I've been reading through all of the comments/topics for information about segmenting. I want to be able to build pre-definded segments of my subscribers as well as 'extend' these segments.
For example: I'd like to be able to select my list and then add some additional query parameters based on values in the database. These parameters may include 'excluding members from a past send' or even querying parameters from a customer DB or the umbraco DB itself. These segments could be 'named' and saved in the Umbraco/Mail Studio backend.
BTW - I have several years experience in ISP Relations and Technical Email Marketing using a Lyris system where I would send up to 2 million emails per day/week and I also have experience working with MTA front end software (if that means anything to anyone). Lyris is an amazing, technical piece of software (runs on Sql Server). I understand that most uses won't know SQL, or understand the DB, but I think many of the technical people who 'install' this package will be abe to set up segmenting.
Newsletter Studio has the concept of "Subscription Providers" that could help you accomplish what you are describing. Basically you just create a simple class that handles the connection to any data source (could be external db, members-section in Umbraco, xml, web services what ever). But I don’t think that we will add this as a part of the UI in the near future.
I had a look at some YouTube-moive and Lyris seams to be a great product! But for Newsletter Studio, are you talking about a way to add dynamic queries so that a user can just choose to send to all subscribers in mailing list A who’s a woman and lives in London? And that this would filter the list?
Sounds like a very good idea and something that I will keep in mind for the future! But as for now your way to solve this would be using subscription providers – you could even build your own UI-query tool and let Newsletter Studio consume the result of that. Please have a look in the manual at our.umbraco.org to read more about this and have a look at the simple demos here: https://github.com/enkelmedia/NewsletterStudioContrib/tree/master/NewsletterStudioContrib/SubscriptionProviders
Segmenting
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I've been reading through all of the comments/topics for information about segmenting. I want to be able to build pre-definded segments of my subscribers as well as 'extend' these segments.
For example: I'd like to be able to select my list and then add some additional query parameters based on values in the database. These parameters may include 'excluding members from a past send' or even querying parameters from a customer DB or the umbraco DB itself. These segments could be 'named' and saved in the Umbraco/Mail Studio backend.
BTW - I have several years experience in ISP Relations and Technical Email Marketing using a Lyris system where I would send up to 2 million emails per day/week and I also have experience working with MTA front end software (if that means anything to anyone). Lyris is an amazing, technical piece of software (runs on Sql Server). I understand that most uses won't know SQL, or understand the DB, but I think many of the technical people who 'install' this package will be abe to set up segmenting.
Their DB is quite insightful and worth a look.
Hi Daniel!
Thank you for you post!
Newsletter Studio has the concept of "Subscription Providers" that could help you accomplish what you are describing. Basically you just create a simple class that handles the connection to any data source (could be external db, members-section in Umbraco, xml, web services what ever). But I don’t think that we will add this as a part of the UI in the near future.
I had a look at some YouTube-moive and Lyris seams to be a great product! But for Newsletter Studio, are you talking about a way to add dynamic queries so that a user can just choose to send to all subscribers in mailing list A who’s a woman and lives in London? And that this would filter the list?
Sounds like a very good idea and something that I will keep in mind for the future! But as for now your way to solve this would be using subscription providers – you could even build your own UI-query tool and let Newsletter Studio consume the result of that. Please have a look in the manual at our.umbraco.org to read more about this and have a look at the simple demos here: https://github.com/enkelmedia/NewsletterStudioContrib/tree/master/NewsletterStudioContrib/SubscriptionProviders
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