PillarDev

<p>The easy-to-use WordPress plug-in that recycles your blog posts into a newsletter and sends it out automatically!</p>
<p>Since version 2.7 setting up a Cronjob is not required and you have the option of using WordPress’s scheduler. Cronjob is not compatible with a Windows based Hosting environment but the WP Cron is.</p>
<p>The Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite plug-in does exactly what it is called. Instead of sweating bullets every time you need to make a newsletter, all you need to focus on with our plug-in is to keep blogging and tweeting great content.</p>
<p>If you can write a blog post every hour, day or week you will have enough content for your newsletter whether you send it out daily, weekly or monthly (you can also send it out  2x per month, quarterly and yearly)</p>
<p>If you write more than that, you’ll have a robust newsletter begging the question from recipients “How do you have time to do that?” ? we think that’s a good thing.</p>
<p>Let’s face it, not everyone you already know reads your blog. And in an age where recycling is good, don’t let great content be used for a single audience.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be nice to take a month’s worth of blog posts and format it into a clean e-mail newsletter and send it out to your subscribers? That’s exactly what our plug-in will do. It will also include your Tweets as well. Once configured (takes about 10 minutes), it works automatically every month. All you need to do is keep blogging and tweeting. Tweeting, by the way, is optional for the plug-in.</p>
<p>If you find it useful please don’t forget to rate this plugin. In addition, if you really find it beneficial and have some money to spare, your donation is surely appreciated.</p>
<p>** Follow us on Twitter @chiefatlarge for all updates on the Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite plugin (EAN)</p>
<h3>How to use</h3>
<p>NOTE: EAN employs the Core Control plugin by Dion Hulse. It is loaded from our installation package and will appear inside of Tools. Please do not remove or disable the function or else your newsletter will not be able to be scheduled</p>
<h4>Newsletter Post Settings</h4>
<ol>
<li>Click on Settings (under the Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite tab in your Dashboard menu)</li>
<li>Configure the Email Frequency, Time to Send (in 24 hour time) and day you prefer to send your newsletter</li>
<li>Choose the category(ies) to send from.</li>
<li>Enter the number of characters (value must be numeric) to include for each blog post within your newsletter. Leave empty for all characters to be used.</li>
<li>Click the Save Changes button when done.</li>
<li>Proceed to Other Settings</li>
<li>Enter the URL for your logo image (this appears in the top of the Newsletter email)</li>
<li>Enter the From Name (person or organization name)</li>
<li>Enter the From Address (email address of person or organization)</li>
<li>Enter the Subject (the name of your newsletter is appropriate here)</li>
<li>Enter your Privacy Policy</li>
<li>Select “Link Tweets with newsletter” (optional)</li>
<li>Enter your Twitter account name (without the @)</li>
<li>Enter the number of Tweets to include (leave empty for the last 20)</li>
</ol>
<p>NOTE: Unlike blog posts, the amount of Tweets included in your newsletter is irrespective of the date you Tweeted them. In other words, it is possible to send the same Tweets in a newsletter as were sent with a prior newsletter. To avoid that, keep Tweeting.</p>
<h4>Placing the Subscribe Widget</h4>
<p>From the list of Available Widgets, locate the widget called Easy Automatic Newsletter. Drag that to one of your sidebars to place the widget.</p>
<h4>Import Subscribers</h4>
<ol>
<li>Click Import Subscribers to add a comma separated list of email addresses.</li>
<li>If you’ve added addresses click the check box to affirm that the recipients have authorized their subscription.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Newsletter Status</h4>
<ol>
<li>This is chock full of important information.</li>
<li>You can use this section to send test emails to the admin or a defined email address.</li>
</ol>
<p>NOTE: If the message “No post to send” appears at the top it also means that you cannot send a test email either. If you see that, make a dummy blog post and publish it. You will now see at least 1 post to send.</p>
<h4>MESSAGES:</h4>
<h4>Subscription Messages</h4>
<p>Subscription Messages is where you can customize messages produced when someone subscribes and unsubscribes from your list.<br />
At the top of this page are short codes you can use in the message body to insert information.<br />
The default settings can be used as is or you can customize them to be in your ‘voice’. Be sure to keep the gist of the message or else it will be confusing to subscribers.</p>
<h4>Opt-in Email Configuration</h4>
<p>This is the email received to the email address entered using the widget.<br />
You can modify the subject and body but be sure to keep the gist of the message intact or else you can confuse your subscriber. Remember that it should be painless to subscribe to your newsletter.<br />
Click Save when done.</p>
<h4>Confirmation Message</h4>
<p>After a subscriber receives the opt-in email and clicks on the confirmation link they are taken to a page on your website with the message you customize here.<br />
Click Save if you edit the default message.<br />
NOTE: Behind the scenes, once a subscriber clicks the link their status in the Subscribers section turns to Verified</p>
<h4>Unsubscribed Message</h4>
<p>When someone unsubscribes from your newsletter using the link at the bottom of the email newsletter they will be sent to a page on your site where the message you customize will appear.<br />
As always, if you make an edit click the Save button.<br />
NOTE: Behind the scenes, the subscriber’s status will change. You are expected to abide by anti-spamming laws.</p>
<h4>Unsubscribed Email</h4>
<p>In addition to an onscreen confirmation of being unsubscribed, the user will receive one more email indicating that they’ve been unsubscribed. You can customize this message to be whatever you’d like.<br />
Something short and polite will always work.<br />
Be sure to click the Save button if you make an edits.</p>
<h4>Newsletter Titles</h4>
<p>You can edit the titles that appear inside the newsletter itself.<br />
Click the Save button when done.</p>
<h4>—– PRIOR EAN USERS —–</h4>
<p>Since version 2.7 we have put the ‘cron’ system inside of WordPress so you do not need to configure anything outside of your Admin Panel. This is labeled WP Cron. Should you go with WP Cron then you must remove your cronjob (Refer to FAQ for removing cronjob) if configured.</p>


Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite

Collect your blog posts for the past month and send them out at the top of a new month to subscribers. All automatically.

Liz Gannes

mailmunch

<p>Collecting emails from your website visitors is the most important aspect of internet marketing. MailMunch lets you create beautiful optin forms for your WordPress without writing a single line of code. Most blogs are designed for hit-and-run readers. People find your blog, read your article, and leave. Wouldn’t it be nice if some of those people subscribe so you can email them later?</p>
<p>MailMunch provides the tools you need to grow your email list and convert visitors into customers. Now, people will find your blog, read your article, and subscribe via email to your newsletter. You can also sync your newsletter subscribers to MailChimp, Constant Contact, AWeber, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, InfusionSoft and others.</p>
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<blockquote>
<p>MailMunch is a standalone service that integrates with all web platforms including WordPress. You must have a MailMunch account if you want to use the premium features.</p>
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<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Opt-in Form Types: Popup, Embedded, Top Bar, Scroll Box, and Sidebar</li>
<li>Integrations: MailChimp, Constant Contact, AWeber, Campaign Monitor, GetResponse, InfusionSoft or any other email marketing service</li>
<li>Themes: Beautiful and fully customizable themes to make your email optin popup look amazing</li>
<li>A/B Testing: Find which opt-in form gets more email subscribers</li>
<li>Targeting: Display rules will help you display optin forms only on specific pages, categories or posts</li>
<li>Exit-Intent: Choose whether to display the popover when a user enters your page, or when they’re about to exit.</li>
<li>Analytics: View email subscription analytics and statistics for all time</li>
</ul>
<h4>Beautiful Optin Form Designs</h4>
<p>MailMunch Designer let’s you choose from professionally designed high-converting themes for Popups, Embed Forms, Top Bars, or other types. Each design has been maximized for high conversion rates. You can further customize the optin forms to match with your website or blog.</p>
<h4>Connect With Major Email Providers</h4>
<p>Easily connect with all major email marketing providers including AWeber, MailChimp, Constant Contact, GetResponse and Campaign Monitor. This means that if you use an email manager like MailChimp, your new email subscribers can automatically subscribe to your list instantly. Alternatively, you can simply export email subscribers in CSV format.</p>
<h4>A/B Testing</h4>
<p>Eliminate the guess work from your decisions and let us help you take conversion rates to the next level by A/B testing different content and templates. You can create different optin forms and we’ll tell you which one performs better.</p>
<h4>Page Level Targeting</h4>
<p>Our page-level targeting will help you display optin forms only on specific pages, categories or posts. You can whitelist or blacklist URLs. It will help you build super-targeted lists of email addresses from visitors.</p>
<h4>Entry/Exit Technology</h4>
<p>You can have the optin forms appear immediately when a visitor opens your site, or if you want to be less intrusive, you can have it appear when they are about to exit your website. Our entry and exit popup technology detects user behavior and prompts them at the precise moment they are about to leave.</p>
<h4>Analytics</h4>
<p>Easily find out which pages, posts or optin forms are bringing in the most conversions. This will help influence your future decisions about content on your website and improve your lead generation strategy.</p>
<h4>MailChimp Integration</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>MailChimp integration allows you to painlessly add MailChimp sign up forms to your WordPress site. The MailChimp forms capture leads and sends it to specific MailChimp lists automatically. You can set it to single opt-in, or double opt-in. You can add MailChimp forms to posts, pages or sidebar, and also open it as a popup or top bar. Simply sign up and connect your MailChimp account into the plugin admin settings and it will pull in all your MailChimp lists. From there you can choose the lists you want to make forms for.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Our improved signup plugin for MailChimp will proactively sign-up new subscribers to your MailChimp newsletter list. Our forms offer the same basic features that MailChimp’s official plugin, but also much more. In addition to the form, analytics will help you track the number of form views and subscriptions.</p>
<h4>Constant Contact Integration</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>Constant Contact integration allows you to painlessly add Constant Contact sign up forms to your WordPress site. The Constant Contact forms capture leads and sends it to specific Constant Contact lists automatically. You can set it to single opt-in, or double opt-in. You can add Constant Contact forms to posts, pages or sidebar, and also open it as a popup or top bar. Simply sign up and connect your Constant Contact account into the plugin admin settings and it will pull in all your Constant Contact lists. From there you can choose the lists you want to make forms for.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Our improved signup plugin for Constant Contact will proactively sign-up new subscribers to your newsletter list. Our forms offer the same basic features that Constant Contact’s official plugin, but also much more. In addition to the Constant Contact form, analytics will help you track the number of form views and subscriptions.<br />
Our MailChimp email newsletter list builder helps WordPress users build their audiences online.</p>
<p>Email newsletter integration options</p>
<ul>
<li>MailChimp newsletter integration</li>
<li>AWeber newsletter integration</li>
<li>Constant Contact newsletter integration</li>
<li>Campaign Monitor newsletter integration</li>
<li>GetResponse newsletter integration</li>
</ul>
<p>Why people use MailChimp</p>
<ul>
<li>MailChimp has free plans</li>
<li>MailChimp automatically integrates with our plugin</li>
<li>MailChimp easily sends newsletters</li>
<li>MailChimp handles lists of all sizes</li>
<li>MailChimp can send automated drip campaigns (scheduled emails)</li>
<li>MailChimp has better list management</li>
<li>MailChimp has great error messaging</li>
<li>MailChimp has interest groups/segments</li>
</ul>
<p>Why people use Constant Contact</p>
<ul>
<li>Constant Contact has free plans</li>
<li>Constant Contact automatically integrates with our plugin</li>
<li>Constant Contact easily sends newsletters</li>
<li>Constant Contact handles lists of all sizes</li>
<li>Constant Contact can send automated drip campaigns (scheduled emails)</li>
<li>Constant Contact has better list management</li>
<li>Constant Contact has great error messaging</li>
<li>Constant Contact has interest groups/segments</li>
<li>Constant Contact is a big company</li>
<li>Constant Contact is reliable</li>
</ul>
<p>Why people use AWeber</p>
<ul>
<li>AWeber has a $1 first month</li>
<li>AWeber automatically integrates with our plugin</li>
<li>AWeber easily sends your newsletters</li>
<li>AWeber scales to handle large or small lists</li>
<li>AWeber can also send automated drip campaigns</li>
</ul>


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