Contacts
How to prevent bots from spamming your sign up forms
Here are some ways you can prevent bots from spamming your forms or signing up with fake emails. Unfortunately, if you send or receive email, gather email addresses or have anything to do with email at all, then you know about spam. Spam is a ...
What are role addresses
Have you ever wondered what role addresses are and if sending to them can impact your email's delivery? Role addresses are email addresses used for group communication. They are identified by names like: abuse@ accounting@ admin@ admissions@ all@ ...
How to create a suppression list
Learn how you can avoid sending emails to specific contacts. Sometimes, you just want to make sure that some of the contacts won't receive your emails. They may be either from your external database where they've unsubscribed earlier or were blocked ...
How to create custom contact fields
Learn more about how to use custom contact fields to store and manage more information! Each contact that you store in your VMA Emailer account contains basic information like email address and the recipient's first or last name. It is possible to ...
How are contacts counted on Unlimited Plans
Learn more on how many and which contacts you can store on Unlimited Plans on VMA Emailer. VMA Emailer offers four pricing plans. Unlimited Monthly and Unlimited Monthly PRO for email marketing. Email API and Email API PRO are 'Pay as You Go Plans' ...
How to exclude specific contacts from your campaign
Learn more about how to create a "block list" and make sure that contacts are not included in your campaign! VMA Emailer tool will automatically suppress emails sent to contacts that are "Stale", "Unsubscribed", "Inactive", etc. However, if for some ...
How to manage the unsubscribe link
All email is required to have a working unsubscribe link. Whether you are sending via the SMTP Relay, HTTP API, or the User Interface you can add an unsubscribe link to your emails. This video shows you how: Basic Example: <a ...
How to create a double opt in web form
Create your own double opt-in web form with VMA Emailer. The web form tool will generate HTML that you can put directly on your website. Grow your Double Opt-In list using custom templates and redirects to welcome pages. This is the most basic and ...
How to resubscribe a contact
If one of your contacts has unsubscribed in error, you can always help them resubscribe to your lists. There are two methods of resubscribing a contact: Method #1 - Web Form Add the contact via a Web Form that you can create with the help of VMA ...
What are the email and contact statuses
Emails and contacts are each a unique entity in VMA Emailer. It is important to note the difference between an email and a contact. An email is a message itself which is sent TO a contact and a contact is a unique email address which has its own ...
Can I import/export a contact list?
Yes - you can. Go to the CONTACTS tab and you will see the options there. remember that to import your list, it must be a valid .csv file Also see: Can I export the Bounced Email list so i can fix it? article as it contains hints on fields to import. ...
How to create contact segments
Segments offer you the ability to group contacts based on very specific sets of criteria. Segments are dynamic groupings of contacts. Only contacts that match the Query will be included in the segment. Your account may have already had some default ...
How to use the Nth selection tool
This tool lets you quickly and easily break up an existing list or segment. The Nth Selection tool generates a specified number of lists. Each one containing an equal number of randomly distributed contacts. Select the options for any existing static ...
How to increase your subscriber engagement
Follow this strategy to improve your engagement rates. One misconception that is prevalent among email marketers is that overall volume is the most important part of an email campaign. The thinking is that "the more emails I send - the more people ...
How does the contact pruning work
Learn more about Contact Pruning feature that will you improve your email delivery. When Contact Pruning is enabled, contacts are automatically blocked after a specified number of emails are sent with 0 opens. The Contact Pruning setting is on your ...
What are the contact statuses
Each email address in your account is considered a unique contact and each contact has its own status. The status of a contact is important. The status determines if and what kind of email can be sent to the contact. VMA Emailer currently supports ...
How to manage your contacts
Knowing how to properly manage your contacts can make or break your email campaigns. Your contacts are arguably the most important part of your email marketing strategy. Without your subscribers, you wouldn't have an audience for your email ...
How to automate adding new contacts and campaigns
Looking to gather new subscribers and automatically send emails to them? This guide shows you how to get this setup - start to finish. Collecting new subscribers is an important part of any marketing strategy. It can save you lots of time and energy ...
How to manage subsequent bounces?
Learn more about what subsequent bounces are and how they can help you with your contact management. Subsequent bounces is a measure of how many times emails to specific contacts have soft-bounced resulting in that contact's block. This feature helps ...
How to manage contacts and lists?
There are multiple ways to add contacts to your account and how to manage them. Adding contacts - via .CSV file upload Navigate to your "Contacts Screen" and select "Add Contacts" from the "Manage Contacts" drop down. 1. Confirm your contact's ...
How to export contacts
Learn how to export your contact data from VMA Emailer. You can go to your Contacts screen and click on "All Contacts" or the name of one of your contact lists. You will then have the option to search, filter, edit, move, copy, export and more with ...
How to manage contact profiles
Keep your contact's information up to date. The more you know the more persnalized your messages can be. The following fields are available for building contact profiles. Each field is followed by its corresponding merge field for use in your ...
What are spam traps and how to avoid them?
Find out more about what spam traps are, how to make sure you don't get one on your list and what to do if you've fallen into the trap. If you've noticed that your email delivery success rate or sales rate has gone down lately, it could be that ...