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If you’re an eBay Store seller, you can easily create and send email campaigns to subscribers, followers, and past customers who’ve signed up to receive newsletters from your Store. You can use the newsletter to welcome your customers and let them know about new listings.
To design and send an eBay Store newsletter:
In Seller Hub,
Choose your Campaign template from six options:
These templates are designed to help you create and personalize your Store newsletter. Depending on the template you select, standard text and featured items from your Store will be pulled into the newsletter, which you can edit later.
Select the newsletter recipients
Select the active promotion (if any)
Note that an active promotion (coupon, volume pricing, or markdown) is needed for these promotional newsletters. Add a message that explains the value, and eligible listings
Schedule your newsletter. You can plan a one-time email to go out on a specific date, or on a recurring schedule. Scheduled emails will go out to recipients on the same day each week, every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks.
A welcome email is an automated message sent within 24 hours of a buyer clicking on your subscribe button.
Select Review email to preview your email before sending. Check and confirm that all information is correct by clicking the Activate button (1).
Your buyers can receive one newsletter from you every other week. Refresh the content frequently to encourage more buyers to open and click on your emails. If you’ve already created an email for this week, you can schedule a second email to the same recipients two weeks apart.
You can select one or more audience groups to send your Store newsletter to:
If those predefined audience groups don’t fit your promotional campaign, you can use the buyer segmentation tool, buyer groups, to manually create groups yourself.
To create a custom group of buyers, you can pick between two main categories of buyers to engage with — your previous customers and your Store followers. Once selected, you can further define the group by filtering past customers by their most recent purchases (up to 1 year ago) and the item categories that they have purchased, or by filtering followers according to the length of time they have been following you and their buying status.
By selecting Store Newsletter in Seller Hub, you can check all the settings for your email campaigns, such as when the email was created (1) and last sent (2). Use convenient filtering by campaign type (3) and status (4).
A recurring or one-time newsletter has been scheduled to be sent.
A scheduled newsletter has been paused from being sent.
A one-time newsletter has been delivered. It can no longer be edited.
This outgoing email contains an error that requires your attention. To resolve the issue, select Edit from the dropdown feature in the Action column on the left.
Total reach — The total number of buyers you’ve reached
Open rate — Percentage of buyers who have opened your newsletters
Click-through rate (CTR) — Percentage of buyers who have clicked on an item in your newsletters
Total sales — The total sales you made 30 days after a buyer clicks on a product link
Follow these guidelines to deliver compelling campaigns that tell your brand story, highlight new inventory, and build a community of loyal customers:
Subject line — If you’re creating your own subject line, consider personalizing it by thanking your buyer for their recent purchase or mentioning new items you know they’ll love. Keep it short and sweet, and focus on what you’re communicating to your customers
About us — Use this section to tell your potential customers a little bit about your Store, your brand, and your commitment to customer service
Featured listings — If you use the Featured listings section, the algorithm will choose the items to feature based on the criteria you select. For example, you could choose to highlight new inventory or items with a reduced price. You can also manually select listings one at a time to get exactly the listings you want to promote
Frequency — To ensure buyers have the best experience on eBay, they are protected from getting more than one email from you in a 14 day timeframe. Please space out your emails so that all buyers get to hear from you
