followup + cron

[sanj]

hi,

I have a post purchase list that has 5 followup emails set. And I also want to send to that same list a monthly offer using cron.

My seq and delays are as follows
             emails         /  seq        /   delay       /    cron
let1           /        1            /    6
let2            /       2            /     8
let3            /       3           /      6
let4          /         4            /     8
let5           /        5           /      8
august offer   /    6          /       0          /     1 8 *
sep offer     /       7          /       0          /     1 9 *

My problem is people who are still of follow up 1 to 6 will not get the next monthly offer for oct which will be set with seq8 and delay 0 and cron 1 10 *

My question is how should I set the list so that I send the first five followups and still manage to send the monthly offers to ALL of the list.

thanks
sanj

[DW]

Hi SanJ,

Do you have a full year's worth of followups already created?  A "Loop Followups" feature could be extended to allow specifying the Seq # to jump to. No.. that won't work.  As you said you want the monthly offers to come through even while they are receiving the first followups...

The way to do it would be to use two lists, with two separate followup sequences.

 The other alternative is for me to modularize followups so more than one set can be applied to each list.  This is coming eventually - I'm hard at work on an update and plan to continue expanding when it's done.

Regards

[AlanT]

Couldn't this be done by simply scheduling a broadcast mailing to the list?

[DW]

Yes, of course... the monthly offers could simply be scheduled manually or with an automated script.

Thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious, Alan!

Regards