Email marketing campaigns

New email campaign: audience, template, subject, preheader, schedule

Email marketing campaigns

Email is the richest marketing channel: visual content, longer text, embedded images, detailed tracking.

Where to find it

Marketing → Email Campaigns or + New campaign → Email.

New email campaign steps (4-step wizard)

1. Template selection

  • Start from scratch (empty builder)
  • Pre-built templates: promotional, newsletter, announcement, welcome
  • Saved custom templates

2. Email builder (visual editor)

Details in separate article: Email builder

3. Preview and details

  • Subject (critical for deliverability)
  • Preheader (inbox preview)
  • Sender name (campaign-level, or tenant default)
  • Sender email (tenant-level)
  • Test send (send test to yourself)
  • Live preview (HTML render)

4. Audience and schedule

  • Pre-defined segment or custom list
  • Recipient preview (count)
  • Send now or Scheduled
  • Credit consumption preview (recipient × 1 credit)

Subject line tips

Customer decides to open based on subject + sender name only.

Good subjects

  • "Black Friday: 30% off, today only!"
  • "Hey [customer name], surprise inside"
  • "We miss you! 20% comeback coupon"

Bad

  • "Newsletter" (empty)
  • "ATTENTION!! LOOK NOW!!" (spam filter risk)

Best practices

  • 30-50 chars (mobile-friendly)
  • Personalize ({{customer.firstName}}) usable
  • Not ALL CAPS
  • Not too many exclamations

Preheader

Short text after subject in inbox preview (e.g., Gmail). Don't leave empty, otherwise truncated text shows.

Example

  • Subject: "Black Friday: 30% off"
  • Preheader: "All services, today only. Click and book now."

Test send

Before sending to 1000 customers, send test to yourself:

  • Enter email
  • "Send test"
  • Open, check: subject, preview, image rendering, links

Tracking

After campaign send, detailed metrics:

Open rate

Opened / Delivered × 100

  • 15-25% normal (industry-dependent)
  • 30%+ excellent

Click rate

Clicked / Delivered × 100

  • 2-5% normal
  • 8%+ excellent

Click-to-open rate (CTOR)

Clicked / Opened × 100

  • Click efficiency among openers
  • 10-20% normal

Bounce rate

Bounced / Sent × 100

  • 2-5% normal
  • 10%+ issue (bad email list)

Unsubscribe rate

Unsubscribed / Delivered × 100

  • 0-1% good
  • 3%+ campaign text or frequency problematic

Plan base allocation

  • Starter: 0/mo
  • Professional: 500/mo
  • Business: larger

When system sends

5-30 seconds after launch, queue-based send. A 1000-person campaign sends in 5-15 minutes.

When to use it

Scenario 1, monthly newsletter 800 customers. Subject: "[Salon Name] Newsletter - April news." Content: new service, promos, customer review.

Scenario 2, promo campaign Black Friday to 1500 customers. Built with visual builder, image, deal block.

Scenario 3, birthday Automation, not one-off. Subject: "Happy birthday [name]! 20% gift."

Scenario 4, review request 7 days post-booking. Subject: "Thanks for visiting! Leave a 30-second review."

Scenario 5, new service launch Email with visual builder. Headline + image + description + booking button. Only interested segment.

Tips

  • Subject line is 80% of campaign, focus on it.
  • Mobile-friendly design mandatory, 70% read on mobile.
  • Unsubscribe link mandatory, GDPR + UX. Builder auto-inserts.
  • Run on 100-person test group before blast to 5000.
  • Audience small and specific, better ROI than mass.
  • Automations are 80% of marketing's right cut: don't send everyone everything.

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