Create Email Campaign

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The Email Campaign module allows you to deploy targeted email campaigns and understand how your audience engages with the marketing emails you send them while at the same time measuring the effectiveness of your email campaign.

Create Email Campaign

1. To create an email campaign, navigate to the Marketing tab and click on ‘Email Campaigns’.

saphyte email campaign

2. Click on ‘Create Email Campaign

saphyte create email campaign
 

3. Name your campaign and add a description. Click on ‘Start Creating once done.

saphyte email campaign details

4. Configure your email campaign under the ‘Email Details’ tab.

saphyte email campaign email details
 

5. Click ‘Manage Recipients’ to add email recipients. Choose from your predefined Audience or Subscription list. Once done, click on ‘Save’.

saphyte email campaign manage recipients
 

6. Click ‘Edit From’ to set the email sender. Click ‘Save’ to apply changes.

saphyte email campaign email sender
 

7. To add the subject of your email, click on ‘Edit Subject’.

You can even personalize the subject line by adding the name parameters of the recipient. This will automatically populate the parameter with the information registered on the fields such as name, first name, last name that are found in your customer profile.

You can add the following parameters on the subject line:

  • {{first_name}}
  • {{last_name}}
  • {{name}}
saphyte email campaign subject

Click ‘Save’ to apply changes.

 

8. Build your content by clicking on ‘Edit Content’. There are two types of email editor: (1) Drag and Drop and (2) Legacy.

Drag & Drop Editor

Design an email even without HTML knowledge! The drag and drop editor is a smart and intuitive email editor that allows you to build your email design just by dragging and dropping the elements of the email.

saphyte smart email editor

Functionalities:

  • Attach images and choose from the library of millions of stock photos
  • Align your design by blocks
  • Add an automated unsubscribe link for data privacy/GDPR compliance
  • Easily customize the elements with settings
  • Preview the design in desktop/mobile version

Legacy Editor

The Legacy Editor allows you to draft your email in a simplified way and presents your email content as “what-you-see-is-what-you-get”. Control the appearance of your emails by modifying the font type, size, color, adding images, headers, etc.

saphyte legacy email editor

Once you have drafted your content you will see a preview of the email from the desktop and mobile versions.

saphyte preview email content
 

9. To launch your email campaign, click the ‘Send button. To send a test email and check how the email looks like in desktop or mobile, click on ‘Send Test Email

Note: Sending a test email will not produce any email analytics.

 

Edit Email Campaign

To edit the email campaign information, select the email campaign you want to update from the list and click on the pencil icon. Apply the necessary changes.

saphyte edit email campaign
 

Delete Email Campaign

To delete the email campaign, select the email campaign from the list and click on the bin icon.

A pop-up message will appear. To proceed, click ‘OK‘.

saphyte delete email campaign

The deleted campaign goes to the recycle bin.