Jerry
posted this on September 27, 2010 15:51
ContactMe integrates seamlessly with your favorite small business applications. Currently you can integrate with ConstantContact and MailChimp.
To begin, select "Add-Ons" from the top right-hand menu:

That will bring you to this screen:

Select a service on the left to connect your account and enter your account information:
Once you click on "Constant Contact", the first screen you will see will ask you to log in with your Constant Contact username and password:

Once you are logged in, you will see the different mail lists that you have created in Constant Contact. All you need to do is select the email lists that you want to integrate into ContactMe by checking the boxes next to the email list name. Next, click the "Sync Constant Contact button":

In your "Contacts" view, the email lists from Constant Contact that you chose to integrate will now appear as separate groups on the left-hand menu:

Also note: Your group name will now have "Synched with Constant Contact" displayed right under the "Manage Group" button:

This gives you the increased flexibility to manage and communicate with those groups from your Constant Contact lists differently than the rest of your contacts. To do this, click on the Constant Contact list from the menu on the left (identified by the envelope icon to the left of the list name):

Here you have the same options that you have for the rest of your groups, listed right under the Group name as hyperlinks:
When you click on "Send Email", you will be presented with a pop-up window that looks like this:

From here you have the choice to send your email from either ContactMe, or Constant Contact. For ContactMe, click on the "My Email Client" tab. Click on the "Constant Contact" tab and then the "Send a campaign..." link underneath to send your email from Constant Contact.
The synching process also works in reverse -- you can sync a group from ContactMe back into Constant Contact! All you need to do is click on the group from the left-hand menu, then click on the "Sync to Constant Contact" hyperlink under the group name:

Finally, you can modify your Contact Form to allow your visitors to subscribe to your Constant Contact mailing lists. To do this, access your form by clicking "Settings" in the top right-hand menu, then "My Form", then the blue "Edit my Contact Form" button. You will then see a section below "Basic Settings" called "Mailing List". Just click the box to enable the opt-in on your contact form, then select the appropriate group from the drop-down list below it:
