queue is very similar.

Outgoing-Enhancements.jpg

Dan

[Dan Cole]

I've received a number of responses to my Testimonial Queued Emails that has caused me to rethink that particular template. I have been using...

Testimonial-Template.jpg

with the subject: {{FNAME}}, did everything arrive safely?

The result was that customers were responding but with a simple comment....yes, it is all good, yes thanks or something along those lines. They either weren't reading the email at all or were simply responding to the subject line. I wanted more actionable feedback so went back to the drawing board and came up with this.

Testimonial-Template_V2.jpg

The subject line now reads: {{FNAME}}, please give us your quick 1-5 score.

I don't know if this change will help or not but I'm going to find out. I'll post back here in due course but if anyone has a suggestion or two on how this can be improved or have a template that is working, that produces useful feedback, I'd love to hear from you.

Dan