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We just released Survey Plug-In for Oempro v4 version. This plug-in helps you to build professional surveys, quick polls and questionnaires quickly. Send your survey links inside your email campaigns, auto responders within Oempro and track results in real time within your Survey plug-in.

Export your survey results as CSV file to use in third party applications as Microsoft Excel, iWork, etc.

For more information and to purchase Survey plug-in, please visit Survey plug-in page.

Interested in more Oempro plug-ins? Check our Oempro add-ons section.

While adding new features and maintaining Oempro v4.0.x version, Oempro v4.1 is being developed. Based on feedbacks received from Oempro4 community, we replaced the user interface with a better and nicer one. You can check some spy photos here.

As currently release date is not set yet for v4.1, I can say that it’s not several months ahead.

Thanks for sharing your constructive feedbacks and ideas with us.

This is a small maintenance update which includes some critical bug fixes as well as a few improvements.

Detailed change log about features, files and language package items can be found in the following forum post:

http://octeth.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3681

Oempro4 customers can download the update from the client area.

Related user manuals:

• Installation guide can be found here.
• Upgrade guide can be found here.

For any technical questions or feedback, do not hesitate to contact us through your client area > support service section.

We prepared an article related about developing a custom user sign-up page with subscription plan selection, email verification, etc. This article will show you how to prepare a custom suer sign-up page quickly.

Click here to read the article.

We will continue publishing similar articles in following days.

As of 15th April 2009, our popular Oempro4 extension Campaign Tracker comes with the source code. In this way, you can re-brand and translate the application based on your needs or you can build your own Oempro4 application inspiring from Campaign Tracker.

Source code of Campaign Tracker can be downloaded from Client Area > Downloads > Campaign Tracker section.

p.s.: If you are interested in sharing your own Oempro4 applications with the Oempro4 community (free or fee based), consider publishing your applications on our Oempro4 Add-Ons store to reach thousands.

As promised before, Oempro v4.0.4 is released today. There are several changes, fixes and new features in this update. Detailed change list can be found here.

We want to thank all our fellow customers who contributed to this update with their valuable feedbacks.

Existing customers with an active service subscription can download the latest version from the client area.

Detailed documentation regarding Oempro4 can be found at our wiki section.

For any technical questions, existing customers can submit their support tickets through client area > support service link. We will be happy to hear from you.

It’s been almost 2 months after the release of Oempro v4.0.3. In two months, we have collected lots of feedback from our great customers and finally made v4.0.4 ready for the release. We will be testing it for two days more and on 9th April Thursday, it’s going to be released.

You can find the change log of Oempro v4.0.4 at http://octeth.com/tracker/changelog_page.php address.

Once Oempro v4.0.4 gets released this Thursday, it will be available to download on client area. We will also announce the release via our blog, on twitter and by email. All Oempro4 articles will be updated quickly after the release of Oempro v4.0.4.

Thanks for your patience and support during this heavy development process. 

Here’s the major change list:

0001752: [New Feature] Fetch remote content for plain email type
0001782: [New Feature] Global custom fields
0001660: [New Feature] Ability to limit email sending for users
0001639: [New Feature] Ability to compare campaign statistics and performance
0001809: [New Feature] Support for JSONP (Cross domain JSON requests) in API
0001808: [New Feature] Date personalization tag for email contents
0001807: [New Feature] User switch bar for administrator
0001780: [New Feature] Auto-upgrade utility for easier and faster upgrading
0001642: [New Feature] Campaign tagging and filtering
0001697: [New Feature] Ability to suspend a user account
0001291: [New Feature] Unsubscription behaviors
0001610: [New Feature] Subscription behaviors
0001748: [New Feature] Email content management area for users
0001711: [New Feature] Global suppression list management area for users
0001761: [New Feature] Preview in web browser functionality for users
0001723: [New Feature] Ability to duplicate an email content with a single click
0001619: [New Feature] Public archive pages for campaigns
0001783: [New Feature] Ability to ignore internal link tracking by inserting nochangeurl=1 into a href link

0001661: [Improvement] Bounce handling improvement for POP3 connections
0001601: [Improvement] Improved bounce detection and processing
0001594: [Improvement] Improved statistical charts
0001776: [Improvement] More accurate open tracking based on both open and link click tracking
0001592: [Improvement] Improved image embedding
0001671: [Improvement] Improved rich text editor for HTML emails
0001441: [Improvement] Improved user sign-up feature set including user plan (user group) selection
0001741: [Improvement] Improved email builder
0001609: [Improvement] Confirmation box added to subscriber remove screen
0001649: [Improvement] Better subscriber browse and navigation work flow
0001514: [Improvement] Improved campaign browsing and filtering
0001512: [Improvement] Better user management and suspending
0001420: [Improvement] Improved CAPTCHA protection for login screens
0001604: [Improvement] Improved email address check based on RFC standards
0001770: [Improvement] User interface improvements
0001759: [Improvement] Exporting subscriber custom fields in campaign statistics
0001556: [Improvement] Ability to mark a custom field as “required” or “unique” and set visibility (user/subscriber).

0001651: [Bug] Some missing language items added to the language pack
0001721: [Bug] Client area was not being rebranded based on the owner user theme selection
0001644: [Bug] Image embedding was causing some email rendering issues
0001335: [Bug] Custom field listing in personalization list was not easy-to-understand
0001466: [Bug] SMTP sending method was not accepting connections with no username/password
0001648: [Bug] POP3 settings were not being saved if there were no emails in the account
0001628: [Bug] PreviewMyEmail service integration was not being able to disabled without entering username/password
0001732: [Bug] There was a problem with user editing
0001625: [Bug] Venezuela’s time zone was incorrect
0001747: [Bug] Some selected time zone settings were not being saved
0001659: [Bug] Countries were not sorted alphabetically
0001716: [Bug] Recursive campaign scheduling settings were not being saved
0001725: [Bug] Forward email headers were incorrect
0001740: [Bug] “Forced unsubscription links” were causing remote URL functionality to generate error
0001608: [Bug] Broken links fixed
0001694: [Bug] Subscriber information were not being removed from campaign statistics section if user has no privileges to browse subscribers
0001685: [Bug] There were some user interface issues
0001708: [Bug] There was a broken link in website integration section
0001622: [Bug] Segment browsing were causing some errors
0001632: [Bug] Recursive scheduled campaigns were displaying incorrect dates
0001689: [Bug] Email content saving was not being processed properly on some situations
0001700: [Bug] Client area campaign statistics were causing some problems
0001663: [Bug] Subscriber remove by copy&paste method was causing some problems
0001842: [Bug] Camaign bounce statistics were displaying incorrect ratios
0001832: [Bug] Subscriber browse screen was causing JS error on some certain situations in segment browsing
0001839: [Bug] There was a search issue in subscriber browse screen
0001826: [Bug] Delete relationships were not correct
0001828: [Bug] Media library of admin area was requiring user authentication instead of admin
0001834: [Bug] Form validation was not working properly for website integration screen
0001825: [Bug] Removal of the last user group was not causing an error message
0001799: [Bug] Campaign.Get was returning invalid XML if RetrieveStatistics = true in API
0001796: [Bug] Subscription/unsubscription URL redirection were not working properly
0001800: [Bug] View-all filtering in campaign browse was not working properly
0001749: [Bug] There were some javascript issues in IE7
0001634: [Bug] There was a Plug-in permission issue
0001446: [Bug] Multiple plug-in installation issue for the same hook
0001736: [Bug] Problems with recursive scheduled campaigns
0001772: [Bug] Large data import was causing problems
0001667: [Bug] List synchronization and import from database methods were not working properly
0001771: [Bug] There was a strange behavior in subscriber import process
0001790: [Bug] Password fields are now masked
0001643: [Bug] Oempro was not allowing you to access the second part of the campaign after sending.
0001744: [Bug] Some rich text editor configuration options were causing HTML rendering issues
0001746: [Bug] Email can be saved without a name
0001774: [Bug] RemoteContent fetched contents were not being tracked
0001778: [Bug] 404 broken link issue fixed in subscribers section

Did you ever wonder about how your email looks like in different email applications and services? Designing your newsletter, converting it to HTML code and then filling it with your content, all these tasks take too much time and after making your newsletter ready for delivery, what happens if you notice that your email looks like corrupted in Microsoft Outlook 2003 but looks fine in Microsoft Outlook 2007?

This is not a problem anymore. PreviewMyEmail.com email preview service is now integrated with Oempro4. You can get screen shots of your email on 15 email applications and services in just a few minutes by only clicking a single link.  

Once you integrate your PreviewMyEmail account with Oempro4, you will be able to get screen shots of your email design on your screen in just a few minutes after clicking “Preview email design” link:

Once your email is previewed on different email clients, you will start to see results on your screen:

The best of all, once you subscribe to PreviewMyEmail.com service, it offers different plans for your budget.

It also comes with a full featured API access which allows you to integrate this state-of-art service with your own projects.

We are hiring junior level PHP programmer for our Istanbul, Turkey office. Our new team member will be responsible for providing level 1 customer support service for our customers in different countries (mostly US, EU and Australia).

If you;

• have intermediate PHP/MySQL knowledge
• have basic/intermediate *nix operating system experience
• know what does FTP, SSH, cron mean
• are passionate and patient about helping novice users
• have good communication skills
• have good/excellent English reading/speaking/writing skills
• are willing to work at a peaceful, motivating working environment
• are excited and passionate about learning every day
• are a good team member

we will be happy to meet you and discuss job opportunities further. Position applications should be sent to cv {at} octeth {dot} com including description of your skills and benefits that you can provide to Octeth.

p.s.: This is a full-time job position for our Istanbul office which is located in Bakirkoy district. Detailed contact information can be found here.

We are hiring technical author who is experienced in writing user manuals, guides, wiki articles and screen casts for web applications and services. This is an online, location-free job position.

If you believe that you are the right person for this position, please get in touch with Cem via cem [at] octeth [dot] com with subject “Position: Technical Writer”

Thanks.

10 years ago, on 13th February 1999, me and my partner Mert founded Octeth that targets global web application market. As I remember those days, managing a business online was almost a night mare, there were only a few payment gateways, slow internet connection, expensive infrastructures, no Google :p, etc. In 10 years, lots of things have changed but Octeth achieved to be one of the best in email marketing. Thanks go to our fellow customers.

Thank you for being a loyal customer of Octeth! We couldn’t be here and providing leading web applications for email marketers without your help.

Mac/Windows/Linux compatible Campaign Tracker desktop application for Oempro4 is released today. This application allows you to view statuses and basic reports of your email campaigns on your desktop without opening a web browser. Campaign Tracker is a free application for Oempro4.

For more information and download link, please visit http://octeth.com/addons/applications/ page.

Thanks.

Oempro v4.0.3 update covers bug fixes and some improvements. Click the following link to view change list of Oempro v4.0.3 update:

http://octeth.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3351

We will be releasing frequent Oempro4 updates and new plug-ins in following weeks. Stay tuned for updates.

While we are preparing for Oempro v4.0.3 update this week, a quick update for Translator Plug-In is just released. This update includes a fix that causes some problems with special HTML characters in translations. Please download Translator Plug-In from your client area and overwrite old files with new ones.

Visit http://octeth.com/addons/ to browse Oempro4 add-ons such as plug-ins, language packs, email templates and more.

Thanks.

I wanted to share a jQuery plug-in which we have developed in previous months to use on our applications. This jQuery plug-in will take all selected textareas and textfields and apply a default value behaviour.

What is default value behaviour?
Default value of a textfield or a textarea is displayed inside the element itself by default as you have guessed. But when the element has focus, default value is cleared so user can enter a new value. When the element loses focus, if no value is entered, default value is displayed again else new value is displayed.

How to use?
Using this plugin is simple as any other jQuery plugins. Plugin gets default values from elements’ values. So first, you need to add values to your input elements on the page. Then run the code below when your page is loaded.

$("input[type=text],textarea").addDefaultValueBehavior();

Options
“Default Value Behavior” plugin has two options which are self explanatory.

var options = {default_color:'#a0a0a0',focus_color:'#000'};
$("input[type=text],textarea").addDefaultValueBehavior(options);

Download

Download normal version and compressed version files here.

Happy New Year to everyone out there!

Octeth Team is ready for another successful year. 2008 was a milestone in Octeth’s 9,5 years of history. We achieved several objectives such as opening a successful permission based email marketing service Sendloop.com, researched and developed real-time email screen shot taking service PreviewMyEmail.com, opened the new version of Wridea.com, changed our primary website Octeth.com design and most importantly released 4th version of Oempro. Besides project developments, 2008 was a great success for us. We gained thousands of new customers and became a bigger, stronger company.

For 2009, we planned a brand new application to be released, tens of Oempro plug-ins and monthly periodical updates for our products and online services just like in previous years.

2009 will be a better year for Octeth Customers because we will start offering more services and opportunities in our products.

More importantly, I want to thank all of our fellow friends who support us by purchasing our products and services. I wish 2009 brings happiness, health and success to all of you.

On behalf of Octeth Team,

Best Regards,
Cem Hurturk
Co-Founder, CEO
Octeth Ltd.

The Deliverability Golden Rule: Send only email to others as you would have email sent to you…

Ensuring that your solicited newsletter is successfully delivered to your recipients entails a tricky scuffle in this age where spamming is an intensifying issue. Your newsletter is sent to only those who subscribed to it, but the risk that your email is not delivered and is marked as SPAM is present. This depends highly on the way you format your emails and how you write your subject line. Your email deliverability is an important issue as the acquirement of customers and prospects is intricate and undeliverable emails imply a loss of those subscribers. After having crafted a perfect newsletter, its deliverability as a whole is what matters. Undeliverable emails and email bounce backs are requiring more and more concern. Open rates can experience a drastic decrease due to incorrect spam filter classification. Generally, the CAN-SPAM act applies to commercial emails which are sent to advertise or promote products or services. If your newsletter includes advertisements, the recipient can view it as being commercial and hence the CAN-SPAM act can pertain. So, how can you prevent your legitimate newsletter from being marked as SPAM?

• Never send unsolicited emails. Ensure that people on your subscriber list are willing to receive your newsletter before sending. Provide an opt-out option in your newsletter to allow recipients to unsubscribe if they wish to.
• When collecting names and email addresses from your website, ask the new subscribers to add your email address to their address book. This will prevent SPAM filters from blocking your newsletter.
• Whenever a subscriber wants to be removed from your subscriber list, delete his email address from your subscriber list. Else, you will henceforth be recognized as SPAM.
• HTML emails are becoming more popular and most SPAM is HTML formatted. Thus, differentiating between opt-in newsletters and SPAM messages is difficult. Therefore, if you are sending your newsletter in HTML format, send a plain text alternative newsletter as well.
• Investigate about newsletter advertisers before placing their advertisements in your newsletter. Your newsletter will be filtered in case their website URL has been previously used to send SPAM.
• Your language used in your newsletter should be appropriate. Do not include topics such as making money or pornography which make your email look like SPAM. Do not use extra punctuation or odd spelling in your message.
• Use images scarcely as messages that are entirely images are considered as SPAM.
• Include a link to files via a website URL instead of making use of attachments. With the growing of insertion of viruses in attachments, the recipient can tag your newsletter as SPAM to avoid virus intrusion.

An effective way of ensuring that your newsletter is delivered and not marked as SPAM is to use an email marketing firm to distribute your newsletter. Octeth is a recognized firm and its product, oemPro, grants the anti-spam rating feature which determines if your newsletter will be tagged as SPAM. With features like bounce management and use of strong permission policies, email deliverability will hence not be of high concern.