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Do you want to send a monthly eNewsletter to your clients? Perhaps you need action alerts or a way of communicating information to a group of people quickly. Are you a non-profit looking for e-donation requests? Dundee can help you decide the features you’ll need in a bulk emailing service for your specific needs.

Dundee E-Mail List Services makes it easy for anyone to set up mailing lists to meet their business, personal, or school goals:

• eZines
• electronic newsletters
• custom e-zine templates
• announcements
• technical and product support discussion groups
• conference planning
• school discussion groups
• special interest groups
• families

The possibilities are endless. Goals and concerns are discussed with an expert Lyris list administrator, who describes the various options available and implements all the necessary changes. The customer does not need to learn how our Lyris E-Mail List Server works.

What are the different services?

• Commercial/Bulk Lists
• Personal Lists/ Non-Profits
• Resale Lists
• Virtual Servers
• Email Advisor
• One-On-One Service
• Sales and Marketing List Hosting
• Custom Templates

Who are these services for?

Commercial/Bulk E-Mail List services are ideally suited to non-technical users who want to take advantage of the power of mailing list technology, without having to become mailing list experts themselves. The benefits of mailing lists are well known:

• Better organization and communication.
• More spontaneous team work.
• Better information flow, with near-instant delivery of documents at extremely low costs.
• Significant reduction in printing and copying costs.
• Decreased reliance on costly conference calls and face to face meetings.
• More spontaneous exchange of views and ideas than during a formal (and often intimidating) meeting.
• Greatly facilitated telecommuting work.
• And much, much more!
  

What can you do with mailing lists?

There are many kinds of mailing lists that we categorize into roughly three types:

Open discussion: anyone who is a member of the mailing list can submit information to be distributed to the entire group. In this way, a group discussion can take place. When people want to join a mailing list that you are running with Lyris, they either send a "subscribe" email message to Lyris, or they fill out the "join" form on the Web, using the Lyris Web Interface. People contribute to the discussion by sending email to the discussion group email address which Lyris maintains, or by filling out the "create a new message" form on the web using the Lyris Web Interface. When a new message is contributed, each member of the discussion receives the message in the manner that they specified. Some people receive every message immediately, in their email. Others receive a nightly "digest" of all the messages. Still others elect not to receive any email, and prefer to read the messages on the Web using the Lyris Web Interface. You can also choose to require an administrator to approve (moderate) messages before they are sent to the group, so that you can determine if they are appropriate.

Announcement lists: these are typically used to distribute information about a product, a service, an event or other noteworthy information. In most cases, the organization that runs the mailing list controls what information, is sent out. The process for announcements lists is similar to that for discussions (see above), except only approved people are allowed to send messages to the group. This could be just you, a number of people in your organization, or specific people you choose. Frequently, with many announcement lists, you will want to "import" in bulk a list of email addresses who should be members of the mailing list. Lyris will also do this for you.

Moderated forums/discussions: a hybrid of the two types above, where members of the group can submit information to be distributed to the entire group, but submissions need to go through an approval process before they are distributed.

Selecting a List Service Type and Pricing

Commercial and Bulk E-Mail List services can be tailored to suit individual needs. Three service packages are available, ranging from simple list hosting with limited archives to a complex system complete with mail, web and secure newsgroup access plus HTML archives with full text searching capabilities. This allows you to choose the level of features you want Dundee Internet Services to provide for operating your list.

This package is for customers who want a simple mailing list without permanent archive and search capabilities and/or advanced features such as segmentation and tracking capabilities.

This package is for customers who want a simple mailing list without permanent archive and search capabilities.

This package provides you with all the Silver and Gold features plus a HTML Search Engine and Secure Newsgroup access to your list.

For a Package comparison chart, please click here.

Optional Services:

The Email Advisor™ lets you Dundee eMail with confidence using regular intelligent delivery testing. Identify delivery problems before they become your problem. Identity additional opportunities you may never have considered.

See the appearance of your message in every email client on the market today, before mailing.
• Correct HTML formatting problems
• Verify your spelling
• Automatically validate your hyperlinks and HTML code ... more information

Dundee One-on-One offers expert assistance in the following areas:
• Assistance with your newsletter or announcement composition
• Format your message for HTML, plain text, or both
• Create a matching ezine and/or templates to complement your existing website
• Upload and test your content
• Schedule your mailings
• Personalized training
• Analyze and interpret your mailing reports
• Upload your subscribers

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