Hi how can i add an image to smartlead via Clay integration, and automate a sequence? Use case: creating custom images , and I want to email them out, but it looks like smartlead just pulls the url in their sequence tool and not the image... what should I do? Thanks
We don't have a direct way to include images in Smartlead emails through Clay integration. However, you can use custom fields to include image URLs in your email content. Here's how:
1. In Clay, add a custom field for your image URL.
2. When setting up the Smartlead integration in Clay, map this custom field to Smartlead.
3. In your Smartlead email template, use the custom field variable to insert the image URL.
For example, if your custom field is named "image_url", you might use HTML like this in your Smartlead template: LBKS<img src="{{image_url}}" alt="Custom Image"> LBKS
This approach ensures the image is displayed in the email, not just the URL.
Would you like more information on setting up custom fields in the Clay-Smartlead integration?
I tried this <img src="{{image_url}}" but it still shows up as a url.
Hey Ali, thanks for reaching out! When you say still shows up as a URL is this when you click Preview in Smartlead?
yeah or even send a test email
Got it. Looking into this a bit further, will get back to you as soon as I know more. :)
I am curious, could you send a screenshot of the body of the email you're trying to preview with the URL and then of the preview itself?
Would love to share this with our engineering team
of course
thanks
Hey Ali, just bumped our engineer who works with Smartlead a ton! Try passing this <img src="https://clay-image-generation.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/4eb9a708-4b4d-4703-96ac-fd51e4e76501.png" />
as the variable to be passed into Smartlead.
As in you may need another formula column like
"<img src="{{image url from gpt}}" /> " and then pass this entire payload into Smartlead
He just tested it using this process and it appeared to work great!