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hello Vipers for today's what's the flow

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I'm going to tell you how to send

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newsletters using bike cloud

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now for sending newsletters It

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ultimately once your email is set up and

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I'll cover that in a moment really all

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it is is a matter of having your contact

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list ready and having your email

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template ready and then knowing how to

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how to put the two together and send a

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newsletter

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so first of all it is important to make

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sure that your email is ready to go now

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if you're using a generic email and what

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I mean by that is like you look up here

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if it's like a

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you know gmail.com Yahoo in other words

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the kinds of emails that people tend to

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use for personal usage

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there's no setup that is needed by Cloud

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will simply send on behalf of your email

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through a Vibe Cloud domain and those

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emails when people then reply the reply

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to will be set to go to your personal

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email so no setup is needed there but if

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you have uh for instance a

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an email that is more of like a typical

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uh company email where you purchase a

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domain you set up the email uh system

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for that domain then please reach out to

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us we can help you with getting the DNS

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set up so that you're able to send

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now uh on to the uh contact lists and

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email templates let's first talk about

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the contact lists

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um what you can do is import your

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contacts if I hear import if you have a

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CSV like a spreadsheet ready to go of uh

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your newsletter simply import it as a

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contact list the contact list will be

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created in the process and you will be

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ready to uh to start sending to them

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um

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and then also on the page

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for this flow looked at the bottom and

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there will be links to where you can

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like learn how to import lists

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so your contact lists are all managed to

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write down here under contacts contact

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lists

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and you can go also go right here to hit

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create and you can create an empty list

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where you can import contacts into a

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list this way and uh and that can also

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be how you get your newsletter list

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ready

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and lastly you can also go to your

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contacts and every if you want to add

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everybody to the list just simply hit

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the select all here hit that select all

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and then right here you can either

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create a segment from selected which

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will make your contact list

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or you can go right here to add to

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existing list and add everybody to to a

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list that you've already made and your

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contact list will be ready in that case

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and then of course lastly you are able

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to make a filter view if you want see

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there's certain rules you want to set to

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make that contact list and I'll also

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include how to make a filter view in

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um

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in the list of helpful articles down at

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the below at the bottom of this page

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so once your contact list is ready next

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you have to go to your emails templates

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and from here go up and hit create

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give it a template title and give it a

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subject line and then from there you can

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choose between a drag and drop HTML

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Builder which is how you make those kind

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of colorful templates which are probably

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the most common for newsletters though

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you can also go with a rich text Builder

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which will make a template that looks

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kind of like something that you would

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make in a Gmail or Outlook email client

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so let's just go in here and say uh

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newsletter example

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clicking in to the template Builder and

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again

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at the bottom of this page I'll include

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tutorials on how to use this HTML

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Builder

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but one quick thing just to show you to

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help get you started is up here you use

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600 plus sample templates you can click

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on that

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and then there's a newsletter category

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right here and you'll find templates

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that might prove to be useful for uh for

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making your newsletter so go right there

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and of course you can customize it to

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your needs

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and go over here save and return to

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email templates once you are ready

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and now there are a bunch of ways that

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you can initiate the sending of a uh of

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a mass email of a newsletter

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one is right from here from the email

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templates

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I'm going to hover over this

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there's a send button right there send a

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contact or send to contact lists and

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this is where we choose the contact list

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that we made earlier

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but also I want to show you

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over here this plus button add item got

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mass email right there so if you forget

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how to get started with this you can

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always go over here to mass email

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and also I want to show you one other

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thing too before walking through how to

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launch a mass email and that is the fact

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that chances are once you have a

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newsletter template made you're going to

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want to continue to use that same look

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and feel for your additional forthcoming

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newsletters and you're of course not

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going to want to have to rebuild it

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every single time and so you'll notice

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as well while looking at these emails

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templates I've got the newsletter

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example here

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there's a copy button right here too so

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you can hit copy and then just simply

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change the copy in your uh in your

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newsletter for the additional weeks or

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months or quarters or however your cycle

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is there

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so I'm going to hit the plus button

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right here hit mass email to initiate

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this mass email

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click in here to choose the contact list

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let's just say this is our newsletter

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list

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I'm going to hit preview send

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and then it's right here where I choose

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my email template

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here's the newsletter example

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and you are able to edit this before you

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hit send now of course those edits will

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not be saved to the template but they

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will be sent in the newsletter

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so you can review your copy make sure

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that everything is looking good you can

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also hit it you can send a test to

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yourself before you actually launch it

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which I would highly recommend

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and then to initiate this end you've got

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this right here to send the mass email

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right away

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but also if you want to schedule it you

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can do that right here as well

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so I hope this has been helpful reach

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out if you have any questions and happy

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sending