With Q-News you too can send professionally produced newsletters to advertise your latest product or service or as a regular newsletter to keep your customers updated at a fraction of the cost and time of regular mailouts and other e-mail campaign services. Using your existing customer database, HTML e-mails can be sent to all.

EMAIL DESIGN FEATURES

• Easy WYSIWYG Editing - You can format text, upload and insert images, add links and more.

• Email Personalisation - Personalise your email with two clicks using custom fields such as first name, age or company name.

• Upload or Import Content - Upload your existing email campaign from your computer or import it from a web page.

• Design Once, Please Many - Templates have been tested to work in all popular email clients (including Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and Outlook)

• Easily Upload Images

• Popup and Inbox Previews - See exactly how your email will look before you send it.

• RSS Archive of Sent Emails - Automatically creates an RSS archive of emails you send, making it easy for you to display the archive on your website or anywhere that supports RSS.

• Anchor Links - Anchors allow you to insert a link from one section of your email campaign to another, such as from the table of contents to a paragraph further down in the email.

EMAIL CAMPAIGN FEATURES

• Easy, Automatic Unsubscribes- The "Insert Unsubscribe Link" button makes it easy to add an unsubscribe link to your email campaign, which is required by law in most countries.

• Campaign Optimisation Tips - View tips, tricks and advice to make sure your email campaign is optimised before sending. Learn how to improve subject lines, what time works best for sending and more.

• Automatic Bounce Handling - Bounced emails are processed and removed from your list for you automatically, meaning your list is always clean.

• Upload & Send Attachments

• Embed Images As Attachments - Your email can be viewed (once downloaded) without an internet connection.

• Free, Built-In Spam Checking - Your email is analysed for known spam keywords and the spam report shows you exactly what needs to be changed, ensuring your email is delivered to as many of your subscriber's inboxes (and not junk mail folder) as possible.

• Forward to a Friend Link - View a report on who forwarded your email to a friend and when!

• No Duplicate Emails - Ever

• Send Now or Later - With full support for scheduled sending, you can send your email out immediately or schedule it to go out at a later more convenient time.

• Send to Multiple Lists at Once - Easily send your email campaign to multiple contact lists in one send. Duplicate emails are removed automatically before sending.

• Automatic Inbox Preview - See how your email will look in all of the popular email clients (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, etc). If something is found to be out of place, you're shown exactly what to change to ensure maximum inbox compatibility.

• HTML, Text or Both (Multipart) - Create beautiful HTML emails, informative text emails or both using the integrated campaign editor. Multipart emails are sent as HTML and text and your subscriber's email client will show whichever version it supports best

• CAPTCHA Form Support

• Pause & Resume Sending - From the "Scheduled Emails" page you can see a list of emails waiting to send and you can even pause and resume emails that have started sending.

AUTORESPONDER FEATURES

• Create Multiple Autoresponders - Autoresponders are emails which get sent to a contact after they've been on your list for a certain time, such as 24 hours or 2 weeks.

• Filter the Recipient List - You can assign an autoresponder to your entire list or only a portion of it.

• Open/Link/Unsubscribe Reporting - Just like email campaign statistics you can see who opened your autoresponder, which links they clicked on and more, including unsubscribe and bounce reports.

STATISTICS & REPORTING

• Email Open Reporting - From the statistics tab you can see exactly who opened your email and when. View the data as a visually appealing bar chart or as a data table with more detail.

• Link Click Tracking - See which links were clicked, by who and when.

• Google Analytics Integration - As you're sending an email campaign you can type in your Google Analytics details and a tracking code will be added to all links in your email, giving you full integration for number of visits, goals and e-commerce conversions for that campaign.

• Email Bounce Tracking - Bounces are handled for you automatically and you can view reports showing which email addresses bounced, when and why, with an exact error message from the email provider, such as "Email address doesn't exist".

• Unsubscribe Reporting - See unsubscribe statistics for each email campaign you send, either for a specific date or over time.

• Forward to a Friend - See details of who forwarded your email to a friend and when.

CONTACT MANAGEMENT FEATURES

• Full List Management - Be compliant with spam laws and best practices with automatic handling of opt-ins, unsubscribe requests and bounced email cleaning.

• Add or Import Contacts - Type in contacts details one by one or import existing contacts from Microsoft Excel, Outlook or a CSV file.

• Website Signup Forms

• Unlimited Custom Fields - Create multiple custom fields to store additional information about contacts such as location, interests, last name, phone number and more.

• You can then add custom fields into your email campaigns to personalise them, similar to a mail merge in Microsoft Word.

• Create Multiple Contact Lists - Create as many contact lists as you need, allowing you to group contacts based on type or lead source, such as "newsletter subscribers" and "sales leads".

• Double Opt-In Confirmation - Keep your list clean and follow best practices by requiring new subscribers to click a link in an email (generated and sent automatically) to verify they want to join your list.

• Modify Subscription Details - Each contact on your list can modify the details of their subscription, such as email address, first name, preferences and more.

• Powerful List Segmentation - Filter contacts across multiple lists based on common attributes such as location or interests and send emails to each segment.

• Customisable Contact Views - When viewing your contact list in "grid mode" you can choose which of the contact's details appear in the grid, giving you the details you need quickly.

SPAM COMPLIANCE FEATURES

• Email Speed Throttling - Limit email speed for each user. Impose limits on emails per hour, month and total number of emails able to be sent.

• One Click Unsubscribes

• Automatic Bounce Handling

• Contact Details in Footer

• "Do Not Mail" List

• Double Opt-In Confirmation

ADVANCED EMAIL MARKETING FEATURES

• Split Testing - Find out which of your email campaigns performs the best based on open rates and click-thru rates with split testing. Run a split test on a small portion of your list and send the winning email to the rest of your list automatically after a predefined period of time!

• Triggers - Put your follow up tasks on autopilot with triggers. Send birthday and anniversary reminder or promotion emails, move contacts between lists when they open your email or click a link and a whole lot more!

• Send recurring emails based on a date such as a birthday

• Add contacts to new lists based on events (such as opening an email or clicking a specific link)

• Remove contacts from the list they are on based on an event

• Add/remove a contact from a list on a date in the future

• Automatic Event Logging - Every time a contact in your list receives and opens an email campaign or autoresponder, or when they click a link in your email, that action is logged automatically under their contact profile.

• Manual Event Logging - Using the built-in event logging system you can quickly and easily log events such as phone calls and meetings next to contacts in your list.

• Google Calendar Integration - Easily add follow up reminders to your Google Calendar simply by clicking the "Add to Google Calendar" icon next to any date field when editing a contact's details.

Extra training is required for the advanced features above

If interested in advanced training please enquire

Q-News Price

Purchasing with website package
Set up Cost: $995*

• Personalised Newsletter template designed to match your exsisting website/branding.
• 2 hours of online training or training at our Dunsborough Office.

Ongoing costs: Newsletters can be sent to the database as many times as required.

0-1000 clients - $9.95*/month
1000-3000 clients - $14.95*/month
3000-10000 clients - $25*/month

Purchasing separate from website package
Set up Cost: $1650*

*All prices exclude GST
*Ongoing costs are higher if you do not have a website with Qclick.