In this section, you’ll learn how to create and send a successful email campaign.

1. On the Welcome page, click the Create Campaign button.
   
   

   
   

2. The Basic Info page will open. Enter these details:
   • Name - Select an easily recognizable name.. For instance, if the Zylker company is sending a monthly newsletter, name the campaign "Zylker Newsletter June 2015", or something similar.
     
   • Subject - Come up with a clever or eye-catching email subject line. A great subject line is going to draw many more readers than something boring and dry.
     
   • Sender Name and Email Address – Give a name and email address that your recipients can recognize easily. The name could be your company or brand name.
     
   • Reply tracking - Using Reply Tracking feature, you can keep a record of replies received for your campaigns. By default, reply tracking is disabled for all email campaigns. You can enable reply tracking for a campaign while creating the campaign.
     
   • Address recipients by name – Personalize your recipients by addressing them by name.
     
   • Use sender details from Zoho CRM – If the recipient was imported from Zoho CRM, you can personalize the sender name based on which user owns the account in CRM.
     

   
   

Tips:

• Avoid using group email addresses such as info@, admin@, support@ as the sender address. Chances are high that emails from these addresses will end up in the spam folder.
  
• Try running an AB test on email subject lines to find out which one gets better response.
  

Select your email recipients

To send your campaign, you need a list of contacts to receive the emails. If you have your contacts database saved in your desktop or on a Google spreadsheet, you can import those contacts and save them as a mailing list or a segment.

Email body and content

Zoho Campaigns provides some pre-designed email templates for you to use. Just pick an email template that meets your needs, then make some modifications to personalize it for your company's voice.

If this is your first email campaign, we recommend starting with the basic templates. In addition to selecting a template, you can use the Template Editor to add design elements, such as images, text, buttons, anchor tags. Customize the layout of your emails with ease, using the drop down feature. Learn how to use the template editor to design your content.

If you already have content, or want another way to add it, we do provide alternate options to add content.

• HTML Editor – Select this if you want to send your campaign with visual images and logos. The recipient of your campaign must be using a browser/email client and device that support this format.
  

• Text Editor - Theses are simple emails without images or logos. The purpose is to send your message without losing any content. Plain-text emails have a very high degree of deliverability (no lost content). Continue reading
  

• Import/Upload - With this option, you can import the HTML content for your email. Browse and select the HTML file as well as any related images, then upload them. You can either import from your desktop or from cloud services such as Zoho Docs, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Continue reading
  

• Recently Sent – If you have already sent email campaigns, you can use the content from a previous campaign as a templates for your new campaign.

  
  

• Advanced options
  

  • Track URLs using Google Analytics - If you want to extract more data from your email campaign, make sure Google Analytics is selected. If you know how many people open the email campaign and how many of them click the links, you'll have better insights into what works and what doesn’t when you send your next campaign.
    

  • Contact Scoring - You can give scores to your email recipients based on their profile, and campaign responses. Using these scores, you can infer the progress of your potential contacts, and watch them become customers.

  • Response Actions – You can send a new email campaign to your recipients based on their actions in the parent campaign. This can be based on email opens, clicks and specific link clicks.
    
  • Calendar - You can add this campaign as an event to your Office 365 Calendar.
    

  
  

Preview and test your email

Before you send email newsletters to your subscribers, read it aloud to yourself several times. Then, send a test email to a few of your colleagues for review. Ask them to proofread the email, check for grammatical mistakes, alignment issues, and test links to verify that they are redirected to the correct page.