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All About Timing: When Should You Send a Marketing Email?

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Marketing Software

Sure — knowing how to write a persuasive and attractive marketing email/newsletter is important, but knowing when to send that email is equally as important. You need to make sure that you send out emails at a time when consumers will be most receptive — otherwise, they'll just end up  just thinking your email is spam and keep it in their inbox for a while or worse — delete it immediately without even opening the letter. While there is no way to guarantee that a consumer will read your email, there are a few things you should take into consideration when sending them out. Continue reading below to find out what they are.

How to Verify Email Addresses When Your ISP Blocks the Port 25

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Verification Software

It has become extremely rare for ISPs to leave the port 25 open for external connections. This makes it impossible for email verifier programs to check email addresses for validity using a direct Internet connection. We kept it in mind when developing the Advanced Email Verifier and implemented the alternate option for email verification in the program.

How to Extract Email Attachments and Save Them to a Network Drive

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Automation Software

G-Lock Email Processor offers great features for automatic attachment processing. With G-Lock Email Processor you can automatically extract attachments from incoming messages and save them to the hard disc. Plus, G-Lock Email Processor can rename the attachment based on your settings and save it to a folder under a new name. This program recognizes email attachments in most standard business formats, including PDF, TIFF, Word and Excel documents.

How to Send Different Email Attachments to Different Recipients

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Marketing Software

This article is about G-Lock EasyMail v6.xx.

You can read the tutorial how to send personal attachments with G-Lock EasyMail7 here

In some situations you may need to send a unique email attachment to each of your recipients. As an example, imagine that you want to attach an individual invoice in the .pdf format to each recipient. You can follow these steps to accomplish this task with G-Lock EasyMail v6.xx.

Can You Send Relevant Emails without Opt-In?

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Marketing Software

One of best email marketing practices says that you need to obtain the recipient's permission before sending emails to them. On the other hand, if you send relevant emails to your customers who purchased your product or used your service in the past, you may not worry about whether they want to receive your emails or not. It's supposed that nobody will complain about a relevant email even if they did not opt-in for it.

It sounds promising and opens more potential to email marketers eliminating the risk to be flagged as spammer. Let's dig deeper and see if you can really ignore the permission element in your email marketing campaign.

How to Create Free Business Email Marketing List and Build Relationship with It

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Marketing Software

An essential element of successful email marketing campaign is a list of email addresses of people who are really interested in receiving the emails from the company or organization. Otherwise, unsolicited advertising will be classified as spam. Although sending out magazines and newsletters through bulk emailing is free, companies cannot risk the equity of their brands by offending people. An opt-in email list helps you assess the success of your email campaigns, and, more importantly, it reduces the risk of breaking anti-spamming laws.

Keep Clean Mailing List and Increase Subscriber Response Rate

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Verification Software

Have you ever measured your email campaigns response rate? If no, it's time to start. Here is a good email tracking service. Email tracking can give you interesting results. For example, you may find that a small list generates a high response while a huge list generates a low open rate. Why so? Because it’s not the number of emails on your list but the quality of the list that really matters.

How to Create Effective Email Marketing Newsletter

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Marketing Software

I've been working for a software developer company for 10 years. We regularly send newsletters to our customers and subscribers. For a company advertising their products on the Internet the most important thing is to get as many subscribers as possible and build a strong relationship with already existing clients. Since the communication with the customers is done via email, the newsletter you send plays the essential role.

Email Sending Failed: Troubleshooting Tips

Written by Julia Gulevich. Posted in Blog, Email Marketing Software

This article tells about G-Lock EasyMail v6.xx and explains the most common reasons why the email sending in G-Lock EasyMail v6.xx may fail and gives possible solutions to them.

G-Lock EasyMail v6 records the log for each processed message. In case of sending failure, you can always find the reason of failure in the log. To view the message log, click on the Sent Manager button on the toolbar and do this:

  • Select the group on the left pane, to which you sent the emails
  • Select the message in the Message Log pane
  • Click on the email address in the Sent Log pane and you'll see the full message log for this recipient.