Quick Guide to using the Email Marketing Assistant |
Step 1: Create a campaign Step 2: Configure custom fields (Optional) Step 3: Configure settings for that campaign Step 4: Add messages in the message queue. Please make sure that there is ONE message with 0 (zero) delay. Step 5: Add some urls that you want to track and use in your emails (Optional) Step 6: Get the html code for your form and paste it on your websites That's it. It is assumed that you must have configured the cron or image tag to automatically send emails. Detailed instructions below |
Please note that this read-me is for Pro version of Email Marketing Assistant. Hence some of the things will be irrelevant for the free version of the script. |
Admin Settings:
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IMPORTANT: Please read this before using this
system. You will have to do one of the following things make this script send emails automatically. 1. Easiest, paste the following line of code on any web page
that has a lot of traffic i.e. that is viewed at least once every day. Please contact us if you need some help. Please remember, you get free
support for 90 days. |
Detailed Help |
In the left menu of the page you will see a lot of menus. |
Here You can do: |
Add New Campaign :This will add a new campaign. Simply enter your campaign name into the given textbox and click the add campaign button. |
Delete an Existing Campaign:This will delete an existing campaign.If you want to delete an campaign then check it and click the delete campaign button.This will delete all the details corresponding to that campaign. |
To Work with an existing Campaign, simply click on that campaign and all the corresponding menu will appear on the right hand side of the page. |
Modify Password. From here you can change your email id and password. |
Email Settings:This option allows you to set the way your emails will be sent. The available options are: |
Different Modules: |
Statistics Menu: |
You can get a summary of the campaign here.. Here is the details of terms used in the module. Total Subscriptions: It indicates total number of subscribers of the particular campaign. Active: It indicates total number of active subscribers of the particular campaign. Inactive: It indicates total number of inactive subscribers of the particular campaign. If any subscriber unsubscribe the campaign services then he/she would not get any further mails after clicking the unsubscribe link. For inactive subscriber the status becomes zero. so they can be identified easily. Subscriptions by Form: It indicates today's count of the number of subscribers who joined this campaign using the web form. Subscriptions by Import: It indicates today's count of subscribers who were added by the admin. |
Settings Menu: |
When you create a new campaign you have to make proper settings for that campaign.
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"From" Name: This is the name that is used for sending emails of this campaign. "From" Email: This will be the sender's email id. "Admin" Email: This email id is used to send back the confirmation report to the admin that a new subscriber has been added and the details of that new subscriber is sent to the admin along with the confirmation report. Redirect After Registration: Here the location is specified to which the subscriber has to redirected after successful subscription. Redirect After Unsubscribe: When any subscriber want to unsubscribe and click the unsubscribe link in the mail then this is the url where he is redirected after the unsubscription. Add Unsubscribe Link: when this checkbox is checked then an unsubscribe link is also added at the bottom of each message. Send Report To Admin : When this checkbox is checked then the confirmation report is send to admin. Display Instruction to configure RSS Before
Redirecting: If this is selected then the user is displayed instructions
to configure RSS immediately after they fill the subscription form. |
Custom Field Menu: |
Here you can add custom fields which helps you to get extra information from the subscriber while they fill the subscription form. Here you can use four types of custom fields like: |
Add Custom Field : Here you can add custom fields like Address, Status, Contact No etc for the subscription form. For each field you can take the field type as given in the field type list. Here are the details of various field types and way of entering default value in these custom fields. For example, if You want to add 2 or more than 2 fields then put a ; sign between the two values, Like field1;feild2;feild3 |
Edit Custom Field : Once You have created the custom field and if you want to edit custom field then simply click the edit link and you can update the custom field. Similarly, you can delete any custom field, But be aware that this will delete all the records of that particular field. |
Html Code Menu: |
After adding custom fields, you get an html code for using in your subscription. You can paste this html code on your website, emails, newsletters, ebooks, pop up windows, hover ads etc. This code will create a subscription form. When Subscribers fill and submit the form, their details will be stored in the the database and emails are sent to them at the interval defined by you. If you had selected the option to "Display Instruction to configure RSS Before Redirecting" then the user will be redirected to the instructions for configuring the RSS feed of their email otherwise, they are redirected to the redirection url that you had specified earlier. |
Queue Menu: |
In queue menu you can create the mails which will delivered to your subscribers
in queue format i.e. one by one.
Personalization: Here you can personalize the mails so that each subscriber get the mail with his own name and other details. It will put a good impression on the subscribers. Choose from numerous personalization variables to craft a custom message for each subscriber. Message Format: This option allows you to send mail in according to your choice. here you can select either Html format or Text format. Delay: This is the delay in days for this email from
the date of subscription of the user. Message Sent: This field shows that how many times the particular message has been sent. Message Read: This field will show the statistics that how many subscriber read that message.
Message Read Online: This field will show the statistics that how many subscriber read that message by visiting on the message page on your website. This figure is pretty accurate. |
Scheduled Menu: |
In Scheduled menu you can create the mails which will delivered to your subscribers
at a scheduled time. The mail created in that section will delivered to all the active subscribers of the current campaign at the specified time. The first screen displays only the pending messages. The past messages can be seen by clicking the "Show All Message" link. How to Schedule the message: Once you created the mail then you can schedule it using the
calendar. You can select the date and time then click the scheduled messages
button. Show Pending Message: This link will show all the pending messages. By default pending message is shown on the screen. Show All Message: This Link will show all the messages including delivered as well as pending messages. Message Sent: This field shows that the count of how many times this email has been sent i.e. how many people were sent this email. Message Read: This field will show the count of how many subscriber read that message. Message Read Online: This field will show the count of how many subscriber read that message by visiting on the server side page.
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Broadcast Menu: |
In Broadcast menu you can send the instant mails to your subscribers.
Personalization: Here you can personalize the mails so that each subscriber get the mail with his own name and other details.It will put a good impression on the subscribers. Message Format: This option allows you to send mail according to your choice. Here you can select either HTML format or Text format. Add Recipient: When you click this link a new window is opened which contains the list of all the active subscribers of that campaign. Here you can simply select the email id of subscribers whom you want to send the message. View Messages: This link shows you the details of all the broadcast messages along with the subject, date of message etc, You can view the details of each message by simply clicking the link in each message. |
Subscribers Menu: |
Here you can manage the subscribers of your campaign. This section provides you the facility of editing a existing subscriber, add new subscriber through Import means simply by putting the name and email id you can add an subscriber. Also you can search any subscribers details by its name or email id. Search Subscriber: Here you can search the existing subscriber either by its name or email id.
Add New Subscriber: This option allows you to add new subscriber.
Edit Subscribers: This option allows you to update the subscribers details. Also if you add any new subscriber by import then here you can insert the additional details of the subscribers. Mails: This option allows you to see the details of mails
sent to each subscriber. Here the complete record of any subscriber can be viewed. |
Tracking Menu: |
This section provides a way of manage the tracking of links. Here you can
categorize the different links group wise. Add New Group: This option allows us to create a new group. Add New Links: This option allows us to create new
tracking links. Get Link Code: If you want to use this link manually,
you can use "Get Code" to get the link code. You can use this link on your
websites, emails etc. It will automatically track the clicks to that link. Total clicks: This field will show the count of how many times that link is clicked. Unique clicks: This field will show the count of how many times that link was clicked by a unique person. |
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