List Management and Integration

ANSWRs to your questions about Email lists including integrating lists with your website or CMS, exporting and importing contacts, managing bounces and replies, and workflows for complex reply handing

Article: Do I need someone's email address if i am connected to them via social networks like facebook or twitter?

Also labeled: UnAnswred

Article: Should we create segments of our email list?

Also labeled: Effective Email

Article: Can we add our Facebook and Twitter followers to our eNewsletter mailing lists?

Also labeled: List Building, Email Newsletters

Article: What is a listserv?

Also labeled: Email Discussion Lists, Effective Email

Article: Do the current tools available allow for customizing of newsletters by desired content and by geographic region?

Also labeled: Email Deliverability, Email Newsletters, Effective Email

Article: How do we get a 'member' to let us know they really do want our emails even though they never respond?

Article: How many emails can we send to a 'member' with no response before we figure the person is not really a member?

Article: What's the consensus on offering a "bribe" of some sort to get people to update their contact info and how they'd like to receive email (text vs. html)?

Also labeled: Effective Email, List Building, Writing Good Messages

Article: What tips and techniques should I know about maintaining an accurate list, correcting or purging bounces, etc?

Also labeled: Email Deliverability, Email Fundraising, Email Advocacy/Action Alerts, Email Newsletters

Article: Can an emailing tool help me not only keep lists, but help me think through diversification of my network and suggest alternative sources or networks?

Also labeled: List Building, Email Newsletters, Email Fundraising, Email Advocacy/Action Alerts