Communication

Create a more effective outreach strategy using targeted email blasting, text messaging, and social media to engage your most influential people.

32 articles in this collection
Written by Lauren Rowse, Kev O'Connor, and Katie Angelo

Workflow guides

Sending a targeted email

Learn how to identify a precise audience of recipients and then send them a personalized email blast - from start to finish

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Set up an inbox and view incoming emails

You've probably noticed NationBuilder doesn't have a traditional "inbox," instead we recommend creating an email path.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Build interest in your nation

Using techniques to engage people both inside and outside your network is key to building long lasting relationships with your community.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Set up your broadcaster

Understanding broadcasters

Broadcasters are the voices who speak publicly on behalf of your nation. All external communications are organized around broadcasters.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Connect an email address to a broadcaster

When you attach an email address to a broadcaster, you can send email blasts to your community!

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Authenticate your email

If the custom domain you send email blasts from isn't hosted by NationBuilder — authenticate it to protect your email deliverability

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Benefits of receiving email in your nation

We recommend receiving incoming email. By accepting incoming email for a broadcaster, people will be able to reply to your email blasts.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Forward email to a broadcaster

After connecting a third-party email address to a broadcaster, you may want to forward your email to that broadcaster.

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Connect your Twitter account to a broadcaster

Connecting a broadcaster to your social media accounts can help you spread the word and track supporters across multiple platforms!

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Connect your Facebook account to a broadcaster

Connecting a broadcaster to your social media accounts can help you spread the word and track supporters across multiple platforms!

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Create a phone number and access voicemail

Your nation’s phone number is a great place to track and consolidate incoming calls to your organization.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Send communications

Understanding Text Deliverability

It’s important to know how your texts are delivered, what prevents them from reaching your supporters, and how this differs from email.

Written by Katie Angelo
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Configure preview text

How to add preview text in an email blast

Written by Lauren Rowse
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Create an email blast

Sending bulk email is a powerful engagement tactic. It allows you to quickly and effectively message your subscribers with calls to action.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Add a button to an email blast

You can add clickable buttons to email blasts to send people to specific pages on your website.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Smart fields in email

Smart fields make it easy to dynamically personalize your email blasts for each recipient with variable data pulled from your nation

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Create a custom email theme

If you do not want to use a public email theme, you may create your own custom one.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Send and view one-to-one email

If you're set up to receive incoming email via a broadcaster, you can integrate one-to-one email with your people database.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Create a multi-column email layout

You can replicate a traditional multi-column layout for email blasts in NationBuilder.

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Integration details with Facebook

The scoop on NationBuilder's integration with Facebook.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Tag people who liked a Facebook post

If you've linked a Facebook page to a broadcaster in NationBuilder, you can quickly tag all the people who liked a post.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Send and receive text messages

People are with their mobile phones 24/7. Use bulk text blasts to get your message opened faster, and text keywords sign people up easier.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Social targeting: Facebook and NationBuilder

NationBuilder's social targeting model turns digital media into an integral part of your Nation’s success.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Create a text keyword

Action pages in NationBuilder let you set up text message keywords that users can text to take the action linked to the page.

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Manage email

How to optimize your email deliverability

Email blasting is a key tool for any organization. This HOWTO will outline ways in which you can optimize your email deliverability.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Understanding email opt-ins and unsubscribe links

Learn about communication consent, and how to collect and manage subscription preferences from subscribers

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How to maintain a healthy email list

Learn the basic steps to restore and maintain the health of your email list.

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Understand the results of your email blast

Learn how to read your email engagement metrics — open rate, bounce rate, etc. — so that you can improve your blasts' performance

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Emailable status

When you send an email blast your email list will immediately be updated with what email addresses were bad, or caused bounces.

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A/B test your email blasts

A/B testing sends two versions of your email blast to measure which version receives the most engagement from your recipients.

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Understanding spam

Learn about email block lists, spam filters, spam traps, and other hard obstacles to email delivery

Written by Kev O'Connor
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Use split lists to test your emails

This outlines how to manually split test your emails. Automatic email A/B testing is available to those on the Team plan or above.

Written by Kev O'Connor
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