Mail/Phone/eMail Restrictions: What categories?

How are you coding/naming all of the variations for Mail, Phone, and eMarketing RESTRICTIONS?  We think we should be using the following:

  • No Marketing Information (for those who don't want information about future events and programming)
  • No Donation Information (for those who don't want to be solicited for $$$/gifts)
  • No External Rental (for those who don't want their information sold, exchanged, or rented to third-parties)
  • Send NOTHING (all encompassing restriction -- for those who don't want ANY communications of any type from 92Y)
  • No Marketing or External Use (for those who Donate but do not want any other communications ... relevant Corporations or Foundations)
  • No Donation or External Use (for those interested in our programming but do not want to be solicited for donations/contributions)
  • Bad Contact Information (for wrong information and undeliverables)

Have we missed anything? Are we trying to cover too many bases?

Wording in the drop-down menu's might change slightly for the type of contact (e.g. for Phone: Send NOTHING might say DO NOT CALL and for Mail: SEND NOTHING might say DO NOT MAIL). 

Grateful for your expertise.

Elizabeth

_____________________________

Elizabeth Weisser 
Director of CRM
92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Avenue | New York, NY 10128 | P: 212.415.5596 |
http://www.92Y.org

 

  • We use ‘Do Not Contact’ .


    Sabina

     

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    How are you coding/naming all of the variations for Mail, Phone, and eMarketing RESTRICTIONS?  We think we should be using the following:

    ·         No Marketing Information (for those who don't want information about future events and programming)

    ·         No Donation Information (for those who don't want to be solicited for $$$/gifts)

    ·         No External Rental (for those who don't want their information sold, exchanged, or rented to third-parties)

    ·         Send NOTHING (all encompassing restriction -- for those who don't want ANY communications of any type from 92Y)

    ·         No Marketing or External Use (for those who Donate but do not want any other communications ... relevant Corporations or Foundations)

    ·         No Donation or External Use (for those interested in our programming but do not want to be solicited for donations/contributions)

    ·         Bad Contact Information (for wrong information and undeliverables)

    Have we missed anything? Are we trying to cover too many bases?

    Wording in the drop-down menu's might change slightly for the type of contact (e.g. for Phone: Send NOTHING might say DO NOT CALL and for Mail: SEND NOTHING might say DO NOT MAIL). 

    Grateful for your expertise.

    Elizabeth

    _____________________________

    Elizabeth Weisser 
    Director of CRM
    92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Avenue | New York, NY 10128 | P: 212.415.5596 |
    http://www.92Y.org

     




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  • Hi,

    Not sure if it is a lot of help but we basically do similar to what you’ve suggested above.

    So for example on our mail restrictions we have:

    ·         No restrictions

    ·         Annual mailing (for those who want to receive our season brochure)

    ·         No Philanthropy Mailings

    ·         Philanthropy Mailings (receive mailings as part of donation campaigns but no marketing).

    ·         No unsolicited Mailings

    ·         Not at address (this is how we track returns, I can then easily track which accounts need their addresses cleaned or checked urgently).

    We have played around with different wording or other options but find these 6 work really well. We used to have a tickets only option but it wasn’t working well so we dropped that and send tickets regardless of what their mail restrictions may be.

     The only thing is on our website we only offer the option of receive info from us or receive no info from us. So that translates into “no restrictions” or “no unsolicited mailings”. We potentially miss people who may want to be in a different category by just giving them “no unsolicited mailing” but we don’t want to overwhelm patrons by offering them too many options online.

  • Mail indicators:

    No List Trade/Mkt Restricted –default VIP/major member setting

    No Valid Address

    No Mail/Customer Request

    No Mail/Staff, Inhouse

    Marketing/Limited –get one brochure a year

     

    Phone Indicators:

    No Telemarketing

    No Telefunding

    No Valid Phone

     

    E-Market Indicators:

    No E-Marketing

    No E-Mkt TMS Unsubscribe


    While we have a couple of e-mrkt indicators, and some accounts are globally set to No E-Marketing (usually with a CSI to explain why), we rely on mail purpose settings at the eaddress level, one of which is No E-Mail to This Address. (When an account is set to no e-marketing a result of hard bounces or unsubscribes, I run a procedure to update the eaddress involved, then set the indicator back to None.

     

    Here are our eaddress purposes:

    All E-Mails

    FGO News

    Special Events

    Special Offers and Discounts

    Volunteer Opportunities

    Young Artist Studio Events

    No E-Mail from Partners of FGO –sent by us; offers to our patrons from partners

    No E-Mail to This Address

    ________________

    Lucie Spieler

    IT Development and Training Manager

    Florida Grand Opera

    8390 NW 25th Street

    Miami, FL 33122

    305-854-1643 ext 1521

    www.FGO.org