How To Send An Email Blast in gmail

HOW TO SEND MASS EMAILS OR BULK EMAILS IN GMAIL 

Create email campaigns with Gmail and Google Sheets. Personalize & track each email sent. Yet Another Mail Merge is so easy to set up that everybody can use it! In a couple of clicks, send bulk emails to a mailing list without any coding knowledge.

  1. Create a spreadsheet

Log into your Google Drive account. On left sidebar, click New then Google Sheets to create a spreadsheet. You’ll be importing your email recipients' contact information here, so give it a descriptive name.

Next, go to the menu bar and select Add-ons then Get add-ons. This takes you to Google’s add-on store. In the search window, type a name for your mail merge script—for this example, we'll use Yet Another Mail Merge—and hit Enter.

This is a public mail merge script. Click the Free button, and a window will open, asking for various permissions to access Google Sheets, Contacts, and Gmail. Click Accept. A window will pop up under Add-ons on the menu bar, indicating that the script has been installed. Click the X to close it.

2. Import your contacts

The next step is to import your email recipients into the spreadsheet. Click Add-ons then Yet Another Mail Merge then Import contacts from a group. A small window will open with a drop-down menu of all the contact groups in your Gmail account. You can also go into Gmail, and create a new group with all the contacts you want to include in your mail merge. Then repeat the steps above and select this group from the drop-down menu. Click Import contacts, and those contacts will populate your spreadsheet.

3. Draft your email message

Now open a new browser tab and log into your Gmail account. Click Compose to open a new message. Type a title in the subject field and compose the body of your message. Then type $%headername% anywhere you want to insert column data from your spreadsheet. For example, type Dear $%First Name% if you want each email to use the recipient’s first name in the greeting. Once you’re done, click X to close the message, and it will automatically save to your Drafts folder.

4. Perform the mail merge

Go back to your spreadsheet and click Add-ons then Yet Another Mail Merge then Start mail merge. In the window that opens, select the title of your email message from the Drafts drop-down menu. Check the Track Emails Opened box if you want to see which of your recipients opens the email.

To make sure everything is formatting correctly, click Send me a test email to receive a sample message. Toggle to Gmail and check the message. If everything looks good, return to that dialog box and click Send Emails. You’ll now see EMAIL_SENT next to each contact in the Merge Status column of your spreadsheet. If you want to perform another mail merge from that same spreadsheet, remember to delete that text from the Merge Status column of each recipient you want to email again. 

Mass email is a mass marketing method that produces very significant results. When it comes to mass emails and mass mailer, there is no real difference between the two terms. They both mean bulk sending of promotional emails to your customers and contacts. At times, people mistake mass emails for spam.

In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It usually involves using email to send advertisements, request business, or solicit sales or donations, and is meant to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness.



the automatic addition of names and addresses from a database to letters and envelopes in order to facilitate sending mail, especially advertising, to many addresses.

simply open a Google Sheets. If you are not logged, connect to Drive with the account where you want to install YAMM. Then follow these steps:

1. Open the add-ons menu from your Google Sheets

2. Type 'Yet Another Mail Merge' in the search bar

3. Click on the button '+ FREE' to install the add-on

4. Accept the authorizations

Once you installed Yet Another, two pop-ups will appear on your spreadsheet. You should then see the new entry 'Yet Another Mail Merge' under the add-ons menu:

You can now close both pop-ups, start to import your contacts or add them yourself to your spreadsheet. You are now ready to start a campaign!

Your daily quota for Yet Another Mail Merge varies on the type of your Google account (G Suite or Gmail) and the different plans.

Free version

With the free version of Yet Another Mail Merge, you can send emails up to 50 recipients every 24 hours.

If this 50 recipients / day limit is not enough for you, you can subscribe to one of our paid plans and get much more quota, or use our referral program which is free, but limited in time.