Help Pop-up for Preview Newsletter

Preview Newsletter

Use the Preview Newsletter feature to see what your newsletter will look like when viewed in your web browser. Most browsers and email programs will display your email as it appears in the preview with minor variations in font display, depending on computer operating system and user settings.

Send Preview
Always send yourself several preview newsletters through multiple email services. With our system, you have the ability to send yourself (or colleagues) preview copies of your newsletter, exactly as it will be sent by our Smart Send™ system. Doing this will allow you to see how your email shows up in various email clients and web browsers.

MyNewsletterBuilder actively supports current and previous versions of Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple’s Safari and Google’s Gmail. Most email programs share these standards and display similarly. Some systems – such as Yahoo, Hotmail, and Outlook – vary from these standard and may use their own fonts and formatting depending on server and user settings.

If you are sending your newsletter to a large list, we recommend that you preview your newsletter using multiple browsers and web-based email programs. Start by previewing your email newsletters in Firefox and Internet Explorer and sending a preview newsletter to your own free Gmail account so that you can make any changes that you want to make before you send to your list.

View
The selected HTML or Text preview type will determine the format of the Preview Newsletter you see and receive when you Send Preview. If you have select “HTML” preview type, you will receive a multi-part MIME message with both the HTML and text content. If you select “Text” preview type, you will only receive the text version of your newsletter, as a plain text message, to test compatibility with text-only email readers (some cell phones). Your subscribers will always receive a properly encoded multi-part message with both HTML and text content for maximum compatibility.

Data
For preview newsletters, we provide simulated subscriber data to simulate the variable subscriber data you have added to your messages using tokens. Occasionally, a field that you expect to contain data is empty. Our system allows you to preview your newsletter With or Without simulated subscriber data so you can see how your email would appear if subscriber fields were filled-in or empty.

Tokens
Easily insert Subscriber, Sender, Contact and Media Library content into your newsletters using tokens. Create your own tokens in the Media Library using familiar formatting and editing tools. You may include Sender, Contact and Subscriber tokens in your Media Library tokens – and your newsletters!

Click this button in the Content Editor toolbar to insert Tokens using a convenient drop-down menu.

Create Your Own Library Tokens
Go to More Features > Library – to create or edit library tokens.

Name Library Token – Enter the name you want to use to refer to this token. Keep it simple.
Edit Library Content – Enter the content of the token in the Content Editor. This is the content that you want to appear in the newsletter when this token is used.
Add Brief Description – Enter a brief description of the content. This helps you identify the token when you are looking through a menu of other tokens. If you skip this step, the name of the token will be used.
Click the Save button.
To use this token to insert content into a newsletter, either type the name of the token (for example, #my_token_name#) or click the Insert Predefined Content button in the Content Editor.

My Library Tokens
Go to More Features > Library – to create custom tokens for your own reusable newsletter content.

Save your reusable newsletter content in your Library

Sender Tokens
Go to My Account > Settings > Member Profile – to change your account contact information.

#newsletter_id#
#from_email#
#from_name#
#reply_to#
#signature_address#
#signature_city#
#signature_state#
#signature_zip#
#org_name#

Subscriber Tokens
Go to My Subscribers > Categories – to search, edit, manage, upload, and download Subscriber data.
Go to My Account > Settings > Subscription Preferences – to allow subscribers to manage their own data.

Subscriber Identity

#subscriber_id#
#email#
#first_name#
#middle_name#
#last_name#
#full_name#
#company_name#
#job_title#

Subscriber Contact

#address_1#
#address_2#
#address_3#
#city#
#state#
#zip#
#country#
#phone_work#
#phone_home#

Subscriber Custom

#custom_1#
#custom_2#
#custom_3#
#custom_4#
#custom_5#
#custom_6#
#custom_7#
#custom_8#
#custom_9#
#custom_10#

Subscriber Links – insert special subscriber links

Subscribe
Unsubscribe
Forward to a Friend
View as Web Page
Preferences
Report Spam

Custom Contact Tokens
Go to More Features > Personalization > Custom Contact – to upload your contact photo or add formatted contact data.

#contact_photo_html#
#contact_photo#
#contact_data#

Click this button in the Content Editor toolbar to insert Tokens quickly using a drop-down menu.

How do Tokens work?
Subscriber tokens are individually replaced with available data for each subscriber when your email is sent. If no data is available, the token is simply removed from the email. Sender and Custom Contact tokens preview and send with your settings as of the moment you select a template to create a newsletter or Instant Import a newsletter from another account. You can update the Sender and Custom Contact data in your newsletters to match the current Account Settings and Custom Contact data using Refresh Template Data option under Name This Newsletter. Subscriber ID and Newsletter ID are automatically set to a unique number. These ID fields are used in header and footer links.

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