How Do I Bulk Upload Contacts To A Group?

If you've got an existing mailing list and so you've got lots of contacts in a CSV file, you can upload them all at once! If you've got an Excel spreadsheet, you can save this as a CSV file in Excel - open the file, and save it as a CSV file using 'save as' (under 'File' in Microsoft Excell, or under the big left windows button on the top left in Microsoft Excel 2007 for Vista).

Click on the big orange 'contacts' bubble (it'll be blue if you're already in that section), find the group you want to add contacts to, and click on the orange 'view' link to the right. Then click on the big grey 'bulk add contacts' button at the bottom of that page.

Upload a CSV file that's saved on your computer by clicking on 'Choose File' and finding it on your computer like how you'd add an attachment to an email; a window will pop up showing you you computer files - find the file and click 'open' on the bottom right of the window (on a PC - Macs will vary slightly, but the same principles apply). Then click the big grey 'upload file' button.

Now here's the clever bit - 18amail will find all the columns in your CSV spreadsheet document, and let you pick where to put them! So if you've got column headings in your documents of 'Title', 'First Name', 'Last Name' and 'Email Address', you can select them from drop down lists that the site will show you, and assign them to the right fields in your mailing list. And if you've got columns in your doc that you don't need in the site - you just don't select them! And if you've not got 'Title' or 'Surname' - just the person's first name and email address, then you just match them and select 'Don't Include' for the other options.

Then click on 'upload contacts' to save your changes.



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