Prepare your contact list
Open up your contact list. An Excel file (.xlsx) or CSV is fine—whichever format you already have. Make sure:
- It's only got one column for phone numbers. We don't care what you name the column. Just make sure your numbers are in there.
- Any other columns you want to reference in the message: First name? Company? Order number? Awesome.
- Numbers are written WITH the country code up front (+234 for Nigeria, +1, +44…). Numbers that aren't formatted this way will be rejected during upload. You don't want to discover this when you hit launch.
Compose your campaign
Upload your contacts
Go to Campaigns in the sidebar and click New Campaign. Drop your spreadsheet into the page. SMSDora will automatically read your columns, so there's no separate mapping screen to navigate.
Personalise your message
Enter your message into the box. Wherever you'd like to insert something from your spreadsheet, wrap it in double curly braces. Like so: Hi {{Name}}, your order is on its way! becomes "Hi Sarah, your order is on its way!" when your message sends to Sarah. And so on, for everyone else.
Send your message!
Launch your campaign
Take one last look, then click Launch Campaign. You can tab away and watch the delivery count increase, or you can come back to anxiously refresh the page. Your message will send either way.
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