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- Customer Lookup By Email Address
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- Email Validity Lookup API
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- Email On Demand Send
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- Email Flag Email As Invalid
- Email Clicks
- Email - Checklist for Sends Created via API Calls
- Email Deployment Content Lookup
- Email Deployment Unschedule
- Email Deployment Lookup
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- Release Notes for Jan 27 | V23.2
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CDP – Customer Data Platform
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- Personalization Overview
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- Personalization - HTML Templates
- Personalization - Scroll Trigger and Infinite Scroll Pages
- Personalization - Merge Variables
- Personalization - 'Generate Personalization' Option
- Personalization & Metering - Click Tracking
- GDPR Consent Management
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- Integration with Zapier
- Bring Customer Data in via Webhooks by Zapier Action - POST Event
- Bring Customer Data in using Zapier
- Omeda's Add Customer Action in Zapier
- Send Form Submission Data via Zapier
- Bring Customer Data in via Webhooks by Zapier Action – Custom Request Event
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Analytics & Reporting
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- Odyssey - Reporting
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- Reports - Email Device and Client Type Reporting
- Email - Clickbot Reporting
- Reports - Email Reporting
- Metering - Reporting
- Reports - Audience Overlap Report
- Reports - Engaged Companies Report
- Reports-AutoRenewals Analysis Report
- Reports - Audience Report
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- Reports - Overview
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Marketing Automation & Email Builder
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- Email On Demand Send
- Email Deployment
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- Email Flag Email As Invalid
- Email Clicks
- Email - Checklist for Sends Created via API Calls
- Email Deployment Lookup
- Email Deployment Test
- Email Deployment Add Audience
- Email Opt In/Out Lookup
- Email Optout Queue
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- Email Builder - User Guide
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- Reports - Email Reporting
- Email - Link Tracking Errors
- Email - Deployment Defaults
- Omeda - Getting Support
- Email - Checklist for Sends Created via API Calls
- Email - Assigning Link Tracking Categories
- Email - Deliverability
- Email - Opt-Out Footer Merge Variable
- Email - Stealth Link
- Email - Behavioral Data
- Email - Automation for Email Sending
- Email - Checklist for New Clients
- Email - Deployment Type Creation
- Email – Training Schedules for New Clients
- Email - Request a New Deployment Type
- Email - Adding Domains to Safe Sender List
- Email - Deployment Checklist & Best Practices
- Email Deployment Unschedule
- Email Builder - Getting Started
- Campaign App - Overview
- Email - Automated ACS Notifications
- Email - Dynamic Content
- Email - Recurring Deployments
- Email - FAQs
- Email - Web Tracking
- Email - Validation Services
- Email Services - Overview & Capabilities
- Email - Web Tracking String Parameter Definitions
- Email - Appending Lists On Triggered Deployments
- Email - Preference Page
- Email - A/B Testing
- Email - Triggered Deployments
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- Odyssey - Audience Element
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- Odyssey - Pathfinder Element
- Odyssey - Export Element
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- Odyssey Overview
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- Odyssey - Editing an In Progress Voyage
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- Odyssey - Querying Element Visitors in Audience Builder
- Odyssey - Using Profiles
- Odyssey - Creating Custom Templates
- Odyssey - Global Settings
- Odyssey - Email Conditions
- Odyssey - Omeda's Email Designer
- Odyssey - Email Designer Templates
- Odyssey - Voyage Templates
- Odyssey - Merging Paths
- Odyssey - Email Merge Variables
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Data Management & Governance
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- Odyssey - Querying Element Visitors in Audience Builder
- Audience Builder - Product Field Library
- Examples of Audience Builder Queries Using Paid Fields
- Querying Olytics Your Olytics Data
- Data Loader - Querying in Audience Builder
- Email - Behavioral Data
- Audience Builder (OnQ) - Date Field Definitions
- Audience Builder (OnQ) - How To Query Customers
- Audience Builder (OnQ) - Query Result Outputs
- Audience Builder (OnQ) - Overview
- Reports - Audience Builder (OnQ) Reporting
- Audience Builder (OnQ) - Admin User Guide
- Audience Builder (OnQ) - Advanced Features
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Subscription & Fulfillment Management
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Forms & Landing Pages
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- Form Builder (Dragon) - Overview
- How To Use Progressive Profiling
- Using a Custom Domain for your Dragon Webform
- Dragon Forms URL Structure and Appending Parameters
- Best Practices for Testing Forms
- Test Links v. Live Links
- Styling Your Dragon Webforms
- CredSpark - Omeda Form Listener Integration
- Using Dragon Form Builder to capture a Behavior Subscription Attribute
- Form Builder ADA Compliance
- Form Builder (Dragon) Themes
- 2020 Form Builder Updates
- Form Builder - Using Campaign Promo Codes
- Form Builder - Using the PayPal Payment Method
- Form Builder - Embedding Webforms via iFrame or Javascript
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- How To Use A/B Testing on your Dragon Webform (video)
- How to conditionally display a question on your form (video)
- How to create and add an email confirmation to your form (video)
- How to update a demographic (video)
- How to send a user back to your website after form submission (redirect to a return URL)
- Form Builder - Export URL
- Form Builder - Adding a This Is Not Me Widget
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Email – Deployment Checklist & Best Practices
Email Content Design
- Design your content around a clear call to action, and make sure it aligns with the general purpose of the email.
- Make sure the email design adheres to your company’s brand guidelines.
- Make sure all images/headlines/buttons are linked.
- Assign all images relevant alt text. This description will describe the image for those with visual disabilities, images turned off, and search engines.
- Check your HTML for errors with a validator, like the W3C HTML validator.
- Test your content templates on many desktop, web, and mobile email clients to make sure it renders well. You can use 3rd party tools such as Email On Acid or Litmus to view how your emails render across multiple devices and clients.
- If sending a text version make sure the spacing is correct. This is especially important if you used the ‘generate Text from HTML’ feature.
- If using personalizations, double check that you have default values set in case there are any recipients with blank values on your audience file.
- Check that all URLs are prepended with http:// or https:// and that there are no extra spaces between the ” ” for those URLs in your code.
Email Copy
- Spell check and proof read both the subject line and the body content.
- Make sure that copy, and dates, times, and content make sense in relation to the scheduled email deployment.
- Add a relevant pre-header above your body content.
- Verify complete physical mailing address is visible.
CAN-Spam Requirements
- Verify unsubscribe link (‘confirm unsubscribe’ merge variable) is included and working.
- The subject line must be indicative of the content; it cannot be misleading in order to encourage more opens.
GDPR
- For more information, visit Omeda’s GDPR Overview
Audience Selection
- Make sure all known invalid email addresses were excluded from your audience list. In Audience Builder the selection would be Invalid Email = blank, or if using the ‘exclude’ parameter then Invalid Email = Yes
- Make sure only customers with Email Addresses were included in your audience list, and that you were selecting the correct email address for those customers (See Contact Rules in Audience Builder). In Audience Builder the selection would be Email Address Present/Not Present = Present.
- If you are getting your audience from Audience Builder, make sure to exclude the deployment types Opt Outs so your count is accurate before you output to Email Builder.
- Make sure to apply any applicable email & domain suppression files.
- Double check that the correct and most recent audience list has been selected.
Deployment Setup
- Set the from and mailbox names, make sure they are consistent with past deployments of the same type.
- If Omeda does not handle your customer service, set a ‘reply to’ email address so you receive any replies.
- Check through your list of testers and seeds to make sure it is accurate.
- Verify that open and link tracking are turned on in the tracking pleat.
- If you are using olytics, make sure that setting is enabled in the tracking pleat.
- If you are using web tracking string, check that Web Tracking is turned on and the correct configuration is selected.
Testing
- Test all links to make sure they load to the correct pages.
- Double check that all merge variables/default values are populating correctly.
- Make sure any special characters (Unicode characters) render correctly in all major email clients. If any characters come up as errors, you can replace them with the appropriate HTML code listed on this website.
- Before approving and scheduling deployment confirm that you have received all necessary approvals.
Deliverability Best Practices
- Make sure to keep your audience lists clean. Suppress and remove users who have not engaged with your email program within the last 60-90 days.
- Don’t send to recipients who have complained, unsubscribed, or hard bounced.
- Send pertinent, timely content to targeted users who have explicitly requested it.
- Set clear expectations for new subscribers.
- Provide a prominent unsubscribe link.
Spam traps, unknown users, and unengaged subscribers can have a detrimental impact on your email program. You can run your list through a list hygiene service, which will validate whether the email address belongs to a active person. Omeda has partnered with FreshAddress to give us the ability to utilize their SafeToSend® email validation and hygiene solution. Contact your Audience Services team for details on this additional service.
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