Run a campaign
Build a multi-step sequence, get it approved, and let it send on its own.
A campaign is a sequence of emails sent to everyone who matches an audience rule. One-click Send is you sending one message. A campaign is built once and then delivers itself, step by step, on a schedule you set.
The four sections
- Overview: status, who it targets, whether it is cleared to send, and the sending schedule.
- Sequence: the emails and the waits between them.
- Audience: the rule that decides who is in.
- Activity: every send, reply, and anything that needs a person to look at it.
From draft to sending
- In Sequence, write the first email, then add a wait and a follow-up. A wait counts either calendar days or business days.
- A follow-up can reply inside the same thread as the message before it, so it lands under the original instead of arriving as a new email.
- In Audience, set the rule and save it. The campaign resolves who it currently matches so you can see the number before you commit.
- Mark the campaign ready, then approve the content you reviewed. Approval is what the send path checks, so nothing goes out without it.
- Activate. From then on, due steps are picked up by the daily send run.
The sending schedule
On Overview you can set a sending window in hours, which weekdays are allowed, and a minimum gap between sends. A step that falls outside the window waits for the next one rather than being dropped.
Note · Pausing a campaign stops further sends at any time, but an email that has already left cannot be recalled. A campaign can be returned to draft only while nothing has been delivered.
More in Campaigns
- How the audience rule works · A campaign targets a rule, not a list you imported. That difference matters.
- When a send is stuck · How to spot a step that will never go out on its own, and how to release it.