PIER – PARISHES – “HOW TO SEND” TO PARISHIONERS
PARISHES, HERE BELOW ARE THE STEPS & IMAGES YOU WILL NEED TO PREPARE/SEND AN EMAIL TO YOUR PARISH DATABASE VIA YOUR GROUP/MASS EMAIL MARKETING SERVICE.
1) COPY IMAGES BELOW (TO BE USED IN PARISH EMAIL)
Save the two large (JPG) images BELOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS to your computer. (To do this for the first, blue image: simply, A) Right Click on the image, B) Select “Save image as”, C) Save image to your computer as “Pier—Email Image Compressed”. // Now do the same with the second, gray/black image, only save this second image as “WOF—Email Image Compressed”. Now these should be saved on your computer. These images, one on top of the other, will actually be the entire body of the email you will send to parishioners (as you will see).
2) OPEN YOUR EMAIL MARKETING SERVICE
Open your online marketing service that you use for group/mass emails (i.e. – Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, Etc.) (For parishes who simply use an email service (i.e. – Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Etc), please contact us for easy assistance! Also, we have attached information for a bulletin announcement.)
3) UPLOAD IMAGES TO IMAGE LIBRARY/GALLERY
Upload those two images to the Image Library/Gallery in your email marketing service.
4) BUILD AN EMAIL USING YOUR BRANDING
Either start building a new email, or copy an old existing email. Either way it should have your standard parish header and footer that are on all your parish group/mass emails. Remove all other sections (“blocks”) from the email (i.e. – article block, title block, left side block, etc). Then, insert two image sections (“blocks”), one directly on top of the other. These two image sections (“blocks”) should be the only two sections (“blocks”) between the header and footer. Each should span the entire width of the email template.
5) INSERT IMAGES INTO EMAIL
Insert the two images from Image Library/Gallery in your email marketing service, into the image sections (”blocks”) on the email you are making. The top/first image should be the “Pier—Email Image Compressed”, and the bottom/second image should be the “WOF—Email Image Compressed”. These images, one on top of the other, should fill up the entire body of the email.
6) TURN THE IMAGES INTO LINKS
Using the email editor, link the images by making each entire image a separate link. The top/first image “Pier—Email Image Compressed” should be linked to the web address: www.schooloflovekc.com/pier-lent-2019 . The bottom/second image “WOF—Email Image Compressed” should be linked to the web address: https://dailycatholicgospel.com/sign-up-daily-gospel
7) INSERT TEXT FOR SUBJECT LINE
In the Subject Line, at the top of the email editor, insert the following line: “A Lenten gift for families & individuals from Archbishop Naumann & Fr. _________, for your daily (family) prayer.” Fill in your pastors name in the blank space provided.
8) SCHEDULE YOUR EMAIL
Schedule your email for Sunday, March 3rd at 9:00am. If you are not able to achieve this by the given date, you may send the email instead on Ash Wednesday, March 6th at 9:00am. (At your discretion: Parishes will have higher parishioner participation if they send this email twice, at both the times above.) This email should be sent to your entire parish database.
IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE, JUST CONTACT US. WE’RE HAPPY TO HELP.
info@schooloflovekc.com
913-583-0007
IMAGES TO INSERT IN EMAIL
