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How to add an animated GIF to an email

If you try to add an animated GIF to your email using image uploader of your email program sometimes it will not work. You’ll find that the image has been added to your email but the GIF animation has been lost. This normally occurs because during the upload process your image is rendered a second […]

5 Steps To Create An Animated GIF With LICEcap

Here’s the 5 steps to creating an animated GIF using a product called LICEcap. (BTW you might want to check this post out first – How to embed a video in email) I’ve experimented with a few products to create animated GIFs and I’ve ended up using a product called LICEcap to create my GIFs. […]

New Feature: Send-As Email Alias & Custom Email Addresses

Today we launched our email alias feature. The *Send As Email* feature allows you to select from multiple email addresses in the “From / Reply-To” field when you send an email. For example, you may build your mailing lists using the Google contacts from your personal Gmail account but you want your emails to appear to […]

5 Ways to Avoid Gmail Sending Limits

It’s quite easy to fall foul of Google’s bulk sending limits, so here are 5 ways to avoid Gmail sending limits. If you need to send an unusually large amount of mail, such as for a marketing campaign, consider an alternative to regular email, such as: Chrome Store market place. Download compatible applications. Here are the results for […]

Feature Update: Flashissue for Gmail Gets 4 New Features

We just added some handy new features to Flashissue for Gmail. These features are available to our free and paying customers, except the ability to remove branding that is a premium feature. Remove the FlashIssue logo from the bottom of emails you send. Make your email private: disable the online view option of the email […]

Create email newsletter templates in Gmail

Here’s how to create email newsletter templates in Gmail using Flashissue. The “duplicate” an email feature in Flashissue lets you create a clone of any email you have in your Draft folder or any email you have previously sent. Using the Duplicate button you are able to set up an email to be used repeatedly […]

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Only 1% of users create web content

In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. A variant is the “90–9–1 principle” (sometimes also presented as the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such […]

Top 5 Business Add-Ons For Gmail

Gmail is increasingly becoming the go to product for businesses when it comes to email. Google continues to roll out a slew of new apps and add-ons for Gmail that make it faster and cheaper to run a business whether you’re a solo entrepreneur or a professional in a larger organization. Here’s the top 5 […]

How to paste HTML into Gmail

Here’s how to paste HTML into Gmail. So, if you find yourself asking “how can I send an HTML Newsletter from my Gmail account?” look no further. Of course you could do it the elegant way and use Flashissue but lets suppose you have some raw HTML from a nice looking newsletter created with a service […]

Flashissue’s Top 3 Time Saving Features For Gmail

Here’s the top 3 time saving features for Gmail when you’re using Flashissue. #1 Send yourself a test email Once you’ve created an email no doubt you want to see what it looks like before you start broadcasting it to the world so we’ve created an email list for you called “Send Test To Self”. It’s […]

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