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BroadcastByEmail makes it easy to send personalized
email to a large mailing list. All you have to do is
create an email message template using your favorite
text or HTML editor, create/import a email list
containing information required by the template, and
click Send. The following example illustrates a typical
usage.
Suppose you operate a
video shop and would like to send out email reminders to
your customers for their overdue rentals. You would like
to include the specific rental item in your email. The
following example, with name and video title
personalized, shows what a message might look like:
Dear
John, the
following video “Lord
of the Ring” is over due. Please return as soon
as possible to avoid further fine.
Design a message template
Message template is a
text or HTML file containing generic items called
variables. Variables, denoted by ${variable name}, are
items to be replaced by actual information in actual
email message. For our example here, use Microsoft
Notepad to type in the following:
Dear
${Name},
the following video “${Title}”
is over due. Please return as soon as possible to avoid
further fine.
Once you have designed your message template, you can
create an email list suitable for that message. The main
BroadcastByEmail spreadsheet window should contain the
Name and Title columns in addition to email address and
status columns as show below.
| John |
john@... |
Lord of the Ring |
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| Mary |
mary@... |
Harry Potter |
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You
can check your personalized message before sending it
out. Select the row in the spreadsheet and then click
the View Message button on the toolbar, you
should see the message with ${Name} and ${Title}
replaced with the actual values, as show in the
beginning of the section.
Click Send. It's just that easy.
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