SendBlaster is a powerful tool that allows you to send bulk e-mails to thousands of recipients very easily. Thanks to SendBlaster, you can create professional-looking e-mail marketing campaigns, even if you do not have much knowledge of design, marketing, or e-mail technology. The program includes around 250 free templates that you can use to create flamboyant newsletters both quickly and easily.
SendBlaster includes a friendly and intuitive user interface that groups all the offered tools in four categories. One of the key functions of the program is the address-list manager. You can create a new address list by importing e-mail addresses from text files, spreadsheets, websites (via HTTP), and even from your clipboard. The program also gives you the chance to manage blacklists and export your existing lists into various formats.
Regarding the message composition, it is very advisable that you start selecting one of the templates or predefined layouts available, any of which can be then fully customized. The included templates are classified into categories, such as food, sports, health, lifestyle, entertainment, season greetings, and many others. The program offers you a full-featured WYSIWYG editor that allows you to create rich-text and colored messages. You can include images, hyperlinks, text snippets, and unsubscription links very easily. Besides, SendBlaster allows you to use tags to send personalized e-mails, such as the recipient's e-mail address, their name, surname, company's name, and the list name, among others.
But the program still offers many more helpful features. For example, it includes a spam score calculator and allows you to schedule automatic send tasks at a specified date and time. Even more important, SendBlaster includes track reports and it uses Google Analytics to measure the real impact and effectiveness of your bulk e-mail campaigns, helping you to improve them.
In short, SendBlaster is an amazing and comprehensive tool that becomes a must-have for any e-mail marketer or online dealer. Although SendBlaster is a free tool, there is also a professional version of the program that offers greater capabilities and additional features. You can upgrade to the Pro version of SendBlaster for $129.
v3.1 [Oct 9, 2013]
Updated user interface and internal improvements.
We have given user interface a graphic and functional redesign without changing SendBlaster's multi-awarded and much praised overall experience; SendBlaster 3 engine underwent lots of internal improvements and optimizations in order to increase speed, performance and robustness.
New categorized templates.
SendBlaster 3 comes with tons of new templates; the template browser now supports categories for better organization of templates.
Layout editor.
Creating a new message from scratch is a breeze with the new layout editor: choose the email structure, add header, footer or side columns, select colors and variations in a few clicks.
Crop and replace.
Select an image and replace it with a different one: SendBlaster 3 automatically resizes and crops it (without stretching it) so that it fits the original layout.
Improved message editor.
More new features have been added to the message editor: changing background color, zooming, printing, adding new font families, Google+ sharing, syntax colorization of code.
Better integration with Google services.
SendBlaster 3 now support link sharing through Google+, and Gmail'r recent mode for improved management of pop3 subscriptions.
Link checking.
No more hidden broken links: SendBlaster 3 automatically extracts all links from your message, even the hidden ones, and lets you check them in one click.
Export HTML with images.
Now you can export the HTML code AND the embedded images in a ready-to-upload structure, so that you can easily publish a copy of your message on your web site.
Text snippets.
Easily save and reuse text snippets: signatures, street addresses, contact information, business descriptions... No need to enter texts from scratch each time you create a new message.
Drafts.
Organize your work better: SendBlaster 3 has a a new special folder where you can save your unfinished projects and later preview them before reloading them.
One-click unsubscribe.
Let your recipients unsubscribe with one click using an easy to install PHP script to upload on your web site.
Programmable tags [PRO only].
SendBlaster Pro 3 includes a powerful scripting engine for tags, which can now be programmed using either Vbscript (familiar to Office users) or Javascript (familiar to web developers and designers). Tags can contain calculated or conditional output, random variations, custom attachments, and much more.
Custom attachments [PRO only].
SendBlaster Pro 3 lets you send each recipient a different attachment using programmable tags and storing the attachments path or file names in the database.
Widgets.
SendBlaster 3 has a new right-docked Widgets Panel offering small but useful tools: a Memo Tool for saving notes and to-dos across sessions, a Shortcuts List for your most frequently used programs, a Magic Crop widget for resizing pictures, and a Domain Info tool for checking an email address' domain in the browser and in Alexa... And new widgets are coming!
List stats.
Display detailed information about your lists (total number of contacts, subscribed ones and active ones in each list and in the whole database).
List merging and moving.
You can now easily and quickly merge two or more lists or move a subset of contacts from a list to a different one using powerful rules.
Global unsubscribe and bounce.
Unsubscriptions and bounces to a specific address can now optionally apply to all lists for increased safety and reducing recipients complaints.
ReturnPath address.
SendBlaster 3 now supports ReturnPath header, allowing you to have bounces sent back to a dedicated email address (instead of the sender's or ReplyTo address).
History of opt-ins and opt-outs.
Subscriptions, removals and bounces requests are saved to the database along with their dates, so that you can keep track of them, export them for reuse or reprocess them.
Database backup.
Save and protect your data with just one click.
BCC emails to your CRM program.
With SendBlaster 3 you will be able to forward your outgoing emails to your CRM program, so that all your email messages will be “connected” to the customers' data recorded in your CRM tool.
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