Friday, April 10, 2009
Create Messages Easily in your Own Email Program
It is easy to create messages to use in your Relevant Tools account for an email campaign to your database. There are many different ways and each method has advantages. One of the easiest methods is to simply email the message into Relevant Tools. On the Relevant Tools Messages page click on 'create a new message' and follow the instructions for option 1.
Compose your email message in your own email program. You can format it as you normally would and can even attach a small file or picture as part of your message. Send it to the email address specified on the create a new message page as it varies depending on the location on your account. The subject will be your userid that you use to login, followed by a semi colon and the actual subject of the message.
After you send the message into Relevant Tools you will get an email message back to let you know that your message has been installed. You can then edit your message. You can change who the email is from so that it is not from your personal email address but rather from a company address. You can edit the subject if need be.
The actual message is typically a MIME message that is composed of multiple parts - text, html, and any associated images or files. The nice thing is that you did not have to worry about these different parts.
But if you want to change the actual content of the message you may want to go back to your email program and make the changes there and send it again as editing the generated html can be tricky.
The last part of your message are any associated images or files. They have been encoded so that they can be transmitted on the internet. Don't change this part at all in the edit screen. If you need to make changes go back to your email program.
Test your message and when you are happy with how it looks you are ready to start your email campaign and send it out to your database.
Compose your email message in your own email program. You can format it as you normally would and can even attach a small file or picture as part of your message. Send it to the email address specified on the create a new message page as it varies depending on the location on your account. The subject will be your userid that you use to login, followed by a semi colon and the actual subject of the message.
After you send the message into Relevant Tools you will get an email message back to let you know that your message has been installed. You can then edit your message. You can change who the email is from so that it is not from your personal email address but rather from a company address. You can edit the subject if need be.
The actual message is typically a MIME message that is composed of multiple parts - text, html, and any associated images or files. The nice thing is that you did not have to worry about these different parts.
But if you want to change the actual content of the message you may want to go back to your email program and make the changes there and send it again as editing the generated html can be tricky.
The last part of your message are any associated images or files. They have been encoded so that they can be transmitted on the internet. Don't change this part at all in the edit screen. If you need to make changes go back to your email program.
Test your message and when you are happy with how it looks you are ready to start your email campaign and send it out to your database.
Labels: email messages, tutorial
Create Messages Easily in your Own Email Program posted by Jean Christofferson @ 5:19 PM 
