Easily Share Contact Lists with your Team Members
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in In today’s world of business, it is absolutely critical for organizations to be able to easily and quickly share data across multiple departments.
Especially when it comes to communications, companies can experience tremendous benefits of they can make Contact data visible to various members of their company.
For example, the Marketing department may benefit by being able to see what types of questions a certain prospect is asking of the Sales team, and the Customer Support department may benefit by being able to see which Emails a customer is opening that were sent by the Marketing team.
Sharing Data Inside of ilinkONE Version 8
To help support our customers with those needs, we have launched a new feature within the ilinkONE Version 8 software.
The “Share Lists With Everyone” feature enables users to easily make their Contact Lists available to other users of the system. In the past, the user that created a List was the only person that would see that List Name in their dropdown on the Contact Search page. They could use the “Shared Queries” feature to provide access to other users, but it was not an ideal solution for most of our clients.
Thus, users that own Lists now easily check “Share with Everyone” box to make their Lists accessible to all other users.
How the Feature Works
If you have an existing List that you would like to share with other users, simply follow these steps:
- On the Contact Search page, select the List from the corresponding dropdown
- Click the “Edit” radio button (by default, the “View” option is selected)
- Then, click the “Search” button
- On the following page, simply check the “Share with Everyone” box and hit Submit
If you are creating a new list from our Contact Management feature, and you’d like to share that with everyone, simply follow these steps:
- Select the Contacts that you’d like to add to the list via the Results page
- Click the “Save List” button
- In the pop-up window, select the “Create a New List” option and assign a Name to the list.
- Check the “Share with Everyone” box
We hope that you find this feature helpful!
If you have an questions about how to use our marketing software, please contact our team today!
Tags 3 Ways to Improve Warehouse Operations
When it comes to warehouse management, we all want to improve the flow of our daily operations. We want things to move faster and be more efficient. And of course, we need our numbers to be more accurate than ever before.
To do that successfully, having the right technology in place is certainly a major piece.
Here are three ways that a Warehouse Management software solution could you reach your goals:
Automatic Reorder Point Notifications
When it comes to the Marketing Supply Chain, a warehouse should ensure that they have enough inventory on the shelves at the right time for the right products.
To keep that process running smoothly, the customer should be notified immediately when inventory is running low. Also, the timing of the notification must not come when stock is at zero; rather, it should be a calculated process that gives them time to make a decision on a reorder quantity.
Warehouse management software can help to automate that for you!
It can:
- Automatically calculate how much stock is needed to maintain supply for a period of months
- Instantly generate email notifications and reminders to the customer and warehouse management
- Provide real-time reporting and updates to prevent unnecessary backorders
Better Fulfillment with Automated Picking
A warehouse management system should automate the inventory picking process. Rather than relying on the pickers to select products from locations that they determine to be the best fit, a Warehouse Management system should properly determine and present the ideal locations that should be picked from.
A manual location-picking process can be inefficient, risky, and a time-waster.
Real-Time Inventory Counts in the Order Management System
For a marketing supply chain to flow perfectly, there must be a mechanism to share data easily throughout each step of the process.
This certainly should include presenting real-time inventory numbers to the Sales Reps or other users that placing the initial orders.
By integrating those two pieces, or utilizing technology such as Web Services or other data feeds to share the inventory count, a warehouse can prevent frustration and confusion for all parties involved in the process.
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These are just a few of the ways that a Warehouse Management System can help your business to grow!
If you’d like to learn more, or perhaps see how interlinkONE’s software can provide those solutions to you, please let me know!
Customer Tip: Add a File Upload field to your Landing Pages
Within ilinkONE Version 8′s marketing software, users can set up surveys, registration pages, feedback forms, download entry points, and more through our Campaign Management and Landing Page features.
Within that piece of our software, users can easily build Question & Answer forms for a variety of reasons. Most of our customers typically choose from Question Types such as:
- Multiple Choice
- Single Choice via Radio Buttons
- Single Choice via Dropdowns
- Open-Ended
But there is another option available that may assist you in your marketing efforts. That option allows you to create a field on a landing page that enables people to upload a file while they are filling out the form.
Using the File Upload Feature
If you are familiar with how to build campaigns and landing pages in our system, it is very easy for you to use the File Upload feature.
- To create a File Upload field, you’ll want to create/edit a Question for your campaign.
- On the “Edit Question” page, set the Question Type to “Single – Open Line Text” and then check the box for the “Display as File Upload” field.
Once you’ve taken those simple steps, the ilinkONE Version 8 software do the rest of work.
Next time that you view the landing page that those questions are associated to, you will see your web browser’s Upload File utility displayed with that question.
The system will store the images on the FTP server. You will be able to access them by simply finding the folder associated to the Client that you built the campaign for.
We hope that you find this feature useful. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Customer Support team!
How In-Plant Printers Can Offer Value-Added Services
I am happy to announce that we will be delivering a webinar on Tuesday, November 15th to members of the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA).
There is no doubt that in-plant printers face different circumstances than commercial or quick printers. However, many of the same trends in the worlds of marketing and communications affect their business too.
To put it simply, many of them are finding that print volume, print sales, & margins have gone down.
Some of the reasons for this may include:
- Many of their organization’s prospects and customers are turning to social networks and the web as the primary way they find information.
- Smartphones are changing the way people interact and communicate with brands.
- As budgets tighten everywhere, organizations may see outbound marketing as something that is too expensive, with not enough ROI.
With circumstances like those a reality, in-plant printers are looking for ways to increase the value that they can offer to their organization.
During the webinar on 11/15, we will share strategies and tactics that printers can take advantage of to just that. We will present opportunities for offering value-added services in the form of:
- Mobile Marketing – QR Codes, mobile websites, and more
- Social Media Integration
- Online Ordering, Electronic Fulfillment, and Inventory Management
This webinar is available to members of IPMA. Please click here for registration information >>
DMA Boston 2011
From October 1st through the 6th, interlinkONE and Grow Socially employees will be participating in various events around DMA Boston 2011. We will be on the show floor, we’ll be attending some of the after-hours networking events, and we’ll be meeting up with customers & prospects.
If you are planning on being at the conference too, we’d love to see you there! Please feel free to let us know.
While it certainly is nice to have a show of this magnitude right in our backyard, we have also been quite pleased with some of the pre-show commentary that the DMA has been releasing.
In fact, we might have burst into a spontaneous company dance after reading this article. Yes, the headline and the sub-headline were right up our alley:
- “‘Integrate,’ says DMA”
- “Multichannel strategy emphasized at DMA’s All for One conference”
Those two lines are ones that we try to live by everyday when it comes to our marketing efforts. It’s not always easy, but using our own technology helps 
P.S. If you have any questions about how you may be able to improve your marketing efforts through integrated, multi-channel activities, please feel free to register for a demo here >>
