Writing a Better Email Subject

Like many of you we enjoy learning new things and found this page by Mail Chimp very helpful. http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/best-practices-in-writing-email-subject-lines

We suggest that you check it out some of the highlights are:

• Avoiding the words: Help, Percent Off and Free
• Keeping your subject at or under 50 characters
• Examples of their best results and worst email subject results

A very handy study and some pretty easy tips to live by. Just a reminder if you have an Enterprise Solution we now have a message scheduler: http://bizideo.blogspot.com/2013/07/schedule-messages-to-your-video.html so why not to try out some of the Mail Chimp tips!

New Consulting Video Website Template with Mobile Pages

This template is included with the cost of a Standard Wizard Account.

Genre: Business
Colors: Black, Grey

Pages Included:

• Home
• About Us
• Contact Us
• Mobile Home
• Mobile About Us
• Mobile Contact Us

This template features: A branded video player, a branded playlist, a slideshow, mobile pages and a contact form.

You can start using this template today to build your video and mobile website. Your Standard Wizard account includes access to all the provided templates, video uploading / encoding, players, mobile pages and other powerful tools. Your account also includes the hosting of all generated and uploaded content, search engine optimization tools and training.

• Click here to learn more about the Bizideo Video Website Wizard
• Click here to try it for free without registering
• Click here to request a free trial
• Click here to sign up (Standard account is $99 setup and $25 a month after that)

Schedule Messages to Your Video Solution Users

Schedule a Mass E-Mail in your Member Manager

The Enterprise Video Delivery Solution is capable of delivering messages to your system users. This allows you to communicate with your video system users easily without leaving your solution, and that ease has just gotten greater! You can now schedule a message to be sent at a future time and date. An ideal tool for announcing video subscriptions that rotate on a schedule and announcing new content.

To Schedule a Mass E-Mail

If you see the Send E-Mail link in your Enterprise manager you can use this new scheduling tool.

• Log into your Bizideo Video Delivery Solution Administrative Account
• Go to Member Manager
• Click “Send E-Mail”

• After you set up your message click use the tools at the bottom to either schedule your message to send at a future date and time or click to send it now.

• Fancy adding this to your Enterprise account? Please contact us at Support@Bizideo.tv.
• Messages are sent based on CDT.
• You can send to multiple users using the To:, CC: or BCC:.
• Log Into Your Bizideo Video Delivery Solution
• Request a Demo of this feature

Import a CSV of Video Users to Your Enterprise

Import Enterprise Users

It’s now easier to add a large catalog of users to your Bizideo Enterprise Solution. You can still add users manually, but now you can also import your system’s users quickly.

• To do this Log Into you Administrative Account
• Click Member Manager
• Click Add a User

• You’ll now see the option to upload a CSV of users to your system

• Once you selected your CSV it will update with your new users populated into the Add a User form. Making importing a list of users even easier.

How to Format your CSV File

First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Password (leave blank to auto generate), User Level, BizKey (Playlist for their Subscription)

Your BizKey is the 6 character ID for a Playlist, the first 3 characters are your account ID and the last 3 are the Playlist itself. You may also leave the BizKey blank, if you aren't sure contact us at Support@Bizideo.tv to learn what format you should use for your Enterprise System.

• Request Training or a Demo
• Tips for Creating a Password
• Log into Your Account

Happy 4th of July!!

Have a wonderful 4th of July!