With YAMM, it is easy to send an email campaign. You will need a Google account and some creativity. No technical skill is required! Then let YAMM do the rest for you.
1. Compose a draft in Gmail
First, you need a draft Gmail template. Create your own template in Gmail: click Compose in Gmail, and write the email that you want.
Then save your email in your Drafts folder.
- Make sure that you use the web version of Gmail and not Inbox or another tool.
- The To field must remain empty.
- Don't delete your draft!
2. Select your template in YAMM
That's it! You can now use your template in YAMM. Go to Add-ons > Yet Another Mail Merge > Start Mail Merge.
info Before launching the add-on don't forget to configure your Google sheet. Learn more: Prepare a contacts list in a Google sheet
Then select your draft in the Email Template field.
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info You can easily retrieve your draft in YAMM by adding a star in Gmail.
3. Send your mail merge with YAMM
Once you're ready, click the Send Emails button to send your mail merge to your recipients.
You can also use our test email feature to check what your email will look like before sending it definitely.
Comments
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I'm encountering a use case issue that disrupts my efficiency a bit. Basically:
I may have two different versions of an email with the same subject line.
When I select the email from YAMM in preparing to do the merge send, I can't be sure if I've selected the right version.
At present, I might go to Gmail and open them, make a minor adjustment to the one I want (add a space, remove it), so that it gets timestamped as newly changed and go to the top of the YAMM list.
However, this slows things down.
There may be no ideal solution here, but some possible options:
1. Email template preview once you select it in "Start Mail Merge",
2. Add a tag/label to a selection within "Start Mail Merge" to the specific template to identify it (e.g. #Version1)
3. Add a VERSION tag to YAMM that we can include in templates. When the email sends, this tag is removed, but it's used in place of the subject line when selecting a template in "Start Mail Merge"
E.g.
{{Version:eBook just released, v1}}
In the "Email Template" selection, instead of the subject line, it would display "eBook just released, v1".
It would send with the subject, not the version label, of course. And the Version tag would be stripped from the template when sending.
Hi Joe Ward,
Thank you for the heads-up, we will keep an eye on these suggestions and discuss it with our developers.
Thanks again.
Hi! I used to be able to access your pre-designed email templates, but now when I click the link in Step 1 here: https://support.yet-another-mail-merge.com/hc/en-us/articles/211752825-Create-a-simple-draft-email-template-in-Gmail-for-your-mail-merge
...it just takes me to my account page. I'd like to download one of your Happy New Year templates. Can you please help? Thanks!
Hi Amber Forbes,
With the most recent rebranding endeavour of YAMM, this feature was removed from the Add-On menu within the app and also from the knowledge base article in the most recent build release.
To assist you please see below the full list of templates previously available:
To make use of a template, follow these steps:
If there is any further assistance that you need, please use the following contact form link to correspond directly with the Support Team.
Regards,
Claud
YAMM Support Team
I am trying to use my newly created drafts but YAMM will not delete my old drafts.
They are still showing and now I am having to change the Subject line and I do not want to do that >> Its making it look like I have an extreme amount of drafts and I really do not.....
Same situation as to first post on here :(
Hi Instructor LaShaunda Lamar,
Thank you for your interest in YAMM.
Having looked at your inquiry we have created a ticket on our Support Platform and will respond to you at the soonest opportunity.
Regards,
Claud - YAMM Support Team.
I have an email that's scheduled to launch in 2 days. I just updated the contents of the draft email. Will that scheduled email campaign use the most recently updated draft email?
Hi team,
You can modify the draft before the mail merge starts and YAMM will send the latest version of the draft.
Please do not delete it though, because then the mail merge won't be sent. You can read more about this here: Schedule batch delivery / send emails later
Let us know if you have any further questions!
Regards,
Omiros - YAMM support team
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