By Lee Sykes
March 2009
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use DataSprings Opt In Email Newsletter Module.
The DataSprings Opt In Email module has a lot of the functionality you would expect from signing up to a third party Email Service Provider (ESP). This module in some cases offers more functions (for link tracking) than you would normally receive from a thrid party ESP, including options that allow you to:
- Setup as many opt in email lists as you require
- Verify the users email address after opting in
- Allow users to manage their opt in settings
- Manage users and lists
- Import users to the opt in lists via CSV, Excel, SQL and DotNetNuke Security Roles
- Custom tokens within the emails – for instance you can specify a users name etc.
- Reporting statistics and Exporting to Excel
- Email tracking – who has read the email
- Link tracking – who has clicked on a link in the email, you can even send an email out if a user clicks on a link, for instance if a user clicks on a link, it could then send them an email stating, we noticed that you are interested in product X, here is some further information you may be interested in. Alternatively you could set it up to email the administrators of the website that this user is interested in product X, give them a call to followup.
- Manage Bouncebacks
- List Cleanup
Plus many more functions besides these. As you can see, this is a powerful module for sending email campaigns from your DotNetNuke website.
The videos contain:
Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, How to Create an Opt In Email List
- Introduction to the Opt In Email Module Functions
- How to install the module
- How to add Opt in Email to a page
- Opt In Email Control Panel
- Opt In Lists / Categories
- How to create an Opt In List
- How to create a second Opt In List
Time Length: 7min 40secs
Video 2 - Module Configuration
- Opt In Email Module Configuration
- General Settings
- Opt In Lists
- Extended Fields
- Request First / Last Name
- Auto Verify Users Email
- Always Send Verification Email
- Notify Staff of New Subscriptions
- Notification Email Address
- Hide Help Icons
- Automatically Load Authenticated Users Opt In Subscription
- Disable In-Line Editor
- Label Suffix
- Display Labels / Textbox on Separate Lines
- Opt In Layout Settings
- Manage Layout Text
- Subscribe Link Button
- Update Subscription Text
- Use Manage Subscription Link Button
- Viewing the Opt In Email Module display
- Opt In Layout / Manage System Emails
- How to configure an email verification message
- StyleSheet
- Email Settings
Time Length: 9min 14secs
Video 3 - Testing, Control Panel - Dashboard, Manage Subscribers, Opt In Lists, Extended Fields, List Import
- Testing the Opt In Form
- How to setup email
- Opt In Email Control Panel Dashboard
- Manage Subscribers
- Manage Opt In Lists / Users
- How to search for a user / email
- How to edit / delete a users details
- How to add a user to the list
- Export results to Excel
- Reports by Category
- How to view the users for an Opt In list
- How to export the users to Excel
- Extended Fields
- How to add an additional form field to the Opt In form
- List Import
- How to import subscribers into an Opt In list using CSV file, DNN security roles, SQL query
Time Length: 9min 5secs
Video 4 - Simple Opt In Module, Previous Newsletters Module, Advanced Email Module
- Simple Opt In module
- How to configure the Simple Opt In module
- General Settings
- Layout Settings
- StyleSheet
- Email Settings
- Previous Newsletters module
- How to configure the Previous Newsletters module
- How to set the number of Newsletters you wish to display from the Opt In lists
- Advanced Email module
- How to create a new email
- How to insert mail merge tokens
- Non personalized Message for display in the Previous Newsletters module
Time Length: 9min 21secs
Video 5 - Advanced Email Module Settings, Newsletter Configuration, Distribution, Email Images
- Email Status
- Select Recipients
- Advanced Settings
- Advanced Module Control Panel – Newsletter Configuration
- General Distribution Settings
- Demonstration of using images within emails
- How to check the URLs of images
- How to view the Source code of an email using Microsoft Outlook
Time Length: 10min 02secs
Video 6 - Advanced Email Module Newsletter Configuration, Bounceback Settings
- Advanced Email Module
- Newsletter Configuration – Newsletter Settings / Template
- Newsletter Schedule Settings
- Bounceback Settings
Time Length: 9min 33secs
Video 7 - Advanced Email Module Tracking
- Newsletter Tracking
- Link Tracking
- How to create a new link tracking definition
Time Length: 8min 34secs
Video 8 - Link Tracking and Reports
- Example of Link Tracking in Action
- How to insert the new link tracking token into an email message
- Viewing the tracking content of the email in Outlook
- Advanced Email Module Reports
- Newsletter Reports
- How to view the reports for link tracking
Time Length: 6min 52secs
Video 9 - Advanced Email Module - Email Campaigns
- How to create an email campaign
- How to create a second email campaign
- How to setup prerequisite email campaigns
- How to enable scheduler for sending email campaigns
Time Length: 8min 58secs
Video 10 - Email Campaign Reports, List Cleanup
- Advanced Email Module Reports
- How to view the reports for the email campaigns
- List Cleanup
- Distribution Failure
- Email Bouncebacks
Time Length: 3min 57secs
Total Time Length: 83min 16secs