News Room Plus

News Room Plus gives you the ability to collect emails on your site, to manage and arrange these emails in groups, and to send emails to targeted groups of subscribers.

The process of creating and creating and listing articles on your website is the same as the News Room feature. For instructions on creating and posting articles see the News Room instruction video.

In this video we’ll show

1. how to add emails and edit emails in your list.
2. create groups of email subscribers, such as Newsletter, Business Associates, Friends, etc.
3. and how to send an email to one or a combination of groups.

Collecting Emails from your website.
When visitors enter their name and email they are automatically added to your subscriber list. Visitors can choose one or more groups to be part of.

Editing Emails
Click on View/Edit Email List.

Add an Email.
Click on Add An Email

When you enter the Name and Email you can also choose which group or groups to make the visitor a part of. We’ll explain how to create groups later in this instruction. When you’re ready, click Update Page.

Save To File
Click on Save to File

Follow the instructions to save your email list as a comma separated values file. To return to the main control page, click again on News Room Plus

View/Edit Groups
Click on View/Edit Groups

Your list of groups appear.

1. You can turn a group on or off at any time
2. You can Delete a group.
3. Clicking on Edit allows you to change the name of the group and whether it is a Private group or a Web Sign-Up group.
4. To create a new group, click on Add A Group. If you choose Private group, you need to add the names to this group. If you choose Web Sign-Up then visitors can add themselves to this group from your website.

Email Your Message.

Return to the main control page for News Room Plus. Before you Email Your Message click on Edit Email Settings

Edit Email Settings appears

1. Enter the From email address that you want listed on your email.
2. Enter the subject of your email. You can choose a general subject such as Newsletter or you can change the email settings for each message and create a specific subject title for each emailed message.
3. The header text is the greeting that introduces the message summary you entered when you created your message.
4. The footer text is a closing line or paragraph that follows the message summary. When you’re ready click Update Page.

Start

Click on Start

Select which Item or Items you would like to mail. When you're ready, click next.Your email will contain the summary of your article. Interested readers can click on the summary and open to the article right in your website. When you’re ready, click Next

Preview Email

This is what your email will look like.

1. To change the subject line, go back to the News Room Plus main page and click on Edit Email Settings.
2. To change the header line, go back to the News Room Plus main page and click on Edit Email Settings.
3. To edit the summary, go back to the News Room Plus main page, and click on Edit to open your article and change the summary.
4. To edit the footer, go back to the News Room Plus main page, and click on Edit Email Settings When you’re ready, click Next.

Select Group or Groups
Choose which group or groups will receive this email.

When you’re ready, click Next.

Preview List.

Once you’ve previewed your list and you’re ready, click Send To List.Your emails will be sent immediately.

You can store up to 1,000 emails with your News Room Plus feature. If your list grows larger than 1,000 you’ll want to sign up with a dedicated emailing service such as Constant Contact, Get Response, AWeber or any of many other choices.