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Opt-in From Anywhere With Flowtown's Website Form Script

Now you can add new leads, submission and contacts to Flowtown instantly without having to change a line of code or switch services.

1. Click Group Settings on the group you'd like to import new contact into

2. Scroll down to Website Form Script. Grab and embed this script on any page with a submission or opt-in form.

3. You're done. Now when you get new submissions people will automatically be imported into Flowtown.

What can you do next? Setup notifications or an autoresponder for this contact group.

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Instantly Import Formstack Submissions into Flowtown AND Get Lead Notifications

You can instantly import new Formstack form submissions into Flowtown AND get notified if a submission hits one of your custom alerts for Influence, Occupation and Location.

1. Goto the Settings for the group you want to import contacts into

2. Grab your Webhook and Handshake key

3. Setup the thresholds you want. Current options are Twitter Influence, Occupation and Location. Learn more about Influence here.

4. Open up your Formstack account in another screen and edit the nofications for the form you want to use with Flowtown

5. Select Email Settings and Add a New action after Form submission

6. Paste your Webhook and Handshake key

7. Click Save

8. Next time you get a submission it will automatically be imported into Flowtown and if it hits a threshold you'll be notified via email via like the example email below.

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How to Send a Social Network Invite with Flowtown

1. Create a new campaign

2. Name the campaign, select single email, then continue

3. If you haven't already, add a new email address to send from

4. Resend verification email if you've already added one

5. Click confirmation link in email

6. Return to the Dashboard

7. Open your campaign back up

8. Write your social invite and then check filter by social network and choose the network you want to filter by

9. Send a test email

10. Click continue

11. Select at least one group you want to send the invite too and click Launch

12. Wait for campaign to finish sending

13. Open the complete campaign up

14. Wait for Opens/Clicks to come in

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How to Export Your Data from Flowtown

1. Select Export to CSV from the dropdown menu of the Contact Group you want to export

2. Wait for the export to complete

3. We will notify you by email when it's ready

4. Click Download CSV

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Devil Dog Brew: Facebook + Flowtown Email Campaign Success Story

Devil Dog Brew, The Best Damn Coffee In The World!, used Flowtown to automatically segment a customer list of theirs that was in MailChimp by Age, Gender, Location and Social Network.

Afterwards they saw a large portion of their customers were on Facebook and decided to send a targeted email campaign to those customers.

This email campaign (screenshot below) was designed to turn their existing email relationships into social relationships by asking these customers to come and 'Like' their fan page. It also contained a small purchase call to action.

How Did It Perform?

• 50% Open Rate vs. list average of 24.8%
• 19.2% CTR vs. list average of 6%
• 6% E-Commerce Sale Conversion Rate vs. list average of 2.3%
• 3.5% conversion to a Facebook Fan

Take aways

• Sending targeted email, even by something as simple as social network, will lift your open, click and conversion rates
• Even if the purpose is to connect on a social network, always have a secondary call to action

Get started with Flowtown today and send your first targeted email campaign. 

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How to View Your Contact Insights Report

1. Select any contact group and click the Insights link (can take a while depending on how big your contact group is.)

2. Viola! You can also go back to the individual contact view by clicking Table

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Instantly Import Wufoo Submissions into Flowtown AND Setup Alerts

You can instantly import new Wufoo form submission into Flowtown AND get notified if a submission hits one of your custom alerts for Influence, Occupation and Location.

1. Goto the Settings for the group you want to import contacts into

2. Setup the thresholds you want. Current options are Twitter Influence, Occupation and Location. Learn more about Influence here.

3. Open up your Wufoo account in another screen and edit the nofications for the form you want to use with Flowtown

4. Select Flowtown from the notifications dropdown under Wingman

5. Click add

6. Copy and paste the Webhook and Handshake key from the Flowtown settings to the Wufoo Notification settings box and click Save

7. Next time you get a submission it will automatically be imported into Flowtown and if it hits a threshold you'll be notified via email via like the example email below.

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Easily Follow a Contact Group on Twitter

With Flowtown, you can now follow a group of your contacts on Twitter with just a few clicks. Boom Boom Pow!

1. Click the dropdown menu of a contact group on your dashboard

2. Select Follow on Twitter

3. Click start following

Going forward whenever you add new contacts to this group, they'll be automatically followed on Twitter.

You can always return to the Follow on Twitter menu and click Stop Following to turn this off.

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Server Upgrade on June 1st from 9pm - 11pm PST

Howdy!

Tonight Flowtown.com will be going offline from 9pm - 11pm PST.

We're in the process of moving our servers from the kind folks at Linode to Amazom Web Services.

What does this mean for you? A faster import process, more reliabliity and redudancy. Basically an all around speedier and more stable Flowtown expierence.

Any imports running during this migration will be uneffected, however they won't complete until the migration is finished. Any autoresponders running during the migration will be paused until the migration completes, and then return back to normal.

If you have any questions please email help@flowtown.com.

Thank you for your patience during this period of downtime.

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