Use the Market to Customers email message type to send marketing email messages to a maximum of 2,500 of your customers. As part of the configuration, you can elect to send your email marketing message to all of customers, or to a specific customer category.
Configuring Your Bulk Email Marketing Messages
- At EMAIL MARKETING, under ‘Bulk Email,’ click Market to Customers.
- Click ‘To:’ to select to whom you want to send your email marketing message. The Select Recipients screen appears
- Click the customer category to include in your email message, and click OK. You can select All Customers, No Customer Category Assigned, Preferred, Retail, and Wholesale.
| Note: When you assign a customer to an order, you can classify a customer to one of three categories: Preferred, Retail, and Wholesale. You can also edit a customer record to assign a customer to a category in Silver Back Office at CUSTOMERS > CUSTOMERS. |
- Accept the default subject line, or type a subject line for your email message.
- Design your email message. Refer to ‘Designing Your Email Message.’
- Click Save Changes and continue to the next procedure to send your email message.
| Tip: Remember to preview your email message, test your email message with spam check, and send a test email message. |
Sending Your Bulk Email Marketing Messages
Once you complete the design of the marketing email message and the selection of your recipients, you are ready to send your marketing message.
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At the email designer, click Send Email. The Confirm Send screen appears.
If your email message contains a spam check score of Medium, a prompt appears with the option to not send the email message or to continue with sending the email message.
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Click Send. The Email Queued prompt appears.
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Click OK. The system sends your marketing message.
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Click Close to exit EMAIL MARKETING.