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Improving the Create Campaign Function in Smartlead

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Can we improve the create campaign in smartlead function? It's got a lot of potenial but it's been configured wrong

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    Kareem Amin
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    Larry L. is working on revamping this!

  • Avatar of Tanvi R.
    Tanvi R.
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    Thanks for reaching out Leo! One of our engineers Larry is currently working on revamping this feature right now and I'd love to pass along your feedback to take into consideration. Could you share more about the main problem you're encountering with the current Smartlead create campaign set up? Understanding this will help us offer the best solution for your needs! Feel free to share more details.

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    Leo B.
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    So - I'd love to create a campaign from clay to smart without have to do copy straight away (subject line & body). Just the ability to create the campaign and then send the leads in the campaign works the best. I always plug copy after this step

  • Avatar of Tanvi R.
    Tanvi R.
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    Got it Leo, so just to clarify you are looking for the option to create a new Smartlead campaign directly from Clay and then send new leads from Clay into that campaign?

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    Leo B.
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    yeah correct

  • Avatar of Tanvi R.
    Tanvi R.
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    Got it Leo, can you share how you are currently doing this right now? We currently only have native integrations to Update, Add, Lookup and Remove Leads from a Campaign so I'm not sure which create campaign function you're referring to

  • Avatar of Leo B.
    Leo B.
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    Right now I am doing everything manual exporting via csv into smartlead. I don't use clays smartlead feature

  • Avatar of Leo B.
    Leo B.
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    but basically I would like the ability to create a campaign from clay. The function is forcing me to create a message to create the campaign which I don't want to do just yet. I want to create the campaign, populate with leads and then import the copy

  • Avatar of Tanvi R.
    Tanvi R.
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    Hey Leo, in our Add Lead to Campaign option you don't have to create a message to add leads to a campaign. You can simply link the email address of the contact along with any identifying properties and add them to a Smartlead campaign. Any email copy would actually be added as a custom field (which is optional). https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/w28k1kwz/1225204364/0e3ba8d3c5ed9c786617bffd87d7/CleanShot+2024-10-22+at+15_53_34%402x.png?expires=1729629000&signature=8c834432371c9d361e207621fac99e3ba3c1d1c32bf89daf352e76d16c171950&req=dSIlE8t%2BmYJZXfMW1HO4zbfKbk2E2tfXMHOrGkWUS6sK4LJ4%2FXMrzKXKwFFd%0A7Nh5%0A Please note that you would still need to create the campaign itself in Smartlead, but you can still populate the leads without importing the copy. I hear you on the creating campaign option and I'll take this back to our team! In the meantime, could you try using this Add Lead to Campaign feature and let us know what you think? This should solve at least half of your issue!

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    Larry L.
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    Hi Leo- thanks for the feedback. As Kareem mentioned above, we're working on improving that part of the experience and hope to have something to share soon! Until then, Tanvi's earlier comment is spot-on with what I'd recommend: you should be able to push any data you want to your given Smartlead campaign via the Add Lead to Campaign enrichment's custom variables field. In fact, you can even supply full HTML snippets (which can be built via Clay's AI enrichments) for use in your Smartlead emails.

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    We haven't heard back from you in a bit, so we're going to go ahead and close things out here - feel free to let us know if you still need something!

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  • Avatar of Craig P.
    Craig P.
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    Leo R. is there a tutorial anywhere on this feature? Are you saying I can push my email body column in to Smartlead via the add leads to Smartlead feature?

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    Thanks! We've reopened this thread. You can continue to add more detail directly in this thread.

  • Avatar of Craig P.
    Craig P.
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    Leo R. is there a tutorial anywhere on this feature? Are you saying I can push my email body column in to Smartlead via the add leads to Smartlead feature?

  • Avatar of Tanvi R.
    Tanvi R.
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    Hey Craig, here's a tutorial from Clay University on how to push your full email campaign to Smartlead including the email body: Tutorial

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    Bo (.
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    Exactly. You would simply add the column in the custom fields of the enrichment with the forward slash.

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