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How to send your first campaign
How to send your first campaign
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This guide will walk you through the process of sending your first campaign.

When using Elastic Email, when you send an email to any group of contacts we call that a "campaign". To send a campaign you need a template (which becomes the email body itself) and you need contacts (the recipients who receive the email). Let's start with contacts.

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The easiest way to add large groups of contacts to your account at once is to upload a .csv file:

Most spreadsheet software should allow you to export your contact list as a .csv file.

Make sure your .csv file has a minimum of at least one column labeled 'email' that contains a list of email addresses.


Example:

For an overview of your Contacts Screen and other contacts' tools visit this tutorial.

Now that you have contacts in your account, it is time to prepare a template.

There are many templates to choose from and very many ways to customize them:

Now that you have a template ready, it is time to create the campaign:

Try not to get distracted by all the other bells and whistles as this step is easy. In the Campaign Creator just choose the list of contacts, pick a template, and press "Send". The campaign will submit for processing.

You can read more about interpreting results of your campaign in the Campaign Results article.

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