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Kit: Designing a broadcast email with personalization

Demo summary

Shows the email editor in action, including adding images, setting up 'link triggers' to tag subscribers on click, and using liquid tags for personalized greetings and conditional content.

Step-by-step

  1. Go to the Broadcasts page and click New Broadcast
  2. Select a template from the template browser
  3. Click any text area to edit content or add headings and buttons
  4. Type a slash (/) on a new line to insert elements like images
  5. Select a link and use the menu to assign a tag to subscribers who click it
  6. Click the @ symbol to insert a subscriber personalized greeting
  7. Use the subscriber tag conditional option to create content visible only to specific tag holders
  8. Click Continue to proceed to the sending stage

Options

  • Upload new images, select from favorites, or use recently used files
  • Search the Unsplash royalty-free library for stock photography
  • Connect an Instagram account to pull images directly into emails
  • Customize the fallback text for greetings (e.g., changing 'Hello' to 'Hey')

Tips

  • Hover over an image and click the heart icon to add it to your favorites for faster access later
  • Use link triggers to identify what your subscribers are interested in and provide more contextual content
  • Type the file name of an image in the media gallery to find it quickly

Highlights

you can click wherever you want to make changes

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