Constant Contact Makes Email Marketing and Online Surveys Easier and More Effective with Recent Product Enhancements.New Features and Tools Improve Quality of Customer Communications for Small Businesses WALTHAM, Mass. -- Constant Contact, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CTCT CTCT Contact CTCT Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC (joint venture) ), a leading provider of email marketing and online surveys for small organizations, today announced it has added several new features and enhancements to the company's award-winning online marketing tools. The latest versions of Constant Contact's email marketing and online survey tools provide significant customization and automation opportunities for small businesses' marketing activities. "We solicit feedback from our customers on a regular basis and many of the enhancements we are announcing today came directly from the input of our community of more than 280,000 customers," said Ellen Brezniak, senior vice president, product strategy, Constant Contact. "With these upgrades, we focused on responding to our customers' requests and adding significant power to our tools without sacrificing our industry-leading ease of use." Email Marketing Improvements to Constant Contact's email marketing tool make it even easier for small businesses to stay in touch with their customers. The new features include: * Enhanced email autoresponder: Constant Contact's autoresponder allows a customer to automatically send relevant, engaging, welcoming, and timely emails to new customers who join an email list. The feature can be used to schedule and send up to five messages to these customers at pre-determined times. The autoresponder feature was added to help small businesses build stronger customer relationships and nurture NURTURE. The act of taking care of children and educating them: the right to the nurture of children generally belongs to the father till the child shall arrive at the age of fourteen years, and not longer. Till then, he is guardian by nurture. Co. Litt. 38 b. new relationships without requiring the business to do extra work. * View as a Webpage: A View as a Webpage link has been added to emails so that a recipient can immediately access a fully formatted version of Constant Contact communications regardless of the settings of their email inbox or which email program See e-mail program. the recipient uses. * More than 400 customizable templates: The number of easy-to-edit email marketing templates that help small organizations quickly create impactful email newsletters and promotional messages has been increased to more than 400. New templates include several industry specific, special-occasion, and holiday themed versions. Online Surveys Constant Contact has also added a number of improvements to its online survey tool that improve the look and feel of the survey interface and enhance the manageability of survey data. These include: * Poll Link: This feature allows customers to easily get feedback to a question by embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if a one-question survey or poll onto their websites, into their email, or on social networking sites A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post. . * Share results: Organizations now have the option of permitting survey respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. to see current results of a survey once their responses have been submitted. * 20 new survey templates: New customized survey templates for restaurants, retail, travel, and employee satisfaction surveys bring the number of available survey templates to more than 40. * Automatic customization: This feature helps organizations to pre-load a logo to a survey greeting Greeting is a way for humans[1] to intentionally communicate awareness of each other's presence, to show attention to, and/or to affirm or suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with and closing page to speed the time it takes to prepare a survey for distribution. * Enhanced Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. support: Users can now more easily export survey data to Microsoft([R]) Excel([R]) for increased data manipulation Processing data. and graphing. * Enhanced survey invitation template (1) A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the : The survey invitation template has been updated with guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. to teach small organizations best practices for improved survey participation and response rates. * Simpler Formatting: Survey questions are now easier to format, which enhances survey readability read·a·ble adj. 1. Easily read; legible: a readable typeface. 2. Pleasurable or interesting to read: a readable story. and response accuracy. ConnectUp!([R]) User Community Constant Contact also recently added additional features to ConnectUp!, its online community for customers, prospects, and other small businesses to connect with like-minded peers and potential business partners. Since its debut in 2006, ConnectUp! has increasingly become a destination for small organizations to get ideas, share insights, ask questions, and foster best practices for achieving success in all aspects of growing and managing a business. ConnectUp! now offers access to resources such as a directory listing of business partners, local Constant Contact training resources, and other Constant Contact customers. To date, the ConnectUp! community has more than 21,000 registered members and more than 3,000 posts on 50 separate topics. The ConnectUp! Business Directory currently offers visitors the opportunity to access information for and connect with more than 250 business partners. Expanded Stock Image Library Additionally, Constant Contact added a stock image gallery with more than 3,400 high-quality, royalty-free images for customers to use in their email communications or online surveys. About Constant Contact, Inc. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact, Inc. is a leading provider of email marketing and online survey tools for small organizations, including small businesses, associations, and nonprofits. To learn more, please visit www.constantcontact.com or call 781-472-8100. This press release contains "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " within the meaning of the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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Constant Contact's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to, the Company's ability to attract new customers and retain existing customers; the Company's dependence on the market for email marketing services for small businesses, nonprofits, and associations; general economic conditions and economic conditions specifically affecting the markets in which the Company operates; adverse regulatory or legal developments; the Company's ability to continue to promote and maintain its brand in a cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. manner; the Company's ability to compete effectively; the continued growth and acceptance of email as a communications tool; the Company's ability to develop and successfully introduce new products or enhancements to existing products; the Company's ability to manage growth; the Company's ability to attract and retain key personnel; the Company's ability to protect its intellectual property and other proprietary rights; and other risks detailed in Constant Contact's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended March 31, 2009 filed with the Securities Exchange Commission ("SEC") on May 8, 2009, as well as other documents that may be filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent Constant Contact's views as of the date of this press release. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its views to change. Constant Contact undertakes no intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Constant Contact's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. |
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