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Facebook Messages, the Evolution of Personal Email and Email Marketing

Yesterday, Facebook evolved messaging on its popular social network in a way that has many tech industry pundits thinking about how we manage social communication today. Facebook is approaching personal communication in a unique way, isolating those personal, social interactions we have with friends across various platforms from other, non-personal communication. In this sense, Facebook [...]

2011 Email Marketing Software Review

Top 10 Reviews has released their 2011 email marketing software comparative review already. They are on their toes, and hopefully will inspire us all to get our holiday email campaigns out early (or at least on time) this year as well. * Click on the image to go to the full review As usual with [...]

What Does Gmail’s Priority Inbox Mean to Email Marketers?

Gmail’s new Priority Inbox feature automatically selects which emails are important to recipients, based on previous interactions between the sender and the recipient and keywords that appear across all messages in the recipient’s inbox. Messages are then filtered into three sections automatically for the recipient based on these criteria: Important, Starred and Everything Else. Of [...]

GroupMail 5 Update v.5.2.0.085 Released

The latest version of GroupMail 5 (v 5.2.0.085) was released today and is available to download from our Customer Resources Area. This release includes: New: 2 New Holiday Templates for 4th of July New: Code highlighting in View Source New: Message Editor – show account manager screen on send when no “From” account configured Fix: [...]

ZDNet UK reviews GroupMail

The Editors at ZDNet UK recently reviewed GroupMail Business Edition,they gave it a rating of “Excellent” 8.3 out of 10 across the categories – Service & support, Design, Features and Performance. Happy to see Service & support getting a high score, it’s something we put a lot of time and effort into. There were a [...]

New GroupMail Release for Windows 7

Well tomorrow is the official launch date for Microsoft Windows 7 and from playing around with beta versions since April and more recent releases it appears to be a much less troublesome animal that its infamous predecessor that shall remain nameless (don’t mention the war). We have a new release of GroupMail (version 5.2.0.80) that supports [...]

Internet Explorer 8 & GroupMail

There have been reports that certain providers are having problems if you use IE8 to read your emails – it seems the links that are encoded in the email do not work. We’ve been doing some testing with GroupMail, and we don’t seem to be having any such problems – however if you notice anything [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Email Templates

Ryan was good enough to put together a few email templates for St. Patrick’s day       These can be downloaded from here. To use them in GroupMail, extract the files from the downloaded zip, and in the Message Editor choose File->Import->HTML Document. Personally the thoughts of drinking pints of green liquid doesn’t really [...]

GroupMail 5.2.0.075 Released

Last year the GroupMail releases were a bit scarce on the ground (sum total of one), needless to say that was not part of the plan with people waiting for various new enhancements and fixes, but nevertheless that was the end result. Long story short, let’s just say a number of things we worked on [...]

Email Deliverability – Getting Started

One of the biggest challenges in email marketing is email deliverability – no point in preparing a great newsletter if no one receives it, right? There is a lot info out there, but it would take several years of your life to implement all the ideas. So, I’ve put together four simple tips, that won’t [...]