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If you want to send an email campaign to a group of contacts this gadget helps you do that. To know about this click on Marketing/Email Campaign option on the dashboard to get to the following page
Two main options are available here
- Create a List
To choose the recipients to whom you want to send the email campaign click the icon to display the following window
Select a location by clicking on one of the links say, you chose Contact Search Results to display the following page
Type in a Name in the text box provided
Select from the drop down list the criteria for the search
Click on button to display the following list. Select the contacts that you want to send this campaign to.
Click on to get back to the Campaign Manager page as shown below
- Create and Send a Campaign
To create a new template, first select an existing template, as shown below you will notice that by default it is on the Templates tab and displays all the existing templates. Select one by clicking on it to display a drop down as shown below
Click on Click on Create Draft option to display the following option to display the following
Click on the Advanced Editor option on the right hand corner below Plain Text Message and then click on to display the source of the template. Copy the Source code and then go back to the previous page by clicking
on the button.
Click on button in the screen below
To display the following page
By default it is on the Source mode in the text area. Paste the copied Source Code in the text area and click on the Standard or Advanced Editor to display the text version of the template. Now replace the content with what you want to have in the new template. Scroll up the page and complete the following
Type in the Template Name
Type in the Sender Name
Type in the Sender Address
Type in the Subject
Type in the Reply-To Name
Type in the Reply-To Address
And do one of the following mentioned below
- this button will just close the existing page and return to the previous page without making any changes
- this button will apply the changes to the existing template
- this button will save the changes and create a new template by that name and return to the previous page where the template will be displayed as part of a list
Please see below for the template that was created through this by clicking on the button
Click on the template to display a drop down list as shown below
To create a draft of the template that can be sent, select Create a Draft option to displays the Draft Editor where you make the necessary changes and click on button to display the following page
You will notice that a Draft of template is created. Click on one of the templates to display a drop down as shown below
Select Send Draft to display the following window
Type in the email address to whom you want to send the test email and click on button it will ask you to confirm the email address again as shown below
You can add more email addresses and Click on to send a test email to your account and the following is displayed
The message indicates that the mail has been sent successfully. The user needs to verify that the email has been received in the Inbox
To send the email to the user enter the email address in the textbox shown below
And click
The email will be received in the Inbox.