In the previous posts (Part I and Part II) we’ve explored the Mailing Lists and Segmentation, Custom Fields, a bit about Automation and both the front end and API integration approaches.

Let’s go deeper into the other features and functionalities that Moosend provides out of the box and some quick examples on how to make use of those in your website.

Subscription Forms

Creating a form to, for example, get users subscribing to your newsletter is easy and straightforward. Just go to the Lead Generation section and then clikc on the Subscription Forms tab. Click on create new subscription form and you will see the different options Moosend proposes:

I’ll choose and create a Modal Pop-up, that will do the same than we have done in the previous posts via the API, adding a user to a mailing list with the birthday as optional field, so then we can apply our segmentation based on that.

After we choose a name and we go to the next step, you will see the option to make use of the designer.

The Designer

Moosend has a really cool and user friendly interface to build your email templates and forms. It already comes with a lot of different templates ready to be used making the user life’s easier. Also the editor, with drag & drop functionalities and grids helps to edit those or to create them from scratch.

We can then preview the form and then, if we’re good with it, use it.

In the editor, we go to the form settings and we assign our mailing list and also include the custom field (Date of Birth)

We enable all fields and keep only Email and Name as mandatory, the Date of Birth is optional.

Our form is ready, we clock on save and continue to get back to the Subscription Forms wizard.

In the “Visibility Settings” you will find a lot of different options to handle how and when to show up the modal in your webiste. You can also define and use rules for showing/hidding it.

The form is now ready to be published. Moosend offers different alternatives, like publishing straight to your configured site, embed a code or link to it.

After publishing, we can see and test our form, as you can see I’m just publishing it to my page:

I’ve subscribed two more users through the form (miguel@test4.com and miguel@test5.com). Let’s go and check how the mailing list looks now:

The new users have been added, please note the source is now = Form. If we check the segmentation, you will see that those users doesn’t belong to the “API Subscribers” as has been added though the newsletter form.

Campaigns

Let’s now create a campaign that we will use to put all things together, for doing that, we go to the Campaigns section and fill out the required data:

After we complete this section, we can assign this campaign to any of out Mailing Lists or Segments, for this example I’m assigning the “API Subscriber” segment from our list “My Testing List“.

The next step is to select an HTML or just text version, we will be using the HTML version for this example.

Same as when creating a Form, you can make use of the builtin templates or use de editor to edit it or start one from scratch.

We can now test the campaign, if we are good with it, we are then ready to enable and schedule it.

That’s very much it, we have now our campaign ready and sending emails to our segmentated mailing list.

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I hope you find this Moosend post series interesting and useful, it was just a quick and simplistic example just to give an overview on the different features and options but I hope you get the main idea and ways of working with Moosend, combining all those tools and featrures you can enrich your marketing and get it to the next level.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more Sitecore acquisition products overviews!