Newsletter by email using eDeskOnline
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Benefits of sending a Newsletter by email using eDeskOnline
- Integrate your address book with an 'add to newsletter' box on your website. No programming skills required.
- One can send the newsletter to email ids within one group or all contacts at the same time.
- The recipient will not see the ids of the other recepients to which the newsletter is being sent.
- Send to only the addresses that have been previously opted in: never be blamed for sending spam.
- Reach out to your entire target audience and constantly update them about the latest news, information and content.
One time steps
One time steps
Mailing Setup
- Login to your eDeskOnline account, to obtain your webtop.Then Click on Start >> Control Panel >> Newsletter Setup.
- In the Newsletter Settings window that appears, enter the relevant information like the Outgoing SMTP Mail Server, Senders Email ID, and User Name / Password of the mail account.
- There are options for the Newsletter Name, a Newsletter signature
- Click on the Save button
Design Setup
We may need to set up a standard template to our newsletter. Simply login to eDeskOnline, then on the Webtop, click on Start button>> Programs >>AddressBook>> Newsletter. In the windows that appears, create a new newsletter design. One may also share this design with one's colleagues.
Icon set up on your website
Putting up a newsletter signup button on your website to allow visitors to your site to be able to sign-up for your newsletter involves pasting of a bit of code to your website. The Message code is available on the (login / webtop) Then ... Start >> Control Panel >> Newsletter Setup page.
Get subscribers to sign up
Subscribers from the website
Visitors to your website may wish to request or receiving your newsletter. They will need to fill in their email-id in a signup box. An automatic email goes out to the visitor requesting permission. This email contains his ip-address, time, browser-type. Once the visitor clicks on the confirmation-link provided in that email, the system recognises him as a subscriber. To see how the confirmation email would look like please click here...
From our address book
One may initiate a request for an approvals from one's address book using the link provided (to the right hand side of the email field). An email compose box will open up with a pre-filled request. The message will have a link to be clicked. If your contact does indeed click it in confirmation: then his ip-address, time, and browser is automatically recorded. Requests for opt-in for more than one contact can be sent by putting all of them in a group in the Address Book. To view the E-mail sent to the customer please click on this link
Start Sending the Newsletter regularly
- Login, on the webtop, select the icon: address book , then click the link named Newsletter. See below for the page that will appear.
- Click upon compose email : a dialog box will pop up(see the second image below): this will need to be filled in.
- For attachments; click on the browse button. A dialog box will pop-up enquiring for the file to be sent. Browse the file from your desktop, select it, and click ok.
- Click on the Send Newsletter Link. All the opted-in subscribers will receive the newsletter to their respective eMail-IDs.
See Also
- Newsletter
- Newsletter by email
- Newsletter by email using eDeskOnline
- Newsletter by SMS using eDeskOnline
