Welcome to Newsletter Ease

Introducing Newsletter Ease

Congratulations on selecting Newsletter Ease, publishing and communication

software for the Internet.

We recommend that you take a few minutes to look over the Initial Setup and

Quick Tour information to help you get started. This tour demonstrates how

each element of the software interacts and will help you achieve your goals sooner

with Newsletter Ease.

What Newsletter Ease Can Do For You

Newsletter Ease helps you use your existing email account to send out colorful

email communications such as newsletters, announcements, and greeting cards.

If you own a Web site, you might also choose to take advantage of the calendar

feature in Newsletter Ease, which you can then upload to your Web site to keep

everyone in step.

You might be relieved to find that Newsletter Ease does not require you to have

any experience with Web publishing. The software makes it easy to produce

professional-looking content without requiring a great deal of expertise. So, relax

- you can get started with Newsletter Ease in minutes.

If you own a Web site, you've probably invested a lot of time and money creating

a Web site with a look that reflects just the right tone. When you use Newsletter

Ease, your communications can go out with the same look and feel as your Web

site - why find ways to bring people to your Web site when you can bring your

Web site to them. Your audience will recognize the look of what you send, which

helps you to further your investment in your branding.

There are two Newsletter Ease products. The higher end product, Premier,

broadens your capability with subscriber management and a few other features.

Initial Set Up

When you first open the Newsletter Ease, you'll see this window asking you for

your email address.

As you create your publication to send with Newsletter Ease, it's always a good

idea to send a preview copy to yourself before you send it out to everyone in your

list. The email address that you provide here will be that preview email address.

Newsletter Ease does its best to scour your system and determine some of the

initial settings that you might use when sending email. The drop-down box will

contain any extra email addresses that Newsletter Ease finds if there is more than

one. If you don't see an email address, that's okay - you'll just need to provide that

before going forward.

Mailing List Settings - all settings related to the sending and retrieval of email.

Web Site Settings - a facility to enter FTP information, if you have a Web site

If you don't know these settings, or you are uncomfortable entering them; don't

worry. Newsletter Ease comes with a Trial Mode, which allows you to discover

the software without the need to know your settings right away. While in Trial

Mode, you can send email 3 people at a time - just right for a simple "getting

acquainted" session.

The navigational tree on the left side provides access to the main features. Some

samples already exist within Newsletter Ease to help you become familiar with

the capabilities that you'll enjoy.

Six Main Application Areas

Publications - each newsletter issue you create resides here. You can create

your own HTML, an attachment, or use a Template (see below).

Greeting Cards - send an email Get Well card, Birthday card, or other brief

communication. Use built in templates or make your own cards.

Content Bank - this is where all content you create is stored for re-use across

Publications and Issues.

Mailing Lists - this is the list of your newsletter subscribers for each of your

publications. Create and manage groups within a mailing list. Here you can

manage one or more mailing lists.

Calendars - Newsletter Ease makes it very easy to create and publish a calendar

of events. Even if you do not have a Web site, you can still use this area to publish

calendar information into an Issue of your Publication.

Templates - Create HTML e-mail, without knowing anything about HTML.

Template files consist of HTML files with a few special text tags to identify where

your content should be inserted. Newsletter Ease assembles all the HTML behind

the scenes, allowing you to concentrate on creating the content. Advanced users

can edit the HTML directly in an external editing tool.