New Permission Pass system added to email marketing.  Velocity is one of the few email marketing companies that offers a permission pass system.

The permission pass system is a confirmation system to gain subscribers from your email lists.  Turns your bulk/purchased lists into an optin list to mail using the whitelisted system as well.

To get started in the email marketing tab click “Add Message” then “Create a New Permission Pass”. Once clicked the message editor will appear with a preloaded permission pass message that you can tweak.

The permission pass message needs to be approved by us and any time it is edited requires reapproval.

When sending a campaign use the subject along the lines of “CompanyName – requests your permission”  then select the permission pass message and setup the normal properties in the create campaign system.

To manage the subscriber form fields and view subscribers visit the email marketing tab and click on the Subscribers link in the sidebar. On the main subscribers page lists all your subscribers and the information they submitted.

On this page there are buttons on the top to manage subscriber fields, export the list to csv, and export the list as an optin list inside the account, and customize subscriber page. The button called  “Customize Subscriber Page” which allows you design/customize the confirmation link landing page where a user would fill out their information to confirm their subscription.

To control the fields those appear on the landing page. Click on the “Subscriber Fields” button under Subscribers on this page allows controlling of what fields appear on the landing page, the order, if they are required and the label for that field.

Last on the email marketing home page there is also the total number of subscribers that you have so far which is a result of the permission pass send.

When sending a permission pass campaign only send a few times on a list you can not over email people to gain subscribers. Instead for each pass remove the emails that went though and then send out again on any soft bounces that did not receive the email the first time.

Using the permission pass system is a powerful tool for list management and will result in a true subscriber base that is interested in receiving your emails.

We have added some new features to our send preview message system.

There is now a link to toggle the advanced settings. Where you can set the subject line, from name, and from address.

New improved whitelist system lower pricing!!! Easier process to submit lists for whtitelisting approval. Now has the same features as the normal create campaign system and with better tracking/reporting.

To submit an email list for whitelisting in the email marketing software system go to view lists and find the column called Submit Whitelisting and there is a link next to each list. When clicked the whitelist form approval page asks for information on the source of the list and general comments about the list itself.

Added a new graph on the main email marketing tab. This graph shows opens and clicks over the last seven days of the account.

Working on some other charts as well to chart other data and provide a better visualization of what is going on.

Unsubscribe list now shows the campaign name of where the unsubscriber came. This feature works for all new unsubscribe as of 6/22/2013. Also on the view campaign detail page there is an unsubscribe log which takes you to the unsubscribe list filtered by just that campaign id.

Happy Friday! Quick updates to main email marketing system!

New columns added as preferences options to the campaign status and campaign reports page.
They include ADK List ID, ADK Sub ID, FBL Reports, Priority, Retry Sent Times.

Spin Tag performance update moved the feature to the MTA instead of having in the Loading A/B phase. Spin Tag campaigns should now start up and send faster.

AdStation improvements loading of creatives is now deeply integrated into the sending MTA. No more loading creatives for AdStation campaigns. Also optimized delivery/dkim for AdStation campaigns and updated to AdStation 1.3.

Also in this update fixed bug with disabling retry queue when using ip rotation.

New feature added to save and load saved search results in email lists. With this feature you can write complex queries one time on your email list and save them for future use.

To access this feature when viewing a list click on the search button.  There you can load a previously saved search result or create a new search query and enter a title to save the search result for future use.