How to write marketing e-mails depending on the season – Welcome to our blog post on e-mail marketing and how to tailor your messages according to the changing seasons. In today’s fast-paced digital world, e-mail marketing is an effective way for businesses to connect with their audience, promote their products or services, and drive conversions. But sending out generic e-mails throughout the year is not enough anymore. To truly grab attention and stand out from the crowd, you need to consider the seasonality of your marketing campaigns. By aligning your e-mail messages with the current season, you can create a …
How to reduce monthly expenses
It can be challenging to reduce monthly expenses and save money each month, but there are several ways that you can cut down on your expenses. This article will provide tips on reducing your monthly expenses so that you can start saving money today! Automate your finances If you’re looking to reduce your monthly expenses, one of the best things you can do is automate your finances. By automating your finances, you’ll ensure that your bills are paid on time every month. This will help you avoid late fees and other penalties and will help you keep your budget on …
Adding transactions to iCash – Tips and tricks
Adding transactions to iCash is certainly something you will do very often. It is a boring and repetitive task but, are you sure you are using the software to its full potential? Actually, iCash can help you a lot with that as well! Transactions are the basis for moving money between accounts. You have to input your stuff the best as you can since everything depends on the quality and the accuracy of the data you enter. Reports and charts are as good as the data you type. Queries return as much information as what you have added in the …
How to save money with iCash
How to save money with iCash? The iCash manual starts with the following: “The first step in getting your finances under control is keeping records!” I wrote that sentence a long time ago, actually before entering 20 years of data into iCash! Now I am the happy owner of that information, 4 lustrums of data at my fingertips. All about my economy, incomes, expense habits, loan and mortgages repayments, etc. Money-saving budgetting I believe the January-March period is the Personal Finance quarter. It is time for budgeting. It is when you see what you did the previous year and what …
How to create an email signature with MaxBulk Mailer
How to create an email signature with MaxBulk Mailer. How to create an email signature Email signatures are a must-have for any professional who wants to look polished and put together. But creating a signature for your emails can be harder than it looks. In this article, we’ll show you how to create a signature that’s both stylish and functional. What is a signature for? An email signature is a way to automatically add your contact information and other important details to the end of every email you send. A good signature can make a big impression on the people …
How to send mass emails without spam
How to send mass emails without spam How to send mass emails without spam Your email must pass through several spam filters to reach its intended recipient. These filters are designed to block out anything that looks like spam, which can, unfortunately, include legitimate emails. So, how can you ensure that your bulk email doesn’t get caught in these filters? What is spam? Spam is unsolicited emails, often of a commercial nature, sent in bulk to a large number of recipients. Spam is a problem for individual users and businesses, as it can clog up inboxes and make it difficult …
How to understand the SMTP Server Response Codes
How to understand the SMTP Server Response Codes? Well, it comes out that all the SMTP Server Response Codes are standard. In other words, SMTP servers always respond to requests/commands using the very same defined set of codes. The SMTP Server Response Codes are part of the SMTP protocol, the set of rules used to send emails. As a reminder, an SMTP server is the type of server you use to send emails. SMTP is also the name of the protocol that defines the delivery of emails over the internet. Sending a message actually consists of connecting to an SMTP …
How to send emails to thousands of people at once?
How to send emails to thousands of people at once? Bulk emails are often used for marketing or advertising purposes. You can use MaxBulk Mailer to contact your customers or potential customers anytime. This can be a very effective way to reach a large amount of people with your message. Bulk email can also be used for other purposes, such as sending out information about a new product or service or a newsletter. How to send emails to thousands of people at once? You might need to email a large group of people for various reasons – maybe you’re a …
How to create and publish your first newsletter
How to create and publish your first newsletter. Have you always wanted to start a newsletter but didn’t know where to begin? In this article, we’ll walk you through the process of creating and publishing your first newsletter, step by step. From brainstorming content ideas to designing your layout to promoting your publication, we’ve got you covered. What is a newsletter? A newsletter is a digital or print publication that contains news, information, and articles of interest to its subscribers. Newsletters are typically published on a regular schedule, such as monthly or weekly, and can be created by individuals, groups, …
How to send bulk email using Gmail
How to send bulk email using Gmail with MaxBulk Mailer How to send bulk email using Gmail Gmail is one of the most popular email platforms, with over 1.5 billion monthly users. And while it’s great for personal use, it also has powerful features for businesses that allow you to send bulk emails. This article will show you how to use MaxBulk Mailer and Gmail to send bulk emails quickly and easily. What is bulk email? Bulk email is a method of sending large numbers of emails at once. It can be used for marketing purposes or to send large …
Maxprog software company 20th anniversary
Maxprog just turned 20 years old a few days ago. Believe me or not, it has been quite a pleasant journey. That’s very likely because I do what I always wanted. Who am I? My name is Stan Busk. I am a french-born self-taught vocational software developer. I started programming when I was around twelve. In my place, computers were like UFOs so no one could help or even understand you. I have always been fascinated by algorithms (and spinning things). I started very early and never stopped; however, being fascinated by something and creating a company are two different …
Bulk Email Software vs Web-Based email marketing
As you may know MaxBulk Mailer is one of the products we develop and market. It is a Bulk Email Software (and email merge tool) for both macOS and Microsoft Windows that allows anyone to send out customized offers, press releases, price lists, or any text or HTML message to a list of subscribers, friends, or customers. Basically you can create, manage and send your own powerful, personalized marketing message to small to medium lists. The good thing is that MaxBulk Mailer is a software tool you purchase once. There is no need to pay on a per-email basis for …
How to send bulk emails with MaxBulk Mailer
How to send bulk emails with MaxBulk Mailer. MaxBulk Mailer is an email marketing software that allows you to send bulk emails to your customers. In this article, we will show you how to use MaxBulk Mailer to send bulk emails. What is bulk email? Bulk email is a term used to describe the process of sending emails to a large number of recipients. Bulk email can be used for a variety of purposes, such as marketing or announcements. If you have a large list of contacts that you want to email all at once, the best way to do …
What is bulk email?
Bulk emailing is the process of sending large amounts of email to recipients for example with our software, MaxBulk Mailer. It is usually used by businesses and organizations as a marketing tool to promote their products or services. However, it can also be used for other purposes such as sending out newsletters, announcements, or event invitations. What is bulk email? Bulk email is a term used to describe the process of sending emails to a large number of recipients. It can be used for a variety of purposes, such as marketing or announcements. There are a few things to keep …
How to Send Bulk Emails Without Spamming
How to Send Bulk Emails Without Spamming Email marketing can be a great way to reach out to potential customers and promote your product or service. But if you’re not careful, it can also end up in the spam folder. In this article, we’ll show you how to send bulk emails without spamming, so that you can get your message across without being blocked by spam filters. What is spamming? Spamming is the act of sending unsolicited emails, often in large numbers. This can be done for commercial purposes, such as promoting a product or service, or for other purposes …
Using free HTML email templates with MaxBulk Mailer
Using free HTML email templates with MaxBulk Mailer is an excelent way of catching your customer attention. Indeed, MaxBulk Mailer supports the HTML format. Let’s see how we can use HTML email templates with MaxBulk Mailer. The HTML language HTML is a very simple programming language that was originally created to allow anyone to design web pages. A web page is usually rendered by a web browser. The web browser reads the page, interprets its contents, and shows you the result. A web page is a plain text file that contains HTML code. The HTML code is made of two …
How to take advantage of Budgets in iCash
Budgets – One great feature of iCash is the ability to create a budget. A budget is basically a kind of projection of how much money you will spend or earn during a period of time in the future. I believe it is highly probable you already have created budgets in some way or another. Indeed, anytime you figure out how much money you will have left at the end of the month after paying your bills, you are creating a budget. You use budgets to estimate future income and expenses and create “what if?” scenarios. As time goes by, …
How to enter your mail server settings into MaxBulk Mailer
How to enter your mail server settings into MaxBulk Mailer – Server settings are an important part of successful email delivery. Among other things you have to make sure you are not abusing your mail service and similarly you are not annoying your audience. Therefore you need to understand well the meaning of each setting and above all, you have to make sure you are using the best delivery options. So, indeed, in order to send messages with MaxBulk Mailer you have to enter your mail server settings correctly into the software. You will find all the mail server settings …
E-mail validation speed with eMail Verifier
eMail Verifier, as its name indicates, is a tool for checking single e-mail addresses or lists of e-mail addresses. E-mail validation speed with eMail Verifier may vary. Let’s see how we can go faster. The software performs a series of checks to validate every e-mail address including, a syntax check, an e-mail address domain check, and finally an e-mail address validity check with the server. All those checks take time to perform and sometimes a user may wonder how much time he will have to spend on this, especially when testing big lists. They can dramatically affect the overall validation …
Tips for composing emails with MaxBulk Mailer
This post shows 5 great tips for composing emails with MaxBulk Mailer. How to use Emojis in your messages It is very easy to add Emojis to both the subject and the body of your messages. Here is how: So, in conclusion, to add Emojis: – macOS: Control + Command + Space – (Drag to convert into a window) – Windows: Windows + ; OR Windows + . How to add hyperlinks with MaxBulk Mailer You are using the styled text format and you need to insert hyperlinks? Here is how: So, in order to use the hyperlink manager to …
Port 25 blocking effects on email validation
Port 25 blocking fully prevents email validation to be possible! eMail Verifier requires full access to port 25 in order to work. Don’t even waste your time trying with other “alternative” ports, it doesn’t work! eMail Verifier is not an email client, it never connects to your mail server. eMail Verifier actually connects to other’s mail servers through the port 25. Why this? Port 25 blocking effects Port 25 is just a network connection channel. Some Internet Service Providers (ISP) intercept port 25 so it is not possible to use eMail Verifier nor any software using port 25. Some independent …
Comparing eMail Verifier to online solutions
Comparing eMail Verifier to online solutions – I created eMail Verifier, an E-mail Verification Software for macOS and MS Windows. I have been using and developing the tool for years. As a developer and also a user I was very worried about deleting valid emails. So I created a system that only flags bad emails, I mean when there are absolutely no doubts. If the tool is not 100% sure then the address is marked as ‘Looks Good’ or ‘Looks Bad’ and the user decides what to do. The software tries to clean the list its best but without taking …
How to send appealing eye-catching advertising emails
How to send appealing eye-catching advertising emails? This is a question you asked yourself for sure. Well, welcome to the world of email marketing. When launching MaxBulk Mailer you have seen that all you get is a blank document created automatically for you by the application, the place where your message is supposed to be composed. I guess that at this very early stage you may feel a bit lost or overcome, especially when it comes to filling up that blank document and creating an e-mail marketing message for the very first time. In this short tutorial, I will try …
Money lending with iCash – How to handle that
Money lending is actually quite simple to handle with iCash. Just a matter of adding the right transactions in the right order, mostly as they happen in real life. Let’s have a look. Let’s imagine you have to lend some money to a friend and now you are interested in adding the transactions in iCash. It is easy but it requires several steps you need to understand well. Let’s see. Money lending account First, you have to create your lending account. Since it is considered an investment you have to create it as a ‘portfolio’ account. Once you are done …
The history of iCash and Peggy Première
I projected the development of iCash in the late eighties but I actually started coding the software for real in the early nineties. I released the very first version by the end of 1991. At the time, I built it for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and IBM OS/2. I coded the project using the Pascal language. The development of the application continued up to the release of version 2.0 in May 1995. Peggy Première The application wasn’t known as iCash but as ‘Peggy Première’. Peggy because of the Muppet Show character and the analogy with a piggy bank. And ‘Première’ refers …
How to download web images sequentially by name
How to download web images sequentially by name? Well, this is very easy to achieve with Web Dumper actually. In fact, you can download entire Websites of the Internet, and save them on your hard drive for later offline browsing. The downloaded web sites are saved on your hard drive with their directory structure intact by default. Indeed, Web Dumper automatically downloads HTML documents along with their embedded pictures, sounds, movies, and so on while it screens them to look for any enclosed links to other documents. But what if you want to download sequences of documents, pictures, or directories? …
Is Maxprog selling user-friendly software?
Is our software user-friendly? What does that mean? I spend a lot of time doing support, mostly helping people to overcome problems using Maxprog software. This task is interesting as it allows us to gauge the usability of our software. Why don’t you take our survey? In software engineering, usability is ‘the degree to which a software can be used by specified consumers to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction’. Usability goals must address those three components but what about ‘Ease of use’? Ease of use Ease of use is the most talked about and least-understood aspect of …
How to synchronize a website with local files
How to synchronize a website with local files as fast as possible? It turns out that a few days ago I posted a quick update on maxprog site HTML5 upgrade, Updating an old HTML site to HTML5 and CSS3 about how I managed to perform the task quite successfully during the last months. After reading it again today I forgot an important part of the process, file synchronization! How to synchronize a website with local files Each time you touch a file you have to upload it to your web server in order to publish it. Usually, if I modify …
Why MaxBulk Mailer now only supports https links
You probably found out that since MaxBulk Mailer 8.7, the ‘Preview’ panel no longer displays pictures referenced by addresses starting with ‘http://’ like before. You may wonder why MaxBulk Mailer now only supports ‘https://’ links? Apple Security requirements It turns out that Apple announced a new security requirement for iOS and OS X apps: App Transport Security. From Apple’s docs: Starting in iOS 9.0 and OS X v10.11, a new security feature called App Transport Security (ATS) is available to apps and is enabled by default. It improves the privacy and data integrity of connections between an app and web …
Update plans versus subscriptions
Update plans versus subscriptions Update plans are not subscriptions. Regularly Maxprog software users ask me about if our update plans are subscriptions, about how they work, how long a user can use the software once he has purchased one and how it can be extended. Well, we do not sell subscriptions at all, none of our software needs a subscription to operate. Actually what we sell are Update Plans. This is a whole different thing. Let me explain. Software licensing When you purchase a software from us, what you actually purchase is a software user license. Actually you purchase the …
Unusual but frustrating support requests
Sometimes I receive unusual but frustrating support requests. I help people using maxprog products mainly by responding to support tickets. That use to be a routine task I do every day with enthusiasm. It is almost the only contact I have with maxprog customers. However, sometimes I get unusual and frustrating requests. Unusual because hopefully, they are rare and frustrating because I really can’t do anything to help because of the nature of the problem. Unauthorized Purchases First of those problems is fraud, somebody, somewhere with someone’s credit card buying something on the maxprog store. Imagine who the victim will …
MaxBulk Mailer Q&A webinar summary
I hosted a 1-hour MaxBulk Mailer Q&A webinar a few months ago. As a result our support page now has a new link labeled Live Events. Click on that link to visit the Maxprog’s Live Sessions page. We can send you a notification when new events are scheduled, just click on Subscribe. In addition, you can also see a list of Upcoming Events (if any) and Past Events. You can register for any upcoming event and you can replay any past event as well. For instance, you can see the list of answered questions and watch the replay of each …
How do I Avoid My Emails being Marked as Spam?
As you probably know I am in charge of answering support requests here at Maxprog. As a result, MaxBulk Mailer users asked me about e-mail delivery issues quite often, especially problems related to spam filtering software flagging and blocking their legitimate messages. This is called ‘false positives’. This particular issue is quite frustrating because most of the time you have no idea where the problem comes from. In other words, you have no clue about what is happening and even what to do to fix it. It is even more frustrating for me when people think maxprog bulk mailer software …
How to create an Account Set in iCash
How to create an Account Set in iCash? It turns out that when you create a new iCash document you have the choice between creating either a blank document or a document with a predetermined set of categories and accounts. You can even import the categories and the accounts from another document. Two sets are available by default, the Home and the Office sets. Actually, those sets were created and added to iCash to save you time and to get you started. I believe it is a good idea to create your own sets of accounts if you plan to …
Xojo xDev Magazine Marc Zeedar interview
Xojo xDev Magazine Marc Zeedar interview for the xDev Magazine Tell us a little about your background. Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school? Despite my name sounds English I was born and grew up in France. Actually, my great grandfather was American so my parents decided to name me after him. Perhaps it was premonitory as nowadays most of my customers are American. I left France when I finished studying electronic engineering and moved to Spain where I reside since then. How did you get interested in computers and programming? My first contact with programming …
MaxBulk Mailer 8.7.3 new features and fixes
We have released a new version of our popular Bulk Email Software, MaxBulk Mailer version 8.7.3. This new version adds several interesting features that I will review in detail in this post with the help of the video that was shot live right after the release. Gmail OAuth2 authentication scheme support You can now use the OAuth2 authentication scheme with Gmail. Here is how: So, in conclusion, in order to use OAuth2: – Select your current Gmail account (or create a new one) – Select the OAuth2 scheme – Go through the Gmail authentication process – You are ready to …