How To Use Real-Time Content in your Email Signature

Triggered Messaging is a massively-powerful system to deliver high-volume real-time content, so marketing emails and Web pages are fresh and relevant. But it’s not limited to that – you can use the same capabilities to enhance your business emails wherever they come from: desktop mail clients like Outlook, Webmail like Gmail, your marketing system, your bug tracking system etc.. All your business emails can contain real-time content.

How to Create a Real-Time Signature like this for Your Emails

Create the Real-Time Twitter Feed Block in Triggered Messaging:

• Click Content|SmartBlocks|Twitter Feeds.
• Click “Create Twitter Feed SmartBlock,” then “Properties” (click the question mark icons if you need help).
• Enter the SmartBlock Properties, including a name for it and your TwitterID.
• If you want to customise the block to look exactly like mine: click +Add, enter a Layout Name of your choice, paste the HTML where it says “Edit the HTML” and click “Save”.
• Click “< Smartblocks”, hover over the smartblock you just created, click “Use”, “for Email Personalization” and “Use the SmartBlock In a New Slot”.
• Enter a Slot Name (which can be the same as the SmartBlock name) and click “Save”.
• Where it says “Copy and Paste the following HTML into your email campaign”, this is the HTML for the slot. Make a copy for later.

Create the Real-Time Announcement Block in Triggered Messaging:

• Click Content|SmartBlocks|Custom.
• Click “Create Custom SmartBlock” then “Properties” (click the question mark icons if you need help).
• Enter the SmartBlock Properties, including a name for it.
• You will need to create a new Layout, so click +Add and design the HTML. Paste where it says “Edit the HTML” and click “Save”.
• Click “< Smartblocks”, hover over the smartblock you just created, click “Use”, “for Email Personalization” and “Use the SmartBlock In a New Slot”.
• Enter a Slot Name(which can be the same as the SmartBlock name) and click “Save”.
• Where it says “Copy and Paste the following HTML into your email campaign”, this is the HTML for the slot. Make a copy for later.
• NB: If you already have a company announcements section on a Website page, you can save work by using a Triggered Messaging Webcrop block to automatically copy it for your emails.

Add the real-time content in your email signature, within your email client:

• Design the surrounding HTML for the signature.
• Paste the two copies of “slot” HTML that you made earlier, into the surround
• Save the signature HTML for your signature in a file.
• Copy the signature HTML into the signature in your your email client. (I load the file in a browser, copy it from there using using Ctrl+A Ctrl+C, then paste it at the end of my signature in my email client using Ctrl+V)

And you’re done!

Source: Triggered Messaging; Posted by: Pete Austin; Date: December 19, 2014