WebCampaignManager.net 2.5

WebCampaignManager.net 2.5 is a powerful web-based newsletter publishing and mailing list management system. It's based on the latest web technologies wcm extends the concept of traditional mailing list software to the next level.

The software allows you to easily design personalized HTML and Text based newsletters, organize them in campaigns, send them via email and view reports of their activity.
Web Campaign manager.net (wcm) is a web based downloadable solution for email marketing. Design and distribute HTML and Text based formatted newsletters and then analyze and export marketing results.

web campaign manager.net is developed using Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 empowered with Ajax enabled interface. The use of the software does not require any programming knowledge and can be used either as a standalone application or in combination with any existing web site or CRM application.

wcm is an ASP.NET web application for Microsoft Windows Web Servers 2000 - 2003 for dedicated or shared hosting.

wcm is a low-cost e-mail marketing all-in-one solution that creates an integrated design, communication and analysis environment for your newsletter campaigns. An intuitive easy to use interface guides you through the marketing process.

Hierarchical multi user access offers different functionalities and reporting to each user category. Shared (and private) newsletter templates and hyperlinks optimize user interaction for information & data exchange.

Automatic Link Tracking and Open-View rate statistics can be enabled in order to obtain measurable results of your campaign success. The built-in bounce manager enables the maintenance of high quality mailing lists by tracking bad addresses and undeliverable e-mails.

A fully customizable per mailing list double opt-in/out verification system in combination with the HTML form generators create an anti-spam compliant environment for user subscription & unsubscription processes.

Major Features:

1. My office: Informational page providing summary of the most important campaign related info
   
   • Global, private and shared hyperlink management among system users directly accessible through the HTML editor
   • Global, private and shared newsletter template management among system users directly accessible through the HTML editor
   • User Notes
   • E-mail validation (syntax, domain existence and mail server query)
   • Directly import subscriber info from MS-Outlook 2003
   • User Log File (logs the most important user's actions)
2. Mailing list: This utility enables you to automatically generate the HTML code for a subscription form for a multiple mailing lists and add it to your web page.
   
   • Optional personalized welcome message to receive after subscription to a mailing list
   • Subscriber can belong to unlimited Lists
   • Double Opt in/out verification for subscription and unsubscription
   • Form Generator for automatic creation and integration of customized sign up forms for your web sites
   • Personalized unsubscribe link and message
   • Unverified subscribers management (subscribers that have not completed the opt-in verification)
   • Export subscribers to MS-Excel
   • User Log File (logs the most important user's actions)
   • Advanced Ajax enabled subscription control panel for mailing list operations
   • Pending subscribers management
   • User extensible Bounce Manager
   • Quick import of new subscribers from csv and delimited files
3. Campaigns & Newsletters:
   
   • Support for alternative mail servers per campaign
   •  Unlimited mailing lists in a campaign
   • Unlimited newsletters on a campaign
   • Archive campaign in order to offer web access to the newsletters sent (in RSS format)
   • Public and Private campaigns (private campaigns include newsletters that can be accessed from the web only from authenticated users)
   •  Detailed Statistics for open and click rate for the newsletters per campaign for each subscriber
   • RSS - XML export of the newsletters in a campaign
   • Support for content editors for each campaign so that they can only create web content
   • High Quality Web HTML Editor
   • Editor Full Screen Design of newsletters
   • XHTML (1.0 & 1.1) Content Validation
   • Automatic image resizing
   • Paste from MS-Word and keep formating
   • Newsletter can belong to multiple campaigns
   • Support for text and HTML format
   • Supports multiple attachments
   • Support for reusable templates
   • Support for reusable hyperlinks
   • Automatic Link Tracking
   • Newsletter personalization features from a drop down without the use of any code (includes all the subscriber. mailing list and system variables like e-mail address, Name, Address, Custom Fields, Campaign Name, Date/time and many many more...)
   • Exclude a newsletter from a private or public archive
   • MHT format export for newsletters in web access view
   • Automatic creation of a personalized newsletter from a web address
   • Advanced automatic newsletter creation from a web address personalized for each subscriber based on subscriber variables mapped to the query string of the web address
   • Manages Newsletter to send with the use of a Queue
   • Ajax enabled Batch and filtered sending based upon multiple criteria
   • Advanced logging of the sending process
   • Suppression list text file (email addresses to exclude during the sending process)
4. Reports Generator
   
   • Support for the marketing users that can only access statistics of some campaigns
   • Subscriber Reports: Subscribers Per Campaign,Subscribers Per Lists, Verified vs Unverified, Subscribers per Country
   • View - Click Rate: Views/Clicks report, Links Clicked report, PDF Views report
   • Campaign Statistics: Campaign Summary Report, Newsletters per campaign
   • Statistics Log: View Entries by Campaign, View Entries by Newsletter, View Entries by Event
   • Export results to MS-Excel
5. Database Explorer: Database Explorer is a powerful tool that allows access to external MS-Access or SQL Server Databases
   
   • external database table listing
   • record searching, editing and filtering
   • import subscribers from an external DBs to a mailing list
   • synchronize subscriber data from external databases
   • web campaign manager database direct access
    
   
6. Administrative Tools:

 Requirements:

1. General
   
   • Microsoft.net Framework 2.0
   • Web Campaign Manager.net is developed for Microsoft Windows Servers (2000 - 2003 - 2008)
   • The software is a web based application that does not require any installation on the web server.
   • 100% compatible with shared server hosting for asp.net 2.0
   • It is fully functional on Windows XP Pro and Vista Business and Ultimate with IIS installed and a static IP or a dynamic DNS supported domain name (in order to have the tracking analytics available).
   
   
2. Supported databases
   
   • MS-Access 2000 or newer
   • Microsoft SQL Server 2000
   • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
   • MSDE 2000: MSDE stands for MS Data Engine, Microsoft Desktop Engine or Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine. It is a toned down version of Microsoft SQL Server which is free for non-commercial use as well as certain limited commercial use. MSDE has some restrictions: a limit of 2 GB databases, and it comes with no GUI tools to administer it. It also has a workload governor which reduces its speed once you exceed eight concurrent workloads on the engine.
   • SQL Server Express: This is basically a free, light-weight, and redistributable edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It provides an integrated data storage solution for developers writing Windows applications and Web sites that have basic data storage needs. SQL Server 2005 Express replaces MSDE 2000 and significantly expands on its feature set. The SQL Server Management Studio Express can also be downloaded to provide graphical user interface in administering the SQL Server 2005 Express. Another interesting feature that should be noted, unlike other free database servers, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition has no workload throttle.
   
   
3. E-mail components support
   
   • System.Net.Mail (native .net 2 smtp component)
   • Chilkat Email (.net 2 email component, included in wcm package, no installation required)
   • System.Web.Mail: Microsoft.net CDO wrapper. If you are already hosted at Windows 2000/2003 servers then CDO is already installed on the server. Contact us or your hostmaster if you are not sure.CDO send direct to port support, CDO Pickup folder support
   • Any smtp server supporting Basic authentication (Clear Text Authentication)
   • Any smtp server supporting Secure NTLM authentication (Secure Password Authentication)
   
   
4. Web Browsers
   
   • The administration panel is compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari
   • Your subscribers can use any type of browser to interact with you (opt-in/-out, read the newsletter archive and privacy page).
   
   
5. Web Hosting
   
   • Runs on shared or dedicated server hosting.
   • You can install wcm on the following server operating systems: Windows 2000/2003/2008
   • It is fully functional on Windows XP Pro and Vista Business and Ultimate with IIS installed and a static IP or a dynamic DNS supported domain name (in order to have the tracking analytics available).
   • Around 90MB of free disk space
   • Full level trust .net 2 web application permissions is required from your host (further details)
   • Please be aware that some web hosts do not allow sending bulk e-mail, and may suspend your hosting account. Check with your web host before using this application.