Step One: Enrollment

You can easily request an account to use the Casio Exilim Portal.

 

Step 1: 
Select the "enroll in reseller tools" link.

 

Step 2:
 Provide your company information. Company name, email address, phone number and logo are mandatory. This information is mandatory as it used to form the header portion  of your email blasts.  Make sure that your company logo is no more than 150px width. Use the account info dropdown to make modifications to your header of your email blasts.

 

Step 3: 
Submit your information, upon approval you will receive an email with your credentials, remember the username is your email and the password will be sent once you are approved.

 

Step 4: 
Activation of your account. A Casio administrator will activate your account once they have determined the type of reseller category that applies to you.  Approval process can take up to 72 hours from time of enrollment.

 

Step 5:

Next you will add your company slogan, this is a company tag line for example: "Nike, Just do it". This will be associated with your logo located in the header so it should be a short slogan.   

 

 - Email Account: Specify your complete email account.
- Email Password: Specify your email password, this is the password of the email account that you typed above.
- SMTP Server: This is the complete name of your SMTP Mail Server, usually is example: mail.mydomain.com. - SMTP Port: This is the port to connect with your SMTP server, usually is 25, but can be different, if your connection test fails, be sure you are using the right port.
- Gmail: Gmail uses a special SMTP Port and encription, check the box in the configuration process if you are going to use a Gmail account to deliver your message to your contacts. If you check this box, you only need to specify the email and the password of the account.

 

Step Two: Select Create Email

Select Create Email from Dealer E-blast Tool menu drop down menu located on the main navigation panel. The Edit email message form will appear.

 

Step Three: Name Your Message

Give your email message a name that identifies it for later use. This name will appear in your saved messages list and will not be used when you send the message.

 

Step Four: Select an Email Campaign Template

To select one of the available campaign templates mouse over the thumbnail image of the template to display the template name. Once you determine the template you would like to use, click the button below the template image to display the customiz able fields for that specific template.

 

Step Five: Customize Your Email Campaign Template

You are now looking at the available fields to customize your template. The first step is to upload a logo that will be displayed in the header area of the email message.

 

This logo should be 150 pixels in width to fit in the header. Next you will add your company slogan, this is a company tag line for example: "Nike, Just do it". This will be associated with your logo and be located in the header so it should be a short slogan.

 

Next you will add any links back to your website with the "optional header links menu". If you do not want to add menu links in the header select "disable".

 

Now that you have set up the email header you are ready to customize the promotional message. Casio has provided a pre-loaded message explaining the offer. Use the text editor to modify the message or add a custom message of your own. Next you'll add a promotional pr ice, this is the price that will appear with the main promotional message and is the price after Casio discounts. Should you want to modify the pre-loaded price, type the new price in the "Promotional Price" field, any discounts will be calculated automatically.

 

Next you'll customize the social media banner with a short company name and the social networking sites logos. We ask for a short name in this field as your company name will appear in the social networking banner as: Follow "Company name" On: and a list of social networking logos will appear. Now you are ready to select the social networking sites you would like to add to the message.

 

To select the social networking links, select the "social networking" button under the "add additional cameras and links" bar.

 

Once you have made the selection a list of social networking site link fields will appear, add your links in these fields. Note: if you do not add a company short name none of the social networking site links will appear.

 

Quick Start Steps:

 

1. Give your email message a name that identifies it for later use.
2. Add Your Company Slogan: You can add a slogan for a specific promotion or use your company's general tag line. This will appear above the header menu in the email.
3. Customize The Optional Header Links: Change a menu item, highlight the text and replace with the heading of your choice. To add a link to the menu item, highlight the text and select the "link" icon in the text editor tool bar. This will display a pop up with fields to add the appropriate link information. If you are not going to use the menu, click on the disable button.
4. Customize the promotional message: Use the text editor to modify the message or add a custom message of your own.
5. Customize the promotional price (optional): The default value is the recommended price but can be modified. Note the new price calculates any discounts from Casio.
6. Company name for social links: Add a short company name, this will be displayed on the social links banner. Note omitting the short name will disable the social networking links.

 

 

Step Six: Add Additional Cameras And Links

Casio gives you the ability to feature other related cameras with similar offers. Should you wish to feature additional cameras click on the model number button of each of the cameras you would like to add to the email message. Each time you select a model number you'll be asked to add your store link, picture of the specific camera color you carry if appropriate, the SellPoint link and the price.

 

Click on each camera model to display a group of fields to customize the selection, all these selections are optional. each camera can have:

 

 

1. Store link: URL to the product in your website, if you don't have a store link but want to show the camera in the email, please add a # symbol. if you are not going to show the camera in the email please leave the field blank.
2. Select the picture drop down menu: to change the color of the camera. If drop down is not displayed then only one camera color is available.
3. SellPoint link: URL to the SellPoint virtual tour.
4. Price: The default value is the recommended price.
5. Free shipping: Optional.

 

 

Step Seven: Preview and Save

Now that you have created your email message it's time to save it. You can save your email message by selecting Save at the bottom of the email form. Other features in this area include Preview, Send and Cancel.

 

When you save the message it adds it to your "Saved email list" which can be accessed by selecting "Send Email" from the Dealer E-Blast tool drop down menu.

 

Select the "preview" button to review your work before sending the message.

 

Select "Cancel" to exit the form.

 

Step Eight: Send Message

Now that you have created your email message it's time to send it. The Exilim Portal has provided you two ways to send a message to a group of recipients.

 

The first way is to save and send the message to yourself, the email feature retains all the HTML code in email form. Once you have sent the email to yourself you can now forward it on to recipients in your personal address book.  The second way is to send using the Exilim Portal built in address book features.

        Select "Send Email" from the Dealer E-Blast tool drop down menu.

        Select the mail icon next to the message you would like to send.

        Preview message to make sure the information is correct.

 

Send messages to yourself.

        Confirm the email in the "To" field and in the "CC", the copy field is optional.

        Select "Send", this will send it to the default email you provided at enrollment.

 

Send messages using the Exilim portal.

        Click on "Use your contact list"

        Click on "Manage Contacts".

        Select the recipients and select "Add" button.

        Select "Send"

 

Step Nine: Configure Address Book

You can easily add contacts your address book one-by-one or import all your contacts using CSV or TXT file from your Outlook or Thunderbird email clients.  Once your contacts have been imported, you can use the Exilim Portal to organize contacts in categories to make sending to groups a breeze.

 

Import Contacts:

 

1. Step 1: 
Create an export of your contacts list in a CSV or TXT (tab separated file) from your Outlook or Thunderbird email client.
2. Step 2
: Within the Exilim Portal, go to "Contacts" --> "Import Contacts" and upload the export file.
3. Step 3: 
Setup the columns of the import. You can specify which columns of the export you are going to import, also you can create categories to organize them.
4. Step 4: Select import, the system will notify you how many contacts were imported.
5. Now you can use your address book to deliver your messages using the Exilim Portal system.

 

Locating Your SMTP Outgoing Mail Server

 
You can find these settings in MS Outlook by first starting the application and select Tools>Email Accounts from the top menu.  In the next window select "View or change existing email accounts" and click "Next".  In the next window click once on the name of your ISP account to select it if it isn't already highlighted then click "Change".  Under the heading Server Information there will be an entry for "Outgoing mail server (SMTP)".  Write down the entry in this box.  It will usually appear in a format similar to "mail.myisp.com". This is your SMTP server address an you will need it to configure this to send any email messages using the Exilim Portal.  

Importing Contacts by CSV

You can import your address books (from Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo!, and other services) into the Exilim Portal. Importing your contacts isn't difficult. To get started, follow these steps:

1. First, you'll need to format your contacts as a CSV file -- often times, address books exported from other mail providers are already formatted as CSV files. 
2. Once you have a CSV file with all your contacts' information, import the file and transfer your contacts to the Exilim Portal. Note that you can only import up to 3000 contacts at a time. If you have more than 3000 contacts, you'll need to create multiple CSV files to upload.

Importing CSV Files

To import contacts to Exilim Portal:

1. Export the file from your email client or other webmail provider as a CSV file.
2. Sign in to Exilim Portal.
3. Click Contacts (located on the gray menu bar, second item on right).
4. Click Import Contacts in the drop down menu.
5. Click the Browse button and locate the CSV file you'd like to upload.
6. Select the file and click the Upload button.

Once you've successfully uploaded the document, Exilim Portal will display the first 3 rows of your CSV document so you can format the information into the available fields within the Exilim Portal.  Each column will contain a drop down menu at the bottom displaying the available fields for that column. If you would like to include the data in a specific column match the data with the most appropriate label for that drop down.  Should you not want to include a column of data select "Ignore" from the same menu. If you do not see a corresponding label select "Ignore" as the Exilim Portal does not contain a field in it's database for that information.