Response Mailer Tutorial - Broadcast a message to subscribers

Outline
This tutorial walks you through the steps to setup Response Mailer to send a broadcast message to all your subscribers.
A broadcast email is sent on specific date and it does not interfere with the scheduled followup message sequence.

Step 1: Createt a Broadcast Message

Select the "Message" ribbon tab.
Choose your campaign from the "Selected Campaign" box or create a new campaign.

Step 2: Show Broadcast Message List

Choose the "Message" from the Campaign Messages group. The will show all the broadcast messages.

Step 3: Create a Broadcast Message

Click the "New" button to add a new message. The following screen will be displayed.

Step 4: General Broadcast Information

The following screen will be displayed.

The key fields on this screen are :

  • Name – enter the message title which will be used to identify this message.
  • Schedule – enter the time that the message should be sent.
  • Contacts – choose the category to filter the contact list. The message will be sent to all the contacts in the list.
After entering the information click on the “Message Header Tab” button to move onto the next screen.

Step 5: Message Header content

The following screen will be displayed.

The key fields on this screen are :

  • To – enter the the recipient email and name.
  • Cc – the carbon copy emails and names, if needed.
  • Bcc – enter the blind carbon copy emails and names, if needed.
  • Subject – enter the subject of the message.
  • Attachments – If you wish to include a file with the message then click on the “...” button and select the file for the attachment.
After entering the information click on the “Message Body Tab” button to move onto the next screen.

Step 6: Message Body content

The following screen will be displayed.

The key fields on this screen are :

  • Body – enter the body of the message. For HTML message you can utilize the toolbar to add formatting to the message.
After entering the information click on the “OK” button to close the Message Details screen.
You can add additional messages by repeating Step 3 and Step 6.
After entering the all your messages you can proceed to add your contact that will receive that broadcast messages.

Proceed to Part 2