We released a great new feature for Newsberry: Highrise integration.
Highrise is an online contact manager and address book, which keeps contact info centralized, sharable, and safe online. By integrating with Newsberry, you can synchronize contacts between Newsberry and Highrise. This is the first integration tool for Newsberry and we plan to release more in the near future.
How does it work?
By integrating with Highrise, we offer:
- Automatic updates of name, email, and phone number in Highrise to your Newsberry list
- Posting a note in each Highrise contact when a campaign is sent.
In Newsberry we provide two ways of importing subscribers:
- Importing contacts from csv and excel files
- Manual import
Now, if you have a Highrise account, you can import subscribers by integrating with Highrise. Not only can intergrate contacts, but you can do it for every list that you have in your Newsberry account. Every list can be integrated with a different Highrise account.
You don’t need to worry whether your contact list in Newsberry contains all the contacts you have in your Highrise account. If you add, update or delete contacts in your Highrise account, you will notice the same changes in Newsberry. Newsberry will synchronize the contacts between Highrise and Newsberry for you automatically.
You can add contacts from different sources to your account (manually, by importing through csv, xls files or by Highrise integration), and all of them will coexist in your list.
Keep a record of it
One more cool feature about Highrise integration is that we post a note to your Highrise contacts whenever you send a campaign.
Give it a try!
The feature is available for Free and Paid Newsberry accounts. To give a test run, sign up for a Newsberry account. To learn more, read the Highrise integration article in Newsberry’s help section.
4 Comments
Can you see reporting for the contact inside of Highrise. I would be very helpful to see a contact’s open rate and/or URLs clicked.
Steven — December 10, 2008, 12:29 pm
Hi Steven,
thank you for the suggestion. We will keep it in mind and add it to our backlog.
Igor Balos — December 10, 2008, 12:29 pm
If you took note of tags, then I’d bite down hard on this. We have many different types of contacts and don’t want to mail them all each time. It looks like you literally grab every contant in our database and throw them into a list.
If you could generate different campaign lists based on tags or city or other critieria, then you’d have the Holy Grail product that would make Highrise absolutely complete.
I frankly still don’t understand why 37Signals themselves haven’t developed some kind of simple tool like this.
Anyway, is there a chance you can orient your lists along the lines of highrise tags?
Clark — December 10, 2008, 12:29 pm
Hi Clark,
thank you for noticing the tags. Importing tags was one of the main features which we wanted to add to highrise integration. Then you could use simple sublists in the list and create separate contact lists based on tag.
Unfortunately, Highrise API doesn’t have proper functions to pull people with their tags yet, so we could not add it in current release, but we intend to add it in the future and it’s already in our backlog.
Thank you for mentioning location (city) as a criteria, we will keep it in mind for future updates on highrise integration.
Igor Balos — December 10, 2008, 12:29 pm
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