Archive for May 2010

Non-Profit Discounts on Email Marketing Software

Memorial Day weekend is upon us. It is a time when we remember those who put themselves, selflessly, in harms way to defend others. In doing so, they made the ultimate sacrifice. It is very easy to take the safe path and stand on the sidelines when someone needs our help, and it is right [...]

2010 Email Marketing Software Review

Once again, GroupMail is at the top of the email marketing software review table; and one of these years we will take the Gold Medal! Since 1996, we have worked hard to provide all of the features that our users would need to get their email marketing game on while keeping the cost of our [...]

How to Configure GroupMail to Send Through Your GoDaddy SMTP Mail Server

GoDaddy offers great value on web hosting. As a GoDaddy customer, you can also use their outgoing SMTP mail server to send your email campaigns. Under basic hosting packages, they allow customers to send only 250 emails per day through their outgoing mail server. They do offer business plans, however, which allow you to send [...]

How to Control Email Delivery Rates with GroupMail

Not all SMTP mail servers were created equal. Some outgoing mail servers allow you to send high volumes of messages at very fast rates. Other mail servers limit the number of messages that you can send through them each hour or the rate at which you can process messages through them. One of the benefits [...]

GroupMetrics Maintenance Notification

To all GroupMetrics Customers - Tuesday, May 25, 2010 GroupMetrics Maintenance Notification This Saturday, May 29th GroupMetrics will be moving to new, improved and more powerful hosting servers. This is something we’ve planned extensively for the past six months in order to improve the infrastructure behind GroupMetrics and ensure an improved quality of service. The transition from [...]

Managing Email Subscriptions, Unsubscribe Requests and Bounces with GroupMail

Both the Personal and Business Editions of GroupMail come installed with the Subscriber Add-on. Subscriber makes it easy to manage your email lists. You can automatically add recipients to your list who subscribe on a web form, remove existing recipients from your list who unsubscribe and delete invalid addresses which bounce. GroupMail users also have [...]

How to Include a Plain Text Part with Your HTML Email

There are basically two reasons why you would want to create a plain text only part along with your HTML email. 1. Believe it or not, there are still some people out there who have their email clients configured to receive text-only email. If you have a plain text only part for your message (designed [...]

SMTP Mail Server Options

As a GroupMail user, you can connect to any outgoing SMTP mail server that you have access to. This can be the SMTP mail server of your ISP, web hosting company, a free SMTP server such as Gmail or your own SMTP server (if you have one.) Most SMTP mail hosts will have limits on [...]

How to Export SBCglobal Email Contacts and Import Them into GroupMail

You can easily export your SBCglobal email contacts and import them into GroupMail. Here’s how to export your SBCglobal email contacts. Login to your SBCglobal account Click on “Contacts” Click on “Tools” just below the Contacts tab Click “Export” Select “Yahoo CSV” Click “Save” and save to your Desktop so you can find the file [...]

How to Export Your CardScan Contacts and Import Them into GroupMail

Card scanning technology is very useful when you want to collect contact information at a trade show or conference without having to carry around a stack of physical business cards. CardScan is one product that many people use to convert business cards to electronic form in order to make collecting and managing data easier. You [...]