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Who Is Using BigSender?
People like you at advertising agencies, public relations firms, news publishers, manufacturing companies, fan clubs, music, film and television producers, political groups, churches, membership organizations, alumni assocations, nonprofits, as well as publishers, online journalists, publicists, retailers, wholesalers, affiliate managers, business development professionals, entrepreneurs, salespeople, authors, teachers, pastors, musicians, human resource managers, webmasters, etc. If you have a newsletter, e-zine, or are responsible for "getting out the word" to a list of contacts, I created BigSender to be the most powerful yet easiest-to-use web-based system of its kind in the world to help you communicate more persuasively for greater results. [  e-news gallery ]
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Online contact manager & email / web publisher runs from any computer connected to the internet. Your single-domain license is a low, one-time fee of just US$189 and, for your convenience, secure online payment options include American Express, MasterCard, Maestro, Mondex, MasterCard Debit, Discover, Discover Platinum, Visa, Visa Buxx, Visa Debit card, business check or personal check for instant download.
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- more economical with no monthly fees, free, fast and easy updates and free "above and beyond" technical support
- more personal messages with BigSender
- more accessible because your lists are on your website
- more built-in tools in the BigSender Contact Manager
- more lists with the FREE BigSender Gateway Manager plug-in
- more impact with BigSender's exclusive Hybrid™ message technology
- more intuitive message composition with the FREE realtime WYSIWYG HTML Editor plug-in
- more speed – send 40,000 or more emails per hour!
- more power to publish with one-click message archiving
- more information can be collected, stored and used
- more convenient with the FREE BigSender Snapshot plug-in
- more friendly because it installs itself with no programming
- more reach with FREE BigSender Language File plug-ins
- more flexible because BigSender can work with any existing lists
- more reliable data with advanced technologies to help clean your list and keep it clean
- more focused emails for greater response
- more universal with broad support for mixed-platform environments
- more secure with two built-in security methods
- more compliant with evolving policies and laws with BigSender's built-in safeguards
- more open as your other web applications can hook into BigSender
- more informative if your broadcast session ends unexpectedly
- more welcoming to new recipients with automatic confirmation email
- more helpful with our exclusive SMART SPRING™ Popup Helper
- more responsive "above and beyond" user support is included
- more value than any other system of its kind [ compare prices ]
BigSender's many powerful functions and easy-to-use features cannot be found even in custom systems costing tens of thousands of dollars – yet BigSender is just US$189, includes "above and beyond" support and is available now for instant download from your standard web browser.
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Put the power of BigSender to work for you now
Whether your business, institution or organization is online or brick-and-mortar, your success comes down to this key: It's not who you know but, rather, who knows you! At any price, there is simply nothing like BigSender to help you get the word out – more quickly, professionally and with greater impact!
We offer you the convenience of secure online payment with American Express, Discover, Discover Platinum, MasterCard, Maestro, Mondex, MasterCard Debit, Cirrus, Visa, Visa Buxx and Visa Debit card or personal or business check for instant download of your complete BigSender system.
BigSender System Requirements
BigSender is a web application that you upload to your website and run from your desktop computer's web browser...
Client (your desktop computer)
If you can surf the web, you can run BigSender! BigSender is designed to run from any computer including Windows 3.1x,95/98/NT/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Solaris, LindowsOS, Novell Netware, OS/2Warp, OS/2Warp4, A/UX, HP/UX, FreeBSD, AIX, BSD/OS, NextStep, OSF/1, etc., that can run a current web browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. The BigSender Message Composer's HTML Editor plug-in uses advanced JavaScript code which, while supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+ for Windows and Mozilla Firefox for Mac, may not be fully supported by other web browsers in which case you may disable the HTML Editor or the standard built-in HTML Composer may be automatically substituted.
Server (where your website is hosted)
BigSender has been tested on and is approved for use in most webserver environments running Perl 5 including Unix, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Solaris, IBM, SGI, Novell Netware, OS/2Warp, OS/2Warp4, A/UX, HP/UX, FreeBSD, AIX and Mac OS X Server with a standard installation of the Perl library, ability to connect to an SMTP or other mailserver and socket connections enabled.
Note: If BigSender performs for you on yet another platform, operating system or server environment not specifically mentioned in the above list, please let us know using the form below and we will happily add it to this list!
BigSender Feature List
- Self-installer gets BigSender up and running on your website in less than 60 seconds and, unlike most other CGIs, automatically determines your server environment without hacking the code to get it to run.
- Instant Updater automatically notifies administrators when an updated release of BigSender is available and, with a mouse click, instantly updates your entire BigSender installation – no more downloading, extracting, FTP logins or uploading.
- Send Hybrid™ (plain-text and HTML-text) messages with inline images, movies and/or audio files – each recipient will automatically experience your message up to the capability of his/her email system.
- One click in the BigSender Message Composer converts your plain-text email to HTML-text email and vice versa.
- Your message is personalized for each recipient – no generic bulk-looking messages sent to "Recipient," "Friend," or "Subscriber."
- Convenient Personalization Helper inserts personalizaton code into your message as desired.
- Realtime interactive HTML Editor makes creating impactful compositions easy and fast.
- Convenient HTML Helper inserts commonly-used but hard-to-remember hypertext tags as desired.
- Wordwrap selector automatically wraps the plain-text version of your message to your preferred width.
- Check a box to publish your message to your website.
- Dynamic Message Archive index updates automatically as you add, edit or remove messages from your archive.
- Check a box to instantly remove obsolete messages from your Message Archive.
- Click the "change date" link to modify the publication date of any message in your Message Archive.
- Runs from any internet-connected desktop computer in the world.
- Approved for installation on most webservers including all flavors of Unix and Linux servers, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows&bsnp;7, Novell NetWare, FreeBSD and Mac OS Servers running WebStar.
- Use your single installation of BigSender to manage as many lists as you want.
- No inherent limit on the size of any list.
- Eliminate monthly list-management or broadcasting fees – host your list in-house for greater control and zero ongoing monthly costs.
- Set up your own list-hosting services for clients driven by BigSender to add new revenue streams.
- Automatically manages adds, modifications and removes to your list in realtime – no synchronizing or reconciling add, modify or remove requests.
- BigSender Opt-in Activator (double-opt-in) setting can require new subscribers to confirm via email their addition to your list before BigSender adds them.
- IP Address Blocking feature can automatically block malicious users from submitting multiple add or opt-in activator requests.
- Can be set to automatically send a personalized welcome email, exit & modify confirmation email, and/or administrator notification emails.
- Suite of tools built into BigSender Contact Manager: search (Boolean and/or matching and partial-matching criteria), browse, view and print individual record data, ICQ click-to-message, edit a record, remove multiple records, mark records as ban, bounced or fraud, and target checked records for a broadcast session.
- Click to instantly change user interface languages from English to other languages.
- Select from all character set standards for BigSender interfaces and email messages.
- BigSender messages are fully compatible with all known third-party or in-house ad-unit delivery and clickthrough tracking systems, including AdKnowledge, beFree (Reporting.net), BurstMedia, Commission Junction, Double-Click and others.
- Save broadcast messages as "BigSender Snapshots" to reload and use again and again.
- Start a new list from scratch or easily import your existing lists.
- Built-in List Cleaner removes duplicates, strips potentially corrupting non-ascii characters, and ensures the structure of each recipient's email address in your lists.
- Advanced Data Guard locking technologies help prevent list corruption.
- Built-in Automated Bounce Manager removes recipients from your list with email addresses that are no longer valid.
- Optional Button Disabler setting helps prevent double-clicking when users subscribe.
- Collect only email addresses and their full names or their first name and last name in separate fields.
- Add unlimited Custom Fields to your lists of any standard form field type: "TEXT," "TEXTAREA," "PASSWORD," "CHECKBOX," "RADIO," "SELECT," "SELECT MULTIPLE," and "HIDDEN," plus special BigSender field types: "CREDIT CARD" (displays only the last 4 digits to the user), "URL" (BigSender validates proper URL structure), "EMAIL" (BigSender validates proper email syntax), "ICQ" (lets administrators click on the ICQ link from the Contact Manager to establish an ICQ session), "PHONE", "USER IP" (to record your subscriber's IP Address), "DATE STAMP" (US, UK or NET date formats) to record when a record was added or modified by the user, and a special "ANNOTATIONS" field type for adding uneditable timestamped contact notes to a record.
- Any Custom Field you create can be set as "locked" so your users cannot modify information in that field once it contains data.
- Instantly add dozens or even hundreds of Custom Field "SELECT" options via the Custom Field Groups plug-in which comes pre-loaded with "STATE," (2-letter and spelled out) "STATE/PROVINCE" (2-letter and spelled out), and all the "COUNTRIES" in the world.
- No programming. No coding. You modify more than a hundred settings via the unique BigSender Configurator interface.
- Virtually unlimited "look and feel" modifications: user interface color palette, one-click color themes and reference to your template files for full customization of all BigSender's user interfaces & response pages.
- BigSender add, modify & remove responses can optionally generate a small popup window rather than taking the user to a new page.
- Connect BigSender to your server's installation of Sendmail, Qmail or any SMTP server in the world for broadcast throughput of up to 40,000 or more emails per hour.
- SMTP Authenticator provides automatic support for the three most common user authentication protocols.
- Target your broadcast to include or exclude recipients using Boolean matching and partial-matching criteria.
- Break up your broadcast session into smaller ones if you like and resume where the last session left off.
- When you click the "send broadcast" button, a popup asks you to confirm to help prevent inadvertent broadcasts to your list. A special "kill broadcast" button lets you stop your current broadcast session.
- An interactive BigSender Broadcast Report displays the current status of your broadcast sessions.
- Built-in error checking notifies you if your BigSender Broadcast session is interrupted for any reason.
- An option you set can help prevent your server or mailserver from aborting your BigSender Broadcast session or other time-intensive tasks.
- Permanent owner login via your static IP Address or choose the username & password method to control access to BigSender's administrator controls.
- Add as many administrators for each list as you want and check which BigSender administrator functions each administrator may access.
- Choose the amount of time the owner and other administrators remain logged in before needing to login again.
- Built-in SMART SPRING™ Popup Helper provides just the information you need when you need it.
- Friendly, responsive and unlimited "above and beyond" technical support is included in your license via email, telephone, instant message, ICQ or live videoconference.
- Free online BigSender custom demo so you can try before you buy.
- Instant electronic delivery so you can start using BigSender within minutes of purchasing your license.
User Survey
Are my software titles useful to you? Could they be improved? Are they designed well? Do all the functions, er uh, function? Take a moment to complete my User Survey and let me know how you really feel!
Contact / Support Form
These tools were developed to you help streamline development, programming, site administration and other important tasks, and it is our pleasure to make them available to you. Use the form below to request support for your software, report bugs, submit suggestions, hire us for a custom design and/or programming project or ask general questions.
Privacy: Be assured, your privacy is vitally important and any contact information submitted to Craig Richards Design is used internally for support purposes and is never sold, distributed nor otherwise shared with third parties in any form. –Thank you!
| Noteworthy Testimonials and Reviews |
James E. Powell, publisher
The Office Letter
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We've never seen such an extensive feature list as BigSender's, nor such flexibility, ease of setup, and strong tech support (included in the license fee). For the money, it's a steal!
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Andy C.
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The more I use BigSender, the more I enjoy it! Clearly, you have put a great deal of thought, effort and expertise into the entire system. Thanks for your outstanding support and a superb product –I love BigSender!
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Will
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I've examined lots of systems and BigSender has so many features it's the one to beat –Thanks!
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Aviram C.
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One word: Amazing.
The more I use and get to know it, the more I like and appreciate your forethought in programming BigSender. Thanks a bunch for BigSender!
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David D.
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Your website is right – you give the best, fastest and most useful support I have had in ages. It is a pleasure dealing with you – Thanks!
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Noah S.
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Many thanks – You are a role model for good service on the web!
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Stephen F.
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FAST & GOOD! Never seen service like it! That is worth at least a third of my license cost before I send my first email. Thank you.
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Tom F.
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I am impressed! Not only by your programs but your response as well. It's nice to finally hook up with someone responsible. I'm looking forward to promoting your endeavors.
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Bill V.
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An absolutely best-of-breed product. The best I've seen so far!
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Dave R., Publisher
Britain Express
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To say that I'm a satisfied user of BigSender is an understatement. It has saved me so much work in sending out my newsletter that it would be hard to imagine life without it. I especially like the ease with which it helps me send Hybrid™ messages. More than that, the ease of operation makes it a joy to use. When I do have a question, the SMART SPRING Popup Helper makes it very easy to set things right. As if that were not enough, Craig Richards has provided exceptional support – even before I purchased the software! Indeed, it was that prompt and helpful support that convinced me to part with my hard-earned cash and buy BigSender. I can assure you that I have never regretted that decision! I would not hesitate to recommend BigSender to anyone considering a cost-effective way to manage email lists online.
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David K. |
Craig, thanks for adding the multiple administrators in BigSender 3; for me, that puts the icing on what was already an easy-to-work-with, seamless tool to get the word out. This will let me launch client services in a whole new area. Thanks again!
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Tom G.
MailItPro.com |
I truly appreciate your dedication to customer support. Persistence and follow-through are traits that continue to differentiate your company from the rest of the pack.
My clients will be excited about the new features including online contact management and multiple admin levels. The new Automated Bounce Manager will also be well received. Bigsender 3 lets me take my services to a new level and raises the satisfaction level of my clients. Thanks!
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Nan L. |
Mr. Richards, What an EASY program this is to install.I installed BigSender without any problems and was ready to roll in less than three minutes. Wahoooh!
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Paul K. |
Thank you for creating such a wonderful program and making it affordable to average people like me. I have BigSender loaded up on the server and it works GREAT!!!
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Haris H. |
Thanks for your quick response – That's why I like BigSender so much. The support is out of this world! (And you can quote me on that.)
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Charles W. |
You have one very slick piece of software – Gee, built-in SMART SPRING Popup Helper and everything. Very, very cool!
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Michael M. |
BigSender has been running smoothly for us and we appreciate your hard work! And thanks for the kick-ass customer service.
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David D. |
Every time I perform a simple, easy, trouble-free update to BigSender, I remember just how difficult it was to update a CGI before we found BigSender. I recommend BigSender to other friends with small businesses and am a happy and satisfied customer.
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Jason Y. |
Your support team rocks! You've been extremely helpful – I've had no problem broadcasting messages and everything works fine.
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Sion M. |
I am very impressed with BigSender. I had been looking for a while for a system which would do what BigSender does so well. I'm intending to use it for a client's site, and it is important that they would be able to use it easily. I think BigSender will do the job nicely.
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Richard S. |
Zowie! It's up and running. I was able to get a test email sent to myself in just seconds. The software looks great! A very simple, clean and easy-to-use interface. I was about to buy someone else's program, (Post Office PRO) when I instead opted for yours. Three things convinced me to buy BigSender:
- You are very responsive to emails and questions.
- Your "BigSender Sales Email" was most impressive. I'm usually not swayed by most people's attempts at selling me but your wording was terrific.
- Testimonials. I like nothing better than to read other people's comments.
There are so many poorly-written programs around that a guy can go broke buying them all. I almost didn't buy yours because it wasn't shareware. But your sales pitch convinced me that BigSender is the desired choice. It's the emailing system my clients my want. One that's so simple, they can run it themselves. Many thanks.
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Hans D. |
Craig Richards has made it possible for serious people to communicate with other serious people – My rating for BigSender is 5 stars (for Mr. Richards' support alone, which is the best I got in more than 20 years with a computer!) Read what BigSender can do and use your imagination.
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B. Quest |
BigSender is a kick-ass product I simply must own!
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Jason Z. |
You're the best – I still can't believe the level of fast and courteous support you provide. Indeed unheard of. I have never regretted purchasing BigSender and recommend it constantly. Wishing you continued success!
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Donell C. |
Let me say, I was sick of using Topica [at up to US$485 every month] and am excited about BigSender. I am blown away by your extremely high level of response (even though I shouldn't be surprised because your website is full of kudos about how responsive you are)! That's what convinced me to buy BigSender.
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Laura V. |
I send out an e-newsletter to more than 8,000 recipients every week, so I had to find a system that really worked. I tried at least ten and they were awful. They all crashed consistently. And tech support was nonexistant. But I finally found one: BigSender. It really works.
Craig Richards wrote this program and he set it up for me without any additional charge. Since I hate dealing with computers (like cars, I like to go places but hate dealing with car problems), I am very low tech. Craig has been amazingly helpful.
BigSender works off the internet so I can send emails from any computer hooked up to the web, PC or Mac – doesn't matter. We use a bulk email sender around twice a week at the law office where I work. It is a program that sits on the PC. I hate it. It crashes all the time and you have to get into it and problem solve. The crummy program cost my boss $50 whereas BigSender cost around $190 but I think I got a much better deal.
BigSender is cranking out those messages smooth as glass – Thanks again!
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Brian C.
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I am stunned by the service that you give to your customers! To say that you are 'the man' would be an understatement. You are a CGI god. Thanks!
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Dan L.
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As you've probably guessed (since you haven't heard from me in months), BigSender is doing a great job for us. It has made our contact management and newsletter mailings a lot easier!
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Martin B.
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I installed BigSender and am more than satisfied with it – especially as my site is hosted on a Windows 2000 server that most CGIs don't seem to be able to deal with. BigSender is an excellent system and does everything I could wish for!
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Mark H.
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I am very impressed with the elegance and efficiency of BigSender! Thanks for the great work!
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Thomas W.
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I have downloaded and tested BigSender and have to say it does what I expect it to do. You have one more satisfied customer!
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Hans T.
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I'm sure BigSender will become a hit. In past weeks, I've tried a lot of listserv and bulk emailing programs but BigSender has all the options I need. BigSender runs on my ISP's server (so I won't have to send 50,000 x 60kb over my cable connection), is much less expensive (I tried Broadc@st that is priced at $2495+), and BigSender has the message personalization options I need. And of course, BigSender is very easy to configure.
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Larry H.
President, Cliff Houser &
Associates Advertising Corp.
President, Hennessee
Internet Services
President, SendaBible.com
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If you are looking for the most powerful email marketing system available today, get BigSender from Craig Richards Design. As President of a large regional advertising agency, our early investments in internet-based permission marketing have yielded very positive results. Our only setback has been the ongoing high costs of list-management service providers, or low cost locally-hosted applications that lacked the power we require to maintain lists of 30,000+ opt-ins.
BigSender is truly a breakthrough in new media marketing. I know first hand the problems associated with most locally hosted mass mail applications... all of which BigSender seems to have crushed in one fatal blow. Incredibly easy to install, highly secure, easily modified, intuitive interface, double opt-in [with BigSender's Activator setting] and kind to the CPU & memory of a busy machine. Craig's programming skills and dedication to the evolution of perfection is very evident from BigSender's self-installation to the help menus available at every prompt. BigSender has all the tools a professional email marketing system should have and I can tell you it is the best out there.
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Be sure to check out our E-News Gallery to see how others are using BigSender to improve their communications!
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