Saturday, January 16, 2010

GetResponse & Jooma Template

The following is a technical discussion, but the tools are ones that very useful to many in CRE.

I presently have a site that was created with a Joomla template and it has GetResponse extension/component that automatically adds a new registrant to the Joomla Community Builder database, upon registration, as well as submitting them to GetResponse for the "final opt-in" which then adds them automatically to GetResponse, in the event they do opt-in from that email.

I am curious if GetResponse has any plans to implement an Event Management feature similar to that of Constant Contact? This is something that is compelling enough in my case that I would leave GetResponse (and forego all of the work in setting up the extension mentioned above) and even go through the hassle of installing a different Joomla component for that interface between my Jooma-Templated site and Constant Contact. I didn't like the fact that the company providing the Joomla/Constant Contact component/extension didn't also automatically add a new Joomla registrant to the Joomla Community Builder (in addition to the Constant Contact autoresponder) as the GetResponse Joomla extension does. If they did have that, I would have already left GetResponse. That is how important event-management is to me. So for now I'll stay put, but it would be much easier to do so if I knew GetResponse was thinking of introducing this feature-set or presently working on it. Is it being worked on, is it on the "drawing-board"? Please let me know.

Robert M. Burns
Happy GetResponse user with present feature-set on the autoresponders, but longing for the event-management area that integrates with the autoresponder, ala Constant Contact

Friday, January 1, 2010

REA9

Have you used Rea9? If so, please chime-in here - I'm thinking about trying it out because I am so disappointed with support I am receiving now from my commercial real estate CRM product.