Here at J-insights, we have explored the different options available to setup An SMTP server and send unlimited emails. we have here, the postal smtp setup guide, postfix smtp setup guide, and other detailed mail transfer agent setup and configurations guide. Today we will see the PowerMTA Setup Guide, a special type of mail transfer agent for high-volume sending. Port25 Solutions inc develops Powermta to serve and send high-volume emails. So, whilst other mail transfer agents are limited in the number of emails they can process say per hour, powermta can truly send hundreds of thousands of emails per hour. As a result of its high processing power, it is used by most reputable email marketing companies like getresponse, systeme.io, etc. So, if you are looking to send a high volume of emails, then Powermta is your best option. Let’s go through this PowerMTA Setup Guide without delay and see what is in it for us. Let’s go oo 🔥🔥🔥 What is PowerMTA PowerMTA is a leading mail transfer agent (SMTP) or delivery system used to send emails over the Internet. There are other mail transfer agents like Postal (You can join the GitHub repo to view and maybe contribute to the project if you are a developer), postfix, Exim, etc. Here at j-insights, we have also explored postal SMTP setup, postfix smtp setup, etc. You can also check them out to see their relationship with powermta. Components of a complete email marketing system Just like we described in our different types of email marketing platforms, any Email marketing system is made up of two parts: To have a functional email marketing system, the above two components of an email marketing system must be connected together to make a whole. We also have different types of email marketing systems depending on manageability and how the systems are built. This gives rise to the different types of email marketers because as they are built differently, are advantages and disadvantages associated with them all. As an email marketer, you have to go with the ones that best fits your need. Ensure to check those guides out to understand the type of email marketer you’re as this will help you to know the kind of system to go with. Is Powermta an Open-source Project? No, PowerMTA is not an open-source project. PowerMTA (Power Mail Transfer Agent) is a commercial email delivery software developed by Port25 Solutions, Inc. It is a high-performance email server that provides advanced features for managing and delivering large volumes of email. PowerMTA is not available for free and requires a license to use. Being an enterprise-grade software for sending high-volume and mission-critical messages, it’s somehow expensive as opposed to its open-source counterparts like Postal, Postfix, Exim, etc. What makes PowerMTA unique is that it provides high performance, stability, and deliverability in line with perfect manageability. And it’s built with a much smaller hardware footprint than is possible with other products like Postalhq, MAIB, postfix, Exim…etc. How to Get & Download PowerMTA? Powermta isn’t a small software that can be seen anywhere. It’s enterprise software used by big companies like getresponse, Mailchimp, systeme.io, etc. So. how do we get Powermta or better still how do we download it? Well, as part of our commitment to copyright adherence at j-insight, we don’t share cracked software licenses of any sort not even powermta on our network and subsidiaries. So, we respect copyright as much as we’d love others to respect ours. So from where do we get Powermta for this Powermta setup guide? or at least how do we get a trial version so we can test it before we buy? To get a trial version of PowerMTA or buy a license, you can simply send a small message to the owner (Spark Post) using this contact form. They are responsive, and they will respond within a day or two. then they may ask you some questions regarding your business just to make sure you are not a spammer, and you will get two months trial copy to learn and test everything in the software before you buy a paid license. Quick Question: Do you really need PowerMTA? Since PowerMTA serves commercial purposes for large volume sending/hr. it is used by enterprise companies which means it is not cheap. I’d advise, if you are not an email marketing company or at least a high volume sender with a few tens of millions email list and traffic, I don’t think you should go with Powermta as that will be expensively overwhelming for you. Aside from expansiveness, you don’t even need it since you will be sending just a few thousand emails which can easily be handled by free open-source projects like postal, postfix, Exim, etc . Better still you can go with alternative cheap solutions like using SMTP services (Amazon SES, Sendgrid, Mailgun, Mandrill, Spark Post SMTP Service…) and then integrate with an email marketing application like mailwizz. Not let’s get into our PowerMTA Setup Guide in detail. Powermta setup Guide: Let’s get started. As I said earlier, there are two components of an email marketing system. The email marketing application (EMA) like mailwizz, moosend, or any EMA of your choice and the SMTP server or the delivery system eg powermta. We have also discussed here how to install the Mailwizz email marketing application with and without a control panel. You can go through and see how simple it is to install the Mailwizz email marketing application. But for this tutorial, let’s focus on setting up powermta. So, what do we need for this powermta setup guide? What are the purchasing requirements? let’s see Powermta purchasing requirements. Just like any web application. We need two things: Getting a domain name Getting a domain name is more than simple. Just head on to Namecheap or any domain registrar of your choice, search for any domain of your choice, and check out using your preferred payment method and you will be up and running. For the
How to Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails: The Ultimate Guide
There are various ways to setup smtp server and send unlimited emails. Here at J-insights, we have explored how to setup an SMTP server with postal. There are still other mail transfer agents to setup SMTP servers such as PowerMTA, Exim, Postfix, etc. In this tutorial, we will see how easy it is to setup postfix and configure everything. The most interesting part of the whole setup is that we are not going to install Postfix manually, like the way we did with postal, powermta, etc. We’re going to just install a control panel or a web hosting manager just like cPanel, known as webmin. Webmin will help us pre-install postfix automatically. All we have to do now is to just configure. Without much talk let’s see… Components of An email marketing system To better understand Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails, I feel we should really understand the different components of an email marketing system. Off course we already have a guide on the different types of email marketing systems and marketers. I encourage you to go over it so as to understand everything deeply. But for the sake of this tutorial let’s go over the little we need. There are two components of an email marketing system: The email marketing system (EMA) To make things very simple, An email marketing application is an interface where you manage your email marketing stats. Here you can create and manage your email lists, create and send campaigns, track open rate, and click-through rate, perform A/B split test, etc. This part has nothing to do with the delivery of emails to your subscribers. The SMTP server/ the delivery system SMTP is short for simple mail transfer protocol. This is the technical part of an email marketing system that delivers the email you typed on the email marketing application to the subscribers. Just assume an email marketing application to be your phone while the smtp is your internet service provider which helps you to make calls or access the internet. Your phone helps you to collect and save numbers just like the email marketing application which helps you to collect and save emails in organized tags or lists. Just like we have different internet service providers for our phone calls is the same way we have different delivery networks or mail transfer agents for sending emails. The mail transfer agents can be postal, postfix, exim, power MTA, etc. While the email marketing application can be Mailwizz, moosend, mailster, etc. Note: in email marketing companies like systeme.io, getresponse, convertkit, etc, both the email marketing application and the SMTP server are integrated as one platform. In such companies, all you have to do is to sign up for their free or paid plan upload your lists, and begin your sending. in our own case, our email marketing system and delivery system are going you be separate. All we got to do is to connect both of them together, warm up our newly built system, and send unlimited emails depending on your server resources (CPU, RAM, etc). This is unlike email marketing companies where you have to subscribe to a plan for a particular list size or for a pay-as-you-go plan. Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails, Let’s get started! Before we fly on the strength of our wings, let’s see the purchasing requirements to Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails: Requirements to Setup SMTP Server. Here are the main requirements to Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails: Getting a Domain Name Domain name is the address of your website like j-insights.com. To send an email you need a domain name just like j-insights. You can then create domain emails like Johnkachi@j-insights.com. if you just want to send emails to your blog subscribers that genuinely opted into your email list, you can use your main domain email just like johnkachi@j-insights.com. But if you are doing a cold mailing, you need to get a clone domain for your mailing purposes. What is a clone domain?? A clone domain is a domain that resembles you’re domain name especially when it differs from your main domain by extension. Let’s see an example: Take my main domain name to be j-insights.com. Consider another domain name j-insights.io or j-insights.net. Two domains resemble my main domain, the only difference is the .io and .net extensions. So, if you are doing cold mailing I advise you to get a clone domain to avoid being blacklisted on your main domain. If people report spam, or your domain gets blacklisted for spam you will be sure that your main domain is safe. There are different registrars where you can get your domain name. A few of them are: in this tutorial, I will go with Namecheap. You are not obliged to go with Namecheap. You can go with any registrar of your choice. Getting a VPS server To setup SMTP server and send unlimited emails, we need a VPS server. Not just any type of VPS, but the one with port 25 open. unlike the conventional web hosting, we are familiar with, we need port 25 to be open in our VPS server. This tiny port is what is required for us to be able to send outgoing emails from our server. The few companies below are the ones that allow port 25 open on their VPS server. So, it doesn’t matter the VPS provider you are using, just ensure that they allow port 25 to be open on their server. You can verify this by searching online or by messaging their support and asking if port 25 is open on their VPS. To make things easy we already have an article that outlined the lists of VPS providers with port 25 open. I have taken time to talk with their support and they confirmed their port 25 is open. Note: These are not all the companies there is that have port 25 open. You can always reach out to
How To Install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS (With & Without cPanel)
If you have been looking for how to install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS, Vultr, turnkey internet, or any VPS company with and without cPanel, cyberpanel, or any freemium or premium control panel you are in the right place. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS with and without cPanel, Cyberpanel etc. Cyberpanel is a very great control panel with a lot of premium features not even available in most paid control panels. I’d love to say that if you want to run this installation without cPanel, you can go to the later part of this tutorial, but if you want to learn from With cPanel down to without cPanel you can continue from here. To install mailwizz on Contabo vps with Cyberpanel we definitely need to install Cyberpanel. It is on cyberpanel that we’ll upload our Mailwizz files and run our installations via the web interface. But the good news is we already have a tutorial here on how to install Cyberpanel with ease without getting your hands dirty on ambiguous technicalities. We are not gonna waste time installing cyberpanel again. Just go through the tutorial then come back here to continue with the Mailwizz installation. Done!! Let’s get the ground running now 🔥🔥🔥….., Requirements to install Mailwizz on contabo VPS In order to get Mailwizz up and running on our server, we need a few things to achieve our goal: From no 1 to 3 requirements above have been achieved in the tutorial on how to install cyberpanel. You can go through it and get the first 3 requirements ready then come back. Once you’re done you can Click Here to get mailwizz license from codecayon at a discounted price so that we can finish up our installations. What is Mailwizz Mailwizz is a versatile and powerful email marketing platform that can help you automate your campaigns, track results, and engage your subscribers with ease. I strongly believe by now you have installed cyberpanel? Let’s see how to install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS with Cyberpanel. I’ll cover everything you need to know, from setting up your server to configuring Mailwizz and optimizing its performance. Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or just getting started, you’ll be up and running with Mailwizz in no time. Now let us see why email marketing is very important and a must-do for any business. Why you must be doing email marketing Email marketing is an effective way for businesses to reach out to their customers, build relationships, and drive sales. Here are a few reasons why email marketing is worth considering for your business: Example of how Email marketing can make your business effective. For example, a fashion retailer might send a weekly newsletter to its subscribers, featuring new products, styling tips, and exclusive discounts. By segmenting its audience based on past purchases or browsing behavior, the retailer can send personalized recommendations that are tailored to each subscriber’s interests. This can help drive sales, build brand loyalty, and increase website traffic. Overall, email marketing can be a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes and industries. By providing relevant content, personalized recommendations, and exclusive offers, businesses can build stronger relationships with their customers, drive sales, and achieve higher ROI. You can check our post on the 15 best email marketing templates and examples. This will help craft the best email marketing campaign. Now you know email marketing is very important for your business let’s go and get our Mailwizz up and running and start sending our emails. Install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS Since we already have our Cyberpanel installed, all we got to do now is to log in to our Cyberpanel, upload the Mailwizz files, and run the installation on the web interface. Once you are in, click on websites to create the site where you will upload your Mailwizz files. See the picture below to see what it looks like: Then, click on Create website. Supply the details required below to create your website as suggested by cyberpanel Above select package as Default, owner as admin, add your email address, and select also the php version you want your website, web application, or email marketing application to run on. In my case, i selected PHP 8.1. Note: You can also downgrade to lower versions of PHP if the current isn’t running your web application smoothly. Check all the the additional features boxes. Turn off the test domain option to be able to add your domain name which is basically the website you want to create. Turning on the test domain toggle will exit live to testing environment. You can use the test domain for testing purposes only and for staging sites before launch. But since we wanna install mailwizz, just turn off the test environment and add your domain name without the www. Hope you understood?? 🫶🫶🫶 Upload & Extract the Mailwizz files After creating the website, go to manage, then File manager. Note: You can create multiple as seen from the top right hand side of the screenshot above. What this means is that you can add more than one website on our vps plan. All you got to do to access other domains or sub-domain you added to cyberpanel is to also map and point them to your VPS IP address using A record. Now open the Public_html. Here is the place you are gonna upload your mailwizz files and complete the web interface installation. You can also delete the index.html file in the public_html folder since it is empty and practically useless. Once the mailwizz files are done uploading, extract it and delete the parent mailwizz zip file. To complete the installation, go your web browser and locate the exact install directory or folder and hit enter. You will be brought to the installation prompt. Let’s see…., In my case, I navigated to Mydomain/mailing/install. I was brought to the installation prompt and seen below: Input your purchase Code and agree to terms, then
15 Best Email Marketing Examples in 2022
Email marketing has proven to be one of the most effective ways to connect with your audience and get them to take action on your offer. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at 15 Best Email Marketing Examples in 2022 that have brought in the best results for other businesses. We’ll cover everything from audience targeting and subject lines to creating graphics and providing social proof, all of which are crucial components of successful email marketing campaigns. Let’s get started! What is email marketing? Email marketing is a digital marketing strategy that uses email communications to promote products or services. Email marketing can be used to build relationships with potential and current customers, promote new product launches, or drive website traffic. Why email marketing? Email marketing is one of the most effective types of marketing because it allows you to reach a large audience of potential customers. There are many different types of email marketing campaigns, but in this post, we will see the 15 Best Email Marketing Examples in 2022. This will help us to know what a good and successful campaign looks like. You should also be aware that there are different types of email marketing and email marketing system. As a result; there are also many templates that can be used for your different email campaigns for optimal conversion. You will find some best examples of email marketing below. What makes under listed 15 Best Email Marketing Examples in 2022 successful? Email marketing campaigns are a great way to connect with your audience and promote your products or services. But what makes an email marketing campaign successful? According to experts: – Using rich media content, like an engaging video or a stunning picture, will help you keep your readership. – Use a compelling subject line. – Utilize CTA (call-to-action) buttons throughout the email, as well as at the end of the message, so readers know exactly what they’re supposed to do next: click on it! – Offer something for free if you want more people to sign up for your emails. – Make sure your logo is large enough and displayed prominently in the design. – Create scarcity around your product by giving limited-time offers only available through email (like Black Friday deals). – Develop a list segmentation strategy by using first name, last name, company type, location, etc., so you can create specific messages for different audiences. – Experiment with timing and set time frames for when customers should receive their emails. For example, could sending an email every other day be better than sending one every day? A lot of companies find out this works best based on customer behavior. *If these tips helped you understand how to create a successful email marketing campaign feel free to share this post* – One of the best email marketing templates is creating a sense of urgency to purchase or download information because some users may not respond if there isn’t any limitation. – Subject lines need to be catchy but not too long so that it doesn’t deter potential subscribers from opening the email. Subject line Optimization – Including videos, images, GIFs, and CTA buttons are best practices for crafting a successful email campaign. The best email marketing templates also offer various call-to-actions and valuable content. -Email newsletters aren’t just promotional vehicles; they should offer timely information and education about new products, industry developments, current events, etc. -Subject lines shouldn’t be generic or vague – instead, use them to grab someone’s attention while also making it clear what the contents of the newsletter are going to contain so that they know whether or not they’ll want to read it. -The best email marketing campaigns have clearly defined goals before launching a campaign. -Determine who your target market is and then construct a plan detailing how you’ll reach them via email communications such as frequency of sends, desired results, etc. All the above features of a successful campaign are integral to the 15 Best Email Marketing Examples in 2022 shared in this article as you will see shortly. Best email marketing examples take into account the benefits and risks associated with certain approaches. Designers of the best email marketing campaigns spend time developing copy that resonates with their readers. They also consider brand voice and voice tone, which vary depending on each organization’s objectives. Testing is essential when determining the best email marketing techniques – marketers have found success by splitting their lists into segments and sending emails to each group separately, tailoring messages for each specific audience. Research shows that the best email marketing campaigns generate 40% more revenue than average ones. It takes hard work to make an effective, responsive campaign but once it starts paying off all those hours spent designing will seem worth it. 15 Best Email Marketing Examples in 2022 Airbnb is an online marketplace for holiday rentals and short-term housing. For a charge, Airbnb acts as the middleman and facilitates this connection between the parties. They pride themselves on being “A Community Built on Trust,” and they have a solid reputation to back that up. The following email I received from Airbnb caught my attention as an excellent email example for a number of reasons, but the use of customization immediately caught my attention. Why it works 2. Headspace Headspace is a mindfulness meditation app created in 2010 by Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson. The app provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness techniques to help people live a more balanced and stress-free life. The company has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Forbes. Why it works 3. Zomato Zomato is a food ordering and delivery service founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. It is an Indian multinational company operating in 22 countries and headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, India. As of December 2018, Zomato had a network of 1.4 million restaurants. Why it works Zomato’s promotional emails are some of
Email Automation System Structure: All you need to know
Understanding the structure of email automation system could be one thing you may tweak in your business to see an optimal return on investment. If you follow our previous tutorial; you will know that the Return on investment according to big names like; campaignmonitor and constantcontact has been found to be an average of 4400%. What this means is that if you have invested $1 in email marketing you stand the potential to make an average of 44times. It is very crucial to note here that this is not necessarily the case as different factors determine whether or not you’ll make more or less than $44 on every $1 spent. For instance; in 2021 we at j-insights evaluated the ROI in our email campaign per email sent, and we noticed that our ROI fluctuates around $28 to $36. But we noticed a swift shift in our ROI to around $36 when we tweaked our email automation system to serve our needs. So, what this is telling us is that; understanding the email automation system that suits your need is very crucial to making the most revenue out of any business model you’ve chosen to major in. Now the question is……. what did we; to record such a swift shift….? We simply tweaked our mailing system to our needs. This helped us to cut down a lot of unnecessary costs we’ve been spending unknowingly. This could necessarily be the case for you right now. Understanding the email automation system will really help you to save a lot of money you would have spent wrongfully ( Who doesn’t want to save money….😯🤷♂️?) Types of Email Automation System. Let’s look into the 3 major types of email marketing automation systems so that you know which is the best for your business for optimal ROI. Let’s dive deep and see what each of them looks like…But before then it is paramount we understand the components of a fully-functional email automation system. This will help us to understand how everything is networked together to have each peculiar system which we can send emails from. Email marketing Components and structure. An email marketing automation system is consists of two parts or components Let’s take a look at each of them to see what they look like…… The Delivery System. This is the most delicate part of the email automation system. The Delivery System also known as the SMTP server is the part of the email system in charge of delivering the messages or campaigns to the mail folder of your email subscribers. It is very important to understand that this is the part that determines your email deliverability or inbox placement. In the delivery system of the email automation structure, there are some technical details that need to be configured correctly. That is if inbox placement is a priority for you. I have written about these technical details in my previous tutorial; where I talked about the 3 DNS records every marketer must know. There I talked about the Sender policy framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mails (DKIM), and the PTR record or RDNS (Reverse DNS). To the best of my knowledge, these are the only 3 DNS records that must be configured in order to get a 10/10 sending score and potentially reach your subscriber’s inbox if other factors such as; IP warmup, avoiding spammy subject and body, not linking to websites with a track record of spamming etcetera are put in place. Now…. Are there other technical details or DNS records in the delivery server that must be authenticated to make the delivery system work properly? The answer is yes! Let’s quickly look at them shortly ……. Other Important DNS Records in the Delivery System. Aside from the SPF, DKIM, and PTR or RDNS; We have the return part record and the Mail exchange record (MX record). I have also explained this in detail in my other tutorials. You can check our free SMTP crash course to learn more about these records. But, since we’re talking about the delivery system here; let’s just do justice to the important one known as The mail exchange record or the MX record. As the name implies, this is the record that helps you to receive emails and route or reroute emails to any server you want, hence allowing you to receive emails. If you don’t have the MX record properly configured on your server, you will not receive emails. For instance; if you use postal as your mail transfer agent; you can attest that postal does not receive emails. You have to route any incoming email inside an external server with a control panel say Cpanel or cyberpanel installed on it. This could be a shared server or a virtual private server. If you want to learn more about How these networking works you can watch the video below….. What is SMTP and how does it work? SMTP is short for simple mail transfer protocol. It is the delivery system of the email automation system. Let’s know how Mail transfer agents or SMTP send emails over the internet. First let’s see how things work with email clients like Gmail, yahoo, outlook, Hotmail etcetera. When you open a Gmail, outlook, yahoo, or Outlook account; you have access to their respective SMTP servers which will help you to send messages to another user from the same email client or a different one. Take a look at this scenario….. You signed in to your Gmail account and typed a message to be sent to an Outlook or Yahoo account. What is happening in the background is that; the Gmail SMTP will send your message to the target Yahoo or Outlook address. Once the email gets to the receiving server, it is authenticated by the requirements of the receiving server. Most email clients require you to configure the 3 most important DNS records which are: Sender policy framework (SPF), Domain keys identified mail (Dkim), Reverse DNS, or the PTR record. This
Different types of email marketing and marketers: Ultimate guide
Let’s travel back to the shores of the history of emails. After the invention of emails by an American computer programmer who most people believe to be Ray Tomlinson while working for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), it never took time for Gary Thuerk to earn the title of the father of spam by launching his first unsolicited email campaign. The acclaimed result of Gary’s first spam email seems to give a very strong reason why every marketer should master and understand the different types of email marketing. But before diving deep into the different types of email marketing let’s see what Gary’s ROI in his first unsolicited email launch was. This will keep us intentional subconsciously while implementing any of the different types of email marketing. The First Spam Email sent. Prior to Ray Tomlinson joining ARPANET, there was really no medium to exchange messages between networks of computers. By this time you can only leave messages to people using the same computer. Ray Tomlinson came up with a program that allows messages to be sent between computers connected to the ARPANET network. Gary Thuerk claimed he made a whopping $13 million dollar leveraging Ray Tomlinson’s program to send unsolicited emails to ARPANET’s 400 connected computers. These acclaimed 400 clients made him $13 million dollars. After traveling this lane of history, Gary’s action reminds me of the potential high Return on investment in email marketing. Although the result gotten by Gary has drastically reduced. This could be attributed to many factors such as today’s presence of radical spam filters, stricter rules for email deliverability, complex DNS configuration, the 2003 CAN spam act. Again nobody freaking really knows about the different types of email marketing or the concept of spamming then. Possibilities in Email Marketing Despite all, Email marketing still has a high and scalable ROI pegged averagely at 4400%. This implies that you have the potential of making $44 on every $1 spent on email marketing. To me, this is still huge. This does not explicitly imply that you will make 44 times the amount you invested in email marketing. For instance, we at j-insights have never at any point in our marketing banked 4400% ROI. Though we have reached 3600% RIO the last time we checked our ROI in email marketing. What this implies is that there are a lot of factors that determine Your ROI in email marketing. Here we will be looking at the most important of them all being ‘the different types of email marketing’. This helps to choose the one best for our business. And not use something that will suck our money dry and drastically reduce our ROI margin. Without wasting more time, let’s dive deep and see the different types of email marketing. Keep reading 😊😊……………. Types of email marketing There are different types of email marketing. This depends on how inclined it is to spam or the level of consent given by subscribers to send them emails. Let’s look at them one after the other: What is Traditional Type of Email Marketing: Traditional email marketing in a general sense is the most ethical of the different types of email marketing. This involves your customers consenting to receive your updates and emails from you by subscribing to your newsletters. How this is achieved is by building something known as a landing page and email popups. This helps to capture the email address of anyone that wants to voluntarily receive your update. Once they input their email address and click on subscribe or signup, the email is automatically going to be collected by the software behind that landing page or popup. There are a lot of services that will help you to build great-looking landing pages and popups. They also collect and send email campaigns for you totally for free. Here at j-insights we use systeme.io to build clean-looking landing pages and popups. It also collects emails and sends campaigns to up to 2000 contacts for absolutely free. You can go sign up for an account here if you don’t already have one. Since traditional email marketing requires the full consent of the recipient, one can use any of the three types of email marketing platforms to genuinely collect these emails. It is very important to gradually accumulate subscribers traditionally. This will help you ensure you are really talking to real customers that are advocates and fans of your brand. Studies have shown a swift graphical rise in the ratio of responsiveness of traditional email marketers to cold or bulk email marketers. What is Cold email marketing? Cold mailing is one of the best ways of reaching out to potential prospects to increase sales and conversions. Unlike traditional email marketing, in cold email marketing, the recipients of the cold email marketing campaigns do not consent for the sender to send them email campaigns. The implication of this is that; it is almost always considered spam if not done properly and rightfully so. This is because those you are sending these campaigns to never opted-in to receive the emails. So, if this is considered spamming, why are we then trying to implement it in our business? The solution lies in how we implement it in our business. This is what is going to be looking into shortly…..Continue reading 🤝🤝……. What is cold mailing? Cold email marketing is the process of sending non-promotional emails to a targeted audience with the aim of establishing relationships and creating awareness for your business. Not going after immediate sales is the aim of cold mailing. The goal is to make those you reached out to know about you and your brand. This will make them know about your business on a subconscious level. Aside from that, they might need such a service or product in the future or have somebody in their network that need it. Once they do they’ll refer to your brand. I hope this is super simple to grab ….😊😊 Major challenges of
How to update Mailwizz: Mailwizz update full guide
Mailwizz is arguably the best self-hosted email marketing application or script out of a lot in the market that helps you to manage your email list, create campaigns, track campaign performance, and analytics all in your dashboard. All the component features of mailwizz such as Its in-depth tracking features are very important if maintaining a high return on investment is of importance to you in your campaigns. To ensure these great mailwizz features including feature updates are available, you have to make sure your mailwizz is updated. Of course, there are different ways you can update mailwizz. We are going to go through them all. Continue reading…….. In other to update your mailwizz very easily you have to visit the codecayon to get a genuine mailwizz license. This will save you a lot of stress you would have faced if you are trying to update a cracked license. Are there ways to update cracked licenses? The answer is YES! But I don’t advise this because you will get into a lot of trouble using and updating a cracked license. Now, let us look into how to update mailwizz we got legitimately from one of the evanto marketplace known as codecayon. How to update mailwizz from the backend area Mailwizz update from the backend is very easy and could be automatic depending on whether you set the auto-update feature to YES or NO. I recommend setting the auto-update feature to No. This will save you from system crashes and system failure unless you are using the mailwizz backup addon. If you’re not using the backup addon which will backup the application content before it automatically allows any update, I recommend you set the auto-update feature to No. This will also save you the extra money you would have spent on buying the Mailwizz backup plugin or addon. You know you have to do the update manually, which is a bit technical. But, …. If you have extra funds I highly recommend you visit codecayon buy the backup plugin. it is very cheap and you don’t need to worry about any system crashes during the automatic update. If you have any issue with the plugin you can submit the problem to the mailwizz worldwide forum or the J-insight forum and our team will try our best to attend to you Now let’s get in and see all these practically and in pictorial form. Settings for automatic update. Login to your mailwizz front end or customer area. Here is what your mailwizz frontend login link will look like https://ponderfacts.com/mailing/MailWizz/backend/index.php/dashboard/index. Here it will bear your own domain name. Once you establish a successful login, The picture above describes what your dashboard will look like if a new version of your mailwizz application is available. Just navigate to setting>common. If you also scroll down you’ll see the current version of mailwizz you are using. To enable auto-update, click the drop-down arrow and check the application auto-update to YES. As you can see the notification also recommend you have mailwiz backup addon before you perform this operation. And don’t worry if you have a campaign running during the automatic update. If you have the mailwizz backup plugin, all campaigns currently running now will be pursued until the update is complete. After the update, you will get an email telling you that the process is completed. All these will happen the way described here only if you have a genuine mailwizz license. Now let us look into the manual method because most people viewing this will not have the backup plugin enabled, hence will not enable the automatic update option. The only option they have to update mailwizz is to do it manually using the mailwizz update file. Mailwizz Update Settings for manual update. This process will be very much understandable if you follow my tutorial on mailwizz installation. If you have not checked it out go now, it is very important. Let’s Continue….. To update mailwizz manually, you have to upload the mailwizz update file to the same folder your mailwizz files are already in. In my own case, the zip file I just uploaded contains the mailwizz update file I named it latest. Now unzip it and reload the directory to see the folder that contains the updated file. Make sure the update files are moved to your outdated mailwizz files ( the ones you have when you installed mailwizz in the first place). Now go and reload your maiwizz backend and see the latest version prompt. click on update and your mailwizz will be updated to the latest version. To see this practically, you can watch this video from the mailwizz team……. I know this is a bit technical. I will be waiting for you in the comment section and on our forum to address any difficulties you face. Visit the mailwizz forum to learn more about mailwizz or submit any questions you might be facing as regard updates. Also, leave a comment or question, and I’ll be here to address it. See you at our next tutorial.
Mailwizz Installation: How to Install Mailwizz on a Shared Hosting.
There have been different ways to go about mailwizz installation but in this tutorial, we are going to learn practically the most cost-effective way which is, mailwizz installation on a folder of your shared hosting. The reason I love this method as opposed to other methods of mailwizz installations is that you never need to pay any extra money to host your mailwizz email marketing application. All you just have to do is to create a folder or directory and upload your mailwizz and follow the installation processes. The question now is …. Are the other alternatives available for installing mailwizz and are they more reliable in terms of performance, resources, and bandwidth than installing on shared hosting? These are all we are addressed in this tutorial including the steps outlined in the Mailwizz main website………continue reading…… The video below shows an alternative way of installing mailwizz, which is on a VPS server. How do you locate your Mailwizz Installation directories online? To locate a directory online, that folder has to be situated on a machine with a public IP. This IP address is discoverable by other machines which might be your mobile phone or desktop. Your mobile phone or desktop also has an auto-assigned IP address. This makes it discoverable online by other machines such as the VPS or shared hosting where you hosted your mailwizz. Through the help of your web browser, queries are always sent from your local computer or mobile with an auto-assigned IP address to the public address where your Email marketing application is hosted. This IP address could be a VPS machine or a shared machine. Now let us see the difference between VPS hosting and shared hosting. We will see the reasons we chose to install mailwizz on the shared host as opposed to a VPS server. What is the difference between VPS and Shared hosting? VPS is short for a virtual private server. When you host anything on a VPS server say ,,, maiwizz or your website, it could be hosted alone on a single machine which can be a VPS server. It can also be hosted together with other websites owned by other people ( This is called shared hosting ). So, the implication of this is that if we have a private server, we have total autonomy over that server and we can determine what is and what is not placed on that server. For instance; we may decide to install only our mailwizz on that VPS or host our sites + install mailwizz. This means that we have full control over the server and can manage the server resources for high performance. This is not achievable with shared hosting. In shared hosting, a lot of other websites are hosted together with your own website on the same server or machine. Although there are always a particular amount of resources allocated to each of the shared hosting plans, that doesn’t take away the fact that many websites are on the same server. In the same way, you want to install mailwizz as an additional load on your own disc space in the same way other clients on the same server are uploading more resources on their own disc space on the same machine. This brings us to the WHY do we still go ahead with shared hosting as a viable option seeing we have more control using virtual private servers (VPS)? Why mailwizz installation on shared hosting? As hinted above, the main reason for rooting to install mailwizz on shared hosting is only to save costs that could have been incurred in VPS hosting. VPS hosting is very cheap and affordable and in this way, you will get more performance and higher email delivery speed. But, the sole reason for this tutorial is to show you how you can run mailwizz installation on shared hosting, where your website is also hosted. You don’t have to pay extra since you are installing it on a folder on your website. This saves you some form of cost as you will never be paying for anything for hosting your mailing application as your Webhosting cost already covered your mailwizz hosting cost. Effects of hosting Mailwizz on shared hosting. The major side effect of installing mailwizz on shared hosting is that it adds to your disc space. This means that it adds more load time to your website which translates to less visibility of your website on google search results and other search engine search results. I think this generally poses a reduced user experience on your site even when SEO is not of importance to you. You can also check this article on mailwizz forum for more information about the limitations of hosting mailwizz on a shared host. Which Shared hosting platform is best for Your mailwizz installation? It is worth mentioning that, not all shared hosting platforms allow to install scripts such as mailwizz on their server. This is because some PHP functionalities are disabled on a shared host. So, you have to find a shared hosting platform that allows the PHP functionalities that allow mailwizz installations. I can attest to this because sometime in the past I tried installing mailwizz on a folder in my Namecheap hosting account. After the installation, in like 2-3 days’ time, the installations were removed. The goal now is to find a shared hosting platform that allows the installation of scripts such as mailwizz in their server and at the same time, their servers are very fast in such a way that after your mailwizz installation and uploading your huge email list, the server will balance the load and maintain its supersonic speed. After days of research, I found speedyconnect.net the best and cheapest shared hosting platform for this job. You can visit Speedyconnect and use the code 50%offunlimited to secure 50% off your purchase. This being said ….let’s go to the main installation process. Mailwizz installation Full Guide The first thing to do is
3 DNS Records Every marketer must know
As a genuine marketer, agency, or corporate, one of the best ways to increase sales, tractions, and conversions is to ensure your emails rest in your subscriber’s inboxes. As great as a highly converting email campaign may be, if those great campaigns wind up in your subscriber’s spam boxes, you will never break even in sales, profit, and engagements. In this tutorial, we will be looking at the 3 DNS Records Every marketer must know if inbox delivery is a priority. The 3 DNS records that must be correctly configured to ensure good inbox deliverability are: These are not the only DNS records there are. The above DNS records are just for ensuring good delivery of outgoing emails from your mailing server or sending domain. We also have an Mx record. This allows the reporting of emails to your server. We will cover this much later in our next tutorial. For now let, let us focus on the 3 DNS records that affect outgoing emails. Why You must configure these 3 DNS records Today’s spam filters are very sensitive to spam patterns than ever. if you don’t correctly configure your server, your messages will be auto-tagged spam. This will make it auto-filter to the spam folder. So, this should not just be 3 DNS Records Every marketer must know, you have to implement them in your mailing server. we have to ensure not only we authenticate our servers correctly but must ensure our messages follow deliverability best practices. PTR record or Reverse DNS I normally call this the inverse of domain mapping. If you don’t know anything about domain mapping you can see my previous tutorial on how to set up a custom email marketing system from scratch. I revealed everything in-depth there. As a quick glance for this tutorial, let’s look into domain mapping. What is domain mapping This is a way of assigning your domain name to an IP address. In other to access a domain online you have to query the host IP. This can be assumed to be your domain name. But due to the fact that IP addresses are strings of numbers hence are very difficult to remember, the domain name system helps to match a domain name that is easier to remember to its host IP address. For instance, it is easier for you to remember J-insights than its host IP address say 92.249.44.37. Even when you can remember the number above, you won’t for the different websites? Even when you do, how many will you remember? This is the main essence of the domain name system. This saves us the hassle of remembering strings of IPs. Reverse DNS explained (RDNS) Reverse DNS or PTR record as the name implies is the inverse of the domain name system. It is the process of mapping your hosting IP address to your domain name. While this is not compulsory for web hosting except if you have some specific need to configure it. Such need as tracking where website visitors originate from. When you configure Rdns and traffic is coming from, say 92.249.44.37 the reverse DNS is queried as 73.44.942.29. This tells you that the visitor originated from IP 92.249.44.37. This is not a criterium for reaching web servers. if traffics or visitors query your domain, it will still be located. For mail servers, Rdns is compulsory for reaching email client’s servers. Not setting up Rdns will make some email clients which have auto rejection rules for Rdns reject emails from your server. In my experience, this is just an extra level of security to block spammers from accessing the inbox of their customers. In my opinion, it will be more difficult to have access to your domain registrar account and your server at the same time. Even when they do, you will notice the compromise easier and faster. Quick Note on Rdns Rdns is not a guarantee that your emails will get to the targeted inbox, this is just for email clients to allow your outgoing mails to pass through their servers. There are other factors for inbox placement. Review the deliverability best practices and how to set up an SMTP server from scratch to understand more. Take Away: Rdns is not compulsory for Webhosting but it is for mail servers. This is because it helps email clients like Gmail, outlook, yahoo, etc to know the IP address or mail servers incoming emails are originating from. To learn more about Reverse DNS and how important it is, you can check this guide SPF Record (Sender Policy Framework) Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a TXT record published in the DNS Zone of your domain. The essence is to authenticate the servers that are allowed to send emails from your domain. This is one of the most important of the 3 DNS Records Every marketer must know to protect their domain from email spoofing, Phishing, and other malicious attempt targeted at your domain. To make things super simple here, SPF is just that thing that authorized entities to send emails using a domain name. Entities not included or published in the SPF record will be marked as spam or rejected completely from reaching the intending servers or recipient depending on your published dmarc policy. The entities I used in the above statement are just for clarity’s sake, we are talking about IP addresses. This is a sample of what SPF record looks like. v=spf1 a mx include:spf.postal.example.com ~all Follow here to know more about SPF records and how important it is for your brand’s protection. I hope the concept is now a little bit clearer now 🤗🤗. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mails) DKIM is an email authentication technique that holds the public authentication key used to validate the authenticity of emails sent out from your server. This public authentication key only accessible by the receiving servers (Email Clients) serves to validate the email signature. You Just heard of email signature now ……. Let me explain. When you implement DKIM
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