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 Installing Your Mailing List: The Mailing List service can be installed easily by following these steps:
Getting Started: The first step, once you have registered your Mailing List service in your Member account, is to customize the look and feel and set up your various service options. All of that is done in the Mailing List manager, in your Members Area. Login to your account with your Username and password and you will be shown the main Members Area menu. Click on the Service Manager link to begin.Setting Up Your Free Service Options: The Mailing List Service Manager is broken into several sections. Let's look at the various sections and go over what you can do in each section.General Overview The Mailing List service is a great way to send a regular newsletter, site updates and other news to an established list of subscribers. The List service provides great communication between a list owner and their subscribers. However, this is not a discussion list service. Your subscribers can reply to you, the List owner, only. No other subscribers will see email sent in reply to your emails. Anti-Spam Restrictions Due to the volatile nature of email on the web, there are some restrictions in place to help ensure that the Mailing List service can't be abused by spammers. ALL email addresses stored in Bravenet Mailing lists MUST be double opt-in confirmed. Each and every subscriber MUST indicate that they wish to be a subscriber before they can be added to your list. This rule applies whether a subscriber is new, or being added through our Import or Backup options. No email address can be added to any of our Mailing lists without having first confirmed their wish to be there. Each address added to our lists by any method will be required to complete the double opt-in confirmation process before that email address can be added to a list. General Settings In General Settings you can set up several different options. Start at the top of the General Settings page and go through each option. Make sure you set each to the option you prefer. You can set the Reply-To email address that will appear in all of the emails sent to your list (so that you will receive any replies to your email from your list subscribers), set the url's (web address) for your Thank You and Goodbye pages (these appear to those subscribing or unsubscribing), and enter the text you want to have appear in your subscription welcome message. Once you have finished with your option selections, be sure to click on the Save changes button at the bottom of the page to make your changes permanent. Email Notifications Your Mailing List service can notify you when a visitor subscribes or unsubscribes from your list, and when your list is nearing its subscriber capacity. Those can be easily enabled or disabled in this section. In addition, you can also enter the text you wish to show to subscribers when they are emailed and asked to confirm their subscription, or when they choose to leave your list. Once you have finished with your option selections, be sure to click on the Save changes button at the bottom of the page to make your changes permanent. Select a Template In this section you can select one of several different color templates for use in our HTML Newsletter Builder. Click in the radio button beside the template you wish to use, to select it. Also, there is a template Reset button. This can be used if you happen to add code into the template (like a Form tag) that breaks the template editor. In this case, resetting the template back to its default value is the only way to fix the problem. Once you click this option, you will have to re-enter the information you had in the template previously. Once you have selected your template, click on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page. HTML Newsletter Statistics Using our HTML Newsletter Builder also gives you the added benefit of being able to track the performance of the newsletter. In the statistics section you can see which newsletter was sent, how many were sent, how many were read by recipients. Totals over 100% are possible and very normal. Recipients will often read a newsletter more than once, especially if they are looking for something that interests them. Bulk Imports This section allows you to add large lists of subscribers to your list at once, by importing a pre-formatted comma-delimited list of email addresses. You can add as many addresses this way as you have subscriber slots left open. If you have a free list with a limit of 500 subscribers, you can Import up to 500 email addresses. If you have a free list with 200 existing email addresses already subscribed, then you can Import up to 300 more email addresses. Once you have entered your image information, click on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page. Backup List The service will email you a list of all of your current subscribers. This can be used to Restore your list at any time, using the Restore List option. Please Note: You cannot add even a single character to the Backup List if you wish to successfully Restore your list, so do not add more addresses to your Backup List. Restore List This option allows you to re-add your Backup List and restore all of your addresses to your list. This cannot be used to add new addresses to an existing list. Send Plain Text Email This option allows you to type in, or paste in, a text based email message to be sent to all of your list subscribers. Once you have added the message you have the option to preview the message. If you choose this, an email will be sent to the address listed in your member account, with a sample of your text message. Once you have received the sample and you are happy with the way it looks, click on the Send button at the bottom of the page. If you need to make changes to your message click on the Cancel button, make your changes and click on the Send button once more to repeat the process. Send HTML Newsletter Click this to build and send an HTML Newsletter using our HTML Template and Builder system. Once you have customized the template and added your content, click on the Continue button at the bottom of the page. You will be prompted to add a text version of the newsletter (for those who cant receive HTML) and then prompted to Preview or Send. Once you are happy with the way your email looks, click on Send to have it sent to your list of subscribers. New Subscriber Here you can manually enter new subscribers to your list. Each email address you enter here will be sent a confirmation request asking the subscriber to confirm that they wish to be on your list. Enter the subscribers name and email address, and click on the Add Email button at the bottom of the page. Active Subscribers Here you will find a listing of all of the Active Subscribers in your List. Click on the various letters of the alphabet to see the subscribers listed under each letter, or you can click on the 'All' option to view the whole list at once. Search for Subscribers This handy tool helps you locate subscribers by the criteria you select. Type in what you are looking for and click the button. It's that easy! Pending Subscribers This section displays a list of all the subscribers that have joined your list but have not yet confirmed their subscription through the double opt-in process. Addresses shown here will remain in the Pending list for 7 days or until the subscriber confirms the subscription, whichever comes first. Addresses can be deleted by checking the box to the left of the address and clicking on the Delete Selected Entry button at the bottom of the page. Professional Options Upgrading to the Professional version of the Mailing List service removes all of our advertisers ads from the emails sent to your list, and it allows you to create a much larger subscriber list than the free version allows. Professional lists can hold as many as 15,000 email addresses. Professional lists can be expanded by purchasing upgrades to the subscriber limit in blocks of 3,000 subscribers, up to a maximum of 15,000. You can even design, build and send your own Custom HTML emails, without having to use our HTML Builder! For more specific details about the Mailing List Service, please Search the Knowledge Base. For Information on the sections under 'UTILITIES', please click here. |
