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How to create a landing page for your email campaign?

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How to create a landing page for your email campaign? It comes out that providing a landing page is very likely one of the most important parts of an effective email marketing strategy. Creating the right target page for your MaxBulk Mailer email campaign is crucial if you are really looking for results. But what is all this about? What is a landing page Let start with the Wikipedia definition: In online marketing, a landing page, sometimes known as a "lead capture page", "single property page", "static page", or a "destination page", is a single web page that appears in response to clicking on a search engine optimized search result, marketing promotion, marketing email, or an online advertisement. In summary, it is the web page where your mail recipients will be taken to after clicking on a call-for-action button, link, or picture on your message. Indeed you are sending a bunch of emails with a bulk mailer very likely because you want the mes

How to enter your mail server settings into MaxBulk Mailer

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How to enter your mail server settings into MaxBulk Mailer - Server settings are an important part of successful email delivery. Among other things you have to make sure you are not abusing your mail service and similarly you are not annoying your audience. Therefore you need to understand well the meaning of each setting and above all, you have to make sure you are using the best delivery options. So, indeed, in order to send messages with MaxBulk Mailer you have to enter your mail server settings correctly into the software. You will find all the mail server settings in the 'Settings' panel. In addition, the 'Settings' panel allows you to create as many mail accounts as you need. You can also choose from a wide range of delivery options. Mail server settings Typing the settings is actually the hardest part since you have to know several server related data such as the SMTP server/host address, your user ID, your password, and the authentication scheme you have to use

MaxBulk Mailer 7.8.3 new features and fixes

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We have released a new version of our popular Bulk Email Software, MaxBulk Mailer version 8.7.3 . This new version adds several interesting features that I will review in detail in this post with the help of the video that was shot live right after the release. Gmail OAuth2 authentication scheme support You can now use the OAuth2 authentication scheme with Gmail. Here is how: So, in conclusion, in order to use OAuth2: - Select your current Gmail account (or create a new one) - Select the OAuth2 scheme - Go through the Gmail authentication process - You are ready to send messages! MaxBulk Mailer now supports the Markdown format The Markdown format, 0.29 specification , is now fully supported by MaxBulk Mailer. Here is how you can take advantage of it: In summary: - The Markdown format is a plain text format for writing emails, based on conventions for indicating formatting. - The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. - As a resul

How to edit recipients in MaxBulk Mailer - Tips and tricks

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2nd July live event shows 10 great tips for editing recipient's email addresses with MaxBulk Mailer . Editing a selection of recipients It is very easy to edit a selection of recipients. Here is how: So, in conclusion, to edit recipients: - Select several recipients (SHIFT or CMD/ALT click to select several). - Select the 'Recipients > Edit' menu OR the contextual 'Edit' menu. - Enter the new text into the field and click on OK. - In order to delete data/clear cells, just check the field to delete any data from. Editing a single recipient and navigate through the whole list Using a similar aproach we can start by editing one single recipient? Here is how: So, in order to navigate through a list with a single selected recipient: - Select one recipient. - Select the 'Recipients > Edit' menu or the Contextual 'Edit' menu. - Enter some data. - You can go up (Up key) and down (Down key) in the list or with the mouse wheel/trackpad gesture. - Change

Tips for composing emails with MaxBulk Mailer

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July live event shows 5 great tips for composing emails with MaxBulk Mailer . How to use Emojis in your messages It is very easy to add Emojis to both the subject and the body of your messages. Here is how: So, in conclusion, to add Emojis: - macOS: Control + Command + Space - (Drag to convert into a window) - Windows: Windows + ; OR Windows + . How to add hyperlinks with MaxBulk Mailer You are using the styled text format and you need to insert hyperlinks? Here is how: So, in order to use the hyperlink manager to insert a link: 'Edit > Insert Hyperlink' menu (or button). And to add hyperlinks: 'Edit > Insert Hyperlink > Edit' menu (or button). How to insert random word Did you know you can add random words in your messages? Remember, to insert random words: 'Edit > Insert Random Words' and how to edit or create lists How to use Tags with an alternative value When composing emails sometimes you need to insert data but your list is missing key valu

MaxBulk Mailer Q&A webinar summary

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I hosted a 1-hour MaxBulk Mailer Q&A webinar a few days ago. As a result our support page now has a new link labeled Online Events . Click on that link to visit the Maxprog's webinar page . We can send you a notification when new events are scheduled, just click on Follow . In addition, you can also see a list of Upcoming Events and Past Events. You can register for any upcoming event and you can replay any past event as well. For instance, you can see the list of answered questions and watch the replay of each answer. You will see below the list of the most voted questions that were answered. Please register for any of the events, it is free! Not getting caught by SPAM filters Can you share a list of best practices to not get caught in SPAM filters? Specifically, how do we avoid getting our emails identified as "Sent from a list." List Batch processing Is there a way to import a list into an extant MaxBulk list that causes MaxBulk to then remove those imported e-a

Email server blocking causes and solutions

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Email server blocking is an unexpected stressful situation you will soon or later go thru. In this article, I will try to explain how to fix this annoying problem. Email server blocking causes and solutions There are times your email service just blocks you when using MaxBulk Mailer (or any other bulk email software), even though you are not sending spam but a legitimate message to an opt-in email list. They say they don't allow bulk mail, only through their own proprietary service. Let me share some valuable information with you about my very last experience with MaxBulk Mailer. I just finished sending a message to a 52k list successfully! Our last MaxBulk Mailer campaign I programmed MaxBulk Mailer to deliver to 5 recipients every 3 minutes. The overall delivery rate has been 100 deliveries per hour. That is only 2'400 deliveries every 24 hours. It took 22 days to finish! MaxBulk Mailer has been running and sending to my list during all that time, day and night, unattended a