Creating a New Campaign
Selecting Add New Template on the Campaign Creator screen allows you to configure Campaigns within CRM3® using the Template Editor, illustrated below. Follow the steps below to create a new Campaign within CRM3®.
- Select a Project Space with which to associate the new Campaign from the Select Project Space list to display the Campaign Template screen.
- Click Add New Template to display the Template Editor, as shown in the following illustration.
Enter a name for the new Campaign Template in the Template Name text field.- Enter the name of the individual who will be sending the Campaign Email in the Sender Name text field.
- Enter the Email Address for the individual who will be sending the Campaign Email in the Sender Address text field.
- Enter the Reply-To Name for the individual who will be monitoring the responses to the Campaign Email in the Reply-To Name text field.
- Enter the Reply-To Email Address for the individual who will be monitoring the Campaign Email in the Replay-To Address text field.
- Enter a subject line for the Campaign Email in the Subject text field.
- In the Import Content portion of the screen, select whether to use an HTML or URL Template and then click Select Template. The screen expands to display a number of ready-to-use Templates, as shown in the following illustration.
You can either choose one by clicking Select Template or click Close Template Chooser if you don’t want to make use of a Template.If you choose Select Template, the Preview Template screen is displayed:
- Click OK to return to the Add New Template screen with the Template displayed within the word processor on the screen, as shown in the following illustration.
- The following formatting options are available from left to right on the menu bar:
View the HTML source; make text Bold, Italic, Underscore or Strike-Through; align text Left, Center or Right; create a Bulleted List or a Numbered List; select a specific Font; adjust the Size of the text; change the Color of highlighted text, change the Background Color of the Note; add a Link, remove a Link; paste as Plain Text, paste from Word; Insert Image.
- Click Source to view the HTML source, if desired.
- If you wish to edit the HTML of your message in another editor, or offline (not in CRM3®), you can click Copy HTML to Plaintext Alternative to copy the HTML version of the message to the Windows Clipboard as a Plaintext Alternative version, if necessary. You will lose all of the formatting contained within the HTML version.
- Click Edit HTML Message make edits to the HTML version of the message. This ‘view’ of the message is selected by default.
- Click Edit Plaintext Alternative to make edits to the Plaintext Alternative version of the message.
- Click Apply Changes to save your changes and remain within the Template Editor or click Save to save your changes and close the Template Editor.
- Click Cancel to exit the Template Editor without creating the new Campaign Template.