How To Guides
Course Content
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Your Account
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How the Trial Works
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How to Change Your Plan and Billing
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How to See Your Account Overview
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Account Administrators
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Changing Your Time Zone
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Merging Multiple Simplero IDs
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Password Security
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Submitting a Feature Request
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Submitting a Help Ticket
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Simplero Account FAQ
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Closing your Account
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Simplero Search and Filter Option
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Setting Brand Colors
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Places to Change Colors and Graphics
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Setting Labels
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The Notice Box
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Default Account Currency
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Default Account Email Contact Information
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Account Location and Language
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Account Terms
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Flex Plans
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Billing at Simplero
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Your First Three Wins
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Getting In-Person Help with Concierge
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Cookie Consent Banner
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Domains and URLs
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Website
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Website Overview
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Website Settings
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Website Pages
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Website Blog
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Website Navigation
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Understanding SEO
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How to Customize Your Website Theme
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Save As Template Feature
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Product Catalog
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Editing your Theme Code
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Save Website to Phone Home Screen
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Create Your Own 404 Page
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Social Sharing
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Social Sharing Image
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How to Create Anchor Links
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How to Add a Custom Font to Your Simplero Website or Membership Site7:14
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How Can You Add the Pinterest Save Button to Your Website Images?2:21
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Your Media Files
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Landing Pages
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Forms
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Form Fields
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Creating Opt-In Form
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How to Setup List opt-in Forms8:53
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Embedded Opt-In Forms
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Utilizing More Than One Opt-in Form
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Sign-up Forms on Your Simplero Sites
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Viewing Custom Questions On Order Forms
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Default Opt-in Box on Order Forms
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Use Merge Fields to Register a Subscriber for a Webinar
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How to Install Google Analytics Tracking Code3:13
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Lists & Contacts
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How to Manage Your Lists and Contacts
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Creating a List
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List Confirmation
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Subscription: Auto-subscribe, Unsubscribe, Suspend, Resume
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Unengaged Subscribers and Contact Cleanup2:29
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Exporting Contacts from my List
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Merging Duplicate Contacts
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Changing a Participants Email Address
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Seeing What Your Customers Sees
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Tags
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Segments
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Do Not Contact and Bounced Emails
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Preventing SPAM Contacts
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5 Kick @$$ Strategies to Build your List
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Preferred Sender Program
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Cold Contacts Tracking
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Broadcasts
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Broadcast Overview
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Email Template Design
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Email Font Size
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Creating a Broadcast
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Send an Email to an Individual or Single Contact
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Resend a Broadcast
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Handle Replies to Mass Emails with Ease
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Expiring Links
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Insert Option for Broadcasts
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Magic Content URL
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Interpolation Keys
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Editing an Incorrect Link in a Broadcast
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Auto-publishing a Page in a Broadcast
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Using Emojis
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Subject Lines and Preheaders
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Newsletter Scheduler
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Email Deliveries
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About Open Rates for Broadcasts and Auto-Responses
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How the Sending Limit Works
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What Do the Secretive Options Mean
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Why Simplero Doesn't Do Fancy Graphic Emails
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Delaying Normal Broadcasts During an Email Funnel
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What Is the Spam Check on Emails?
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Editing the email footer
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Creating a Button in a Broadcast
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Delivery vs. Deliverability
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Other Customer Communications
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Membership Sites
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Creating a Membership Site
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Membership Site Blog
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Membership Site Forum
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Membership Site Pages
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One Membership Site with Multiple Products/Classes
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Page Access
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How to Use Auto-Publishing Pages (AKA Dripping Content)
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Courses5:12
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Quizzes
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Course Preview
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Membership Site Footer Navigation
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Membership Site Redirects
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Membership Site Theme
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Podcast Feature in Membership Sites (RSS)
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Embedding Videos on Your Site
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Free and Paid Access to a Single Membership Site
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Auto-publishing: A Visual Representation
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Membership Groups
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Products
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Creating a Product
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Closing a Product
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Deleting a Product
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Creating Multi-Level Access Products
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Membership Levels
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Combining a Tangible Product With Your Online Product
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Tiered Pricing in a Single Product
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Evergreen Course
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Student Paced Course
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Connecting Content to a Product
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Selling a Downloadable Product
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Purchase Confirmation Thank You Page
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Product Pricing
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Payment Processor Setup
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Understanding the Manual Payment Processor
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Switching Payment Processor Mid-Stream
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How to Create Product Prices in Simplero
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A Warning about Editing an Active Price
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Campaign and Discount Pricing
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Credits
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Multiple Seat/User Pricing
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Secret Prices and Coupon Codes
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Global Coupons
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Subscription Prices
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Gift Pricing
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Pay-What-You-Can
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Price Restrictions
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Quoting Prices in Multiple Currencies
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Collecting Tax
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EU Vat
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Taxes on Multiple Currency Products
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Date Specific Installments
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Milestone Installments
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Trial Period (Free or Discounted)
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Giving a Paid Customer a Free Month
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Free Products
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Participant Limit
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Collecting an Outstanding Balance
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Upsells
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Downsales
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Order Bumps
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Order Forms
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Order Form vs Freebie Link
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Authorize-Only Pricing
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Why do my customers have to manually go in and pay the next installment/renewal of their subscription?
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Troubleshooting Payments and Refunds
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Troubleshooting Payment Processor Issues
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Understanding Your Change in Monthly Recurring Revenue Graph
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Purchases and Participants
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Participants 101 and Simplero IDs
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Purchases 101
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Editing a Purchase
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Charges & Payments Box in the Purchase
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Purchase Summary
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Moving a Purchase to Another Product
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Adding a Charge to an Existing Purchase
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Editing a Charge Amount
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Manual Product Purchase
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Manual Credit Card Charge
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Manual Payment or Partial Payment Collection
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Refund Period
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Full and Partial Refunds
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Credit to Transactions
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Collecting Money Outside Simplero
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Stop Customers Subscription Payments and Keep their Access Open
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Migrating a Customer's Purchases from Another System
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How to Test the Purchase Process and Send Login Credentials
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Renewal Notifications
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Invoice Settings
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Invoices and Expenses1:31
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Retrying Failed Charges
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Automation
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All the Ways You Can Automate Things in Simplero
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Automations: Creating and Managing
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Starting an Automation
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Stopping, Pausing, Resuming an Automation
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Reentering or Starting Mid Automation
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Time Zone Specific Automations
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Flows
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Advancing a Flow in an Automation
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Using Automations for Sales Funnels
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Duplicate Automations in Different Languages
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Email Library
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Triggers Overview
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Adding a New Trigger to an Existing List or Product
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Triggers on Link Clicks
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Triggers on Prices
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Abandoned Cart Trigger
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Global Triggers - Targeting and Re-Targeting Leads
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Working with Webhook Triggers
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Bulk Actions
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Global Snippets
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What is the Difference Between Automations and Auto-Responses?
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Marketing & Affiliates
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Integrations
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Integrating Simplero With Your Website
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API Keys
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Zapier
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Acuity Scheduling for Bookings
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Leadpages
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WebinarJam
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EverWebinar
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How to Integrate Simplero with Mailchimp
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Twitter
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How to Configure PayPal Payment Processor3:15
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Authorize.net
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How to setup MobilePay
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Embed Your Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides into Simplero
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Install Google Tag Manager on Simplero
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Facebook Messenger Chat
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Embed a Facebook Page Widget
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Facebook Pixel and Verifying Domains2:12
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How To Use the New Zoom Integration
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Trouble Shooting
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Can't access the content they purchased?
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Email Shows "Read" But not "Delivered"
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Troubleshooting Stripe payment issues
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Troubleshooting Email Addresses
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Troubleshooting Opt-in Form Issues
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Why is my E-mail not being delivered?
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Troubleshooting Forum Notifications
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Troubleshoot Price Issues
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Debug a Facebook Share / LinkedIN share
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When a PayPal Payment Doesn't Show in Simplero
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QuickPay Payment Doesn't Show in Simplero
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Troubleshooting Space Access (A deprecated feature)
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Troubleshooting Videos Not Playing
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Troubleshooting Upload issues
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Microsoft Says a File Has a Virus
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Deprecated Features
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Spaces (deprecated)
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Space FAQ (deprecated)
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Space and Space Page Access (deprecated)
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Page Types (deprecated)
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One Space Multiple Products/Classes (deprecated)
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Free Spaces and Spaces with both Free and Paid content (deprecated)
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Multi-Language Spaces (deprecated)
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Postponing Access to a Space Until Later (deprecated)
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Rearranging the Tabs/Pages/Subpages Within a Space (deprecated)
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Embedding Videos in Your Spaces (deprecated)
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Resurrect a Deleted Space (deprecated)
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Podcast Feature in Spaces (deprecated)
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FAQ Page in Your Space (Deprecated)
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Adding a Home Link to the Navigation Menu in Spaces (Deprecated)
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Deactivating Landing Pages (deprecated )
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How to Embed a PDF into a Course
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Nerdy stuff
How to Manage Your Lists and Contacts
A list is a group of contacts who have opted-in to receive emails from you, and knowing how to manage and nurture your list(s) is essential to running an online business. Often, a list is referred to as your newsletter, but you might also have a list for a webinar, a summit, or a specific free content download. Below are some of the best practices for managing your lists and contacts.
House List
Most businesses should have one main email list that they send regular newsletters or emails to. In Simplero, this will be the list marked with a little house next to it. The house list, we call it affectionately. If you have multiple distinct audiences, you might have several main lists. When you send broadcasts, you want to always send them to your house list, unless it's specific to one of your sub-lists.
Additional or Sub-Lists
Create sub-lists for events, webinars, or opt-ins.
While it's important to create sub-lists for specific events, webinars, or opt-ins, you still want to add those subscribers to your main list, so they receive your regular emails and newsletters.
For campaigns, typically, it's best to wait until the campaign is over before you add subscribers to your main list.
To add subscribers to your main list:
- Select Contacts from your Simplero Dashboard.
- Select Lists from the dropdown menu.
- Select your House or Main list.
- Select the Add subscribers tab.
- Select the Copy from other tab.
- Select from Lists or Products and mark the options you want for your Import options and Auto responses.
- Click the blue Copy now button to save.
For evergreen funnels or special offers, you can add subscribers to your main list right away. In this case, the easiest way is to set up a trigger on the sub-list that also adds subscribers to the main list. You can temporarily pause emails to that list while subscribers are in the funnel by using triggers or adding a step in your automation funnel.
Check out our guide on triggers for more on setting those up.
When you're done with a sub-list, just click the little star next to the list on the overview, and we'll hide it from then on. It's not too hard to find, but this way, it won't clutter up your main list screen anymore.
Again, we want to emphasize that unless a broadcast is specific to sub-lists, it's always best to email the main house list.
If you have your sub-lists set up with a trigger to auto add everyone to the main newsletter, you won't have to worry about missing any contacts!
Adding to Your House List From a Product
When you send newsletters and sales promos, we always encourage sending them to your house list, so it's a good idea to get people from your products into your main list. This can be done through a trigger in the product or by having an option on the order form allowing the customers to choose if they want to be on that list.
Importing a List From Another Server
When you import subscribers to a current list, you'll want to do so before turning ON Autoresponders or adding a Trigger to start an automation. This way, previous subscribers don't receive the welcome sequence a second time.
Who Counts as a Contact?
People who meet these 5 criteria count as a contact in your Simplero account:
- Contacts who have made a purchase, whether it's free or paid... we need to keep these around for accounting.
- Contacts actively subscribed to a list.
- Contacts currently in an automation (if they've completed it, they don't count).
- Contacts that have been tagged.
- Contacts that are part of an affiliate program.
We don't count contacts that have asked us never to contact them ("Do not contact") unless they've made a purchase.
People only count once as a contact no matter how many purchases, lists, automation, or tags they have (assuming they are using the same email address each time).
You can view plans here to see how many contacts are included in your plan or check out Plan and Billing under Settings from your Simplero Dashboard.
How "Do Not Contact" Works
Customers can choose to ask us not to contact them again. It's like a "kill-switch" for all communications, whether for lists, products, affiliate programs, or anything else, and counts for all forms of communication, including broadcast, auto-response, or text message.
Do Not Contact:
- Doesn't include transactional emails like invoices, password resets, etc., but it does cover all broadcasts and emails.
- Doesn't actually unsubscribe people from anything; it just stops all the emails and texts.
If a contact chooses to switch back to "Do Contact," all their subscriptions will be intact as they left them, and emails and texts will pick back up.
We need this feature because it makes it easier for people to unsubscribe in one go if they're on multiple lists, products, etc., and you're sending emails or texts to multiple lists, products, etc. We also use this feature because as we add tagging and segmentation, it's effectively the only way for people to opt-out.
GDPR notice for those doing business in the EU: Please keep in mind when using triggers based on customer actions that you comply with GDPR because actions such as these may violate rules in regards to consent and profiling. When you add someone to your house list after the purchase of a product, it's best practice to use the consent checkbox instead of a trigger that does it automatically. You can do the same thing on a list opt-in to a sub-list by using a custom checkbox asking for consent and then adding a trigger to that custom form field that adds a person to the house list. This message does not constitute legal advice. If you have a question about compliance, please consult a lawyer.
How Does Simplero Remove Duplicate Emails When Sending a Broadcast to Multiple Audiences?
Great question! When sending a single broadcast to multiple classifications, Simplero will automatically remove the duplicate emails.
Let's say you have a customer named Sally in all four of the following classifications:
- Zebras Rock (the house list)
- Apples and Bananas (tag)
- Xylophone Course (product)
- Laughing Hyenas (segment)
This isn't ideal, as Sally can't unsubscribe from a tag or a segment. That's why we always recommend sending broadcasts to a list or a sublist. This way, your contact can unsubscribe.
We encourage our users to not overdo it with sending broadcasts to multiple classifications. If a contact is on more than one classification, they have to unsubscribe from each one separately to stop getting emails from you.
It's best to make it easy for your contacts to know what they've signed up for by adding them to a minimal number of lists with easily understandable names.