How to Not Miss Out on Our E-Blasts

09 Dec How to Not Miss Out on Our E-Blasts

Hello #ChamberFamily!

You may have noticed that our e-Blasts have gotten a “make over” – better design, images and content! We are now using Mailchimp to send out the e-Blasts and the feedback has been great! However, to ensure that you are receiving the e-Blasts properly, especially the very important Thursday’s Membership Update, we’ve created this easy step-by-step guide you can follow and adjust your email settings! If your email service provider isn’t listed here, please let us know so we can help you out!

In addition to the e-Blasts guide, we’ve created an easy step-by-step for Facebook and Instagram – make sure you update your settings to not miss out on our updates!

e-Blasts:

1- Add the emails membership@straitareachamber.ca and info@straitareachamber.ca to your contacts book.

a. For Gmail users:

• Visit  https://contacts.google.com and login with your credentials
• Click on “Create Contact”

• Fill in the form with the following information:
  • First Name: Susan
  • Last Name: Fox
  • Company: Strait Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Email membership@straitareachamber.ca
    • Click “Save”.

• Repeat the steps with the following information:
  • First Name: Amanda
  • Last Name: Mombourquette
  • Company: Strait Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Email info@straitareachamber.ca

b. For Hotmail users: Source

• Sign in to your Windows Live Hotmail account. Click the “Contact list” link located under the Related Places section in bottom left corner.
• Click “New” and then type in the contact’s information.
• Select the “Save” button. You have successfully added a new contact in Windows Live Hotmail.

c. For Outlook users (Newer versions post-Office 2010):

• Click “People” at the bottom of the screen.

• From the File menu, select New Contact or press Ctrl+N.

• Enter a name and any other information that you want to include for the contact.
• If you want to immediately create another contact, choose Save & New (this way, you don’t have to start over for each contact).
• When you’re done entering new contacts, choose Save & Close.

2- Other email provider users, please refer to your helpdesk or support to learn how to add an email to your contact book.

3- Filter and Label the emails membership@straitareachamber.ca, info@straitareachamber.ca, amanda@straitareachamber.ca, susan@straitareachamber.ca and taina@straitareachamber.ca as “Never send to Spam”.

a. For Gmail users:

• Select an email message sent by membership@straitareachamber.ca or info@straitareachamber.ca (if you don’t have any message from these senders in your inbox, select a message from any other sender)

• Click on the “3 dots” icon on the menu tool bar

• Select “Filter messages like these” from the dropdown menu

• In the pop up screen, make sure the email addresses membership@straitareachamber.ca or info@straitareachamber.ca are written on the “From” field. (Make sure this is the only entry on this form.)
• In case you selected a message with a different sender, clean the fields and type the emails above to create the filter.
• Click on “Create Filter”

• Click on the checkbox “Never Sent it to Spam” and click on “Create Filter”

b.  For Outlook users, please refer to this link

c. For Hotmail users, to choose from which addresses Hotmail should never send email to spam, access the Safe senders list and type the email addresses into the list. Source

• Click the settings gear icon at the top right of Outlook.com.
• Click View all Outlook settings at the bottom of the pop-out menu.
• Go to Mail > Junk email.
• Type a sender’s email address or domain into the text box in the Safe senders area.
• Click Add.
• Click Save at the top of the page.

Let us know if you need any help with these setups. Contact us today at (902) 625-1588 or email membership@straitareachamber.ca