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How to Remove Constituents from a Marketing Effort
Prior to beginning this process, be sure you have: Created your marketing effort Finalized your effort settings Added your segments and exclusions If you have already calculated, exported, and downloaded your list, click here. 1. Calculate your segment count. 2. Review your calculations and click Go to *Name of marketing effort to return to the […]
Marketing Efforts Planning Calendar
If you’ve ever wanted to peer into a crystal ball and see the future, look no further than the GAIL Planning Calendar. Located in the Marketing & Communications functional area, the Planning Calendar includes all of the marketing efforts and events that have ever been added to GAIL. It even includes the upcoming travel dates […]
When to Refresh Selections
Knowing which selection to use in your direct marketing effort or event invitation can sometimes be tricky, but it doesn’t need to be! In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to look up existing selections, what each type of selection is used for, and how to know if your selection needs to be […]
The Importance of Activating Direct Marketing Efforts
Activation is the last and arguably most important step in the process of sending a direct marketing effort. We know it’s easy to forget this last step in the excitement of downloading your mailing list or sending your email, but it is imperative, both for your unit and for the integrity of GAIL as a […]
The Importance of Exclusions
Contents What are exclusions? How does GAIL know who doesn’t want to receive a particular communication? What happens when I send a marketing effort or event invitation? How do I know which exclusions to add? Is it important to put the correct exclusions for my communication? What are exclusions? Respecting the wishes of our constituents […]
Tracking Marketing Effort Revenue with Finder Numbers
Did you know that marketing efforts in GAIL allow you to track gifts that are made as a result of the effort? All it takes to enable this feature is adding a placeholder segment to generate a finder number. First thing’s first: what’s a placeholder segment? A placeholder segment acts just like all the segments […]
New: Single Page Marketing Efforts
If you’ve noticed your marketing efforts look a little bit different lately, you’re not imagining things. Recently we added links to the Tasks bar (found in the top left corner of DMEs) in order to create a single page marketing effort experience. Now once the marketing effort is created in GAIL, all of the resources […]
When to Add Spouses to a Mailing List
Through the Events – Preferred Name Format, you have the option to force spouses in as addressees for your marketing effort or event communication (read more about Events – Preferred Name Format here). Below are some do’s and don’ts of adding spouses to your communications. I Do’s Event Invitations Solicitations Holiday Cards I Don’ts Alumni […]
Locating Existing Selections & Segments in GAIL
Are you creating new segments every single time you process a marketing effort? Did you know that most of the time this step is unnecessary? Once a selection has been created and transformed into a segment, it will continue to exist in GAIL with the potential to be used for multiple future marketing efforts. Let’s […]
Sender, Send Name, Send Hour on Email Statistics Page
By using the email statistics link in the marketing and communications functional area, you can get a list of email correspondences sent out through GAIL. You can also click into the name of your, or any, email and get more stats for that particular email, like open rates, donation and event registration dollars generated, and […]