Email campaigns
Sending email campaigns with epic48 is quite simple once you’ve got the hang of it. The easiest method of selecting contacts/companies for distribution is to add them all to a list or use one of the already existing lists/queries. To make your email appear in the list of available campaigns to send out, send the message as you wish everyone to receive it to campaign@landscapeontario.com Once it’s received, it will be processed and you’ll see it in the list with an option box next to it.
Put in a title for your email campaign that quickly describes it, like; Georgian Lakelands May Chapter Meeting Notice.
If you’re sending email to more than 150 addresses, it is recommended that you send the message after 5pm. Due to the nature of the how email works, the emails will actually grind the internet connection to a halt if you’re sending hundreds or thousands at once. It is also recommended not to send them too late as many people with Blackberries may not appreciate getting an email from you in the middle of the night.
Once an email has been sent you can make it available to be re-sent by clicking “Relaunch this email campaign” next to its title and status. This is set up so that you can send yourself a test message to ensure that everything is laid out the way you want the users to see it and then once confirmed, quickly re-send it to your desired recipients.
Avoiding SPAM filters
Tips from Ian:
How email address selection works
This comes up often enough that it needs to be documented. When you check off a list from the epic48 selector the program returns a list of companyID numbers and contactID numbers. The email program functions two ways.
It makes a whole lot more sense in the programming, but there it is in English.
