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Sendible is a great piece of social media management software, but we also make it easy for people to compose, track and analyze email marketing campaigns.

A great way to grow your email mailng list is through Sendible’s opt-in widget.

Our opt-in widget allows users on your website, blog or even Facebook Page to add themselves directly to your address book and can be setup in 4 easy steps:

1. If you don’t already have a Sendible account, you can sign up for one here.
2. Log into your Sendible account.
3. Go to My Contacts and select the Widget section.
4. Click “Get Started” and select the standard fields that you would like to appear on your capture form.
5. Go to Step 2 and click “New Field” to create any additional custom fields you would like your customers/contacts to fill in.
6. After creating any additional fields, proceed to Step 3. Here you can customize the button text and the page to direct users to after signing up. You can also create/select a group of contacts that can be notified whenever a new customer signs up.
7. Finally, go to Step 4, where you can select the Sendible group (mailing list) that all new contacts are added to.

You can click the Preview button to preview and test the widget. When you’re ready, click “Get Widget Code”. This is the code that you’ll need to copy and paste onto your website or blog to have the capture form appear.

Sendible is social media management software that enables you to schedule emails and sms messages to be sent in the future. Sendible allows you to import your Facebook friends’ birthdays, schedule an email or sms ahead of time and send it at a predetermined time on your friend’s birthday. Sendible can also be used for appointment reminders which can be set up months before the appointment takes place.

How to schedule an email:

Log in to sendible.com. You will then be taken to your Newsfeed where you will see your messages that have previously been sent or are going to be sent in the future.

Click on Create New and then you are provided with choices either Email, Multi Message or Sms Text Message. In this case, click on Email.

Schedule an Email

Enter the address in the To box, these can be retrieved from your contacts by clicking on To. Choose the Send Date and time using the drop-down boxes or the calendar. You can now choose to make your email recurring or once-off. Add the subject, type your email and click Create. If you would like a notificiation of its delivery then click Notify me when the message has been sent. Very useful when scheduling!

You also have the option to Attach a File (up to 5MB) and insert an image.

Sendible also allows you to import all your Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail contacts.

We have just added the ability to send attachments along with your emails. This was a long awaited feature and was requested by a lot of our users. 

To use the new feature, simply create a new email from within Sendible and select the files you’d like to attach.

We’ve made it possible to store your login details for your email (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN) accounts as well as all your social networks. This makes it even quicker to send messages to all your contacts.

Store your account details on Sendible

You’ll have instant access to all your contacts when you start typing in the “To” field.

Autocompletion of contacts

Have you ever forgotten a friend’s birthday and felt really, really bad? Now you have no excuse!!

With Sendible reminders, you can import all your friends birthdays from Facebook and you’ll be sent a reminder via email on the morning of your friend’s birthday.

Take a look here:

Facebook Birthday Reminder

To configure your birthday reminders, simply join Sendible here:

http://www.sendible.com/join

Once you’ve signed up, visit the My Alerts menu and click on the Birthdays option. Sendible will fetch all your contacts from Facebook and will add their birthdays to your Sendible calendar.  Sendible will automatically email you a reminder when it’s your friend’s birthday! All for free. You can then use Sendible to send your friend a birthday greeting using Email, SMS or even Facebook.

We have just launched the Sendible API which allows developers to write software applications that can make use of Sendible’s message scheduling technology to send SMS and Email messages to be delivered in the future.

For detailed documentation and to get your API key, visit http://www.sendible.com/api.