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Email marketing lists - avoiding SPAMAbazander provides a very powerful email campaign tool, but it is important that your marketing policy is to maintain accurate data and ensure that your email campaigns are sent to Opt In subscribers only. iSAM provides the tools for you to develop and deploy subscriber forms, and lead generation forms. We've included some additional useful information here also. Quick Tips for Mailing List Administrators
Advertising Done right, bulk email can be a powerful advertising medium. Done wrong, it can hurt your reputation and put you in breach of contracts with your service providers. If you advertise through bulk email, please be very careful about who you use. As an advertiser, you share in the responsibility for how email is sent. If you support a spammer with your advertising revenue, you share the blame for the spam. It is your responsibility to verify the management of the lists you support. On the other hand, even the most well-run list may generate some false spam complaints, we will endeavour to keep you informed of any spam notifications for your system.
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How to manage styling in your web pagesGeneral Advice on Creating Articles using the Website Editor
Creating articles and content using the website editor is straight
forward. However, there are some things that need to be considered as
there are common desktop habits that can cause issues.
Caveats of Copy and Paste
Fig 1. Copy and Paste special tools
Copy, Paste and Select Tools Bottom left of the editor tool bar are the Copy and Paste tools, from left to write we have :-
The two special paste methods of Text only, and from Word are the
important ones. Where you wish to copy content from another website
page, copy the content in your normal manner but click this icon to
paste the content into the page. When clicked a text entry box will
appear, simply paste into the box and then click the update button in
the bottom right. Notes about Styling
It should be noted that your website will have already had a default
style sheet set, and that these styles will be applied consistently to
all content that is added to the site. It is there for not necessary to
change fonts types, sizes or colours and indeed doing so WILL impact on
the consistency of your website content. Heading 1Heading 2Heading 3Heading 4Heading 5
These paragraph styles are extremely flexible, but more importantly they
are adaptable. This means that at some point in the future when you
change the overall style of your website the content will naturally take
on the same style and will look consistent throughout. Fig 2 - The Web content Manager editor tool bar
Tool tips
Fig 3 The Editor PanelProvides all the editing tools required for article creation on your website.
CRM Good PracticeA brief overview of how to best utilise iSAMFollowing the success of our free iSAM Lite version many new users are keen to get started straight away. Since iSAM is easy to use new users very quickly import their data via a csv file and are eager to run their first email marketing campaign. Many new users have thereby followed the - very logic - logic of importing all their data 'contacts' into "Contacts". As a result we felt it necessary to write a bit about good CRM Practice in order to ensure that users might later find that they cannot get the most out of their system, since the correct CRM workflow had not been adhered to. So here a few CRM basics....
Targets - Leads - Contacts & AccountsWhen setting up your iSAM Lite/Pro/Pro7 system you have to make a careful distinction between Targets, Leads and Contacts. For those users who have not been using a CRM-style contact management system before, these distinctions may not be entirely clear to start with, but it's important to understand why they are being made. In brief... Target = a set of data (an individual's contact details) that will be targeted by a campaign. This could be through a telephone, mail or email campaign. For most iSAM users it will mean the latter. No previous contact has been made with this data set and it is currently not known whether the data is valid and if it is, whether this contact will register their interest. Lead = a Target that has responded to a campaign and could be a potential customer. At this stage, a Lead is often also refered to as a 'Suspect'. Contact = Communication with the Lead has led to a proposal being made. At this stage it is useful to convert the Lead into a Contact. The 'Suspect' has become a 'Prospect', i.e. there is a good chance of business being made. Converting the Lead into a Contact will also mean setting up an Account. The Account is the company the Contact works for. Accounts also have Opportunities logged against them. So once you generate a proposal, an Opportunity is set up against the Account. This will enable you to stay on top of your sales opportunities. iSAM enables you to see at any time where your most valuable Opportunities are. iSAM will make it easy for you to identify other Leads working for the same company, this way you can quickly establish a profile of the company. Keeping all Contacts within one Account (their company) enables you to track all interaction with different contacts within this company, a prime requisite for multi-level sales and ultimately superior customer service. Of course this does not only apply to your customer side, but also your supplier side.
By sticking to the above distinctions when importing your data you will be able to get an accurate view of your sales pipeline, get the ROI of a campaign based on results and measure the effectiveness of the different stages of your sales process, from marketing to pre-sales lead nurturing to closing business. In the competitive environment we find ourselves in today, it is often the fine-tuning of the individual stages of these processes that will make the difference between those organisations being left behind and those being successful. Kubuntu / Ubuntu Linux Firefox Flashplayer not installed or needs upgradingGot a problem with not being able to run Flash in Firefox on your Kubuntu / Ubuntu Linux installation ? This article explains why and what you can do about it
We ultimately its all to do with intellectual property licensing and risks associated with patent infringement, so now that's clear we can move ? OK in English most Linux distributors have to ensure they don't leave themselves open to being sued for publishing or distributing software that is owned by another person or company, and in particular where there is a risk that company or person could have the will and the where with all to bring such a case. Open Source software such as Linux by its nature is developed by a large community of volunteers, there are also many not for profit foundations and social enterprises involved and also some commercial companies. Software is big business look at the share dominance and value of companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe these companies have a vested interested in controlling the market and the distribution channels of their products. It is these risks that companies like Cannonical, RedHat and SuSe / Novell (Attachmate) want to ensure they don't get in the path of. Now help is at hand as Cannonical have made it pretty straight forward to resolve this problem. Enabling & Installing for Ubuntu usersFor Ubuntu users you can use the Ubuntu Software Centre to solve this problem. For the reason above, the Multiverse source is not enable by default. Open up the Ubuntu Software Centre and click on Edit > Software Sources. From the Ubuntu Software tab Tick the Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse) check box.
Once you have done this then select the Other Software tab and Tick the Canonical Partners Software packages by Canonical for their partners.
Using the Ubuntu Software Centre Search for Flash and Click the install button. Ubuntu Software Centre is a one click install, so once clicked it will take care of the rest in the background, with is rather user friendly..
Enabling and Installing for Kubuntu users.Interestingly the Kubuntu team don't "at the time of writing " install the Ubuntu Software Centre by default. The obvious solution here is to install the Ubuntu Software Centre and follow the instructions above. To follow this approach you can use these instructions :- From the Kmenu choose Applications > System > Terminal run the command $>sudo apt-get install software-center
Installing the latest Flash Player using KpackageKitThe principles for this are exactly the same as above, you must enable the correct repositories in KpackageKit and the install Flash. From the Kmenu choose Applications > System > Software Management (Kpackagekit) From the setting menu, in the Kubuntu Software tab, ensure that you have the Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse)tick box checked.
Next select the Other Software tab and ensure that the Canonical Partners tick box is checked.
Finally click on Get and Remove Software and enter Flash in the Search bar, highlight the Adobe Flash plug-in and click the Install icon, as shown below.
You might find as I did that the partners repository is simply not there (I suspect that is because I have upgraded several times to get my system to its current 11.04 status). To add the additional respository sources is straight forward simply click on the +Add button and enter the line 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu natty partners' as shown below.
I hope that you've found this How To useful, I'd love to hear you thoughts or comments on it please do drop me a line via my contact details Of course if your wondering what on earth all this is about, then maybe it's time you took a look at Ubuntu Linux it will change your relationship with PC computers for ever. www.ubuntu.com Access iSAM and Email on your Mobile Smartphone or TabletRunning your business from where ever you are is easy, it helps you be more efficient and gives your freedom and added convenience. This How To explains how.
Option OneAccess iSAM and your Email using the built in browser on your Mobile, Smartphone or Tablet PC. The iSAM interface works with most modern mobile devices most of which are using Webkit, or Gecko based browsers. This includes Apple, and Android based devices. The quickest way to do this is access the system in the same way as you do on your desktop PC, using your URL and bookmark this as a favourite in your mobile device. Option TwoInstall iSAM Mobi on your device, We currently support Apple iOS and Android devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy and HTC mobiles . The Android version is supported on Android version 2.2 and upward and works on phones and tablets. Option ThreeDirect access to send and receive your email from your mobile, the caveat to note here is that the automatic filing of sent and received email into the communications history for your clients and contacts does not happen when you are using an external email client such as your mobile device. To set up your phone you will need to set up an IMAP mail account on your device, each device is slightly different but the overall principles are the same. During the set up process you will be asked for a incoming (receiving) server, an outgoing (sending) server, a username and a password. You might also be asked or offered a choice of protocols, the choices could be POP3, IMAP and MAPI. Some devices might offer to set up accounts for Exchange, Yahoo, AOl, Google etc.. where this is the case choose Other. When prompted about the protocol, choose IMAP. The details for the incoming and outgoing server are a.mx.abazander.com The Username for both sending and receiving is your fulll email address The password is the one you use to login to iSAM |

This has been a common problem affecting Linux users for years, once they've installed their nice shinny new Linux operating system to improve their PC experience. They open up Firefox and find their presented with the Flash Player not installed warning, Why ?

Accessing your iSAM system from a mobile device is easy and you have 3 options.