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| ===== Setting up batch sending ===== | ===== Setting up batch sending ===== | ||
| - | Checking the box on the Send screen labelled Send in Batches will allow you specify two parameters: | + | Checking the box on the Send screen labelled Send in Batches will allow you to specify two parameters: |
| ^ Name ^ Description ^ | ^ Name ^ Description ^ | ||
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| ===== Batch sending example ===== | ===== Batch sending example ===== | ||
| - | An organisation with a small sales team wish to email their list of 5,000 contacts. In order to manage their daily workloads they decide to send their email over the course of a week. To achieve this, they set the Batch Size to 1,000 contacts, the Delay to 24 hours, and schedule to email to send at 8am. | + | An organisation with a small sales team wish to email their list of 5,000 contacts. In order to manage their daily workloads they decide to send their email over the course of a week. To achieve this, they set the Batch Size to 1,000 contacts, the Delay to 24 hours, and schedule their email to send at 8am. |
| The result is a batch of 1,000 emails being sent every day for five days at 8am. | The result is a batch of 1,000 emails being sent every day for five days at 8am. | ||
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| * The engagement of your contacts. | * The engagement of your contacts. | ||
| - | As a very rough rule of thumb, users of our shared service with a clean list, could consider an approximate maximum send speed of ~60,000/hour. In reality, we have senders who achieve much more than that and some that achieve a lot less. | + | As a very rough rule of thumb, users of our shared service with a clean list could consider an approximate maximum send speed of ~60,000/hour. In reality, we have senders who achieve much more than that and some that achieve a lot less. |
| ===== Cancelling batch sending ===== | ===== Cancelling batch sending ===== | ||
| - | Once an email has started batch sending, it is possible (via the Cancel/Reschedule option on the email's cog meny) to cancel the remaining batches and have the remainder of the emails (excluding the current batch) send in a single group. | + | Once an email has started batch sending, it is possible (via the Cancel/Reschedule option on the email's cog menu) to cancel the remaining batches and have the remainder of the emails (excluding the current batch) send in a single group. |