Sending a COS email Blast

Attachment: 2956/COS_Email_Blast.pdf

Email Blast

Training

Version 1.0

5/16/2022

Se$ng up your Account and Logging in

Visit

www.conven-onofstates.com

and create an account or Log In ﬁrst.

Once you log in you will see the following page. In the top right corner, you will see your ini<als. Click on
the Arrow Down and select

DASHBOARD

.

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The following Page appears once you select Dashboard.

Drag your mouse to the left side of the screen and a menu will appear. Click on Messages
> Email Blasts

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Once you click on Email Blasts this screen will appear and you will click New Email

Here you will be selec<ng your criteria to Who you want to send out this blast to.

Click on Add Criteria and the drop down appears. They are not intui<ve so you have to just look through
the op<ons to see what you want. It is ﬁrst recommended you send a test email to yourself so you can

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see what it will look like.

Once you have your criteria you want to decide what you want your email to say. You can use a template
or create your own.

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You can update the body of the email as well and include an invite link if you are hos<ng a mee<ng. Once
you think you are ready to send Hit the SAVE buTon at the boTom of the page. This screen will appear
and let you know when it is completed.

You veriﬁed in your test email it looks good and now you are ready to have it reviewed by someone else.
The COS team would like to have the email reviewed before it is sent. You can copy the link and paste it
into Slack in the “email_review channel” or forward to someone you know and trust. Once you have the
approval to send you will update your Recipients to your target audience.

Today I want to send an email blast to all my volunteers in my House District. Therefore I add my criteria
for my District and if they selected Volunteer Interest.

From the drop down selec<ng Vo<ng > Lower House to send to your District.

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I also only want to include those that are interested in volunteering so I added another layer.

Scroll down

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Click Ready For Review

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COS Recommends scheduling your email 15 mins in the future in case you have a last minute thought.
Send.

Once the email is sent the conﬁrma<on appears.

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Created:	2022-06-26 22:54 GMT
Updated:	2022-06-30 08:57 GMT
Published:	2022-06-30 05:00 GMT
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Change Author:	Jayme Burkhart
Credit Author:	Stacy Faust