Bulk Broadcast via Excel Sheet
Bulk broadcasting via an Excel sheet with EasySocial offers a streamlined way to send mass messages to your contacts. Simply log in, create a new campaign, and upload your contact list in an Excel file. By using an approved template message, you can personalize the broadcast with variables like names or custom details. Adding attachments such as images or videos is straightforward—just include them as hyperlinks in your Excel file. You can also schedule messages or set preferences to skip recipients who have opted out. Once launched, EasySocial provides live campaign statistics, letting you track your broadcast’s progress in real time.
Bulk Broadcast via Excel Sheet
- Log in to your EasySocial account
- Click on the "Broadcast" menu from the left hand side of the Chat Interface.
- Once you are in the Broadcast section, you will be able to see all the campaigns on the left hand side which you might have run in the past.
- To create a new campaign click on the "New Campaign" button on the right hand side of the screen or click on the 3 dot menu beside the search option and click on "New Campaign"
- A prerequisite element to create a campaign is a "Template message" which should already have approval from WhatsApp
- You can thus click on "New Template" button and it will take you to the Templates section which is present in the Settings Options
- We have another document which explains how to create a Template message. You can refer to it for help.
- Once you click on "Create Campaign" a pop up window will open up on the right hand side of your screen
- Type in the name of the Campaign
- Then type in a short campaign detail. These two things will not be visible to your customers who will receive the message.
- Click on "Choose Template" and select the approved template which you want to broadcast.
- Then choose a Campaign type by clicking on "Choose Campaign Type"
Click on Download Sample Format
Add the country code of the phone numbers and the phone numbers to which you want to send the messages.
- If you upload a photo,video, text or document on the top of your template message, then on the excel sheet this data will be visible as a hyperlink. You need to drag this link up till the number of people you want to send messages. to. Please ensure that all of the characters in the link are same for all people.
- Add a body variable if you have added variable in the template message.
- Save this and download this file in an XLSXS format and drag it to Upload User Data field to upload it.
- You can add a tag
- Below this you will get an option to schedule messages. You can either send messages nor or later.
- You can also checkbox the "Do not send messages to those who opted out" or leave it as it is
- Click on Save
- If you select "Schedule Now" the system takes at least 1.5 minutes to send messages
- You can also check the live statistics of the campaign