Constant Contact

ConstantContact Notes

You can create Email Campaigns and Contact Lists with ConstantContact. AudiencePoint would pull Contact List and Email Campaigns from ConstantContact. With ConstantContact web app you can send campaigns by associating it with the Contact List. The sent Email Campaigns can be re-resend or reschedule however cannot re-associate with other Contact List. However you can update Contact List with new contacts.

AudiencePoint Integration

AudiencePoint enables you to easily create and track campaign schedules. You can schedule a campaign for existing Contact List. AudiencePoint pulls a list of subscribers from ConstantContact. That list of subscribers is then analyzed and sent to at the appropriate hour. Even you can upload contacts by a tab delimited file while scheduling campaign. AudiencePoint uploads contacts to ConstantContact a new list with a specific naming convention i.e. “AudiencePoint__.” AudiencePoint creates contact list within ConstantContact and then schedules that list to go out in the next ten minutes.

Enable API Access for AudiencePoint

To enable AudiencePoint to access ConstantContact data you need to update your AudiencePoint account with API key and Access Token. Please follow these steps to configure service

Create API Key

1. Please visit https://constantcontact.mashery.com/apps/mykeys
2. Login with you ConstantContact account credentials.
3. Click on “Home” tab (Incase not “Home” tab is not selected)
4. From a home tab click on second option “Apply” for an API key.
5. Enter Application name as “AudiencePoint”
6. In Redirect URI field enter placeholder value as http://example.com
7. Click on “Register Application” (you need to check and agree to the terms of services before proceeding) Next screen would show you the “Key” (Please keep key handy)

Get Access Token

1. Now you need to get the access token for API key. Please click on “Get an Access Token and try the API here” or visit https://constantcontact.mashery.com/io-docs
2. Select an API key (you’ve just created) from App/Key dropdown.
3. Click on Get Access Token button
4. For security reasons you need to login again. Click on “I already have an account” and login.
5. Click on “Grant Access” button. It will show you the access token. (Please keep access token handy)

Add ConstantContact Service in AudiencePoint

1. Login to AudiencePoint web app and click on Site Menu
2. From the appeared options click on “Services”
3. From the services screen, select “ConstantContact” from services dropdown and click on “Add”
4. Next screen will allow you to enter API Details. Enter desired name to Name field.
5. Enter API Key in “ConstantContact API key” field.
6. Enter API Access Token in “Access Token” field.
7. Click on save to save the information.

Import via Tab Delimited File

The use of a tab file imported into AudiencePoint as a list of subscribers is still central to the technical strategy. In the case of ConstantContact, the fields include in the Tab Delimited list are limited to:

• EMAIL ADDRESS
• FIRST NAME
• MIDDLE NAME
• LAST NAME
• JOB TITLE
• COMPANY NAME
• WORK PHONE
• HOME PHONE
• ADDRESS LINE 1
• ADDRESS LINE 2,
• ADDRESS LINE 3
• CITY
• STATE
• STATE/PROVINCE (US/CANADA)
• COUNTRY
• POSTAL CODE
• SUB POSTAL CODE
• CUSTOM FIELD 1
• CUSTOM FIELD 2
• CUSTOM FIELD 3
• CUSTOM FIELD 4
• CUSTOM FIELD 5
• CUSTOM FIELD 6
• CUSTOM FIELD 7
• CUSTOM FIELD 8
• CUSTOM FIELD 9
• CUSTOM FIELD 10
• CUSTOM FIELD 11
• CUSTOM FIELD 12
• CUSTOM FIELD 13
• CUSTOM FIELD 14
• CUSTOM FIELD 15

When a list is imported with just the EMAIL field set the firstname and lastname is set to the alias of the email, so... info@audiencepoint.com would have firstname set to "info" and lastname set to "info"