Internet Explorer

If you are currently using Internet Explorer, showroom exchange highly recommends switching to Firefox or Google Chrome. There are known issues with older versions of Internet Explorer (prior to version 9) such as longer times for rendering pages. e.g. white pages when navigating different tabs in showroom exchange.

If you are using Internet Explorer 9, the issue may not be as dramatic; however, we still recommend Firefox or Google Chrome. You can obtain them from the following links:

Firefox www.mozilla.org/firefox

Chrome www.google.com/chrome

State and Country in Showroom Exchange

Previously, the state field was a required attribute when entering customers into showroom exchange.

With a recent update, the state field is no longer required when choosing countries other than the US, Canada, or Australia.

You can also create and associate your own state to a country. e.g. BC/British Columbia under Canada.

Insert State

List All is Now Clear Search

In our continuous efforts to make Showroom Exchange more user friendly, we have changed the “List All” label to “Clear Search.”

“Clear Search” removes any prior criteria specified in the top row below the column headers, allowing you to start a fresh search.

Clear Search

Personalized Bulk Email Tracking

Showroom Exchange now allows you to track the deliverability of your personalized bulk emails. Check to see if your recipients opened your email campaign and view the click through rate for embedded links that they may have clicked.

Once your campaign is submitted it takes 1-2 hours from the time the recipient opens or clicks on the link for the stats to be populated. For this reason it is best to check campaign stats starting at least 4 hours after submission. Consider checking the stats for the same campaign at different times to track progress.

To track your email campaign, hover your mouse over “Customers” and click on “PBE sent items.”

PBE Sent Items

 

 

Click on the stats icon (pie graph) for your email campaign stats.

PBE Pie Chart Icon

 

 

Notice the “Overview”, “Open Stats” and “Link/Click stats” tabs (see screenshot below). The “Overview” tab covers the delivered and bounced rate of your email as well as general open and click statistics.

You can click on the number of Recipients Opened/Click to get more details on who specifically opened and displayed images or clicked on your links.

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From the “Open Stats” tab you’ll be able to see your open statistics in more detail. You will be able to see unique v. total opens (definitions are on this tab).

pbe.stats2

 

 

On the “Click Stats” tab, you can see you click stats in more detail. Not only can you see unique v. total clicks, but you can see a unique/total click break down for each of the links within your email.

pbe.stats3

 

 

Click on the number to see who exactly clicked on the link.

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IMPORTANT: Please understand that the open rate is not a 100% accurate measure. The “open” % rate is available only if the recipients email is capable of displaying html with images, and the “View Images” option is turned on when they view your email. If the recipient opens the email but does not allow displaying of images; stats cannot be logged. Link tracking is logged when the recipient clicks on any of your embedded links.

 

Definitions:
Subject: the subject for your PBE.
Sent: date and time sent.
PBE content: a copy of your sent PBE.
Total customer: the customers you chose to send to.
Total custom recipients: emails that you manually entered (not an existing customer record).
Total sent: count/percentage of total emails sent.
Delivered: count/percentage of emails delivered.
Bounced: count/percentage of emails bounced due to the following reasons below.
Bad address: count/percentage of recipients with incorrect email addresses.
Temporary error: count/percentage of recipients who may or may not receive your PBE. This condition applies to recipients whose mail servers remain (at the time of viewing the stats) unresponsive. No later than 5 days from the time the PBE was sent, these values should become bad address, spam complaint, other errors or delivered messages.
Spam complaint: count/percentage of recipients who marked your PBE as spam. This is most commonly done with the respective email program’s “this is spam”, “mark as spam” or “block all emails from this user”, etc.
Other: percentage of customers who did not receive your PBE that is not classified in the reasons above.

Best Practice for Personalized Bulk Emails

You can never undo a bulk send! When creating a personalized bulk email, don’t forget to first send a test to yourself. This will help confirm that you are happy with the results.

Follow these simple steps. First, create a test customer in showroom exchange and name it after something you’ll remember. e.g.; your showroom and your reps as the contacts. Under the contact email fields, add seed accounts for testing. e.g.;
Email1: yourname@yourshowroom.com
Email1: yourpeer@yourshowroom.com
Email3: yourshowroom@gmail.com *
Email4: yourshowroom@yahoo.com *
Email5: yourshowroom@hotmail.com *
*use existing accounts or create new ones

After your test customer is created, search for it on the customer view.
** MAKE SURE ONLY YOUR TEST ACCOUNT IS LISTED. **
Choose “use email or fax of all contacts” and click “personalized bulk email.”

 

PBE All Contacts

 

Now create your personalized bulk email. When completed, be sure to save as a template before sending. This way, when sending a personalized bulk email, you can review it from different emails to verify that you are satisfied with the end results.

If all looks good in the multiple inboxes, you can then send out the blast to your targeted recipients. Also, don’t forget to change the target recipient from ALL to Primary, assuming that you only intend to send it to just the main contact.

Modify Commission Rates When Entering Invoices in JSC

JSC, our alternate customer, order, and invoice entry tool has been revised.

You can now modify the order commission rate from the JSC invoicing page. This feature has been available on the regular invoicing page but has now made its way to JSC.

 

JSC Invoicing

 

You can also control which commission fields that are visible for editing by checking/unchecking the following:

 

JSC Reps

 

 

Want to skip the wait time when sorting multiple columns?

On any view page, when sorting multiple columns, by default, showroom exchange will refresh the page before you can select the next column, e.g.; in the following screen-shot, we have state first, city second, and zip third. By default, showroom exchange would have refreshed the page 3 times to deliver the sort order shown below, once after each column is clicked.

Multi Sort

We can change your showroom profile so that the page does not refresh until you finalize the search by clicking search button or pressing enter on your keyboard. Â If you frequently sort by multiple columns, this may be a preferred option for your showroom.

To have us make this change, please email your request to help@readytoview.com.
In the subject line indicate “switch to new column sort.”

I’ve Never (or Not Recently) Sent an E-Blast But I Just Received An Un-Subscription Notice!

You have just received an email notifying you that your customer has unsubscribed from your mailing list but you haven’t sent an e-blast recently. What happened?

When a customer receives an e-blast from a showroom, they have different options for unsubscribing. They can either unsubscribe to the showroom that sent the e-blast, or they can unsubscribe selectively from one or all showrooms that have the same email address in their customer database.

Whether unsubscribing intentionally or unintentionally, you can try to get them back!

The next time you are in contact with your customer, before ending the call, mention that you’ve noticed they have recently opted out from future emails. Ask why they chose to opt out in the first place. Was it too many emails? Were the email content not relevant to them?

The goal is to reengage them back into your mailing list. If you manage to change their mind, you can invite them back.

This is how:
1. on the customer view page, search for the customer and click the mail subscription icon under the manage column
Mail Subscription Icon
2. select the checkbox for their unsubscribed email address
3. revise the invitation making it more personal
Manage Email Subscription
4. click the green “send subscription invite” button
once the customer receives the email, they must agree to be re-subscribed back.

example of an email notifying you that the customer has unsubscribed email:
Example of an Unsubscription Email

FTC requires that email recipients have an unsubscribe option
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business

My Customer Unsubscribed From Future E-Blasts (Personalized Bulk Emails), Now What?

You have just received an email notifying you that your customer has unsubscribed from your mailing list, what do you do next?

Whether unsubscribing intentionally or unintentionally, you can try to get them back!

The next time you are in contact with your customer, before ending the call, mention that you’ve noticed they have recently opted out from future emails. Ask why they chose to opt out in the first place. Was it too many emails? Were the email content not relevant to them?

The goal is to reengage them back into your mailing list. If you manage to change their mind, you can invite them back.

This is how:
1. on the customer view page, search for the customer and click the mail subscription icon under the manage column
Mail Subscription Icon
2. select the checkbox for their unsubscribed email address
3. revise the invitation making it more personal
Manage Email Subscription
4. click the green “send subscription invite” button
once the customer receives the email, they must agree to be re-subscribed back.

example of an email notifying you that the customer has unsubscribed email:
Example of an Unsubscription Email

FTC requires that email recipients have an unsubscribe option
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business