Importing contacts into Savvy Sender just became easier. In addition to Microsoft Excel and CSV upload file support, we now accept TAB files (tab delimited) (*.tab), so instead of worrying about converting your import file, you can spend more time marketing your message!

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

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While you have been outside enjoying the summer, the Savvy Sender team has been hard at work on a great new feature. Introducing test messages, which are now built-in to make sending test emails faster and more fluid!

Test messages allow you to email yourself or others a copy of your message for review before it goes out to your entire list (or lists). This makes it easy to review the visual layout, content, and spelling of the message in your email client (such as Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, Hotmail, etc.).

How do I use the new test messages functionality?

1. Create your new message/campaign
2. From the review step, click the “Send Test Message” button (top right)
3. Select contacts to send a test copy of the message to
4. Click the yellow “Send Test Message” button

We hope this makes testing your messages, campaigns, and emails quicker and easier!

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

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The Savvy Sender team would like to wish you a happy Fourth of July!

In case you are interested in a quick history lesson from History.com:

“Variously known as the Fourth of July and Independence Day, July 4th has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations goes back to the 18th century and the American Revolution (1775-83). In June 1776, representatives of the 13 colonies then fighting in the revolutionary struggle weighed a resolution that would declare their independence from Great Britain. On July 2nd, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, and two days later its delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson. From 1776 until the present day, July 4th has been celebrated as the birth of American independence, with typical festivities ranging from fireworks, parades and concerts to more casual family gatherings and barbecues.”

We hope you have a fun, patriotic, and safe holiday!

Savvy Sender has always supported including links to your social profiles in messages (which can be setup through the “Account” link at the top of the page when you are logged in); however, we have added a new feature that provides deeper social media integration and allows you to quickly and easily share sent messages on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

To access the new share on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn buttons (which are retroactively available for all sent messages), login to Savvy Sender and click on a sent message to view the email tracking report. In the report, you will see three new share buttons just below the message statistics. Click each button to post to the respective social network. Posting sent messages to social networks is a great way to boost engagement and reuse content for multiple sales channels.

Note: To post as a page on Facebook, login to Facebook and switch to the page before clicking the Share on Facebook button in Savvy Sender.

Please contact us if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

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Did you know that some email programs (especially on older mobile phones and devices) may not be capable of displaying images or complex layouts?

To ensure messages can be viewed as you intended, Savvy Sender has recently launched a new email marketing feature, based on user requests, that allows contacts to open a Web version (also called Web archive) of their personalized email in a Web browser. Including a Web version link often improves email open rates.

Please contact us if you have any questions, suggestions, or would like help adding a Web version link to your templates.

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CAN-SPAM compliance is an important part of email marketing. We strongly recommend reading the FTC’s article, “CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business” and watching the following official video:

We are frequently asked, “How do I create a template without knowing HTML?” We are excited to announce our brand new Template Builder, which provides a quick and easy way to create personalized templates without knowing HTML!

Try creating a new template and let us know what you think.

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We hope you are celebrating Earth Day in a helpful way by reducing waste, keeping your car at home, or planting a tree!

Savvy Sender was founded not only to help businesses, organizations, associations, and groups improve sales, marketing, and communications with customers, prospects, and members, but also to help save the planet by being an advocate of going green.

On average, according to Conservatree, each tree makes approximately 8,333 pieces of paper. Savvy Sender helps reduce the consumption of nature by saving trees through easy, powerful, and cost effective email marketing.

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Previously, we increased Savvy Search™ relevance for exact email address matches on contacts by bringing them to the top of the search results.

After reviewing data from Savvy Sender sessions we noticed users were still submitting searches for a contact by email address and then paging through the search results to find the contact even though the contact did not exist.

To enhance Savvy Search™ further, when searching for a contact by email address, we added a new indicator, which tells the user when a contact does not exist. A link is also provided to easily create a contact with the email address that was used in the search.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

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The Savvy Sender team recently deployed many new updates, which are focused on making the service even easier to use.

Our first goal was to provide more ways to bring contacts into Savvy Sender. We started by changing the “Import Contacts” link throughout the website, which now links to an overview of import contact options instead of linking directly to the upload file import contacts option. This change allows us to add more import options and immediately expose existing functionality, such as subscriptions forms and scheduled imports.

Two of the great new import contact options we have added are:

• Google Contacts - add contacts from Google Contacts, Gmail, Google Voice, etc.
• Outlook - add contacts by dragging and dropping contacts/people from Microsoft Outlook 2007+

Both new import contact options will be covered in-depth in separate knowledge base articles.

As part of the revised import contacts overview, we added “Recent Imports” to the bottom of the page, which provides quick access to the import contacts history.

We strive to provide our users with the best email marketing experience and we hope you enjoy the new features, updates, and improvements!

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

If you are looking for a great email marketing service, sign up today and get a FREE 2,000 contact plan.