At the beginning of every month, we will send you a notification that your newsletter is ready. In this e-mail, we include a message that you can send to your clients. When your clients open your e-mail and click on the link, they will be taken directly to your newsletter.
To forward the message we send you to your clients, this is what you need to do:
- Scroll to the part of the e-mail we send you which says:
***** SAMPLE E-MAIL -- BEGIN COPY BELOW THIS LINE*****
- Move the pointer on your screen to the beginning of the message directly below this line.
- Hold down the left button on your mouse and drag the pointer to the end of the message you want.
The entire desired message should now be highlighted.
- Release the left button.
The message should remain highlighted. If you accidentally hit the mouse button again, the message will not stay hilighted and you will need to start over with step number 1.
- Go to "Edit" on your menu.
- Choose "Copy" from the edit menu.
The message is now copied
- Create a new e-mail message (usually called "compose" or "new memo" in an e-mail program)
- In the "To" field, type your e-mail address.
This will tell your computer to send one copy of the message to your e-mail address so you can make sure it goes through correctly.
- In the "BCC" field, type all the addresses of everyone you want to send the e-mail to. Separate different e-mail addresses with commas.
Ex: joe@blow.net, suzy@que.com, mary@jane.edu, justin@time.com.... etc.
(NOTE: If you are using Outlook Express and you do not see the "BCC:" field, click "View" and select "All Headers.")
(Bcc stands for Blank Carbon Copy... in simple terms, this means that when you send this e-mail to a client, they won't see everyone else's e-mail addresses. They will only see yours, and their own.)
- Move the pointer to the place where you would usually type an e-mail.
- Click the left button on your mouse in this space.
This will make a cursor appear in the composition space.
- Go to "Edit" again.
- Choose "Paste" from the edit menu
If you've done everything correctly, you will see the message you copied displayed in the composition space. If you do not, go back to step one.
- Create a subject that you think will encourage your clients to open your e-mail and type it in the subject line.
- Click the "send" button.
To make sure that you did everything right, you will need to wait a minute or so until the copy you sent to yourself comes through. You can open that message and check it out to see what you've sent to your clients.
