New feature: mass mailing
Posted: July 29th, 2009 | Author: Jacek | Filed under: Backstage, HowTo | 3 Comments »Probably you had repeatedly confronted with the problem of mass mailing your customers. You have to find the right software to do this, buy, configure and test it. Yes, you may have not enough motivation to do this.
OK – you can easily do this – just add each of your clients to the “BCC” field. Apart from unability to personalize messages, you will face the problem that mail servers may simply ignore a single message with hundreds of recipients.
Here are 5 easy steps to send a mailing:
- Sign up for Funnela. Note: You may already have completed this step. If not, create a new account – it will take just 30 seconds.
- Create a group in your address book and add your customers to this group. If you have just created an account, import your contacts first.
- Go to the mailbox, create a new mail message and switch to the mailing view ( “Show more address fields” -> “Batch mailing mode”).
- Select the address book ( “Show contacts”), choose group to which you want to send a mailing by dragging to the “Mailing receivers” field.
- Fill in the subject and content of mail, and select “Send.” That’s it – your mailing will be sent to your customers.
Have a high conversion rate!
Notice: Mass mailing feature is available only in paid plans.
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You’ve mentioned the unability of personalisation as main drawback of “BCC trick” – what personalisation features you offer in Funnela? Are there any special tags that may be used in the msg body?
Leo.
@Marek: zgadza się – nakład pracy nie był aż tak duży a efekt daje duże możliwości. Kolejny duży update przyniesie ze sobą moduł sprzedaży.
@Leonardo: Right now each customer receives message addressed directly to himself (insead of some fake e-mail address). We will introduce personalisation features like tokens automatically replaced by name or company in the near future. Stay tuned!