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Section 7: Marketing and Comm...
✉️ 7.1 Email & SMS Campaigns
create, send, and analyze campaigns to engage your community overview sweatpals includes built‑in tools for communicating directly with your members through email and sms campaigns campaigns are sent from your host dashboard and automatically reach members who have opted in to updates 💡 use campaigns to announce new events, share updates, or highlight community milestones creating a campaign go to dashboard → email & sms click create campaign choose channel email or sms add a title (for your own reference) write your message — you can include event links or membership offers select your audience all members, event attendees, or custom list schedule a send date / time or send immediately click send ⚙️ email campaigns can include formatted text and links sms campaigns are limited to standard character counts and plain text only audience targeting audience type description all members everyone following your community active members current subscription holders event attendees registered for past or upcoming events custom group filtered by location or interest 💬 use specific groups for higher open rates and less opt‑outs 💬 importing contacts from 3rd party platforms if you've built your community in another platform, our support team can help you import these contacts to your sweatpals account, to do this, please contact support\@sweatpals com you'll need a csv file with all these contacts cola full name (firstname & lastname) colb email address colc city cold state cole country for migrating paying members, raise this with sweatpals support, or your implementation manager scheduling campaigns choose send now for immediate delivery choose schedule send to pick a future date and time you’ll receive a confirmation once your campaign is queued 📆 all times are based on your community’s time zone setting campaign analytics after sending, open the campaign to see metric description emails delivered messages successfully sent opens unique opens for email campaigns clicks link clicks from email body sms delivery rate confirmed carrier delivery 📊 use these metrics to measure engagement and refine future campaigns