What is
newsletter software?
Newsletter
software refers to software applications that
support at least these basic email marketing activities:
- Collect
subscriber emails and other
demographic/personal data
- Organize
them into mailing lists
- Design
your newsletters
- Send
newsletters to mailing lists
Email
marketing software or mailing list
management software are also terms used to describe
similar
applications.
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Newsletter Personalization (merging)
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Views & clicks
tracking reports
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A "views report"
is a report that shows if, who and how many subscribers opened
the newsletter you sent. A key term associated with a views report is
the "open rate ratio" or OPR. By "open
rate ratio" we define the number of subscribers who opened the
newsletter divided by the total number of subscribers the newsletter
was sent to. Such a report is only available for html newsletters (not
for text newsletters).
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A "clicks tracking report" is a report
that shows which links the subscribers clicked in the newsletter you
sent, in summary and in detail (per subscriber). Similarly to the open
rate ration we define the "click-through ratio"
or CTR. The CTR is the number of clicks divided by the total
number of subscribers the newsletter was sent to. It can be calculated
as a total for all clicks or for a specific click. Normally a good
newsletter software system gives you the ability to generate various
reports of different level and depth.
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Targeted mailings based
on subscriber demographic data or other interests
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A targeted mailing is one that is sent
to subscribers who have some common criteria. Examples: you target
subscribers from the same country or subscribers who have the same zip
code, or customers who bought a specific product. A follow-up mailing
(explained below) is also a form of targeted mailing. Targeted mailings
are done with the use of filters. I this way you focus in a segment of
your whole mailing list.
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Campaign management
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Includes tools and utilities to monitor
the sending process, stop it, resume it, capture errors, see overall
reports.
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Follow-up mailings
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In email marketing the ability to create
follow-up mailings is critical to success. It is estimated that it may
take up to seven follow-up mailings in order to finally have your
subscriber respond to your offer, promotion, call to
action etc. The most basic but essential example of a
follow-up mailing is:
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A new mailing based on subscriber's
"views & clicks behavior": send a mailing to subscribers who
opened (or not) the newsletter, clicked (or not) a specific link, did
not click any links at all and so on.
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Bounced email processing
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A bounced message is a message (email)
that is sent back to the sender because it cannot find the
subscriber's email and therefore cannot find it's way into the
subscriber's inbox. That can happen because the email account no longer
exists or is inactive or for many other reasons. Bounced emails are
broadly classified as "soft" and "hard". A soft bounce is one that
although it was not delivered to the subscriber's inbox it does not
mean that the email is invalid or non-existent and it may be delivered
in a another mailing. A hard bounce indicates a permanent delivery
failure: invalid email, non-existent email account or domain name.
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It is critical to process bounced emails
and update your subscribers profiles. In other words you must maintain
a clean mailing list. Because: it will save you resources, it will not
trigger spam filters in major ISPs, it will help keep your IP
white-listed.
- Scheduling a campaign to start a specific date/time.
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Some basic activities of this process are:
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Collect or import emails from subscribers or your web site visitors
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group them into mailing lists
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design personalized newsletters
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send them by email
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view tracking reports
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clean up your lists with bounced emails processing
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create follow-up mailings
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communicate with your customers, employees, suppliers and prospects
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announce your new products, services and ideas
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inform about developments in your business and interests
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advertise your sales promotions
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send discount coupons, announce special offers, send seasonal and holiday greetings
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keep your customers and prospects -in touch- with periodic newsletters
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Looking for a solution?
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simple and easy to install and use
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interface designed for end users
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web-based, work with your browser
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Affordable
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they can grow with your business
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give you complete ownership and freedom, no monthly neither per-email fees
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based on widely used and supported technologies
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ideal both for novices and more experienced users
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backed-up with sufficient documentation and support
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Newsletter Manager Pro
Newsletter Manager Pro is a web-based newsletter
publishing and subscriber management software. You can collect or
import subscriber emails and other data, organize them into mailing
lists, design and send personalized newsletters via email and view
reports of your mailings. It is loaded with utilities and features to
support the whole process of subscriber and newsletter management.
Newsletter Manager Pro offers many advanced
features such as:
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Web-based, use it with
your web browser from anywhere in the world.
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Straightforward
interface ensures ease of use and a short learning
curve.
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Collect and/or import
subscriber emails and other personal data and organize them into
mailing lists.
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Design and send html,
text and multi-part newsletters with attachments. Your newsletters can
be personalized for each subscriber (merging).
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Link tracking for html
newsletters and text newsletters.
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Track Views &
Clicks of your newsletters (who/when opens or clicks the links in your
newsletters).
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Detailed reports of your
mailing activity.
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Create follow-up lists
based on subscribers clicks and views behavior.
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Create filtered lists
and mailing filters for highly targeted campaigns.
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Double confirmation
system when subscribers opt-in.
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Export to XL
spreadsheets your reports, subscribers, mailing lists and more.
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Design your newsletters
using an advanced on-line html editor with spell checking and other
features.
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Batch sending: send x
emails every z minutes.
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Error control: you can
resume the sending operation if it fails.
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Automatic
subscribe/un-subscribe processes.
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Fully customizable
subscriber landing pages, welcome and goodbye automatic email messages.
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Designed to integrate
with any web site (has a wizard to create custom sign-up forms).
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'Subscribe a friend' and
'Forward to a friend' features.
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Public newsletter
archive and customizable "Privacy page".
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Multi-language
administration panel. Already available in English, Spanish, German,
French, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew and more.
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Process
bounced emails with the bounceManageradd-on.
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No
technical skills, no programming knowledge needed
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Online help, User's
guide and Quick start guide
Read
full details and features here
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WebCampaignManager.com
Web Campaign manager.net (wcm) is a web based
solution for email marketing. Web campaign manager.net is developed
using Microsoft .Net Framework empowered with Ajax
enabled interface. The use of the software does not
require any programming knowledge and can be used either as a
standalone application or in combination with any existing web site or
CRM application.
Some features of WCM
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Support for alternative mail servers per
campaign
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Unlimited mailing lists in a campaign
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Unlimited newsletters on a campaign
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Archive campaign in order to offer web
access to the newsletters sent (in RSS format)
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Public and Private campaigns. (private
campaigns include newsletters that can be accessed from the web only
from authenticated users)
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Detailed Statistics for open and click rate
for the newsletters per campaign for each subscriber
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RSS - XML export of the newsletters in a
campaign
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Support for content editors
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High Quality Web HTML Editor
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Newsletter can belong to multiple campaigns
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Support for text and HTML format
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Supports multiple attachments
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Support for reusable templates
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Automatic Link & views tracking
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Newsletter personalization
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MHT format export for newsletters in web
access view
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Advanced automatic newsletter creation from
a web address personalized for each subscriber based on subscriber
variables mapped to the query string of the web address (i.e.
www.mydomain.com/mynewsletter.asp?subscrID={var1})
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Manages Newsletter to send with the use of a
Queue (send selected newsletters, filter newsletters to send based on
many criteria, resume an interrupted sending process)
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Ajax enabled Batch and filtered sending
based upon multiple criteria
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Advanced logging of the sending process
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Suppression list text file (email addresses
to exclude during the sending process)
View the
demo now
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