Changing The "From Name" And The "From Email Address"

A good email marketing software should allow you to create different "From Names" and "From Email Addresses", and allow you to send email messages / newsletters using whichever "From Name" and "From Email Address" you prefer. For example you run 3 businesses, or let's just say that your company has three main departments and each need to send out email messages / newsletters to their respective target audience. For this example we will use the 3 imaginary departments of iContact-Tutorials: 1. iContact Tutorials 2. iContact Research 3. iContact...

Creating A List

List is one of the most important aspects of email marketing as it is the easiest tool you can use to categorize your email contacts. The other tool being "Segment", is discussed on a different article. Let's say you have 500 contacts coming from different field of endeavors such as gaming, academics, government, and aerospace. 100 of them came from the academics sector, 50 from the government, 100 from the aerospace sector, and 250 from the gaming population for example. What one may want to is to create 4 different lists, and then associate...

The Home Tab

This is the first page that you will see the moment you login to your iContact account. The system will also take you to this page when you click on the "Home" tab. 00. This brings you to a registration page if you want to take advantage of the official webinars offered by iContact. 01. Notifications such as error messages, billing reminders, and so on are normally displayed on this part. 02. This portion shows you the summary of the last email message that you sent to your recipients. 03. This portion shows a summary of your lists. 04. This...

I Forgot My iContact Username And / Or Password

Nothing can be more frustrating other than forgetting a username and / or password that you may have been using for a number of years. Add the fact that you are quite excited and in extreme hurry to send out some email messages / newsletters to your contacts. Although resetting forgotten password in iContact is really straightforward, this is not an assurance that nothing can go wrong. Read along to find out how this works so you will know how to resolve scenarios such as this. The perfect scenario that you should encounter when resetting your...

Removing The Underline From Your Hyperlinks

In HTML, hyperlinks are normally underlined by default. There are times when you want to get rid of these underlines as they may not look good for the way your template is designed, or for any other reasons. People with experience in coding with HTML should not have difficulties doing this. Luckily, this tutorial is intended for those without HTML knowledge. Before we proceed, please familiarize yourself with the tools on top of your "Message Builder" and "Message Coder". Message Builder: 01. The "Message Builder" will have five options on...

The Email Address Associated With Your iContact Account

The email address associated with your iContact account is the one that receive notifications whenever a change occur in your iContact account. Receipts may be also sent to this email address upon request from an iContact Technical Support representative. Examples are: 1. Billing notifications, and receipts. 2. Contact is added or removed to one of your lists. 3. Password reset. 4. Other features that may require notifications. Take Note: Losing access to this email address can give you a lot of frustration as all requests that need account...

Arrange Your Contacts Alphabetically Or Chronologically

Having numerous contacts can be very stressful especially when comparing two or more lists with each other. By default, iContact does not display your contacts in alphabetical (email addresses, first names, last names) or chronological (dates your contacts were added). iContact has a feature that can actually do this for you. This is a simple one-click that a lot of subscribers tend to miss. In the example below, some garbled email addresses are used for testing this procedure. Notice how the "Email Address" field got alphabetized when it was...

Your iContact Image Library

Email messages / newsletters without pictures or images can be dull and boring. A good looking newsletter is the best way to spark the curiosity of your prospects or would be prospects. Since not all email clients / editors has the ability to embed images in their email messages, most email marketing software normally display images using the <img src="url of your image file"> HTML code. Ways To Access Your iContact Image Library 1. From The Image Tab. 2. From The Message Builder Or Message Coder. Accessing The Image Library From The...

Changing Your iContact Username

Your iContact username is the one you use for logging on to your iContact account. There may come a time when you may want to change your username. Unfortunately, you won't see any feature that will do this for you. This is possible, but you need to email iContact's Technical Support Desk (support@icontact.com at the time of this writing). Take Note: -You are only allowed for one username change for the entire life of your iContact account. -This request can only be done using the email address associated with your account. How To Request...

iContact Email Marketing Software Tutorials

As the information superhighway evolves, different means of communication are discovered / invented / implemented. Be it for personal or business use, different solutions should be available for everyone. Today we will focus on email marketing. If you type in the word "Email Marketing" on your Google search field, you will see the word "iContact" on the first 2 or 3 results. What Is Email Marketing: Email marketing is the process of sending commercial messages or newsletter to your target recipients via electronic mail. Let's just say you...