Octeth is attending to BarCamp Istanbul tomorrow. This is the first BarCamp organization in Turkey and the organization owner is Emre Sokullu from Silicon Valley, CA. Tens of Turkish programmers, designers, entrepreneurs, marketing experts, managers, investors and press will be there. It’s a great honor for being a sponsor to BarCamp Istanbul event.

We will share photos and notes from BarCamp Istanbul next week. If you are in Istanbul, Turkey and interested about the organization, click here to register to the organization. Looking forward to meet you in BarCamp Istanbul event tomorrow.

We are looking for a PHP programmer for our growing team. If you believe that you are a good PHP programmer, has good knowledge about MySQL database, XHTML/CSS coding, AJAX, JavaScript, fluent in English and eager to get involved in global projects then you are the correct one for our team.

Our office is located in Bakirkoy / Istanbul / Turkey. We are looking for a full time in-house team member.

Please send your resume to cv@octeth.com.

Dear Fellow Customers,

As you may know, PHP4 is going to be discontinued by their developers by the end of 2007. You can read more about this important decision here and here.

We are now improving and updating our product source codes to get benefit of PHP5 functionalities. This will result with several incompatibilities with PHP4 environments. Unfortunately, the new benefits of PHP5 can not be used without dropping the PHP4 support.

We strongly recommend you to upgrade your web server PHP version from 4 to 5. Otherwise, you will have an unsupported PHP4 version in just a few months which may cause several security and script incompatibility issues.

To learn your PHP version, simply create a test PHP script and write the following PHP code inside that file:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Save and upload this file to your web server and run it through your web browser. If your PHP version is older than v5, we strongly recommend you to contact your hosting company and learn how to upgrade your PHP version.

The new Oempro version which is going to be released in just a few weeks will be PHP5 compatible and will not support PHP4. We are implementing special improvements in Oempro’s send engine modules and this action requires PHP5.

For your questions and comments, do not hesitate to contact us via sales@octeth.com

Octeth will be attending the Future of Web Applications conference which is being held in London, from the 2nd to the 5th of October. If you are in London and you are interested in meeting the Octeth team, do drop an email at cem@octeth.com. It will be a pleasure for us to meet you.

Hi Everyone,

For a while, we are developing a new email marketing software and it’s almost 50% completed. It’s being developed from scratch. It has a new completely rewritten back-end and new user friendly interface.

We decided to publish some introduction videos to give you an idea what’s going on at Octeth. While we are developing and improving our market leader product Oempro and Mailium, we are preparing to release our third email marketing application in a few months.

Newsletterium is not a replacement of Mailium or Oempro. It’s a brand-new application.

We will publish more about Newsletterium in the following weeks. Stay tuned on our blog for latest movies.

You can use published videos on your blog posts as well.

Some featured videos:

Creating a Mail List

Browsing Mail Lists

Mail List Preferences

Mail List Dashboard

Setting Up Mail Lists

Auto Responders

Newsletterium Charts

Fellow Oempro Users,

We have great news for you! We are going to release new version for most of our Oempro plug-ins in a month. Below, the list of Oempro plug-ins and their new versions are listed:

• OemBilling
  Version 2 is under development
• OemCampaignTracker
  Not scheduled
• OemFeeder
  Not scheduled
• OemMetrics
  Not scheduled
• OemReminder
  Not scheduled
• OemSMS
  Version 2 is scheduled
• OemSurveyManager
  Version 2 is scheduled
• OemTranslator
  Version 2 is scheduled
• OemVoteIt
  Version 2 is scheduled

We are working on Oempro v3.6.5 for a few weeks and it’s almost completed. We have three or four things to complete before releasing it. This may take a few days more. Octeth customers can see the change log of Oempro v3.6.5 at tracker.octeth.com

We will inform you through here once it’s released. So, please keep an eye on our blog.

Hi Everyone,

As you know, we didn’t send our monthly newsletter on July and August. We are currently redesigning our newsletter, moreover thinking about changing the contents of our newsletter.

At this point, we need your help. If you spend a few minutes on getting back to me about what you want to see in our monthly newsletter, we will be quite happy to suit your needs by implementing your feedbacks in our newsletter.

In previous newsletter issues, we included brief news from Octeth, feature spotlight from our products, handy email marketing tips and email marketing jargon. Addition to these, if you want to see a new section on our monthly newsletter, just contact me by email cem [at] octeth [dot] com or post a comment below.

Looking for your feedbacks, thanks!

Hi Everyone,

As most of you know, we are publishing useful easy-to-follow email marketing articles on our website. However, we noticed that still some of our users are unaware about this useful resource. So, I decided to post a quick notice to our blog and let everyone know about this section.

We usually post one to three articles every month to this section. There are more than 17 articles in this section.

Here is the list of email marketing articles on our website:

Creating Newsletters

• Importance of Good Subject Lines
• How to Create an Effective E-Newsletter
• Components Of Effective Newsletters That Work
• Importance of Headers and Footers in Newsletters
• HTML versus Plain Newsletters

Mail List Building and Management

• Dealing with your inactive subscribers
• Keeping your mail list members active and loyal
• Five Secrets Revealed in the Special Report on Mail List Building

Readibility and Deliveribility

• Holiday Email Marketing Tips
• Tips to Increase Email Deliverability
• How To Interpret Email Open Rates?
• How Often To Send Your Newsletter?
• Announcing Product Launch with Your Newsletter
• How To Ensure That Your Newsletter Will Not Be Marked As SPAM
• Factors Which Can Improve Your Open Rate
• How To Increase Click-Through Ratio in Your Newsletter?
• Best Days to Send Out Your Newsletters

To see the full article list and read these articles, visit our article section:
http://www.octeth.com/resources/articles/

Learn the benefits of email marketing campagins for holidays. This short article explains the benefits and main things you need to follow during holiday email marketing campaigns.

Direct link is http://www.octeth.com/resources/articles/holidays-email-marketing-tips.php