Social Tab

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are the talk about nowadays. Used correctly, these social media platforms are powerful tool in promoting whatever you got from your "emo status updates" to your "serious money-making business". Imagine, you can reach out to possible prospects from any place in the world with these social media platforms without spending a penny to travel to their place. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn would just deliver your email message / newsletter right in the room where their computers are located.


iContact has a built-in module that allow you to post the advertisements, flyers, email messages, newsletters you have created. In a perfect scenario, you don't need to log on to your social media platforms to post update(s) to your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts. Once your social media accounts are integrated with your iContact, you only need to go to your iContact Email Marketing software's "Social Media" page to do all these.

Below is an overview of what you can expect in your iContact Email Marketing software's "Social Media" page.

01. The "Social Media" page can be accessed by simply clicking on the "Social" tab of your iContact Email Marketing software. The "Social" tab can be seen on the upper part along with the other tabs such as "Home", "Contacts", "Email", and "Reports".
02. A Facebook logo will be shown here. If you click this Facebook logo, it should allow you to choose the Facebook page you intend to post your updates.
03. The Twitter icon is located just below the Facebook icon. Clicking on this Twitter icon should also allow you to choose the Twitter page you want to post your updates.
04. The LinkedIn icon should be found just below the Twitter icon, which should have the same purpose like the two above-mentioned social media icons.
05. Each of these social media icons will have a corresponding text box where you can type in whatever updates you want to show your Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn contacts.
06. Just beside the above-mentioned text box, there will be an indicator that shows you a quick glance on which social media page will show the updates that you will be posting.
07. There will be two buttons below the text box where you type in your updates, one button should allow you to post your updates immediately and the other one should allow you to schedule your social media post(s) on the date and time of your choice.
08. The "Show Advanced Settings" on the other hand allows you to choose the campaign for categorizing the post.
09. "Posted", "Drafts", and "Scheduled". These will classify your updates if you have chosen to post them immediately, or scheduled them, and so on.
10. Your updates, post or not posted, will be shown on each respective categories. Be it "Posted", "Drafts", or "Scheduled".
11. This will only be visible for Facebook updates posts as it will show the number of "Facebook Likes" you got, the umber of comments on your post(s), or if someone even bother to click on your Facebook post(s).




Your iContact Email Marketing software's "Social" tab works alongside with your iContact Email Marketing software's "Social Media Settings" page. This is the one the you access by clicking on the upper right part (where a small arrow icon is pointing downwards), to reveal a drop down menu, then choosing the "Social Media Settings" option.

Contents

The Five Main iContact Tabs

• Home Tab
• Contacts Tab
• Email Tab
• Social Tab
• Reports Tab

Usual iContact Feature

• Add Contacts Feature
• Autoresponders Feature
• Browse Contacts Feature
• iContact Email Marketing Software Tutorials
• iContact Help / Knowledge Base
• Last Message Feature
• Lists Feature
• Messages Feature
• Pending Messages Feature
• RSS In Feeds Feature
• Search Contacts Feature
• Segments Feature
• Sent Messages Feature
• Sign-up Forms Feature
• Surveys Feature
• Tracking Dashboard Feature
• Your iContact Image Library

Usual iContact How-To

• Adding Contacts To Your Lists
• Arrange Your Contacts Alphabetically Or Chronologically
• Changing The "From Name" And The "From Email Address"
• Changing Your iContact Username
• Creating A List
• Creating A Perfect Autoresponder
• Email Address Associated With Your iContact Account
• I Forgot My iContact Username And / Or Password
• Integrate Your Social Media Accounts With Your iContact
• View Your Contacts History

Workarounds

• Removing The Underline From Your Hyperlinks

Others

• Disclaimer
• Privacy Policy For iContact Tutorials

Add Contacts

Now we go to your "Add Contacts to My Lists" page. This portion of your iContact allows you to choose among options on how you can add your contact(s) in your list(s). It also allow you to access the page where you can create your sign-up forms.


01. To go to the "Add Contacts to My Lists" page you must first click on the "Contacts" tab, which should take you to the "Contacts" tab page. A dark blue bar should also appear just below the "Contacts" tab that you just clicked, and should give you more options; "Lists", "Add Contacts", "Browse Contacts", "Search Contacts", "Segments", "Sign-up Forms"
02. The "Add Contacts" option is the one that you need to click next.
03. This option brings you to your "Create or Edit Sign-up Forms" page, where you can begin building your sign-up form.
04. The "Add Contacts from a File" option should bring you to a page that will allow you to upload or import the email addresses of your contacts through supported files.
05. The "Add Contacts One by One" is another option to upload or import contacts to your iContact Email Marketing software.
06. Another interesting feature is the "Copy & Paste Contacts". It allows you to just copy multiple email address from a source and paste them all on the text box from this page.

Privacy Policy For iContact Tutorials

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This website
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Cookie
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Legal information
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This privacy policy is solely about this website.



Latest update: March 26, 2014

Lists

The "My Lists" page shows you the name of your list(s), and a quick information on how many subscribers are included in each list(s). The "My Lists" page should also allow you to create, delete, as well as view your list(s) health. You may also access the "Add Contacts to My Lists" page from here.


01. To go to the "My Lists" page you must first click on the "Contacts" tab, which should take you to the "Contacts" tab page. A dark blue bar should also appear just below the "Contacts" tab that you just clicked, and should give you more options; "Lists", "Add Contacts", "Browse Contacts", "Search Contacts", "Segments", "Sign-up Forms"
02. Clicking on the "Lists" option should take you to the "My Lists" page.
03. This is the part where all the information on list(s) name will be displayed. A quick count of the number of contacts will also be shown here, as well as the link for adding contacts, adding a "Welcome Message", delete list(s), and view list health.
04. This is the column where list(s) name are displayed.
05. The link to add a "Welcome Message" goes here.
06. On this part you should see a quick information on the number of subscribers, and the link to go to the "Add Contacts to My Lists" page.
07. If you would like to delete your list(s), you just need to look on this part of the page - you should see the "Delete" link. It is also beside the "Delete" link where you will see the "List Health" link, which should display the list health for you.
08. This is the button that you click to create a new list.

Disclaimer

The information in and available from this website http://icontact-tutorials.blogspot.com/ ("iContact Tutorials") has been prepared and/or obtained for general information, education, and reference purposes only and is not intended to replace iContact's built-in Help and Knowledge Base systems. The iContact Tutorials website is not in any way affiliated with Vocus or iContact!

Transmission of any of the contents of "iContact Tutorials" to you, or your access and/or use of "iContact Tutorials" is not intended to, and does not replace Vocus or iContact's help database / knowledge base (the one that you access by clicking on the "Help" link on the upper part of your iContact account).

While every effort is made to ensure the correctness and completeness of the information contained herein, you acknowledge that "iContact Tutorials", its owners, administrators, contributors, and partners do not promise or guarantee that the information contained herein is correct, complete, or up-to-date. Vocus' iContact software is continually undergoing improvements and some particular issues may require the consideration of facts, policies and procedures that are not fully addressed in "iContact Tutorials". There is no guarantee that the information in "iContact Tutorials" is correct, complete, or up-to-date for any specific circumstance.

"iContact Tutorials" may link to other locations via the Internet, and there is no endorsement, guarantee or warranty made or implied with respect to the content and information available at another site, and "iContact Tutorials" does not monitor any linked sites or evaluate the propriety or correctness of any information available at a linked site.

If you need official iContact information, please use their official website which is http://www.icontact.com/, and the Knowledge Base within that site.

Search Contacts

The iContact Email Marketing software's "Search Contact" function is a convenient way to search for a specific email address. This feature is very straightforward that you just need to type in what you are looking for on the search field and click on the the "quicksearch" or "Search My Contacts" button.


01. To go to the "Search Contacts" page page you must first click on the "Contacts" tab, which should take you to the "Contacts" tab page. A dark blue bar should also appear just below the "Contacts" tab that you just clicked, and should give you more options; "Lists", "Add Contacts", "Browse Contacts", "Search Contacts", "Segments", "Sign-up Forms"
02. Clicking on this "Search Contact" option should take you to your iContact Email Marketing software's "Search My Contacts" page.
03. This portion is where you type in the email address (or words that may be part of email address) you want to search. The screenshot also show the "quicksearch" button.
04. This "browse all my contacts" button take you back to your "Browse Contacts" page should you need to do so.
05. This is the "Advanced Contact Search" part should you need more keywords that won't fit on the "Quick Contact Search" portion.
06. You may also search contacts based on when they were added on.
07. If you have some custom fields in your iContact account, you may also use them to limit your search.
08. Finally, the "Search My Contacts" button that you need to click should you need to take advantage of the "Advanced Contact Search".

Sign-up Forms

A sign-up form is something that you see on some websites where visitors can type in their email address, and in return they get to receive newsletters - so to say this is the most common scenario.


The iContact Email Marketing software "Sign-up Forms" page allows you to create fully functional sign-up forms that you can integrate with your HTML-based website(s), and Facebook Fan Pages.


01. This is the link that you need to click to take advantage of the features the "Contacts" tab contain.
02. Clicking this link should take you to your iContact Email Marketing software's "Create or Edit Sign-up Forms" page.
03. This portion "Social Tools Sign-up Forms" shows the Facebook sign-up form(s) that you have generated using your iContact Email Marketing software.
04. Facebook sign-up form name(s) appear on this portion.
05. This "Edit this Form" icon is indicated by a paper with a pencil on top, and will allow you to change the Facebook Fan Page where it will show up.
06. The magnifying glass icon would be your "Preview this Form" feature that allows you to have a glimpse on how your Facebook Fan Page sign-up form would look like in Facebook.
07. This trash bin icon is quite self-explanatory. This should allow you to delete one of your Facebook sign-up forms.
08. The "Create Facebook Form" button allows you to create a new Facebook sign-up form for you Facebook Fan Page(s).
09. This portion "HTML Sign-up Forms" shows the HTML sign-up form(s) that you have generated using your iContact Email Marketing software. The codes produced here can be used on HTML-based website(s). You may also use the codes on other non-HTML webpage platforms as long as you have some code converter or API.
10. HTML sign-up form name(s) appear on this portion.
11. This is where you check if the sign-up form would send a confirmation message to those who signed up for your newsletter, and this is also what you click on to add a confirmation message to your HTML sign-up form.
12. The "View HTML" allows you to view the source code of the sign up form genereated by your iContact Email Marketing software.
13. The "Delete" to wipe out your HTML sign-up form(s).
14. The "Create HTML Form" is what you click to have your iContact Email Marketing software generate HTML sign-up form(s) for you.

Browse Contacts

The iContact Email Marketing software's "Browse Contacts" feature is very straightforward. This function allows you to take a look on the email addresses included in your list(s). The "Browse Contacts" page should also allow you to edit each contact's profile and view their history. A contact's history contain information such as when the contact was added to list(s), sent messages, bounced messages, and so on. This page should also allow you to do certain functions like (or put the contacts to a certain status) "Copy", "Move", "Unsubscribe", "Delete", "Export", "Do not contact".


01. To go to the "Browse Contacts" page you must first click on the "Contacts" tab, which should take you to the "Contacts" tab page. A dark blue bar should also appear just below the "Contacts" tab that you just clicked, and should give you more options; "Lists", "Add Contacts", "Browse Contacts", "Search Contacts", "Segments", "Sign-up Forms"
02. Clicking on this "Browse Contacts" option should bring you to your iContact Email Marketing software's "Browse Contacts" page.
03. This portion provides you a drop down selection to choose which list(s) or segment(s) you want to browse.
04. This part should display some sort of summary about the total number of contacts you have in your account. How many of them are subscribed, got bounced, placed themselves in "Do Not Contact", and so on.
05. A convenient "display limiter" that allows you to set the number of contacts you want to iContact Email Marketing software to display for browsing. At the time of this writing, it gives you option to display 20, 50, 100, or 200 contacts at a time.
06. Just below the "display limiter", the contacts are display along with information such as first names, last names, the date they were added to the list you are browsing.
07. Left pane shows the email addresses of your contacts.
08. This is the icon for the "Edit Contact Profile". Clicking on this icon takes you to a page where you can modify your contacts' first name, last name, and so on.
09. This is the icon for the "View Contact History". Clicking on this icon takes you to a page where you see when your contacts were added, if they unsubscribed, and so on.
10. This part shows the "Actions" that you can do to your contacts' information.

The Contacts Tab

A number of cool features can be tapped when you access the "Contacts" tab. Features such as lists creation, contact search, adding contact(s) to one or more lists, segments creation and more. The "Contacts" tab is the second mostly clicked tab in your iContact Email Marketing Software.


You may access the "Contacts" tab by clicking on the upper part of your iContact Email Marketing Software where it shows "Contacts". This should be in between the "Home" and "Email" tabs.


01. This is the link that you need to click to take advantage of the features the "Contacts" tab contain.
02. The "My Lists" portion takes you to a page that would allow you to view or create list(s).
03. The "Add Contacts" takes you to that part in your iContact Email Marketing software that will allow you to upload your contacts' email addresses or create a sign-up form for your Facebook or HTML-based websites.
04. This "Search My Contacts" category allows you to go to that part in your iContact Email Marketing software to search for a specific email address by typing it on a search box, or browse the email addresses contained in your list(s).
05. "My Segments" would then allow you to go to a page where you can create or edit your iContact Email Marketing software segments. Segments are a powerful tool for targeting specific subscribers.
06. The dark-blue bar that gives you the options under the "Contacts" tab. As of this writing, it shows "Lists", "Add Contacts", "Browse Contacts", "Search Contacts", "Segments", "Sign-up Forms".




To wrap things up, the "Contacts" tab is what you will most likely access if you are doing these tasks:

• Browse your list(s) and its respective contacts.
• Create / edit / delete your list(s).
• Create / edit / delete segments.
• Create sign-up forms that you can use with your Facebook or HTML-based websites. Other platforms like WordPress would need a third party widget / API.
• Edit your contacts' personal information such as first nasme, last names, and so on.
• Search a contact by typing in their email address.
• Upload the email addresses of your contacts to any list(s) of your preference.
• View your contacts' history.

Segments

The iContact "Segments" page is where you create your segments. Segments are a powerful tool for targeting specific subscribers. You use segments to create targeted lists based on subscriber data. For example, you would like to send different email messages / newsletters to your male and female contacts but all of them (male and female contacts) are in just one list. Let's say these are your contacts' email addresses:

Male Contacts	Female Contacts
abc@abc.com	wxy@wxy.com
bcd@bcd.com	xyz@xyz.com

If these email addresses are all contained in just 1 list, and (as mentioned above), to send a different email message for male contacts (abc@abc.com and bcd@bcd.com) and for female contacts (wxy@wxy.com and xyz@xyz.com) you can either create 2 separate lists and move them to the list that represent their genders or create some custom field and segments that will accomplish the task for you. This is just an overview on what you can expect from this cool iContact Email Marketing software feature.


The "My Segments" page can be accessed by clicking on the "Contacts" tab and choosing the "Segments" option that is located on the dark blue bar just below the "Contacts" tab, represented respectively by the 01 and 02 below.


01. The iContact Email Marketing Software "Contacts" tab.
02. The "Segments" option located on the dark blue bar just below the "Contacts" tab.
03. This is the part where you will see all the segments that you have created.
04. This "Create A New Segment" button is the one to click should you need to create a new segment.

Adding Contacts To Your Lists

Now that you have created your list(s), it's time to add / upload your contacts. Your iContact Email Marketing software allows you to upload contacts one at a time or by group. Further, you may add contacts by group through copy and paste or by uploading / importing a file. At the time of this writing, your iContact Email Marketing software only accepts three file formats; CSV, XLS (not XLSX), and VCF. Sample files are provided for download at the end of this article so you won't have to do a trial and error on what fields to use for your contacts' database.


To add / upload your contacts the your list(s) in your iContact Email Marketing software, please follow these steps:
01. Click on the "Contacts" tab.
02. Click on the "Lists" option on the dark blue bar just below the "Contacts" tab. This should take you to the "My Lists" page.
03. Click on the "Add" link on the right part of the list where you want to add your contact(s). This should take you to your "Add Contacts to My Lists" page (the third screenshot shown below).



Another step to adding / uploading your contact(s) to your list(s) can be accomplished by following these steps:
01. Click on the "Contacts" tab.
02. Click on the "Add Contacts" option on the dark blue bar just below the "Contacts" tab. This should take you to a page with four rectangular sections categorized as "My Lists", "Add Contacts", "Search My Contacts", "My Segments".
03. From the "Add Contacts" category, you should be able to choose among these options; "Upload From File", "One at a Time", "Copy & Paste". From here, each option you choose should take you to these options' respective pages shown on screenshots 4, 5, and 6 below.



If you follow the steps from the first screenshot, your iContact Email Marketing software should take you to your "Add Contacts to My Lists" page (shown below). This page should give you three options on how you may want to upload / import your contacts:
01. Upload Contacts From a File. Choosing this takes you to the "Upload Contacts" page. Should be the 6th screenshot on this article.
02. Add Contacts One by One. This option takes you to your iContact Email Marketing software's "Add One Contact" page, and that should be the 4th screenshot in this article.
03. Copy & Paste Contacts. Choose this option and you should see your "Copy & Paste Contacts" screen, which should be the 5th screenshot in this article.



This "Add One Contact" option allows you to upload / import one email address along some associated information such as the first name, last name, address, phone, and so on.
01. This is the field where you type in the email address you want to add. This field is required.
02. This is the part where you put check(s) on the checkbox(es) on the list where you want to associate the email address you are trying to add.
03. These are the optional fields where you can type in those information associated to the contact you are trying to add.
04. Check this checkbox if you would like iContact to send the contact you are trying to add a "Confirmation Message". More information about "Confirmation Message" is found in a separate article.
05. Once you are sure that every information you have typed in are all correct, you may now click on this "Add Contact" button to add your contact.



In iContact's "Copy & Paste Contacts" page, you can conveniently just copy or cut and paste email addresses from a text or excel spreadsheet file. This option was designed so that even if you have a text file that contain texts that looked like this: "Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company and his email address is henry.ford@ford.com. He was married to Clara Jane Bryant. Clara's email address is cjb@ford.com, and so on..."
If you copy or cut and paste such message construction above, the system should detect and upload / import the email addresses from the article which are henry.ford@ford.com and cjb@ford.com. The drawback of this feature is that it has no option for you to type in other information such as the first names, last names, or other necessary information regarding the contact(s).
01. This is the part where you put check(s) on the checkbox(es) on the list where you want to associate the email address you are trying to add.
02. This is area where you paste the above-mentioned texts. Your iContact Email Marketing software will detect the email addresses in a group of texts you have pasted.
03. Check this checkbox if you would like iContact to send the contact you are trying to add a "Confirmation Message". More information about "Confirmation Message" is found in a separate article.
04. Once you are sure that every information you have typed in are all correct, you may now click on this "Add Contact" button to add your contact.



Choosing the "Upload From File" option should bring you this screen. From here you should be able to import / upload your contacts as long as the format is one of the three accepted file formats mentioned earlier in this article.
01. This is the part where you put check(s) on the checkbox(es) on the list where you want to associate the email address you are trying to add.
02. Click on the "Choose File" button and you should be able to search the file you want to import / upload from your computer to your iContact Email Marketing software.
03. Check this checkbox if you would like iContact to send the contact you are trying to add a "Confirmation Message". More information about "Confirmation Message" is found in a separate article.
04. Click on the "Upload Contacts" button once you have finalized your choices from steps 01, 02, and 03.
05. This will be your "Upload History", which should show you the number of contacts you have uploaded when you first started using your iContact Email Marketing software. A "complete" would mean a successful upload, while a "noaction" would mean a failed upload.



The iContact Tutorials Admin team suggests that you use the XLS file format when uploading / importing contacts. Below are sample files that you can download so you would know how the headers are arranged.

XLS Format Sample File	CSV Format Sample File	VCF Format Sample File

If you are curious about VCF files you may want to check a website called: http://vcardmaker.com/. This website is not in any way associated with iContact Tutorials.