What are complaints and how does Benchmark resolve them?
Every email client has some method for flagging incoming emails as possible spam or junk mail. In most clients, this method is a 'This is SPAM' button, or a 'Report SPAM' link. When one of your contacts clicks one of these buttons or links in their email client, we are sent a message saying that a complaint has been registered and we add a complaint to that specific email's statistics
Templates & Editor August 6, 2018
How do I send a survey?
There are two ways to send, depending on what type of survey you created. Surveys can be sent by email or by link. NOTE: The following steps assume that you have already created a survey and activated it in your account. To send a survey by email: Log in to your Benchmark account. On the Dashboard menu, select Emails. Click on the Create New Email button. Complete Step 1 and
Surveys & Polls September 5, 2019
My emails are being delivered as broken HTML code or an attachment. What gives?
There are two things that could be going on if this happens: 1) Some email programs will display multi-part messages as garbled code or an attachment if an email message doesn't contain both HTML and plain text content. To avoid this add either plain text or HTML content to your campaign if one or the other is missing. Use the PREVIEW feature and send your test emails to different email
Templates & Editor March 26, 2019
If I don’t send emails one month, why do I still have to pay?
If you do not send any emails, your account is still active. This means all your contacts, layouts, data and other information is still available and organized in your account. Your survey URLS, Signup Forms and autoresponder emails are active for the duration of your plan. The monthly payment you make is not based on your use of our service, but the storage and upkeep of all your data, as
General questions July 25, 2018
Will my emails get through to the AOL inbox?
We maintain a feedback loop with the delivery department at AOL. We are whitelisted with their service, so there should be no problems delivering your emails to aol.com email addresses. However, this does not mean that your emails will always reach your contacts. Each of your contacts can have their own email clients that connect to AOL servers to retrieve email. These clients can have filters and blocks set up
Reports August 6, 2018
Did you check your spam score for your email?
Our Spam Check feature scans your email and rates your email on a scale of 0 to 8. The higher the score, the likely your email will be filtered as spam and will either land in the spam folder, or be quarantined. By using the Spam Check feature, we can gauge the deliverability of your email, and to also address any issues that can diminish your deliverability. To use the
General questions March 26, 2019
Common HTML Email Coding Mistakes
An html email communication might look good on your computer but fail completely on the contact's because it depends on graphics, fonts, and CSS files which only reside on your system. When you are creating your email in outside HTML editors like Microsoft Publisher, Dreamweaver, or FrontPage, remember that you are designing for email and not a website. If you design the email as if it were a web page,
Templates & Editor November 25, 2020
How can I add a “Forward to a Friend” link?
The make up of a forward-to-a-friend link is this: [Forward:Click Here]. For example, you could place something like this in your template: [Forward:Click Here] to forward this email to a friend Note: The [Forward:] link itself won't work until you send an email campaign to your list.
General questions March 26, 2019
Is the email in the client‘s “Junk” folder?
If you know the recipient, ask if your message got sent to their junk folder by accident. If it was, tell them to add your email address to their "trusted senders" list, or their address book. That usually helps prevent you from being tagged as a spammer in future campaigns.
Delivery March 8, 2019