Email Marketing
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What is Constant Contact?

Email Marketing by Constant Contact® is the easy, effective, and highly affordable way to get your message out to your customers, clients, or members. You'll create high-impact, professional-looking emails—quickly and with no technical expertise. And, most importantly, you'll build strong connections with your audience that lead to referrals, repeat business and loyalty.

With Email Marketing by Constant Contact, you can:

  • Choose from more than 400 easily customized email templates—or create your own from scratch
  • Create highly visual, professional-looking email newsletters and promotions in just minutes
  • Drive more traffic to your website with focused, targeted email communications
  • Build and manage your email list:  import existing customer lists, add names individually, or capture contact information from website visitors.
  • Measure your email campaign results instantly; check click-through rates, review new subscribers, and see who opened and clicked on each link so you can tailor your follow-up communications
  • Send automated communications to new sign-ups via an autoresponder tool
  • Communicate with your audience with confidence, knowing that Constant Contact will take care of getting your email delivered and keep you CAN-SPAM compliant.
  • Discover how the power of Email Marketing by Constant Contact can help you better connect with your customers, strengthen your relationships with them, and grow your organization.
Sign up for a free trial of Constant Contact and see for yourself!

Email Marketing by Constant Contact -- Benefits of QTA Membership

Email Marketing is an important, critical marketing tool to your quilt shop's business. It helps you stay in touch with your customers to educate them and keep them up-to-date on your business' happenings.

Quilt Trade Association (QTA) is pleased to provide these special offerings that are provided to us by Constant Contact, a premier email marketing tool.
These special offerings provide the following membership benefits:
  • A 10% savings off the published price of Constant Contact, for a 6 month or 12 month advance subscription. This relates to a savings, for example, of $90 per year if you have an email list of 501 - 2500 names and choose a 12 month advance subscription. Note the published price of this scenario is $360/year, however with the discount because you are a QTA member, it is reduced to $270/year (a savings of $90).
  • A personal consultant from Constant Contact who is the QTA liaison to our members. QTA members can contact, no obligation, Nick Todd, Constant Contact, 866.497.5421 or ntodd@constantcontact.com to find out more about how to get started and pricing information.
  • A "no obligation" free 60 day trial of Constant Contact, through a link that Quilt Trade Association has specially arranged with Constant Contact - to make it easier for you. Click here for this link.
  • Free educational webinars, sponsored by QTA, that address topics such as "Effective Email Marketing" and "Common Email Marketing Mistakes" and more!
Interested in a 12 minute tutorial on getting started with Contact Contact? Click here

Already a Constant Contact customer and want to get the special discounts for Constant Contact that are a benefit of your QTA membership? Email Constant Contact at solutionprovider@constantcontact.com and they will adjust your subscription price accordingly.  In the email, be sure to 1)  tell them that you are a member of Quilt Trade Association and 2) provide them with your Constant Contact "user name".