Create a Single Email Campaign

Create and optimize your emails in Drip with our Single Email Campaign builder. Here’s how it works:

• Choose what kind of email you're sending.
• Choose your recipients.
• Create your email.
• Add variations for split testing.
• Send your email!

Split test up to four subject line or email content variations. Then see opens, clicks, and revenue for each variation on the Campaign Dashboard to optimize subject lines for future sends.

Segmentation is a crucial part of your marketing strategy. Instead of sending a cast and blast email, Drip provides recommended segments to help you increase engagement and decrease the risk of brand fatigue.

For example, if you’re sending a promotional discount email, we’ll automatically exclude people who recently purchased with a discount from the recipients. Or, we’ll ensure that you don’t turn off new customers by sending them multiple discounts before they’ve made a purchase from you.

Create a Single Email Campaign

1. Go to Campaigns > Single Emails > + New Single Email Campaign
2. Give your Single Email Campaign email a name, and add an optional description if desired.
3. Choose your recipients under Sending to - you can choose a saved segment or a one-time segment.
   Your recipient list will update dynamically based on your segment filters until the email is queued for sending. This usually occurs about twenty minutes in advance of your scheduled sending time.

   

4. Determine if your email is Commercial or Transactional. (Not sure what that means? Check out the CAN-SPAM Act .)
   

   

5. Create your email with one of our Email Builders

   

6. If you want to use our Text/HTML builder, you can find that option underneath the Visual Email Builder Templates
   

   

7. Click Done Editing when you're finished designing your email
8. Add up to four subject line variations

   

9. Add up to four email content variations.

   You can't do both a subject line AND a content split test.

   

10. If you've selected Split Testing, choose your Split Test Settings. You can select Winning Criteria, Test Pool Size, and Test Duration. By default, "Click Through Rate," a Test pool size of 30%, and a Test duration of 2 hours are chosen.
    

    

11. Choose a date and time to send your email

    

12. Select a date and subject line to Resend email to people who don’t open it. If no new subject line is given, the resend includes the same subject line as the first email.

    

    When scheduling a Single Email Campaign in a person’s local timezone, it must be at least 19 hours in advance of all local timezones it’s sending to. If it’s less than 19 hours before when you’re trying to schedule it, you will not be able to schedule the Single Email Campaign.

13. Click Schedule or Send Immediately

You’ll be redirected to the Campaign Dashboard while your email is sending. Once your email is sent, results will be reported on the Dashboard.

Please note that although you can schedule a Campaign according to your User timezone, the timestamp will reflect in the Account Owner's timezone once scheduled according to their Settings.

Start From Scratch (for legacy users only)

Create a Single Email Campaign from scratch:

1. Click Campaigns
2. Click + New Single Email Campaign Email
3. Select an Email Builder
   
4. Name your email
5. Click Create Single Email Campaign
6. Select the Single Email Campaign recipients with the recipient filter
   

   

   Leave the filter blank to include all subscribed people.  Recipients will default to all subscribed people.

7. Click Save Recipients > Next
8. Choose a starting point if you're using the Visual Email Builder
   
9. Click Next
10. Design your email
11. Click Next > Schedule Email to Send
12. Choose a date and time to send your email

    When scheduling a Single Email Campaign in a person’s local timezone, it must be more than 24 hours in advance of all local timezones it’s sending to. If it’s less than 24 hours before when you’re trying to schedule it, you will not be able to schedule the email.

13. Select a date and subject line to Resend email to people who don't open it. If no new subject line is given, the resend includes the same subject line as the first email
14. Click Schedule

You’ll be redirected to the Campaign Dashboard while your email is sending. When a Single Email Campaign is scheduled to send immediately, there may be a slight delay and the email can remain in the queue for up to twenty minutes before it's sent.

The delivery date and time default to the current calendar date and time. If no other time zone is selected, the setting defaults to the time zone specified in your User Settings.

Single Email Campaign Settings

Single Email Campaign Settings (for legacy users only) contain all of the information about the email and are where you can duplicate or delete a Single Email Campaign.

Identity Settings

The Identity Settings are customer-facing information in the Single Email Campaign email

“From” Name

The name customers see in their inbox. This field is required.

“From” Email

The email address customers see in their inbox. This field is required and must be a valid email address.

Postal Address

The address customers see in the footer of all Single Email Campaign emails.

BCC

Send a blind copy of every email in the Single Email Campaign to any email addresses you put here.

Primary Purpose

Select the primary purpose of the Single Email Campaign from the drop-down.

• The Commercial setting is for a Single Email Campaign containing emails with marketing content. For example, a promotional email series for your newest product line.

• The Transactional/Relationship setting is for a Single Email Campaign with content already agreed upon by the customer. For example, a receipt for the item the person purchased.

Duplicate a Single Email Campaign

Create a copy of a Single Email Campaign including the email contents and settings from the original.

To duplicate a Single Email Campaign:

1. Go to the Settings tab in the Single Email Campaign

2. Click the Duplicate this Single Email Campaign button

3. Give the duplicate email a name

4. Click Duplicate Single Email Campaign

You will be brought to the new Single Email Campaign recipient's tab.

Delete a Single Email Campaign

Remove a Single Email Campaign and all of its data from your account. Once deleted, all data for that Single Email Campaign will be lost including email analytics.

To delete a Single Email Campaign:

1. Go to the Settings tab in the Single Email Campaign

2. Click the Delete this Single Email Campaign button

3. Click I’m sure, delete this Single Email Campaign

The Single Email Campaign will be permanently deleted.