What You’ll Learn
In this guide, you’ll learn how to:- Create a newsletter with custom content segments
- Add articles to newsletter segments
- Generate and review newsletter variants
- Edit and verify newsletter content
- Publish and export your newsletter
Before You Start
Prerequisites:- Active BeatSquares account with newsletter access
- At least one Square created with the “newsletter” output format
Each square has a specific output format. To create a newsletter, you need a square with the output format “newsletter”.
- Newsletter content and messaging strategy
- Articles or content sources to include
- Brand assets (logos, colors, fonts) if customizing
Creating Your Newsletter
Navigate to Your Square
Go to your dashboard and click on the square where you want to create the newsletter.
Editing Content Segments
Newsletters are built using segments. Each segment can contain custom text content or articles, events or press releases. The segments are pre-defined per Square as part of the so called “Blueprint”. If you want to change the segments, please contact BeatSquares. You’ll edit segments one at a time.Editing a Manual Content Segment
Add Text Content
You can add custom text content to your segment. Click on Click to add content again to add a text element, or highlight existing text to edit it.
Edit Text Content
Click on highlight to select and edit text, or paste content directly into the element.
Adding Articles to Segments
After creating a content segment, you can add articles to generate newsletter content based on your selected articles.
Select Articles
Check the articles you want to include in this segment. Available articles are based on the categories chosen in your Square settings.
Generate Segment
Click Generate to create newsletter content for this segment based on the selected articles.
Reviewing and Editing Segments
Once your segments are generated, you can review different variants and make edits.
Check Variants
Once segments are generated, you can check different variants (Var 2, Var 3, etc.) by clicking on the variant tabs.
Regenerating Segments
If you want to switch a segment to use different input sources or regenerate the content, you can use the regenerate feature.
Select Source Type
Choose your content source. Click on Events or Press Releases depending on your content type.
Overview Segments
Overview segments use the content of the other segments and generate an overview.
Publishing Your Newsletter
Once all segments are verified and you’re satisfied with the content, you can publish your newsletter.
What’s Next?
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