How to Choose the Right Email Editor in Interspire

Editor Choice in Interspire

When it comes to email marketing, how you create your emails matters. Whether you are a developer pasting in custom HTML, a marketer designing beautiful layouts, or a team automating campaign workflows, your email editor should match your needs—not limit them. That’s why Interspire, the self-hosted email marketing platform, includes three different email editors: TinyMCE, … Read more

What are the Components Needed to Self-Host an Email Marketing Automation Platform

Components to self-host an email marketing platform

If you have determined that a self-hosted solution might be a good fit for your needs, what are the components needed to successfully run a self-hosted marketing automation platform? The four main components are: the software, a server, an SMTP provider, and a mailbox to collect the bounces.  Self-hosting is not complicated. Let’s go over … Read more

What Are Drip Campaigns and How Do You Use Them?

What Are Drip Campaigns and How Do You Use Them

Drip campaigns are essential if you want to stay ahead of the competition. Drip emails are one of the better ways to connect with your audience and provide them value over time. What are they and how can you use them to better engage with your audience and customers? What is a Drip Campaign A … Read more

Sending Your First Email Campaign

Sending Your First Email Campaign

Sending your first email campaign is a simple task but requires some initial setup before we can proceed. Follow the simple steps below and you’ll be sending your first email campaign in no time. Step 1. Create your contact list A contact list is a collection of your contacts details. It includes their email address … Read more

General Tutorials

General Tutorials

How to search for your contacts. Filtering your searches allows you to view or send to a smaller selection of contacts by setting options to only find particular contacts. This means that you can search for individual contacts, entire domains, email addresses that contain particular words, confirmed, bounced or active contacts or any combination of … Read more

Collecting Additional Information From Contacts

Collecting Additional Information From Contacts

Collecting your visitors email address is fine, but what about when you want to personalize your email communications? That’s where custom fields come in. Custom fields allow you to collect additional pieces of information from your contacts, such as name, age, sex and location. In this article we’ll look at a simple example of using … Read more

Sending Emails Based on Subscriber Segmenting

Sending Emails Based on Subscriber Segmenting

In this brief tutorial you’ll learn how to setup a mailing list with custom fields to collect the age and sex of your subscribers when they signup. After that you’ll learn how to segment your mailing list and only send your email campaign to males over the age of 21. Creating your mailing list with … Read more

Autoresponders: Setup and FAQ

Autoresponders

What is an Autoresponder? An autoresponder is an email or a sequence of emails that you set up to be sent out at a pre-determined time after someone subscribes to your contact list. Specific emails in the sequence can be configured to be sent only if certain criteria have been met. For example you may … Read more

Contact Lists

Contact Lists

Contact Lists FAQ: I can’t delete contact lists. After I click “delete”, my browser shows me that the page is loading, but loading never finishes. This issue is caused by your MySQL server failing to process your DELETE query, because the total number of row locks exceeds the lock table size. Email Marketer tells me … Read more

Custom Fields & Mail Merge

Custom Fields & Mail Merge

What Are Custom Fields and Why Use Them? Custom Fields (also called Mail Merge Fields) allow you to personalize emails by inserting specific subscriber information—such as names, company names, or signup dates—into your messages. You can also use these fields to segment your audience so that only contacts matching certain criteria receive specific content. For … Read more