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Mautic 4.4.13 Installation Tutorial: Ubuntu 22.04, PHP 8.0, MariaDB 10.6

Why install Mautic 4 when Mautic 5 is already available?
Don’t get fooled by the new and sparkly Mautic 5, it is too soon to use it, go for the stable and reliable Mautic 4 instead.

  • Well tested, very stable, no known major bugs.
  • Existing bugs in M4 are already fixed, and security patches were added in Mautic 4.4.13.
  • Uses older, stabler versions of the entire stack (Ubuntu, MariaDB, PHP, etc…)
  • Stack will not vary over time as it is very mature.

4 Simple Steps to Install Mautic 4

  1. Install the packages required to run Mautic 4.
  2. Install Mautic 4.4.13
  3. Run the Mautic 4 configuration wizard.
  4. Install the Mautic 4 Cron Jobs.
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Mautic Hosting: Mautic Self Hosted Best Practices

Mautic Self-Hosted Best Practices

Mautic will run on any server that supports PHP and a MySQL compatible database, which is little short of saying it will run anywhere, you could run it on Linux, Windows, you could run it on your phone, what the heck! you could probably run it on your smart coffee maker!

But should you? Of course not, your coffee maker runs java! hehehe.

Now seriously, which is the best platform to run Mautic? As always, it depends, so I will try to give you enough pointers for you to choose the best option for your own situation.

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12 email conversion tactics, 3 jokes and 1 strategy.

It is frightening to see how many emails land on my inbox, written by professional marketers, some of them claiming to be or showing off as is they are email gurus, which badly break a few of these rules, without any purpose to it and without other resolution than a badly written email. Cause yes, you can break those rules and create a good email, if you are a true email genius, but it is rare and increasingly difficult, until you get there, stick to the tried and true!

Here are some basic tactics guaranteed to improve your open rates, click through and most importantly, conversions into follows, registrations and ultimately, sales.
These really are the staples of email marketing, however, the order and intensity will have to be fine-tuned for different markets, product types and situations.

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Mautic Cron Jobs

Mautic Cron Jobs for Dummies.

Cron Jobs work like an alarm clock, you set the timer to a set date and time, and when the alarm goes off, some command gets executed. Simple enough, right?

Cron jobs are the smartest and simplest way to automate things on a Linux server, however, its design, deeply rooted in the earliest code from the initial versions of the Linux kernel, designed by the deep minds that created Linux itself, doesn’t always present itself as obvious to us marketers, that’s probably why so many people have issues with cron jobs. Yes, maybe this is something that could be solved within the Mautic interface, maybe someday… in the meantime, let’s try to tackle this problem down.

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