Constant Contact

ConstantContact Notes

Create your email campaigns and contact lists within ConstantContact. This is both the content the list of recipients that AudiencePoint will send to. You will select these within the AudiencePoint interface. AudiencePoint will then pull the selected contact list and email campaigns from ConstantContact. The technical detail here is that ConstantContact will not allow you to send a campaign to more than once list AND it will not allow you resend a previously sent campaign.

AudiencePoint Integration

AudiencePoint enables you to create and track campaign sending schedules per user. A campaign is scheduled for an existing Contact List. AudiencePoint pulls a list of subscribers from ConstantContact. That list of subscribers is then analyzed and scheduled to at the appropriate hour.

There is an additional sending option through the AudiencePoint website which involves uploading a tab delimited file of your contacts. AudiencePoint uploads contacts to ConstantContact a new list with a specific naming convention i.e. “AudiencePoint__.” which is later removed.

Within ConstantContact there is no "Send Now" option, campaigns are scheduled to go out in the future and are processed and sent at the queue allows. The AudiencePoint workaround is to schedule campaigns to go out 10 minutes in the future.

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 available but in the case of ConstantContact, there is a fixed number of fields that are available for the merge. 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"