The Emailer has arrived!

November 30 2011, 8:30am

The new Emailer app has finally launched! Now you can easily maintain lists of email subscribers and blast out newsletters to them. This is a great way for you to engage your customers and keep them coming back to your website.Getting StartedGetting started is easy. All you need to do is log into your SnapPages account and click on the new Emailer app icon to launch the app.Creating EmailsYou can create beautiful html emails just as easily as you create web pages. This is because the editor for the Emailer app is almost identical to the Web Pages app except for one major difference. This editor is built completely in HTML5 and not in flash! This will bring a lot of improvements to the editor. There are now more text formatting options, improved language support, true WYSIWYG (google it) editing and a whole lot more. We will slowly be rolling this editor out into our other apps as well as we convert them to HTML5, but more on that at another time.Sending and Tracking EmailsAfter an email is created you can send it out to a list of email subscribers. We've partnered with VerticalResponse to help ensure that your emails have a high delivery rate and to help track the results of your email campaigns. Once an email is launched you'll be able to see how many people opened it and other stats to help you gauge effectiveness.Getting SubscribersCreating emails is great but you need to have people to send them to. With the Emailer app you create Lists of email subscribers. After you create a list there are three ways to add subscribers to them:1. You can manually enter in new members to lists.2. You can import existing mailing lists from CSV files.3. Visitors to your website can subscribe directly to lists from a form.You can add a subscription form to any page on your website. If you are in the page editor, you will find a new block in the "widgets" section called "Subscribe Form". Just drop this on any page and point it to a mailing list and your done!