MailsDaily Help

Agency account setting

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:54:47 +0000

Agency account setting

Go to Setting page by clicking on “Settings” .
You will see the Account Information form.

Account Information

Full Name:
Enter the full name of the user

Email Address:
Enter a valid email address

Username:
Enter the desired username for your user

New Password:
Enter the new password for the user

Country:
Select the country of origin

Timezone:
This is a very important parameter, you must remember that the correct timezone selection is crucial for the user as the scheduling of campaigns will be based on this same timezone. If you choose the wrong timezone the scheduling of the campaigns will generate unwanted results.

Language:
This option will allow you to set the language for the user, by default MailsDaily comes with a single language (English).

Agency Interface

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:30:30 +0000

MailsDaily’s agency interface will help you control all the aspects of your email marketing system. The interface is divided into several areas and each area will have several different functions. These functions can help you configure your system easily and manage the resources such as users etc. effectively.

To better understand the different areas of the Agency Interface, please refer to the diagram below:

The Agency interface is divided into five parts

Main navigation
The main functions to navigate are the 1st three tabs – Dashboard – an overview, My Clients – user settings, Transaction History – payment information/reports. These can be seen in the above screen shot. These tabs will help you navigate through different parts of the MailsDaily’s Admin Interface. Dashboard tab is the landing page where you are redirected after logging into your admin area – this will give you the system overview and quick statistical data.
Settings, Logout & Help
Using the functions on the top right hand corner, you will be able to modify and fine tune your MailsDaily backend settings. Use the Logout button to log out of the system.
Quick Access
Quick Access menu will help you perform the function of creating a new user account.
Statistical Dashboard
This section will give you a quick statistical overview of the data for the overall system. You will be able to track Delivery Forecast, Delivery History, Active Users, Online Users, Bounces, Spam Complaints and the list of recent campaigns.

Creating client

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:32:24 +0000

Now that we have seen most of the major functions and elements which are important from the setup point of view, we can now create a new client.

To create your client/user, go to My Clients tab.
Click on the “Create Client” button on the extreme right
The first tab you will see is the Account Information form and the second tab, Billing Information will allow you to add Credit information about the user you are going to create.

Account Information

Agency Name:
Select the user group for your user, the selected group’s limits will be applicable.

Client Name:
Enter the client name of the user

Logo:
Upload the logo of the user

Type:
choose the type of the user

Firstname:
Enter the first name of the user

Lastname:
Enter the last name of the user

Username:
Enter the desired username for your user

Password:
Enter the password for the user

Email Address:
Enter a valid email address

Country:
Select the country of origin

Timezone:
This is a very important parameter and you must remember that the correct timezone selection is crucial for the user as the campaigns scheduling will depend on the same timezone. If you choose the wrong timezone the scheduling of the campaigns will generate unwanted results.

Language:
This option will allow you to set the language for the user, by default MailsDaily comes with a single language (English).

Billing Information

Credit Limit Per Month:
You can set a monthly credit limit for your client. The client account will not be able to send out any more emails once the limit has been reached for each month

Credit Limit Per Campaign:
You can set a per campaign credit limit for your client. The client account will not be able to send out any more emails once the limit has been reached for each campaign

One Time Credit Limit:
You can set a One Time credit limit for your client. The client account will not be able to send out any more emails once the limit has been reached

Credit Threshold:
This is to set credit’s threshold for your client. The system will send a notification to you if available credit of client is lower than his credit threshold.

When you are done adding the above information – simply hit the “Create Client” button found at the bottom of the screen.

Admin Interface

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:08:40 +0000

MailsDaily’s admin interface will help you control all the aspects of your email marketing system. The interface is divided into several areas and each area will have several different functions. These functions can help you configure your system easily and manage the resources such as user groups, users etc. effectively.

To better understand the different areas of the Admin Interface, please refer to the diagram below:

The admin interface is divided into five parts

Main navigation
The main functions to navigate are the 1st three tabs – Dashboard – an overview, My Clients – user settings, Transaction History – payment information/reports. These can be seen in the above screen shot. These tabs will help you navigate through different parts of the MailsDaily’s Admin Interface. Dashboard tab is the landing page where you are redirected after logging into your admin area – this will give you the system overview and quick statistical data.
Settings, Logout & Help
Using the functions on the top right hand corner, you will be able to modify and fine tune your MailsDaily backend settings. Use the Logout button to log out of the system.
Quick Access
Quick Access menu will help you perform functions such as Creating new user account, Creating a new user group.
Statistical Dashboard
This section will give you the quick statistical overview of the data for overall system. You will be able to track Delivery Forecast, Delivery History, Active Users, Online Users, Bounces, Spam Complaints and the list of recent campaigns.

List Settings

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:40:25 +0000

In the previous topics, we went through the steps of creating new mailing list, the creation process is simple although the mailing lists have their own intricate settings which can be fine tuned to achieve greater capabilities and sophistication.

MailsDaily allows you to configure your mailing lists in a highly sophisticated manner with the subscription behaviors, un-subscription behaviors, web services integration and other related options.

List settings

List Name
You can update your list name to any other name which is suitable for the list

List Type
You can make the list single opt-in or double opt-in by selecting the correct option from the drop down menu.

Send Notifications
Use this option to send notifications for the subscriptions and unsubscriptions.

Personalizing your Emails

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:14:29 +0000

Email personalization is a technique to make your emails more intuitive and also more interesting. It can help you increase your email open rate as well as success rate of your campaign.

There is a huge difference between an email sent without any personal information and those with personal information. If you address the recipient by his name instead of valued customer the recipient will feel better and the chances of him reading it is more as compared to you addressing him as valued customer.

Think about sending large amounts of personalized emails – if you have to do that manually it would take lot of time and will be not be easy, but with MailsDaily, its easy.

You will just need to create your email content with special personalization tags. That’s all and MailsDaily will do the rest, merge those tags for each recipient’s information and deliver the email.

In order to personalize your emails, you need to have that information in your subscriber lists. Therefore, you need to create custom fields in your subscriber lists and import your subscribers with that information for the beginning.

Once you have the required information about your subscribers, it’s time to create your campaign and personalize it.

While editing your email campaign content, MailsDaily provides you a list of personalization tags in a drop down list as shown in the below screen shot.

Subscriber Information Tags:

First Name
##FirstName##

Last Name
##LastName##

Email Address
##Email##

Global Suppression
##GlobalSuppression##

Opt-In Date
##OptInDate##

Subscription Date
##SubscriptionDate##

Subscription Status
##SubscriptionStatus##

Unsubscription Date
##UnsubscriptionDate##

Campaign Links Tags:

Forward To Friend Link
##ForwardLink##

View In Web Browser Link
##WebCopyLink##

Report Abuse Link
##ReportAbuseLink##

Twitter Share Link
##SocialShareTwitterLink##

Facebook Share Link
##SocialShareFacebookLink##

Social Links
##SocialShareLink##

Remote Content
##RemoteContent=http://##

List Links tags:

Unsubscription Link
##UnsubscribeLink##

Unsubscription All Link
##UnsubscribeAllLink##

Subscriber Area Link
##SubscriberAreaLink##

Sign Up Link
##SignUpLink##

Email Content Analysis

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:41:44 +0000

MailsDaily provides an easy to use built in email content analysis tool. This tool is available when you are done creating your campaign email and are on the last step of previewing and saving the campaign.

It analyses the inline css, css style tags and images within the email content. This analysis helps you optimize your newsletter content and make it even better.

Campaign Preview

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:38:51 +0000

When you are done creating a campaign, you can actually send a preview email to check how the campaign looks like – whether every element within the newsletter is rendering fine or whether all the fonts are looking as you expect them to be.

MailsDaily provides you two different ways to preview your email on the last step of the campaign email creation process

By sending an email to one of your designated email id
By previewing it on browser

List Statistics

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:34:54 +0000

MailsDaily provides an easy way to manage the statistical data which can help you in making certain decisions on your marketing strategies. It also allows you to understand the different subscriber behaviors and patterns on subscriptions/unsubscriptions.

To view the list statistics go to “Lists“
This will take you to the list browser – select the list you wish to view the statistics for.
After you select the list – you should see the “Overview” of the mailing list.

The below screen shot gives you the overview of your mailing list with the details such as Subscription / Un Subscription trends in a graphical chart format, open performance, click performance, Email Service Ratio, Bounce ratio etc. for the particular mailing list.

Open performance
This shows you the email open ratio for the particular mailing list.

Click performance
This gives you the details about the link click performance for the particular mailing list

Forwards
This will show you the number of people forwarded the emails using the MailsDaily email forward system. This data is only populated if you use the personalization tag for forward to friend.

Browser Views
This will give you the details on the subscribers who clicked on the browser view link from their campaign email.

Email Service Ratio
This ratio is based on the number of different email service domains are found within the mailing list subscriber database.

Subscriber Ratio
The subscriber ratio is the data which is generated based on the hard bounced subscribers. MailsDaily helps you track the invalid email addresses and can remove these addresses from the mailing list.

Total Subscribers
You will also be able to track the total subscribers within the mailing list.

Spam complains
This will give you the details about the subscribes who submitted spam complains through the Feedback loop procedures followed by major email service providers such as hotmail, yahoo etc.

Campaign Statistics

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:52:53 +0000

Campaign statistics are very important aspect of any email marketing system, for a successful result oriented email marketing campaign, the marketeer need to understand the statistical data of their email campaign.

MailsDaily provides an easy and a detailed statistical data related to your email campaign in real time as well after the campaign is sent. It allows you to track email open statistics, clicks statistics, forwards statistics, browser views, unsubscriptions, bounced back emails, spam complains about the particular campaign etc.

To get the campaign statistics go to “Campaigns”
Select the campaign which is already sent
When you select the campaign you land on the reporting and statistical data screen as shown in the screenshot below.

MailsDaily provides a detailed statistical data on the email open ratios. Whenever a subscriber is opening an email on their email client or webmail system, MailsDaily will record the data. This can help the marketeer to know whether their emails are being opened by the subscribers or not.

In order to get the detailed drilled down open statistics – click on the “Opens” link on the left hand side navigation panel. This will take you to the screen as shown in the below screenshot.

This report gives you the details on how many subscribers opened your campaign over a timeframe. It also gives you the details on which subscribers opened your email and how many times at the bottom of the screen.

This helps you understand the data on link clicks by your subscribers. If there are any URL’s or links created within the campaign email and if the subscriber receiving your email clicks on any of the links within the campaign – MailsDaily will detect the link clicks and record the data on who clicked a particular link and how many times on which dates.

In order to see the link click statistical data click on the “Clicks” link on the left navigation bar.

To see which subscribers forward your campaign to their friends or colleagues click on the Forwards link on the left hand side navigation. This will show you the details of the subscriber who forwarded how many emails to their friends.

If the browser view personalization is enabled within your campaign email and if the subscriber clicks on the browser view link then MailsDaily will track the data on what all subscribers are clicking on the browser view link.

Click on the “Browser views” link from the left navigation and you should get the drilled down data on which subscribers viewed your campaign on the browser.