Get started with Email Marketing

Start Email Marketing, send your first mailing in five steps, and see what each plan includes.

Ellibo Email Marketing sends newsletters and offers to the people who want to hear from you. You design a mailing from blocks, choose who gets it, and see the opens, clicks and sales it brings. It runs on the same sign-in and the same business as your other Ellibo apps, so your customers from Accounting, CRM, your online store and the rest are ready to mail.

Start Email Marketing

Open Email Marketing from All Apps and choose your business, or create one. The business owner starts it and becomes its Admin. Every new business gets a 14-day trial with every feature. The trial holds up to 2,000 contacts and 2,000 Ellibo Sending emails, and no other app has to be started.

Set up and send your first mailing

Home > Getting Started has a setup guide. Each step ticks itself off when it's done.

1. Check your business details. Your business name and postal address go in the footer of every mailing - the law in many countries asks for them. See Settings.
2. Choose how your mailings are sent. Your own mailbox, your own sending service, or Ellibo Sending. See Sending and domains.
3. Check your domain. Three small DNS records (SPF, DKIM and DMARC) show your mailings are really from you. See Land in the inbox.
4. Add or import your contacts. Import a spreadsheet, add people by hand, or mail the customers already in your other Ellibo apps. See Contacts and lists.
5. Make your first list. A "Newsletter" list is ready to start with.
6. Put a sign-up form on your website. See Sign-up forms.
7. Send yourself a test. Design a mailing and see how it looks on your phone and computer. See Design a mailing.
8. Send your first mailing. Choose who gets it, then send now or pick a time. See Choose who gets it.

After it goes, open the mailing to see its results. See Reports.

What's in the menu

• Home - the period's mailings, opens and clicks, recent and best mailings, and how your list is growing.
• Mailings - every mailing, with drafts, scheduled, sending and sent ones.
• Templates - ready designs and the ones you saved.
• Campaigns - group mailings that work toward one goal. See Campaigns.
• Contacts, Lists, Import, Forms and Blocklist - the people you mail.
• Reports and Dashboards - results across all your mailings.
• Sending - sending accounts, domains and your Ellibo Sending use.
• Settings, Users, My settings and Plan & Billing.

Plans

Email Marketing is priced per business. Your plan sets how many contacts you can keep and how many emails you can send through Ellibo Sending each month.

Unsubscribed and bounced contacts don't count. Mail sent through your own mailbox or your own sending service isn't counted against the emails a month.

• Free - the drag-and-drop designer and templates, your own mailbox or sending service, customers from your Ellibo apps, sign-up forms, scheduled mailings, opens, clicks and reports, and one dashboard. Mailings carry a small "Sent with Ellibo" line.
• Standard - adds no Ellibo branding, approval before sending, reports by email, and three dashboards.
• Professional - adds A/B tests, sales from your mailings, your own link address, custom roles and as many dashboards as you like.
• Business - adds workflow rules, the API and webhooks, the audit log, and priority support with an onboarding call.

Add-ons on paid plans: an extra 5,000 contacts, an extra 10,000 emails a month, and priority support. See Free trial and plans for prices and how to buy.

After the trial, your business moves to the Free plan unless you choose another. Your contacts and mailings stay. Features outside your plan lock, and you can't add contacts past your plan's limit.

On your phone

Open Ellibo Email Marketing in your phone's browser and choose Install or Add to home screen. It isn't a store app. Checking results works well on a phone. Designing a mailing works best on a bigger screen.