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• SAAD commented  ·  August 12, 2011  ·  Delete

  SAAD

• Mega Portal festas commented  ·  September 04, 2010  ·  Delete

  Conheça o Mega Portal Festas.
  O melhor site de classificados para eventos.
  www.megaportalfestas.com.br

• SMMWaupaca commented  ·  July 06, 2010  ·  Delete

  I really want to use this system but without name I'm not sure I can.

• AdminBrian Armstrong (Admin, FeedmailPro.com) commented  ·  May 31, 2010  ·  Delete

  That's a good point - the welcome email and "one time blasts" could utilize a feature like that. I'm a follower of ProBlogger and some similar sites which advocate this sort of usage. It depends how FeedmailPro ultimately ends up being used. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of normal email newsletters which imitate a personal email using mail merge tools like that - just because it doesn't come across as genuine to me and I think fewer people are swayed by that now days. Especially when it breaks and the email starts as "Hi {fname}, " or something like that. So there are some tricky issues to getting this exactly right. Handling things correctly when the data isn't available or fully complete is tough. Imports get trickier here too when looking at various formats it could come in with (full name, just first name, first name plus initial) etc. When you get it wrong - it's worse than not putting a name at all since people know right away it was automatically generated.

  So I guess these are some general thoughts on it. In general I'd prefer to to keep FMP centered around the idea of blog posts and less focused on newsletters or the other tools provided by Aweber. Would be happy to hear other comments on this one though, I'm willing to be convinced.

• Celestine Chua commented  ·  May 31, 2010  ·  Delete

  Hey Brian, you are right actually. I believe most of us are planning to use it in our welcome email and more importantly, custom email mailers. The custom mailers are when we send special updates like product launches, exclusive offers, etc.. and that's when having a custom name gives that special touch and is crucial in increasing response rate. Custom name is part of the customized experience we want to deliver to our readers/customers.

  This is also how the users of Aweber are using their custom name function too. I subscribe to sites like Problogger.net and A List Blogging who use Aweber, and their regular blog posts are sent as per normal while special launches are sent with the custom names.

• AdminBrian Armstrong (Admin, FeedmailPro.com) commented  ·  May 29, 2010  ·  Delete

  Curious to hear people's thoughts on why this has been voted up. It seems to be a feature better suited for email newsletters or auto-responders. It may come across strange for a blog post to start with "Hi John, ..." when sent as en email newsletter. Can anyone comment on how they would intend to use this? Thanks!