Publishing a Newsletter

The Newsletter function allows you to send newsletters to your contacts. To create contacts read the Adding People article

There are three stages to puslishing a newsletter;
 

• Create the newsletter content
• Create a mailing list 
• Publishing the newsletter

Creating Newsletter Content


From the CMS menu select: Customers, Newsletters and New
 

• Title - Enter a relevant title for your Newsletter
• Content Type - This is already set to Newsletter
• Order - If you want this newsletter to be displayed first or last in the CMS. The order can be changed later
• Content Date - Enter the date you create the Newsletter
• Image - This image will not be published or added to the actual newletter, but gives you a graphical representation of your newsletter in the CMS
• Short Description - This field is where you can create or paste a previously prepared Newsletter. It does not need to be 'Short' as the title of this field suggests

Once you've created a newsletter you need to create a mailing list

Select Customers and Newsletters from the menu in the CMS. Locate the newsletter you want to send and click List

You can use varoius search criteria to select the people you wish to send the Newsletter to

• First or Last Name
• Newsletter - whether the contact has been selected to be IN or OUT of the Newsletter group
• Group - Use the dropdown menu to select an entire group

Select your chosen contacts and click Add to add them to the mailing list
Repeat these steps until all desired contacts have been added

Select Customers and Newsletters from the menu in the CMS. Locate the newsletter you want to send; click Publish and Send

The ability to send newsletters using you FROM: address needs to be set up.  To make sure your e-mails are sent using the correct FROM: address please read the Create a Newsletter From Address document