This post only applies to Legacy Version 3 of the API
You may be using the Bronto API to find out who is reading your deliveries or to send a message, but how about using it to add new contacts to your Bronto list? Using the API, you can add new contacts that you have in [...]
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Would you tow a trailer with a sports car? Would you tighten a bolt with a hammer? Would you eat soup with a knife?
Many of our clients, either by design or due to allocation of resources, have a separation of responsibilities in regards to their email marketing [...]
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Since conversions are in many cases the purpose for sending an email, they have been covered in great depth in previous posts. You may to start with the basics of conversion tracking and how to set it up by John Gunther. Also, as Adam Covati recently [...]
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If you have been sending personalized messages to your contacts, then you already understand how useful this marketing technique can be. If you would like to start exploring how to use personal information you have about your contacts, take a look at this post [...]
In recent weeks, I have been getting a lot of questions about the post I wrote on the basics of setting up conversion tracking. Because this post dealt only with the basics of setting up conversion tracking, we only showed you how to set up the conversion tracking URL using hard-coded values for the money [...]
This post only applies to Legacy Version 3 of the API
So far, most of the API examples and blog posts that we’ve written have dealt with a single account. But what if you have an agency account and want to automate tasks or have other needs that require the use of the API? The chances [...]
This post only applies to Legacy Version 3 of the API
Using a web service is a little bit like a leap of faith. You no longer have total control of the code and are depending on the service to perform a chunk of your work flow. The benefits are obvious, in that you don’t have [...]
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Did you know we had a function in our API to clear all contacts from a list? It was recently added and is conveniently called clearLists. This function will remove the contacts from a list, but it will not remove the contacts themselves [...]
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You know you can update contacts and schedule deliveries through the Bronto API, but what about access to all that great statistical data such as opens and clicks for your contacts and deliveries? Let’s look at the readOpens function and how we might use it [...]
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In the first two parts of this series, Washing With SOAP: Part 1 and Washing With SOAP: Part 2, we saw how a SOAP testing tool, such as soapUI, can be used to test and learn about a particular web service; In this case, the [...]
This post only applies to Legacy Version 3 of the API
Last time we discussed how to setup Bronto API access and the benefits of using a SOAP testing tool. This time we’ll look at some of the actual requests and responses so you can see what the API can do.
If you already have soapUI installed, [...]
This post only applies to Legacy Version 3 of the API
If you have ever integrated your organization’s application(s) or database(s) with an external data source, chances are you used a web service, or even multiple web services. These generally come in two flavors: SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and REST (Representational State Transfer). Search [...]
Have you ever had a Microsoft Word document that you would like to send as an email? If you’re like a lot of our clients, then you probably have. You have probably also noticed that when you copy and paste the Word document into an email, it probably doesn’t look the same as it did [...]
Just in from Matt Johnson of Broad Latitude Interactive – there is a now a Bronto module for Drupal. Another sign of Bronto’s ever growing developer community. This is actually the second Bronto module for Drupal. The first was developed by Julia Kulla-Mader of DesignHammer last May.
For those of you not in the know, Drupal [...]