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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.method.me/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Method:Classic General Q&amp;amp;A</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/13.aspx</link><description>Ask technical support questions, how do I? Questions... Or anything else you want to know from the Method Team and other Method users.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)</generator><item><title>Re: eMarketing and Sales automation feature</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19752.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:52:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:19752</guid><dc:creator>Method_Jason</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19752.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=19752</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Hi George,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="mce_1_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_2_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;This is interesting! One problem you may run into is that you cannot automate actions&lt;span id="mce_5_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. They must be triggered &lt;span id="mce_4_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;in Method&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;by clicking a button, gaining/losing focus, loading a screen, etc. &lt;span id="mce_3_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_7_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_8_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_13_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_14_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_16_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_18_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;You could however have a button that you press daily in Method that sends an e&lt;span id="mce_19_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;mail to the selected contacts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span id="mce_20_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_32_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_35_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_17_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="mce_13_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_14_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_22_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;he ListBuilder tool&lt;span id="mce_23_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt; might be useful&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to send mass email&lt;span id="mce_26_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt; for overdue balances&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span id="mce_24_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;If you haven&amp;#39;t used it before, &lt;span id="mce_27_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.methodintegration.com/method/kb.aspx?folder=methodcrm&amp;amp;article=List-Builder&amp;amp;id=211"&gt;here&lt;span id="mce_27_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is an article that explains how.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span id="mce_33_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_34_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Let me know if you have any further questions.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_36_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Jason&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>eMarketing and Sales automation feature</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19733.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:37:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:19733</guid><dc:creator>g.williams</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19733.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=19733</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I would like to create (or have created) a method CRM application that will evaluate: Customer A has not ordered for X days. &amp;nbsp;Send him an email with product suggestion, discount code etc. &amp;nbsp; Customer B ordered &amp;nbsp;product M, &amp;nbsp;send him a thank you and recommend that he consider product N, with discount code. &amp;nbsp; Method will trigger based on customers orders, (what they bought) and send a message (based on logic of time etc), and link them to the ecommerce engine to order more stuff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This can get quite sophisticated with lots of products and customers, &amp;nbsp;but the client creates the marketing / messaging content, &amp;nbsp;identifies the associations, &amp;nbsp;and trigger points. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This may also be used for ... &amp;quot;your invoice is due in X days, and we have not received payment yet&amp;quot; etc. &amp;nbsp;To automate collections. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Has anyone created this type of application for a client yet ? &amp;nbsp;I may be interested in discussing leveraging any customization that has been done before .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>