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Features Overview
A Detailed Look Inside Topica’s Hosted Application Businesses and organizations who depend on their online channels use Topica’s Online Marketing and Sales Solution to leverage their existing marketing initiatives and expand their reach. Topica’s state-of-the-art, hosted application is a crucial element of our solution and was designed specifically to support your online marketing and sales process. The main features of our application are listed below.
Customizable Hosted Database
Topica’s hosted database is the foundation of your knowledge base allowing you to collect, store and manage prospects, customers, behaviours, Web site transactions and more. Specific features include:
Instantly Updateable
API for Remote Import/Export
Unlimited Demographic and Interest Fields
Conversion, Transaction and Purchase History Fields
Merge/Sync for Refreshing Existing Data
Conversion Tracking
Topica’s conversion tracking feature lets you enhance your Web site with snippets of code that collect transaction data and pass it back to your Topica database. Use conversion tracking to measure and report on:
Page Hits
Document Downloads
Email Campaign Success
Landing Page Success
Products Purchased
Product Categories Purchased
Price of Purchased Items
Quantity of Purchased Items
Recency of Purchase
Frequency of Purchase
Shopping Cart Abandonment
Advanced Email Automation
Topica’s advanced email automation technology allows you to create marketing programs that, following business rules you define, automatically deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time. Email campaigns can be triggered by:
New Contact in Database (Welcome Message)
Data-Collection Form Submitted
Campaign Opened
Link Clicked
Purchase, Download or Other Web Site Interactions
Shopping Cart Success or Abandonment
Changes in Database Field Values
Prospect Collection and Database Building
Topica’s advanced data-collection features keep your database growing with prospective customers you collect from your Web site, making the most of paid search or other traffic driving programs you are running.
Customizable Data Capture Forms
Landing Pages With Secondary Data Capture Forms
Document Hosting for Downloads (Coupons, Catalogs, Etc.)
Prospect Profile Management
Custom Branding of Forms and Landing Pages
Database Segmentation
Targeted, relevant messages are the key to conversion success. Topica lets you develop targeted content to respond to selected segments of your database. Segments can be based on any field or combination of fields for which you have collected data:
Demographics or Interests
Campaigns Opened or Clicked
Campaigns Not Opened or Clicked
Time Delta from Demographic Date (Renewals)
Purchased Items
Amount of Purchase
Recency of Purchase
Shopping Cart Abandonment
Email Campaign Creation and Management
Topica gives you all the power and flexibility you need to create and manage sophisticated email marketing campaigns. Features include:
Multiple List Management
Personalization on any Database Field
Custom Branding
Pre-Scheduled Delivery
Recurring Delivery
Copy and Paste Sent Campaigns
Support for Text, HTML and Multipart Formats
Test Messages and Routing
Segmentation for Testing
Bounce and Retry Management
Subscription Confirmation (Footer)
Pay Pal Integration
Amazon Integration
Ebay Auction Integration
Customizable HTML Email Templates
Forward-to-a-Friend Link for Viral List Growth
Can-SPAM Compliance
Topica’s Can-SPAM compliance features meet all federal guidelines and conform to industry best practices, ensuring maximum deliverability of your messages. Features include:
Bulk Unsubscribe
Integrated Unsubscribe Link
Automated Unsubscribe Processing
Never Mail™ List
Content Checker
Flexible Reporting
Topica’s flexible and powerful reporting tools integrate email and Web analytics allowing you to accurately measure the ROI of your campaigns and the conversion success of your Web site. You can also query and report on any database field or combinations thereof. Details include:
Web Site Transactions, Purchases and Downloads
Shopping Cart Performance
Email Campaign Delivery Success
Email Campaign Performance: Unique Opens and Clicks
Contact Database Growth
Demographic Distributions
Unsubscribes
Contact-Level Detail (Who Opened and Clicked)