Add Subscribers & Send a Newsletter with MailerLite

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Hello. So what we want to do here is add subscribers and send out our first campaign. So what we’re going to do is go to subscribers. Now this is where you’ve got your your contact list and your email list already. There’s a few different ways that you can do it.

So we go to the big green button that says add subscribers and you’ve got a few options. So often you can download your your contacts as a CSV file and then you can simply drag and drop or upload. Here, similarly with a TXT. Alternatively, if you have them all on Excel, you can copy and paste which is our favorite. So email, first name, last name.

When you do add people in, it will often ask you to separate out your columns and it’ll confirm with you if the first column is email address, the second column is first name, last name, etcetera, or simply name. So then you’d click your import subscribers. You can also add single subscribers where you’d simply pop in their name their email, their name, and you can add them to a group at this point as well.

It. If you would like, because managing your subscribers can be a really great way to do that. So if you want to add a group where you say Christmas meetup and that’s where you got these people from, right? So if you have a, a meeting or a event and you, you just want to break people up or you’ve got them in different groups, different clients and subscribers in different groups.

This is where you’d create those here. So once you’ve got that then you can make your campaign. Now firstly what I would recommend for starting your campaign, so obviously you’ve got your, your first start from scratch, I would go down to mind my head, my template.

I would actually create a template to start with and that just means you can create a baseline so all the nitty gritty things you only have to do at once. You can have here you can have different types of templates for different types of email styles that you have. If you’re doing a showcase on one, if you’re showcasing a blog, if you’re just sending a message with some writing, you could create your templates here and then you can use that going forwards.

I’m going to use the drag and drop because I find it the most simple. So every time you start a new one, it’ll show up like so. And here you’ve got your big blocks of things. So you’ve got your header, your main part, and your footer. So firstly, I don’t really want to have these three options, so I’m going to get rid of that one. Navigation, I would like my logo. So I also would like it to be on the right. And then here I can replace my image and insert my logo there.

Here again, like, you can add your image here your title, you’re writing Thank you for watching. Or you can create that yourself so you have a wee bit more option of what you would like input. There I would like just a single image there.

And so on and so forth. A few good little ones are, where are we? The divider. To divide between things and also of course your buttons for your call to action. Going on there. Or you can also simply play around with that. In your footer of your templates, I would get this set up as much as possible.

So that ensures that you’ve got your address here. Also, if you would like to I might put it above, but add in your email address support app, your phone number, all of these things you can add in here and your social links as well. So you can see those over on the side here.

You’d really want to add those in. So I don’t want Twitter, but I want Twitter. I would like LinkedIn. And I would also like one to my website. Content style, my title, I would like that to be different font. I would like it to be bigger.

You get the gist. You can play around a lot here. Social icons, a little bit more restricted. I’m going to make them the colourful ones and I’m going to make them an outlined square of the colour. So you’ve got a lot of options around. Here to just get yourself set up so that each time you write an email you don’t have to reset all of these things.

You just use what you’ve already got and then you’re like cool I want this text and I’ve got this image with this headline so you plug and play. So then we will. I’m going to save that template and then we’re going to go back up to campaigns there. Ignore my draft there. I want to create a campaign, a regular campaign, always put in the name, the subject, I’ve got the right sender email awesome, add my recipients, I can exclude the Christmas meetup group if I don’t want to send them this email so that’s always a good option or I could send it directly to them but I have no, no one in that group just yet.

Cool. Content. Now I’ve got my template options that I can do. Choose here. Alternatively, if I’ve sent an email that I really liked that I readjusted from my template quite a lot then I can go to my recent emails and click on that one right there too.

So we will choose our template option and here we have it where you can plug and play everything that you would like to do. Hello, hope. Merry Christmas. I hope your links are working, that it looks good, that it comes through well, that your image looks well, comes through properly, all of that sort of stuff.

Click done editing and then you can click send. One of my favourite features about this is you can actually schedule your sending for later. So I can either send now and just click send once I have, my accounts still being reviewed.

Or I can send you later. I can move my head. I can choose the date and time so I can do all of this in advance, get it all set up and I can have all of my emails for January going out. But I’ve done it all in September. And so you choose the time and again this is where we want to ensure we have the right time zone. Cool. I can’t do that right now because my account is just being reviewed but all go through just fine.

So I’ve got all of that there. I hope that that helps you send your first campaign. Thank you.