Description
Take your marketing dollars further with Email Marketing
iContact is a leading email marketing service provider with over 70,000 clients and 700,000 users.
With iContact anyone can easily create, send, and track email newsletters.
iContact offers a 30-day free trial to try out the service and take advantage of the easy-to-use features. You can then upgrade to one of our clear-cut pricing models that start at $14/month.
If you have less than 100 subscribers you have the option of signing up for a FREE version of iContact! These accounts will offer many of the same features that a standard iContact account has, but without a monthly fee!
Why not start with a free trial for 30 days. It's a great way to check it out if it is right for you.
The benefits of eMail Marketing
Features
Message Creation
No design experience? No worries! You can create beautiful messages in minutes with the MessageBuilder™ the drag-and-drop message creation tool. Simply pick one of the fully customizable email templates.
Choose from hundreds of designs and layouts, including postcard, one-column, and multi-column formats.
To give it the look and feel of your business is easy by adding your logos, brand colors, images, links, and text.
Messages sent using our email templates look great in your customers' inboxes. All of the templates are rigorously tested to make sure they look perfect in dozens of different email clients that might be used by your customers.
Deliverable Messages
Undelivered email exposes your lists to unnecessary bounces and removals, and costs your business opportunities and money. iContact specialists monitor the mail servers around the clock to maintain iContact's reputation for great email delivery.
iContact's SpamCheck™ reviews your messages and assigns each a score. The lower the score, the more likely it is that a customer's Internet service provider (ISP) will not mark your message as spam. If your message is flagged, you receive the details of exactly why and gives you an opportunity to edit it before sending.
Reporting & Tracking
iContact tracks how many of your contacts opened your messages, clicked your links, forwarded your messages to friends, filed spam complaints, or unsubscribed from your lists.
Email to Social Impact
Every email you send through iContact can seamlessly generate activity through social media networks in the form of likes, retweets, shares, and more. Add social media sharing buttons to your emails, and start promoting your newsletters on your Facebook wall and in your Twitter feed.
Contact-Level Tracking
Tracking at an individual contact level shows you who they responded to your emails, including when and how many times they opened your messages and which links they clicked.
Message Trending
View email marketing tracking results for messages sent over a period of time, and discover trends.
Integration
iContact offers integration with many popular system including Google Analytics, Salesforce.com, BiG Commerce. (Some require the Enterprise edition).
List Management
iContact list management features allow you to keep track of your subscribers, and maintain healthy lists with automated subscription management, bounceback handling, message forwarding, and contact reports.
Automated Subscription Management
Take advantage of automated email list management, which allows your contacts to instantly subscribe and unsubscribe from your lists.
Tools for Importing and Adding Contacts
Add contacts to your lists the way you want: by completing details for each contact one by one, by copying and pasting, by importing from Excel or CSV files, or by adding sign-up forms to your website and Facebook pages.
Bounceback Handling
Automatic bounceback handling tracks and flags bounced contacts so that they no longer count against your subscriber limit.
Message Forwarding
Add new subscribers by encouraging your subscribers to share your messages with friends via the forward-to-a-friend feature.
Email List Segmentation
Match your contacts with exactly what they need. Send targeted messages to lists segmented by demographics, interests, or behaviors. Learn more.
Custom Data Fields
Learn so much more about your contacts with custom data fields that capture your contacts' interests, preferences, etc.
Other Features
Autoresponders
Autoresponders allow you to automate many of the lead nurturing process. Once your contacts subscribe, they can begin to receive a series of automated, engaging messages that you've scheduled to be sent over a period of time.
For example, you may create a welcome message to be sent to your contacts on the first day they subscribe to your list, a coupon to be sent on the tenth, etc. You can also check to see how many of your autoresponder messages have been sent and how successful they have been in terms of clicks and opens.
Image Hosting
Upload and store your favorite images, so you have them at hand when you create your next message.
Mail-Merge Personalization
Put a personal touch on your emails with mail-merge fields. Address your contacts by their first names, etc.
Message Archiving
Make your messages go even further. Archive your messages to the web, and then link to them in your social media posts, on your blog, on your website, or from other emails.
RSS Feeds
Connect your blog's RSS feed to iContact, so your email subscribers get your newest blog posts as soon as they go live.
Sign-Up Forms
Add sign-up forms to your website and Facebook page to turn your visitors and fans into email subscribers.