For
select affiliates with websites that generate high traffic volume,
we provide 100% free email marketing software, which they can custom
brand to match their website!
How to Start? 1. Make sure you set the SMTP-server
correctly to your domain's SMTP server info.
2. Create a Mailing List (in "Mailing Lists" section
).
3. Create a subscription Form so your site visitors can
subscribe to your newsletter (select "Forms" in the
"Mailing Lists" section). Generate the subscription Form
HTML-code and place it on your site section for users’
subscription. Subscribe to your own newsletter to verify it is
working properly.
4. If you already have a file with users’ list you can import
it (in "Subscribers" section).
5. Create your custom made Newsletter Template. Add maximum
possible elements for each Newsletter (in "Templates"
section).
6. Create newsletter based on your Template (in
"Newsletter" section). If this is your first newsletter
test it with the help of "Test" button.
7. Go to "Statistics" section after the Newsletter
was sent.
Does your free
newsletter software have auto responders?
Yes, there are 2 types of auto responders.
1. Auto responder for new subscribers and/or for unsubscribers via
the Mailing List. To set up these types of auto responders, go to
the Mailing Lists section and select the “Edit” button next to
the appropriate Mailing List. All system Newsletters are in
Autoreply on the subscription list. They are divided into "Not
Sent" and "Sent" Newsletters. Choose the Newsletter
sent as a reply (autoresponder) to the subscriber upon his/her
subscription. We recommend creating a special Newsletter (in HTML or
text format) that can be personalized. You can also set an auto
responder for unsubscriptions from your Mailing List (newsletter),
i.e. a certain user will receive a newsletter chosen from the list
of auto responders on unsubscription.
If newsletters are not selected, subscribers won’t receive any
additional Newsletters.
2 Auto responder set via a subscription Form. Subscribers receive
text autoresponders when he/she subscribes/unsubscribes. These are
the following steps:
1. You create a form in the “Forms” section.
2. Choose “Yes” in the “Send thank you” list. It means a
subscriber will receive a newsletter after submitting your
subscription form (or when he/she unsubscribes). It doesn’t matter
if the Mailing List auto responder option was set or not. Please do
not bombard your subscribers with autoresponders.
3. Complete newsletter fields in the “Gratitude” section. Your
subscribers will receive this Newsletter after submitting the
subscription form.
No. Pulsar Marketing hosts the software for
you. You only need to have a domain server with remote SMTP to send
your newsletters, and a browser that supports JavaScript.
The problem can be due to your SMTP-server
settings. Most servers are set to deter spam or flooding. Such
servers restrict sending more than a certain number of Newsletters
from one PC. To solve this, you may adjust the quotas (sending
Newsletters in portions).
Only a percentage of
my subscribers receive newsletters. Why?
There is a cycle in the Free Newsletter
Software for sending out newsletters. If at least one subscriber
received a newsletter and the software didn't return an error, it
means that the Free Newsletter Software cycle runs successfully and
all newsletters were received by your SMTP server.
The problem may be with your SMTP server.
Hosting companies set restrictions very often, for example: no more
than 10 newsletters per 5 minutes from 1 IP address. If there are
restrictions set by your server host, this may prevent all
newsletters from being sent.
What's the difference
between WYSWYG and Textarea?
WYSWYG (What You See is What You Get) –
editing with the help of visual editor for those not familiar with
HTML. However, visual editor formats ready html-pages in its own
way. Do not use it for pages you’ve created in another program
(for example, Dreamweaver).
Textarea – direct editing of html-code as it is for those familiar
with HTML. Use this mode for editing documents created in other
programs.
You can create newsletters for your
subscribers in advance, and set the sending date(s). The following
files should be set to cron jobs: newsletters/cron_send.php (every
day run) and newsletters/cron_send_hour.php every hour run). The
command for a run in most cases is the following: wget -q -O
/dev/null http://your_host.com/newsletters/cron_send.php . If these
settings do not run Schedule feature, apply to your server Support
Team.
Is it possible to
personalize the text messages using the newsletter software?
Yes, you can personalize both HTML and text
newsletters. You can personalize each newsletter while creating it.
For example, if you insert the HTML Merge Field "Hello, %
BASIC: FIRSTNAME% %BASIC: SECONDNAME%", this will insert
"Hello, Subscriber's Name".
Each month I want to
send three different mailings to three different groups and I want
to do this with one simple mouse click. Is it possible?
It is possible in several clicks:
1. Create 3 lists;
2. Subscribe users’ group for each list;
3. Create newsletter and send it to these 3 lists;
You can schedule delivery for the chosen date in “Manage
Newsletters” - > “Delivery Schedule” Section. However, do
not forget that the following files should be set to cronjobs:
newsletters/cron_send.php (every day) è newsletters/cron_send_hour.php
(every hour).
When sending a
newsletter, every subscriber has a status “Error” even though I
indicated a correct smtp-server. What should I do?
The problem is that your smtp-server requires
authentication/authorization. So, you need to enter in Settings
-> SMTP server area login/password. If you don’t know this
info, please refer to your hosting company.
I created an html
newsletter using my own web software. All the subscribers receive it
in text format. How can I solve this?
Dreamweaver, and most html editors, generate
at the very top of a document the following block (it can be
slightly different for different software): <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Change
this block to a simple tag <html> and your newsletters will be
in html format.
Cannot see a
delivery report when sending a newsletter. Why?
A delivery report appears in a pop up window.
Please check your browser settings to ensure JavaScript is enabled
and that any pop-up blockers are turned off.
Newsletters are not
sent, though in the stats page I see a “Sent” result.
Check to see if your SMTP server is authorized
in the settings>SMTP servers section. Please insert the
information about your SMTP server like host, login and password.
The server should be authorized to send the newsletters.
My newsletters are
not sent when added to a scheduled mailing.
To send newsletters via a schedule you should
set up cron jobs at your server (if it’s Unix or Linux server) or
sheduled tasks (if it’s Windows server). You can run /cron_send.php
or /cron_send_hour.php at your server and scheduling should work
fine after that.
How many emails at
one time can this software send without problems? Would 5,000
subscribers be a problem?
5,000 subscribers would not be a problem.
Theoretically problems occur when you view and sort subscribers when
their amount exceeds 50,000. However, subscribers’ number does not
influence newsletter delivery. It will just take more time.
I would like to
import subscribers that are in txt format. Is this possible?
Files for import can have any extension (for
example, txt, csv, dat, etc.) But file contents should fit format.
The first string – headers that indicate columns, for example:
Name; Last name; email
Register and columns order are unimportant. It can contain only one
column (for example, Email) with required header. Separator is
generally “;” or “,”. Subscribers’ data are indicated per
line further, for example:
Jhon; rurk; jhon@rurk.com
Alex; stoun; alex@stoun.com
……………………………
That is if a file has the following format:
name; Last name; email
Jhon; rurk; jhon@rurk.com
Alex; stoun; alex@stoun.com
Can I use a template
created in dream weaver with the Free Newsletter Software?
Yes, you can. Creating templates is separated
for those who have HTML knowledge and for those who don’t. Use
WYSWYG-editor (What You See is What You Get) for creating and
editing if you do not have HTML knowledge. However, visual editor
formats html-code in its own way partially changing it. Therefore,
do not be surprised if added html pages change after saving.
Use Textarea for editing if you wish to save ready-made html
newsletters. You should have HTML knowledge to use this editing
mode.
Can I edit the form once
the form code is placed on the web page?
Yes, you can change the layout/design of the
subscription form, but do not change the form processing code and
javascript. You can; for example, insert the subscription form into
a web page of your website. To do this, obtain the Form Code via
your Admin panel, then copy only the portion of the form's HTML
which is between the <body> and </body> tags. Then paste
that portion of the form HTML into your web page. You can then add
your website logo, links, etc to customize the subscription form.
NOTE: There is one "generic" form field called
"Company". You can either delete that field, or you can
change the word "Company" to something else, such as
"Hobby". This gives you one optional field at your
disposal in addition to the First Name, Last Name and Email Address
fields.
Number of SMTP servers is unlimited. When
system delivers newsletters and current connection is lost a program
will automatically connect to the next server.
