Getting Started with Custom Campaigns

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This guide covers creating a one-off email campaign with a single newsletter to advanced campaigns containing multiple newsletters.

Creating a new one-off campaign

Select “New Email campaign” in the One-off Campaigns>Email campaigns section.

New newsletter

Every One-off campaign can contain one or more newsletters.

1. Click on “Add Newsletter”:
2. Select Targeting and Email Template System:
   
   
   1. Select Targeting:
      1. Precise Segmentation allows manual selection using more than 60 audience filters.
      2. Smart Targeting allows you to select specific products for which Samba takes care of finding the best audience based on relevance.
         
         

         Samba’s Autopilot is using Smart targeting by design, generating audiences, and sending mailings for you automatically and regularly. Use Smart targeting within one-off campaigns when you have a specific product/category in mind for which you need to find the best audience. Otherwise, the Precise Segmentation should be your preferred option.

   2. Email Template system:
      1. Drag & Drop Editor is the latest and most robust version of the template editor available in Samba. Read more about Drag & Drop editor here
      2. Picasso Editor is an earlier editor with fewer editing options than the Drag & Drop editor. Read more about it here
         
         
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         We highly recommend you to use our Drag&Drop editor over the Picasso editor.

Template and Product Filter

First, select Template. If you do not have a template created yet. See this detailed manual on how to create a new one.

 

Types of templates

• Segmentation – products can be added by using 2 options mentioned above

  • You can add static products to your template using:

    • Manage Product Tiles
    • Merge Tags: Static Products
• Personalized – this template allows you to use personalized placeholders. At the same time, you can also add placeholders for static products in your template and combine personalized and static products in one template.

Dynamic Products

Product recommendations tailored to your customers based on their behaviour.

Product Filter

Use this option if you want to recommend products with a certain characteristic. (For example, set Samba to recommend only products from a certain manufacturer in a certain category…)

You can learn how to use product filters in our article on this topic.

Products from the subcategory limit

This option configures the maximum number of recommended products from 1 subcategory, which can help you to make Samba recommendations more diverse. 

Remember also, that the same product won’t be recommended to the same customer in a certain period, so if you are planning to send this campaign more often, or the customer has received another campaign with similar products, your product pool should be even bigger. Otherwise, Samba will recommend products outside of your selection based solely on an internal algorithm, but, on the other hand, these will be products that are of higher interest and relevance to the customer.

Product Filter & Segmentation Template

When using the Segmentation Template, the product filter should not be used. If you only want to include a specific set of products, you can insert them directly into the template (see Manage Product Tiles or Static Products).

Targeting Approach

Targeting audience

• “Everyone”
  • Target all your subscribed customers. (Recommended setting)
• “Active” 
  • All customers who are subscribed and are defined in Contact management as being active for a certain period.
• “Inactive”
  • “Everyone” minus “Active”

By default, your campaign respects the “Customer notification limit”. To Ignore the daily limit check the box below.

Audience

1. Precise Segmentation Approach
   1. Select the “Filter Audience” button to check how large the audience would actually be targeted with the selected filter.
2. Smart Targeting Approach

Email Settings

1. Fill in the Subject and Preheader text. Include a Custom customer salutation in the subject or preheader
2. The Sender Details are set to default. You can also add and select custom contacts.
3. Performance tracking: Fill in the UTM source, UTM medium, and UTM campaign according to your wishes.
4. Click the “Finish and Exit” and save your campaign, with the “Save Campaign” button.

Check your settings with the Send Testing Email functionality

Campaign Settings

When creating a campaign, the right sidebar features a “Reach” display which tells you how many customers the campaign will target and how many unique emails those customers have.

The Frequency of Sending is set to Every day and Special Occasions by default. Select Never option only to announce important non-promotional messages in case of email targeting since these customers have opted out. To change it click on the blue link. Don’t forget to set the sending date and time. Finally, save your campaign as a draft or activate it right away with the “Schedule for Sending” button.

You can activate the campaign by using the toggle on the main screen.

Multiple newsletter campaign

Each campaign can contain multiple newsletters and each of these newsletters can target different parts of your audience.

When having newsletters with “Precise” and “Smart Targeting” included in one campaign, then newsletter with the Smart Targeting Approach will have priority over other newsletters where Precise Segmentation has been used.

Use Find optimal audience to distribute the audience based on Samba’s smart algorithm.

You can select a portion of the audience with automatic distribution, where the amount will change the distribution of the Newsletter with Smart Targeting.

Campaign Performance

After sending a campaign you can view the statistics by the “Report” button.

Let’s see Performance statistics:

Revenue Orders Conversions Open rate

Click rate Unsubscribe rate Undelivered rate

Below you will find a heatmap for both the desktop and mobile versions of the campaign.

The Activity tab will show you lists of customers with email addresses depending on their status (e.g. Sent, Open, etc.). Each list can be exported into CSV.

To view the statistic for all your one-off campaigns, go to the dashboard and select the desired period.

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