Email marketing

Email marketing can be one of the most effective ways to promote your business and products or keep in touch with existing contacts. In Kentico, you can create, manage and send out marketing emails via the Email marketing application.

Kentico enables you to perform the email marketing actions such as sending regular newsletters, running marketing campaigns promoted by emails, and automating the sending of email series. All emails that you send as part of your marketing actions are organized into email feeds.

Kentico supports two types of email feeds:

• Email campaigns – allow you to target and retarget every marketing email based on the impact of the previous email communication. This enables you, for example, to promote a marketing campaign by sending different marketing emails to different recipients. You can create marketing emails that are based on predefined templates.
• Newsletters – allow you to send all marketing emails in an email feed to recipients who subscribed to newsletters on your live sites. You can create marketing emails that are based on predefined templates or load their content from a specific web page. The page-based newsletters are sent out automatically according to the set schedule.

Working with email feeds

Email feeds allow you to send out marketing emails to contacts with an email address. The system stores a directory of all contacts, which you can monitor and manage.

After your administrator has prepared email templates and integrated email feeds into the pages of your websites so that recipients can subscribe to newsletters and unsubscribe from email feeds, you can do the following:

• Create newsletters
• Create email campaigns
• Write marketing emails
• Send marketing emails
• Manage recipients
• Track and monitor marketing emailsManaging marketing email recipients

You can also ask your administrator to help you enable double opt-in for individual newsletters before sending them out, and troubleshoot marketing emails when your contacts are not receiving the emails correctly.

How the system sends emails

When the system sends out an email, it creates a personalized email for every individual recipient. The emails are placed into a queue. The Send marketing email scheduled task processes the queue and sends the emails either directly to the SMTP server or to the system’s email queue (depending on the configuration of the given email feed). The system automatically resends all emails lost due to errors.

Using the email queue is recommended for marketing emails with large numbers of recipients to ensure that all emails are delivered correctly.