After you have created a message and are planning to send it to a group, you can also post the message to any social-media accounts with which your Thrive Marketing Enterprise account is linked.
NOTE: Social-media accounts are managed on the Social Accounts Dashboard on the Admin > Social page.
Understand social-media options
There are several social-media related options available as you create and send messages. These options make it possible:
- for you to share messages to the social-media accounts that are linked to your Thrive Marketing Enterprise account and
- for your message recipients to share your messages (or parts of them) to their social-media accounts.
Review the descriptions in this section to understand the purpose and functionality of each option.
NOTE: There is no interdependency among any of these options. They function individually, and any or all of them can be used simultaneously. Each executes its intended purpose and does not influence or impact any of the others.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Configure Social Versions (the focus of this article) | Use this option if you want to post the current message to any of the social-media accounts with which your Thrive Marketing Enterprise account is linked. |
| Social Sharing zone | Add this zone to a template or message to include social-media site icons in your message. Message recipients will then be able to click an icon to share the entire message to their own accounts on that social-media site. This zone is for the express purpose of including social-media site icons in a message. |
| Article zone; Add a SWYN zone for this article setting | When configuring this zone, check this box to include a Social Sharing zone in your template or message. Message recipients will then be able to click an icon to share this article (not the entire message) to their own social-media accounts. This zone can host various types of content, including social-media site icons. Using this zone adds Social Articles as the third step in the configuration process. |
| Admin > Social page | This is not an option like the others; rather, it is the Dashboard on which you manage the social-media accounts that have been linked to your Thrive Marketing Enterprise account. Linked social-media accounts could be personal accounts and/or those of your organization. |
Share your message on social media
To configure "social" versions of your message:
- Navigate to the 1. Setup Job step in the designer.
- In the 1 | Send Details section, locate Configure Social Versions and click Post/Tweet this message.
The Social dialog displays.
TIP: On the Social dialog, you can click Manage Accounts to add and/or remove social-media accounts just as you would on the Social Accounts Dashboard on the Admin > Social page.
- On the Social dialog:
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- check a social-media site checkbox to post/tweet a version of your message to an account on that site. You can:
- post/tweet to more than one social-media site.
- post/tweet to only one linked account per social-media site.
- click the dropdown to choose a linked account on a social-media site.
- check a social-media site checkbox to post/tweet a version of your message to an account on that site. You can:
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- In the text field, type or paste the content that you want to post/tweet. A link to your message will be added at the end of your post/tweet.
- Repeat these steps for any other social-media sites to which you want to post/tweet this message.
- Click Submit.
The Configure Social Versions option updates to Edit Social Versions.
- Complete the message-setup steps (Setup Job, Select Groups, Review & Send) as described in Send a Message and then send or schedule your message.
Related articles
- To learn about the features and functions that you can use while working in Message Editor, see Message Editor Overview.
- Message Editor Zones and Layouts is a high-level introduction to the various elements (Zones, Layouts, Custom Zones) that are available in Message Editor, and it offers links to the dedicated articles that describes how to for add, configure, and customize these elements.
- To learn about Message Editor Layouts, which have pre-configured designs for quicker message- and template-building, see Message Editor Layouts.