Re: FN-FORUM: Advice required - html/email mailout marketing methods

date posted 31st January 2007 15:16

On 31 Jan 2007, at 3:23 pm, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> The systems that have been suggested seem to be online based around a
> database - am I correct
>
> If I was to suggest this - how would she/I create the list of our=20
> existing
> contacts and enter them into this new database system? I don=B9t =
really=20
> want
> to recommend paying for a system that is impossible for her to work=20
> out how
> to use
>
> Basically, the sustem that I setup used filemaker pro - that basically
> emailed a page of code to all of the contacts within that filemaker=20
> pro - so
> it was not an online system - but it also problematic - and now that I=20=

> am
> not on hand geographically - I want to suggest a foolproof system she=20=

> can
> use so I don=B9t get involved

Hi John,

Sendstudio is written in PHP. You download it from interspire, then=20
install it on your server. (so you need at least rudimentary knowledge=20=

of PHP - or you need to know someone who has). You create an account=20
for your client so she can log in. She can import her mailing list=20
from Excel or Access (sorry don't know if it will accept FileMaker=20
Pro) . She (or you) can create her email "newsletter" in plain text,=20
HTML or preferably both.

Sendmail adds the required "unsubscribe" link to the bottom of the=20
mailshot, handles sending out the mails in batches from the server and=20=

handles the responses so you can see track what happened.

Its probably not for a complete novice as you have to have a=20
rudimentary understanding of PHP to install and of HTML to create your=20=

mailshots

Best regards,

Ray

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