http://www.imnicamail.com Email Marketing Solved Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:02:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.imnicamail.com/2012/02/16/listid-field-display/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2012/02/16/listid-field-display/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:02:20 +0000 Richelo http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1149 Up to now, it has not been the easiest thing in the world to find. You had to either over over the list name, and read it in the URL display at the bottom of the browser, or, you had to open the list, and get the number from the URL bar.
We just rolled out a small update which ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2012/02/16/listid-field-display/feed/ 0 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/28/understanding-spam/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/28/understanding-spam/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:02:41 +0000 Donna Fox http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1136 The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act applies to anyone sending commercial email in the in the United States.  Spam is defined as “any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service”.    Notice that the primary purpose of the email message ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/28/understanding-spam/feed/ 2 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/14/age-old-debate-revisited-html-email-v-plain-text-format/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/14/age-old-debate-revisited-html-email-v-plain-text-format/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:13:21 +0000 Donna Fox http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1130 On the surface, html seems to be the obvious winner.  The primary benefit of html is that you can send high quality graphics right in this email.  This allows you to include company branding and logos, set the ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/14/age-old-debate-revisited-html-email-v-plain-text-format/feed/ 0 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/12/green-monday-email-marketing-ideas/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/12/green-monday-email-marketing-ideas/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:06:40 +0000 Donna Fox http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1124 Green Monday is a uniquely online retailer term, coined by eBay in 2007 to describe their best sales day in December, historically the second Monday of the month. In 2009 $854 Million was spent online in the US. In 2010 that number rose to $954 million and is expected to jump over a billion this year. According to Paypal, ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/12/12/green-monday-email-marketing-ideas/feed/ 0 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/27/green-lights-across-the-board/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/27/green-lights-across-the-board/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:24:45 +0000 Richelo http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1085 We finally were able to upgrade the core servers this past weekend, and everything is now SUPER fast!
Just to give you some idea of how things have improved …
Before this upgrade, the absolute maximum messages we were able to deliver in an hour, per server, was around 350,000. Since this upgrade, we ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/27/green-lights-across-the-board/feed/ 0 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/18/all-systems-go/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/18/all-systems-go/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:12:01 +0000 Richelo http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1083 We’re now running all pending campaigns, but, instead of it starting every minute as normal, we’re spacing it out, and starting a new run every 10 minutes. We’re doing this to ensure that the huge backlog of campaigns waiting to run does not again backup the whole system.
If all goes well, we’ll switch everything back to normal schedule tomorrow.
New hardware should also go in next weekend if all goes according to ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/18/all-systems-go/feed/ 0 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/15/drastic-measures/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/15/drastic-measures/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:50:39 +0000 Richelo http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1081 This is NOT anyone’s fault, but, right now, mail is delayed by days, and not hours, and this is not good for anyone.
So, we need to take drastic measure here to 1st get caught up with the MTA reading in email.
This is what we HAVE to do right now to get things moving back to normal as quickly as possible…
As sent campaigns are now taking days, instead ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/15/drastic-measures/feed/ 2 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/14/slow-sending/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/14/slow-sending/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:37:47 +0000 Richelo http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=1077 Please allow me to explain what the problem is, and what we’re doing about it…..
Some of the explanation below get’s a little technical. Please bear with us, as it’s all important.
ALL of the issues below contribute to the slow sending in general. I will however start with the most severe one.
What I will do, is list the issue, and then what is being ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/09/14/slow-sending/feed/ 4 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/03/16/please-help-us-to-help-japan/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/03/16/please-help-us-to-help-japan/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:24:16 +0000 Richelo http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=831 Our thoughts and prayers are with all people affected by this terrible natural disaster.
We have put our heads together to see if we can make a sizeable contribution to one of the organizations which is helping Japan get back on it’s feet.
We no longer sell 100K lifetime accounts, but, we will put one ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/03/16/please-help-us-to-help-japan/feed/ 13 http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/03/09/new-help-desk/ http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/03/09/new-help-desk/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:15:32 +0000 Richelo http://www.imnicamail.com/?p=828 We’re still using the same software from Kayako, but, now we’re using their latest version.
Not only that, but, we’ve moved the Help Desk off our server, and we’re not using Kayako‘s hosted solution.
This means that even if our whole system, with all our servers goes down, you will STILL be able to get to our Help Desk! NOT ...]]> http://www.imnicamail.com/2011/03/09/new-help-desk/feed/ 4