New Feature: Send follow-up mail merge campaigns in Gmail
Update on 3/22/16: This feature has been enhanced to include the ability to send follow-ups to those who replied, didn’t reply, or opened but didn’t reply.
Update on 7/10/16: This feature has been enhanced to include the ability to send follow-ups to those that bounced because you were over limit or those that failed to receive an email because of a Gmail API error.
It was the number one requested feature when I polled users a few months ago…you can now send follow up campaigns based on actions your recipients have taken on previous campaigns. Want to send a follow up to everyone that DIDN’T open your last campaign? You can do that. Want to send a follow up to everyone that OPENED but DIDN’T CLICK your last campaign? You can do that too. Or maybe you just want to re-send to exactly everyone who received a previous campaign.
Just reload Gmail in your browser and you’ll see the new “follow up” button next to the Search bar. It’s an @ symbol with an arrow. You’ll also notice that I shrank the “Build Email List” button to just a magnifying glass icon, so GMass now occupies even less of your Gmail screen real estate:
- Sent: Everyone that was a recipient of the campaign
- Opened: Everyone that opened the campaign
- Didn’t Open: Everyone that didn’t open the campaign
- Clicked: Everyone that clicked at least one URL in the campaign
- Didn’t Click: Everyone that didn’t click any URL in the campaign
- Opened but didn’t click: Everyone that opened the email but didn’t click any URLs
- Replied: Everyone that replied to the campaign. Note that replies take a couple hours after they reach your Inbox to be associated with the campaign.
- Didn’t Reply: Everyone that did not reply to the campaign.
- Opened but didn’t reply: Everyone that opened but didn’t reply to the email campaign.
- Exceeded Gmail Limit: Everyone that bounced with a message indicating that your account was over limit. This segment is useful if you want to send your campaign to people that didn’t receive it the first time because you were over limit.
- Gmail API Errors: Everyone that did not receive the email because there was an error when GMass attempted to connect to Gmail. These errors are rare, but you may want to re-send the campaign to those that didn’t receive it the first time because of errors.
Blocks: Everyone that didn’t receive the email because of a spam rejection. After you’ve addressed the issue causing the spam rejection (usually a tracking domain issue), you can use this option to re-send the campaign to these people, since they didn’t get your email the first time.
Also, in case you don’t regularly read this blog or the GMass Twitter feed, we added a ton of updates over the holidays. Instead of gorging on Christmas cookies all day like my family, I was hunched over my laptop and coding. Here are some other recent enhancements:
- Send large campaigns, up to 10,000 people
- Pull bounces from your Gmail account
- New button to check your sending limits
2016 is going to be a big year for GMass. If you’re a power GMass user, it’s essential that you follow us on Twitter. This announcement is for follow up campaigns that you have to send manually, but what I’m working on next will truly blow you away — automated follow-up drip campaigns, where you upload a lead list, and then we send the list a personalized message every few days until you get a response. There are lots of tools to send drip campaigns already, but none with a tight Gmail integration. Stay tuned for that!
GMass has its weak areas as well. I know that our Reporting could be much better, we don’t support Google’s Inbox yet, and I’m aware of GMass conflicting with other popular Gmail extensions, like Sidekick. These issues will be addressed soon.
One last thing — if you could do me a couple small favors, it would make a huge difference for me. First, if you haven’t already, write a review on the Chrome Web Store. Secondly, tell the Twitter-verse that you love GMass.
Just got Gmass and I'm about to use it for a Kickstarter campaign. It's great! I SO wish it could give a report on who has actually replied to an email campaign so I can get those people segmented onto a special "inner circle" list. Any chance this is coming soon?
Hi Oscia — you can get a fairly accurate list of those who replied to a previous campaign by:
1. Searching your Gmail account for "Re: [Subject]". For example, if you sent out an email campaign with Subject of "Support my Kickstarter campaign", then to follow up with people that replied to that, search for "Re: Support my Kickstarter campaign".
2. Then use the GMass "build email list" button (the magnifying glass next to the Search field) to launch a Compose window of email addresses that match that criteria.
That will give you a pretty accurate list of just the people that replied.
What is missing is separate lists of
Opened
Bounced
Clicked
Unsubscribed
With email address, name,last name, date time
With this will be very OK
What is missing is separate lists of
Opened
Bounced
Clicked
Unsubscribed
With email address, name,last name, date time
With this will be very OK
We do provide detailed reports of opens, clicks, and unsubscribes. You will see a separate Gmail Label for each type of event under the main "GMass Reports" Label. And now, with the new reply management feature (http://blog.gmass.co/2016/03/gmail-email-marketing-reply-management.html), you can see Bounces also.
This is a duplicate question.
nice
GMASS is awesome so far! Any updated on the automated follow-up drip campaigns?
Yes, this has been live for over a month now. http://blog.gmass.co/2016/05/automatic-follow-up-emails-until-reply-in-gmail.html
How about for emails that don’t get sent to? I have a campaign that errored out about 30% through. How do I get the 70% sent?
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