Broadcast Messages > Creating a New Broadcast

When you want to send a broadcast to your subscribers, the first thing you need to do is filter your subscriber list to extract only those you wish to send your broadcast to. Read the chapter headed “Working With Subscribers” for more information on filtering.

You also need to decide when your broadcast message will be sent to those subscribers. The choices are:

•	Immediately

•	Instant Test (to you only)

•	Next run (of the Email Autoresponder auto.php cron task)

•	On a specific date

•	On a specific day of the week

This is called the broadcast message's Schedule.

You also need to have prepared the text of your plain text and/or HTML messages so that they can be pasted into the broadcast screen.

To create a new broadcast:

1.	Select Campaigns » New Campaign » Broadcast from the menu bar.

A box at the top of the screen shows you how many subscribers are about to receive this broadcast message.

2.	Set all the preferences for the broadcast and paste in the message text.

Click the Help link for detailed information on every option available.

3.	Choose the required Schedule option as just described.

4.	Click the Start/Save button.

If you chose Immediately for the Schedule setting, the broadcast will begin the next time the cron task scheduler runs. Messages are sent as a background process so you can safely close your browser, log off the Internet and your broadcast will continue to be sent.