With YAMM, it is very easy to send an emailing campaign. You just 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 template in your Gmail draft. You can select one of our predesigned templates, or create your own template in Gmail.
To do so, click on 'Compose' in Gmail, and write the email that you want:
Then, save your email in your Gmail 'Drafts' folder.
- Make sure that you are using the web version of Gmail, and not Inbox or another tool
- The 'To' fields must remain empty
- Do NOT delete your draft!
2. Select your template in YAMM
That's it! Your template is now ready to be used in YAMM. Go to 'Add-ons > Yet Another Mail Merge > Start Mail Merge':
Then just select your draft in the 'Email Template' field:
3. Send your mail merge with YAMM
Once you're ready, simply hit the 'Send Emails' button to send your mail merge to your recipients:
You can also use our test email feature to check how your email will look like before sending it definitely.
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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.
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