GetResponse Complete Fundamental Tutorial You Should Never Missed

Thanks for dropping by to my personal create step by step for GetResponse tutorial. Hopefully this tutorial will benefit to all of you especially beginner or for those who is still doing decision making which email marketing service provider to choose.

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My suggestion is why not to go thru my tutorial below to check what GetResponse special features will benefit for you when you want to use email marketing for your business.

Additionally, in case you don't know, GetResponse generously give FREE trial account for 30 days. All you need to do is providing email address and create password for the account without providing any your credit card details.

Once you put your email address and password, click Sign up button. It will go to page below which ask you to check your email to activate your brand new GetResponse account.  

When you go to your Inbox, you will find GetResponse will send you email as below. Just click the 'Activate Your Account' and you are done. You can have GetResponse 30 days free trial account to tryout before you decide to upgrade to paid subscription. 

Tutorial Overview

In this tutorial, I will cover 4 main part which is as below

Create a new Campaign

What is Campaign?

Before we go in detailed into create the campaign, let us understand about the campaign.

A campaign is a set of messages sent to a specified group of contacts. Campaigns can consist of two types of messages:

First and foremost, you may find the create campaign at the top right of the GetResponse Dashboard.

After you click on create campaign, it will bring you to page below. Enter the new campaign name and click on 'Create Campaign' button.

Good Job! You have just done create your very first campaign. Next step you can start create your autoresponder message or newsletters.

Before we go to next step, if in the process you want to change the campaign details. You can always go to top right of your dashboard. You will found there is a gear logo. 

Edit Campaign Details

In the General tab

1. Campaign Name – you can edit your campaign name later if you find the campaign name is impropriate after this.

2. Campaign Language – You may change to any language if you have any different targeted audience.

3. Subscribe via Email – This is the features which enable your audience subscribe to your campaign by replying your email. Normally, I will recommend to off this features which I prefer to request your audience to confirm their subscription once they provide email in your opt in form.

4. Notification – Recommended to turn on notification. This is to request Getresponse to send email to your email once got new subscriber subscribe to your campaign.

5. Postal address – Your postal address of your business. Required by US CAN SPAM law

In the Profile tab

6. Campaign title - Title of the campaign for your own referance. Different with campaign name which campaign name is the name which Getresponse reference

7. Category - You may choose the category which related to your campaign

8. Campaign description - Add some campaign description to your future reference

9. Logo - You may add your website logo by providing your website logo URL.

10. RSS feed - Recommend remain unchanged for this.

11. Preview your pages – To preview your confirmation page, Unsubscribe page. Unsubscribe success page and Newsletter directory.

In the Permission tab

12. Enable confirmed opt-in – recommended all select the subscriptions for email, web and API.

13. Confirmation message

• Message type - You can choose in HTML or Plain text
• From field - The email address that you want send from to your subscriber.
• Message subject - You may select suitable message subject that Getresponse provided.
• Customize confirmation message - Getresponse provide few template which you can choose for

14. Confirmation Page - You can either to choose hosted by GetResponse or Custom URL (your own website)

Create Autoresponder

In order to create autoresponder message and newsletter, you can always to find it at the top of the bar at the dashboard.

In this tutorial, I only cover for autoresponder message because the step to create newsletter will be similar to create autoresponder.​

Once you click on 'Create Autoresponder', you will see as page below. 

On day '0' means the day which your subscriber sign up. ​Select the campaign which you want to create your autoresponder. 

Next, select the schedule to send the message. There will be 3 options you can choose for.
1. Send message 'immediately'
2. Send message 'with delay of [time]
3. Send message 'not earlier than' 

Autoresponder Done For You layout and Start From Scratch

You can start to create your very first autoresponder in the campaign. 

​GetResponse provide numbers of 'Done-For-You' template message which you can choose for. The design looks very attractive and professional looks. The thing you only need to do is to change the words to your own message.

If you don't like the design template available. Always to choose 'Start From Scratch' on the top left. With this you can design you very own unique template. We will cover more how to create message 'Start From Scratch' since the template is easy to understand and use.

Choose 'Start From Scratch', you will see on the page below​. Choose any template layout you prefer. For this tutorial. I will just choose for 1 column-3.

Element arrangement for the layout

Finish with choosing the template you want, you can add several element as below.

GetResponse provide drag-and-drop features when you design your message. After you done writing your message, you are able to preview your message how it looks in the mobile phone device.

Once done, click on 'Next step' and 'Save & Publish' You will see the first autoresponder been created and you can create your next message as below.

Create Form

This is my favourite part which GetResponse provide comprehensive on form creation. 

Where you can find​ 'Create Form button'. On 'Dashboard' page at the top of the bar.

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List Builder Wizard

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List Building Apps

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List building apps is the different kind and size of form to embedded in your website.

Download Form

Fixed Bar

Image Box

Sign Up Box

Exit Popup

Scroll Box

Shake Box

Plan HTML

For this portion I won’t cover on it. Except if you have some knowledge on HTML, else I won’t recommend you use on this. It is not necessary and wasting time if you want learn on this

Integration

Landing Page

Automation

If you have any problem or question.when starting your GetResponse campaign, feel free to leave me a comment below. Any comment or opinion how can I improved my tutorial blog post, please leave me comment as well. 😀