JoomConnect Blog

We are adding a feature to manage the code and URLS needed to track opens and clicks with the ConnectWise Marketing API for the email blasts that get sent through the ConnectWise marketing manager.

In a nutshell, JoomConnect's Quick Campaign will create all the code and URLS you need for your email blasts and gives you a centralized place to manage them in JoomConnect with no coding required. Lot's more on the full feature set later.

HOWEVER, today we are making a FREE Lite version of the tool available to all ConnectWise Partners, even if you don't run JoomConnect.

The way it works is; You fill out the form on our website and it will give you the files to download, then you just upload the files to your website. It will also auto generate the URLS you need for the email campaign and you can just copy and paste them.

Login or Register, watch the video and give it a try! Click Here

I'm really starting to get excited (yes even more excited) about JoomConnect 1.1. Over the next few weeks while in beta we are going to leak some of the new features. Hopefully you will be as excited as we are. Keep reading to learn how we are sharing how to do this for free.

You can use ConnectWise to run your entire referral campaign, “Quick Referral” for JoomConnect 1.1 is coming soon - MSP Website Marketing Infrastructure at its finest!

• Automate the collection of referrals from your clients.
• Referrals are injected directly into ConnectWise as a Prospect.
• ConnectWise Tracks & Marketing Groups can be applied to both referral and referee.
• Tickets automatically generated for both referral and referee.
• Track the referral process entirely with your ConnectWise Service Boards from start to finish!
• Your Clients can see the status of their referral right from their CW Client Portal.
• We can setup the entire process from referral to payment in your ConnectWise Service Boards or you can do it yourself.
• Quick Referral "Directives" from Directive. Everything you need to setup your campaign including emails, tracks and ticket status messages.

Put your ConnectWise Service boards to even more good use. Quick referral can be used for other applications such as:

• Dealer Lead Registration (with territories) (*Thanks to Phoenix Ortho)
• Job Applications (tracked on your service boards)
• Membership Applications (*Thanks to HTG Peer Groups)

If you don't have JoomConnect but still want to run your referral program in ConnectWise then you're in luck because we are sharing the entire process with our fellow ConnectWise partners for free!

Register on our site and sign up to our newsletter to know when Quick Referral and the free materials are launched.

Just wanted to give you guys a sneak peak at something coming in 1.02 shortly (less than two weeks).

You can now assign marketing groups and tracks to prospects when they register on your website!!

Recently, I was asked to speak at a breakout session called Jumpstart Social Media for your IT Business with Erick Simpson (Managed Service Provider University) and Mary McElwee (ConnectWise) at the 2009 ConnectWise Partner Summit. What a great event, we learned so much for our MSP practice, we are still implementing!

Some of the power point slides from the breakout show our ConnectWise Project Plan for rolling out our "Ultimate Social Media Rig". We promised to get the project plan posted on the site. Rather than post just screen shots, we made it easier for you to get started and typed it up too, copy/paste ftw.

It's been two weeks since we launched JoomConnect. We agreed internally to always blog about the good AND the bad. So...

I've been very pleased with the sales and responses we have gotten, even though our website launch sucked!  Getting to talk with so many partners and learning about their businesses has been amazing and overwhelming. Loving it!

Why did I say it sucked? Things we've learned:

This is officially my first blog post, I mean ever. Directive currently manages about 25 Social Media Accounts for clients on a weekly proactive basis. So we've helped a bunch of clients write blogs and we've integrated them to their Social Media circles and refrigerators, but I never wrote one for my own company. If you consider Facebook and Twitter and social media in general mini blogging, as I do, then I guess I've mini blogged.

Being the first post I feel a little pressure. I feel like I must say something amazing. Since I'm not personally much of a writer, I figured it's best to talk about something amazing. So I'm going to share what has gone on today as I think it's pretty exciting. I don't mean that JoomConnect finally launched after a year of development either. Instead I'm talking about what's to come.