Create unlimited lists of subscribers & segments
Subscriber database featuring 25 custom fields
Bounce management filters for hard bounces, soft bounces & bad emails
Subscriber change-email function for updates
Automatic unsubscribe email processing
Personalize text/images in body & header
Master super list database manages & tracks subscriber activity
Manual unsubscribe tool & DNC list import
Easy one-click import and export of lists
Custom opt-in forms to grow list
Selective opt-in lists for subscribers to remove without unsubscribing
Custom new subscriber & unsubscribe messages
Your subscribers are your most valuable asset! You need the tools in order to keep them updated and tidy, as well as the ability to target and segment your lists to maximize ROI. Ever evolving, lists serve as the core to every marketer’s campaigns!
Mail Dog platform is flexible enough to accommodate your company’s list requirements, whether you manage your lists in your own database and need to be able to import and export with ease or whether you need a centralized place to manage your subscribers, the Dog’s got you covered.
Bounces (hard and soft), bad email suppression, reliable unsubscribe, advanced opt-in forms, text and image personalization and email preference options are all permission email requisites.
Mac or PC, it’s a snap to import and export into the platform. A simple text file or Excel file will allow you to import and export on demand. Append personalized text to merge into your messages or use Mail Dog’s centralized Super List to see subscriber performance metrics like opens, clicks, bounces and more.
Grow your permission based subscription list by adding an optin form to your website, blog, and/or social network page.
The unsubscribe link is automatically appended to the footer of every email you send. Your recipients can click to opt out and their email communication preference is immediately recorded in your account. You can never mistakenly send email to someone who’s unsubscribed from your list.
Custom opt-in/out form allows users to add themselves to opt-in (or out) to your lists via a form on your website and the data is deposited into your account. Pop up windows validate requests and confirmation emails are automatically emailed. You decide what information you’re requesting from your subscribers, what list or lists they’re subscribing to and what confirmation messages they see.
An integral component of your opt-in/out form will require you to think about where you’d like your subscribers’ emails to go in your account. Use the default list in your account, or simply use the unique list ID number in your form to send subscriber data to the list of your choice. If you’re offering more than one list for subscribers to opt-in to, then your form will include the various options with their respective list ID numbers.
You can capture a little more information about your subscribers than just their email. Collect up to 25 additional fields of information. You control what you’d like to know…name? company? You get the picture.
Opt to use the default messages or customize the pop-up window and confirmation email sent to people who subscribe or unsubscribe to your list.
When you’re adding emails to a new list or an existing list (whether you’re uploading or adding individually), we’re automatically checking against your master list of unsubscribes. If we find any, we flag them in the list for you.
Counts the number of emails who’ve unsubscribed from each list.
Export the emails of people who’ve unsubscribed from any list.
Export the emails of people who’ve unsubscribed from your account.
Remove either a single unsubscribed email or all of them from any list.
Anytime a recipient clicks on the link to unsubscribe, their email is flagged in the list that they came from, but more importantly, a copy of that email is inserted into your Master List of unsubscribes. Anytime you add or send an email, a check is made to see if that email resides on your Master List, if it does, it’s flagged in your account (if you’re adding) and suppressed (if you’re sending).
Have a list uploaded to your account of emails you’d like to unsubscribe from your list.
Manually add an email to your master list of unsubscribes.
Your account’s Opt-in Log captures each opt-in transaction and records it in your account, including date and time of opt-in and IP address.
For clients who use the Subscription Preferences/Opt-in List Feature, subscribers can elect to update their email address that you use to communicate with them.
For clients who use the Subscription Preferences/Opt-in List Feature, subscribers can elect to change the lists that they subscribe to.
Get a little personal with a “rich” list. Store and merge up-to 25 fields of custom information about your subscribers.
Label your list according to whatever naming convention you would prefer. Your recipients never see this name unless you’re using Multiple List Management/Opt-in List Feature.
Describing your list is an optional tool that enables you to insert a little more information about the list. Your recipients never see this information, unless you’re using the Multiple List Management/Opt-in List Feature.
The Custom Lists Folder Tool allows you to organize your Lists into categories or folders.
Start a new list or add emails to an existing list with the upload tool in 3 quick steps.
When you add emails (via upload or individually), we check to be sure the email is properly formatted. Upon upload, any email with bad syntax is flagged in the list with a “?”. When adding emails individually, you are alerted and given the opportunity to correct the problem.
Combine individual lists into one list for mailing purposes. When using the “Merge Lists Together” function, you will retain all individual lists and a new merged list will be generated. Mail Dog will automatically dedupe the email addresses in the newly merged list.
When you add emails individually or via upload, the emails are deduped from the list you’re uploading and if applicable, into the list you’re appending them to.
When you’re adding emails to a new list or an existing list (whether you’re uploading or adding individually), we’re automatically checking against your master list of unsubscribes. If we find any, we flag them in the list for you.
Upload rich lists that contain not just the email, but up to 25 fields of information. Use these fields for names, addresses, contact information, tracking codes or preferences, it’s up to you!
This tool adds or appends emails to a new or existing list.
Replace an existing list of emails with a newly imported one.
Keep your directory of lists handy. With your most recently modified list on top, finding your lists is quick and easy. Managing multiple lists? Numbered page flippers at the bottom of your list let you move through them easily.
Create a new list at any time.
Save a new list or save changes to a newly-updated list.
Delete any list in your account as long as the list is not designated as an opt-in list.
Export a list out to your desktop or just view the list in its entirety.
Add emails one-at-a-time to an existing list or start a new one.
Remove an individual email (or selection of emails) from any list.
Update or fix improperly formatted recipient data.
Search a list for an email address. Don’t know the whole email? You can also search for a string of characters in a list.
Export a search for a specific recipient or group of recipients from a Rich List.
Edit the profile information you have stored with an email address.
If you’re feeling geeky you can select and then “validate” an individual address. We will attempt to validate the address with the recipient’s server and then return the server’s response.
For clients who use the Subscription Preferences/Opt-in List Feature, this tool enables recipients manage their subscriptions easily. They can add themselves to new lists, or remove themselves from a list, all without unsubscribing from the entire account.
See all your lists on one page for easy reference and clean-up.
Allows you to easily compare and filter recipients in your lists for segmentation and list clean-up purposes.
Manage your lists from one page for easy reference and clean-up.
Allows an easy way to organize email lists in an Excel file before converting into a text tab delimited (.txt) file.
Bounces are realities in permission email marketing and having the data you need to make educated decisions about your lists are key.
The bounce management tools provide everything you’ll need to handle the successful and sometimes unsuccessful initial delivery of your email.
Allows you to automate the bounce resending process in 24-hour intervals. Any hard and soft bounces left after the initial campaign send will be pulled and resent once per day for the number of days you designate in the retry counter.
Any undeliverable email is automatically flagged in your account as a Bounce. “Bounces” are emails that could not be delivered for a variety of reasons: incorrect addresses, canceled email accounts, bad domain names, SPAM blocking, Firewall filtering, full mailboxes, or even malfunctioning servers on the recipient’s end. They are flagged as either a hard bounce, a soft bounce or a bad email.
After using a list, emails that are undeliverable are flagged as bounced in your account. Before using the list in another campaign, the emails flagged as bounced are automatically suppressed before transmission.
After using a list, emails that are flagged as bad emails from their ISP are posted to your account. Any emails flagged as bad are automatically suppressed before transmission.
After sending a campaign, the number of emails that bounced is reported in the drill-down view so you know how many of your targets didn’t get the message.
Count the number of emails that have bounced in a list.
Displays “bad” or non-existent email addresses on your list.
Displays the emails that have been flagged as bouncing hard in the results box.
Displays the emails that have been flagged as bouncing soft in the results box.
This tools enables you to export the emails flagged as “bad” or non-existent email addresses.
This tools enables you to export the emails flagged as hard bounces.
This tools enables you to export the emails flagged as soft bounces.
This tool lets you, in a single click, remove the bounce flag in front of all emails flagged as a hard bounce in the list so that you can send to them again.
This tool lets you, in a single click, remove the bounce flag in front of all emails flagged as a soft bounce in the list so that you can send to them again.
This tool lets you remove the bounce flag in front of any emails flagged as either a hard or soft bounce in the list so that you can send to them again.
This tool lets you, in a single click, remove the emails flagged as bad emails (“!”) from any list.
This tool lets you, in a single click, remove the emails flagged as hard bounces from any list.
This tool lets you, in a single click, remove the emails flagged as soft bounces from any list.
This tool lets you remove any emails flagged as a hard bounce in the list.
This tool lets you remove any emails flagged as a soft bounce in the list.
Search a list for an email address that you think may have bounced. Don’t know the whole email? You can also search for a string of characters in a list. After searching if it finds the email and it’s bounced, it’ll have a bounced symbol in front of it.
Fix an improperly formatted email or just update a bounced email.
If you’re feeling geeky you can select and then “validate” an individual address. We will attempt to validate the address with the recipient’s server and then return the server’s response.
When managing bounces, sometimes it’s important to learn ‘why’ an email bounced. This data can oftentimes be found in the server log. This log is available to you for one week after the scheduled date of your campaign.
When managing bounces, sometimes it’s important to learn ‘why’ an email bounced. This data can oftentimes be found in the server log. This log is available to you for one week after the scheduled date of your campaign.
For clients with Super List enabled, the Super Bounce Log tracks bounces (bad, hard and soft) across multiple campaigns and allows you to view, export and purge them from your lists.
Use a centralized location for all subscriber data and features advanced query capability, tracking of subscriber performance, as well as list segmentation for mailings.
For clients with no in-house database management system, the Super List with custom profile database featuring 25 custom fields is a life-saver. The Super List serves as the centralized location for all subscriber data.
Displays all email addresses and rich data uploaded in your Super List.
Displays the number of email addresses residing in your Super List.
We’ve crafted some preset queries for you to choose from to make segmenting your list a snap.
This tool will count and display the totals of a custom query of your Super List.
This tool will count and display the results of a custom query of your Super List.
This tool will count and prepare a text file with the results of a custom query of your Super List.
This tool will create a mailing list of your results of a custom query of your Super List.
These tools will allow you to run a query incorporating subscriber behavior into the results.
This tool will apply a date range to the results of a custom query of your Super List.
This tool will enable you to add a single record to your Super List.
This tool will allow for easy upload of data into your Super List.
When “Showing” or “Downloading” a custom query, this tool will limit the number of records displayed online or downloaded to a file.
When “Showing” or “Downloading” a custom query, this tool will restrict the query by removing the additional data displayed online or downloaded to a file so you only get the email addresses.
This tool will enable you to add or modify the field names for the 25 entries in your Super List.
For clients who designate public fields within their Super List, subscribers can elect to update their email address and contact information that you use to communicate with them
Deletes all email addresses from your Super List in your account.
What is there not to like! it does all the work for you… If you value the ability to stay in contact with your clients without the hassle you will love this service!–A Studio Production
