Tip of the Month
PB Tip: Managing All Your Groups
Posted by Robyn on Apr 26, 2013 in Clean Data, PowerBase, PTP, Tip of the Month | Comments Off
Now that you know how useful groups can be, you’re probably creating new groups left and right. Have you wondered how to keep them under control? There are a couple of principles to abide by to keep groups manageable: 1. Think of groups as in one of two categories: temporary or permanent. Differentiating temporary and permanent groups, as well as periodically removing the temporary groups...
Read MorePB Tip: Using Styles in the Mail Editor
Posted by Robyn on Apr 16, 2013 in Email, PowerBase, PTP, Tip of the Month | Comments Off
If you send out mail often from PowerBase, you might have noticed that the editor has changed recently. The editor PowerBase uses is called CKeditor. It has some new buttons and a slightly different look. This tip focuses on the button called Styles. Styles are special, saved formatting that can help you save time and keep your newsletters consistent. Rather than changing size, font face, and...
Read MorePB Tip: How to Prevent Your Emails from Getting Treated Like Spam
Posted by Robyn on Mar 27, 2013 in Email, eNewsletters, PowerBase, PTP, Tip of the Month | Comments Off
Before diving into the complicated process of managing spam filters, keep in mind that up to 30% of all bulk email gets blocked. Still, you can take prudent steps to minimize the impact on your email. In this tip, we’ve pulled some tips from across the web to help you send your email successfully. SPAM FILTERS The big email hosts (Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Google) have their own spam...
Read MorePB Tip: Mark everyone without a phone number “Do not phone”
Posted by Robyn on Mar 6, 2013 in PowerBase, PTP, Tip of the Month | Comments Off
This tip comes to you from senior organizer and PTP board member, Henry Serrano. Henry It’s easy to exclude folks from your call lists who are marked “Do not phone” or “Do Not Email“. What about folks without numbers who aren’t marked “Do not phone”? We need to do a search to find everyone without a phone number who is NOT yet marked “Do not...
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