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Streaming Emails, Autotriggers and Groups: Ongoing Engagement, Welcome Messages, and Instant Thank Yous PART 1 of 2 Akash Jayaprakash Learning & Training Associate Salsa Labs

Salsa's Email Automation Tools - Part 1 of 2

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Using Salsa's powerful automated email tools. Part 1 of 2: learning the differences between the types of autotriggers.

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  • 1. Streaming Emails, Autotriggers and Groups:Ongoing Engagement, Welcome Messages, andInstant Thank Yous PART 1 of 2Akash Jayaprakash Learning & Training AssociateSalsa Labs

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVESI. Definitions: What do these do? Whats the difference between them?II. Streaming Emails: Creation and OptionsIII. Sample Workflows 3. WHATS NOT ON THE MENU TODAYI. How to create/edit an email templateII. How to create/edit a signup pageIII. How to run a supporter query (e.g., whos in what group)IV. Advanced groups and tags management (Track D)V. Send conditions for triggers 4. DEFINITIONSAn undefined problem has an infinitenumber of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey 5. GroupsGroups Subsets of supporters Groups are folders, buckets, e- vs. Tagsmail lists, topics, natureBig manila folders reservesvs. Tags Nearly any Salsa objectA rainbow of sticky notes(supporter, action, sign up) can be tagged Tags are sticky Tags are post-its, roles, small events and activities, or radio collars 6. Uses templatesEmail blast Uses queries to segmentA mass email sent to some orall of your supporters or target your list Can be scheduled in advance but always requires user input to send Robust data analysis: opens, clicks, etc. 7. Can use HTML (but doesnt have Autotriggerto) but not templates No stats: only records timestampAn automated email sent toan individual (supporter or Does not require human input tostaff) once simple conditions send (after initial setup)have been met. Does notreport stats! System only Comes in 3 ambiguously-namedrecords whether it was sent types:to a supporter. Reply email (autoresponse) Individual email (staffnotification) Timed trigger (delayedautoresponse) 8. Streaming Interface and templatesEmailsimilar to regular email blastAn automated series of Reports statistics includeemails sent to an individual sent, opened, clicked(supporter or staff) oncesimple conditions have been Comes in 3 flavors:met. Reply email Individual email Timed trigger 9. Interface and templatesJoin Trigger similar to regular email blastAn automated email (can be Send timed triggers, but notstreaming or not) sent toreply emailssupporters who join a newgroup through action or Only goes to new memberssignup (but not imports orqueries).of a group added through a linked action or signup Existing members: no Members added by query: no Members added by import: no Members added by single manual address entry: yes 10. Remember, withjoin triggers:GREED is good! Use Greedy SmartGroups 11. Keeping itstraight 12. Salsa Training [email protected] Support [email protected]