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Email Marketing Director guidelines

Nota Bene: Email Marketing Director is located on the Dell office computer under the C drive: Common Files New URL 2010: http://beta.zeop.com/ Templates for M, W & F newsletters M #121897 W #121898 F # 121899 Tips * New subscribers from Zeop are added to the bottom of the Arial list database. * You need to keep a list of all dropped subscribers in the event you lose the list. * You need to update every week the subscriber lists * You can only download new subscriber lists from Zeop once! That means, if you download to an excel file the newest subscribers from Zeop's webpage you m,ust manually add that list to the subscriber database in Arial. Updating the subscriber base from within Arial will not download those new names. Diary * 7-22-09: (HTML List Only) Sometime in July 2009 I discovered that the html list had dropped some 2,000 names. The last complete exported list of html subscribers was done on June 4, 2009. I added all new subscribers since June 4th by going to the database for the latest exported html list. I found some 250 new names that weren't on the old June list. I combined them into a new master html list of 12,851 names. It's listed in this file: HNN/Newsletter/membership/revisedcomplete 7-22-09. Unfortunately, it included names of people who wanted to drop their newsletter since June 4th. So I had to then remove all unsubscribers. This ended with a total membership list of aboput 12,000. * 7-22-09 late afternoon: (HTML List Only) After thinking about the situation, I decided to start from scratch. First, I took my June 4th list (12,626). Then I added to that everybody who had ever subscribed using the Zeop system (7,414). That gave me a total: 20,040. Then I removed all duplicates (of which there would be many, of course, since the June 4th list included already many of the same people on the Zeop subscriber list). That left 14,805 names. Then, I had to download the list of all the people who had ever unsubscribed using Zeop. That amounted to 1,451 names. I then scrubbed the unsubscribers from the master list of 14,805. That left me with a total of 14,012. Then I ran Arial Marketing's undupe function. That erased about 100 names, leaving me with a grand total of 13,905 names or so. * 1-5-10 You purchased a new license for an upgrade to v. 5. It cost $99. Transaction Key: 2784565434 approval code: 06963c Arial System Here's version 3--the version we use!!! http://download.arialsoftware.com/downloads/emailmarketingdirector3_ns.zip It's saved to a file: HNN/Newsletter/email marketing director SERIAL # V4: 6288-4959-8049-2174-7991 SERIAL # V3 0227-2499-3725-5933-6285 Configuration settings for Arial to control bounces Go to: Settings/configuration Bounced emails go to: newsletter@hnn-service.com Enable bounceed email checking Enable web unsubscribe The pop information below is for the unsubscribe emails. Mail.hnn-service.com newsletter@hnn-service.com kilo5mow SETTINGS FOR ARIAL SOFTWARE EMAIL MARKETING DIRECTOR USING howstupidblog.com Go to: Settings/configuration Mail Sending Mode: smtp server SMTP Server: mail.howstupidblog.com SMTP Authentication: user name: rick@howstupidblog.com password: kilo5mow SETTINGS FOR ARIAL SOFTWARE EMAIL MARKETING DIRECTOR USING Speakeasy Go to: Settings/configuration Mail Sending Mode: smtp server SMTP Server: mail.speakeasy.net SMTP Authentication: user name: HNNnewsletter password: kilo5mow Each newsletter campaign has its own from/to settings. From: HNNnewsletter@speakeasy.net Reply to: Reply-HNN@speakeasy.net SETTINGS FOR ARIAL SOFTWARE EMAIL MARKETING DIRECTOR USING GMU Go to: Settings/configuration Mail Sending Mode: smtp server SMTP Server: mail.hnn.us SMTP Authentication: user name: newsletter@hnn.us password: kilo5mow SETTINGS FOR ARIAL SOFTWARE EMAIL MARKETING DIRECTOR USING DRIZZLE Go to: Settings/configuration Mail Sending Mode: smtp server SMTP Server: smtp.drizzle.com:587 SMTP Authentication: user name: studyusa password: bozo9bus REPLIES Replies to the plain text newsletter sent out by Drizzle go to: plaintextnewsletter@hnn.us Replies to the html newsletter sent out by Email Marketing Director go to: newsletter@hnn.us Email Marketing Director v3 YOUR SERIAL NUMBER: 0227-2499-3725-5933-6285 Email Marketing Director: http://www.arialsoftware.com/ Serial # for v. 4 downloaded in Feb. 2008: 6288-4959-8049-2174-7991 You are registered under the initials: HNN Contact: Elaine (receptionist) Technical Support Sales/Support: 949-218-3852 Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Mountain Standard Time. Excludes all major holidays. You bought technical support and then rescinded it after you got a simple answer to your question. You dealt with Jim: Jim Kinkade He says you can always email technicalsupport@arialsoftware.comfor free support. Also dealt with Steve Delgado for whom you wrote a testimonial, saved in HNN/Newsletters. Zeop lists: http://beta.zeop.com/ You run 4 Zeop lists. 1. new subscribers to the html newsletter. Controlled by editor@hnn.us and kilo5mow 2. unsubscribers from the plain text list. newsletter@hnn.us kilo5mow 3. new subscribers to the plain text list. plaintextnewsletter@hnn.us kilo5mow 4. unsubscribers from the html list rshenkman@sprynet.com kilo5mow To create a new Zeop account go here: http://www.zeop.com/createnewaccount.asp MOVING OLD LISTS *Use Excel to move old membership lists. BOUNCES Once an email from a list is bounced, it is turned red on the subscriber list. New campaigns will not dispatch emails to bounced members. How do you send those members emails? 1. Create a copy of the Master List; call it the Bounced Email List with a date 2. Group all bounced emails at the top by clicking on the Bounced Email Column 3. REMOVE all emails in black, leaving only the bounced emails 4. Copy the entire remaining list to an Excel file 5. Find and Replace all")" with a comma 6. Find and replace all"(" and remove permanently 7. Go to Tables/Convert 8. Select the first column 9. Paste the column into a new Excel file. The first entry in the list has to say"email"; save the list as a txt file. (You can also simply use the red cross system.) 10. Go into Email Subscriber Direct and import the new list. Use the drop down list to pull up the firsdt word:"email." 11. Dispatch the latest newsletter to this list. After each mailing go through the Newsletter folder looking for any return emails that direct you to a page clearing the mail from the junk mail filter. Any emails you receive telling you of an address change, addthe new email address to the subscriber base and then create a rule to automaticaqlly send any future emails from the old address to the Newsletter Reject folder. Cleanup of Newsletter List: software is on the office dell (List remove, compare & duplicate manager software) http://www.sobolsoft.com/listremove/download/setup.exeThe Tracking Number for your order is 7046872. Check your order status online at: https://www.regsoft.net/orderstatus.php3?tid=7046872 Thank you for using RegSoft.comfor your online purchase of List Remove, Compare & Duplicate Manager Software. Please save this email message for your records.Your order has been Processed and Authorized.Your Order Number is 07222009-77477-94.Please note: The Order Number should not be mistaken for a registration code.Thank you for purchasing. Please print or save this email for your records.Your personal license is96702579