Action Network Email
Action Network Email Tips
You're probably quite comfortable sending and checking emails in a personal, or professional capacity– but sending mass emails using a digital campaigning tool is a different kettle of fish entirely, and so here are some tips on sending mass emails ...
Useful Links For Action Network Emails & Your WordPress Site
There are a lot of places online which can be signposted to your Members and Supporters. Here we've gathered some links which may be useful when creating emails in Action Network, or when designing your WordPress site. Please note, the Digital Team ...
Using Personalisation Datasets To Personalise Emails
What Are Personalisation Datasets? The Personalisation Datasets feature was released by Action Network on September 16th 2021. This feature allows you to create custom clips, which return a value based on the value of a Custom Field. How Can ...
How To Send A Test Email From Action Network
Here we'll look at sending a test Email from the Email Editor within Action Network, but the same principles apply to any test Emails- such as those found in the Settings tab, or in the Responses tab of an Action page. Why Should I Send A Test Email? ...
Using Clips To Create Custom Donation Amounts In Action Network Emails
You can use filters in Clips to carry out simple calculations, such as multiplying, rounding or capping numerical values. In this guide we'll go through some ways you can use these filters to create custom donation amounts in emails. If you haven't ...
Using The First Name Clip To Capitalise Activist Names In Emails
When using Clips in Action Network emails you can add additional instructions to the Clip to affect how information is displayed, or to carry out calculations on the Clip value. In this quick guide we'll show how simple it is to make sure names have ...
How To Schedule An Email In Action Network
What Does It Mean To Schedule An Email? Email scheduling is a way to prepare an email in advance and schedule it to go out at a later time. This can be useful if you want an email to arrive in the morning, but the only time you have to work on it is ...
Understanding The Clip Demo Email
If you've arrived here before first requesting a demo email you'll first need to complete this form. You'll then receive an email that demonstrates how some of the Clip fields will display in an email. You might want to check out this guide before ...
Getting Started With Clips To Personalise Emails
What Are Clips? Clips are mainly used to take the information we hold on Activists and insert it into emails, just like a mail merge. The simplest example of this is the First Name Clip which we use to address emails to individual recipients, rather ...
How To Run An Email Test
We recommend reading this guide before running your first Email Test: Understanding Email Tests. How To To Run An Email Test: Testing Different Subject Lines 1. Create a new Email as normal, by clicking on PEOPLE from the Start Organising menu, ...
Understanding Email Tests
What Are Email Tests? Email Tests are a way to test variations of an Email to see how well they perform. With a large enough mailing list you can create Tests on a random selection of your list, and choose the most successful email to send to the ...
Monitoring Your Email Campaign Performance
Navigating To Your Email Campaign 1. From the Start Organising menu click on PEOPLE. Move your cursor over Email and click on the list icon that appears. 2. Beneath your list of Emails you'll see a second section titled Email Campaigns. 3. Find the ...
Adding Emails To An Email Campaign
If you haven't yet created your Email Campaign you can get started here: Creating Email Campaigns. How To Add Individual Emails To An Email Campaign 1. From the Start Organising menu click on PEOPLE, move your cursor over Emails and select the list ...
Creating Email Campaigns
What Are Email Campaigns? Email Campaigns are a way for you to group Emails together to allow you to view the performance of an entire Campaign, or series of Emails. For example, you may create a series of Emails for a fundraising drive and view the ...
Accessing & Understanding Email Statistics
Just like everything we do, an important part of growth is to check on how well something has been done. Hitting send on an email should only be the beginning, and we should all be in the habit of checking how well our emails have performed, in order ...
Using URL Parameters To Create Donation Buttons In Action Network Emails
Decide What Buttons Your Need Before creating your buttons you'll need to decide how many you want to use along with the amounts and recurring frequency. It's a good idea to not create too many. Three buttons is a good maximum. Most fundraising ...
How To Set Up A Basic Email Wrapper
What Is An Email Wrapper? An Email Wrapper is a quick and easy way to add your local party branding to your emails. It adds a header and footer to your email when using Visual/HTML mode. Although we recommend the Drag & Drop Email Editor it's still a ...
What To Check If An Activist Isn't Receiving Emails
There are a couple of reasons that an activist may not be receiving your emails, but thankfully it's quite simple to identify the reason in most cases. Is The Activist Subscribed To Your Email List? The first thing to check is the Activist's email ...
How To Avoid Email Fatigue With Targeting
What Is Email Fatigue? Email fatigue is what happens when your subscribers get tired of receiving too many emails from you. They start to ignore your emails, delete them without reading, unsubscribe or, even worse, mark them as Spam. You can use ...
Resubscribing Activists With Spam Complaints Or Bouncing Emails
When someone receives an email, there is an option to mark something as spam. It might not seem it, but its quite a serious deal to mark something as spam. When you mark something as spam, the email provider is notified about this so that they can ...
How Can I Send Meeting Notes Or Other Documents Via Action Network Email?
From time to time you may want to send out a document to your members or supporters- anything from meeting notes, to "Print Your Own" posters. There are a couple of ways you can do this, but attachments are not one of them. In this guide we'll go ...
How To Send An Email Which Targets Only Your Current Local Members
Why Targeting Your Emails Is Important To understand why targeting your emails is important, it's useful to understand how activists end up on your Action Network Group and mailing list to begin with- and the different groups they may fall into. Your ...