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Newsletter & Subscribers

Write, schedule, and send email newsletters, and manage the list they go to.

The newsletter surface writes email issues from the same source material as social posts, and sends them to a subscriber list you own.

Writing an issue

Go to Newsletter in the sidebar. The input flow is identical to Social Posts — paste a URL, dump notes, or upload a file — with one difference: the email platform is pre-selected and social platforms are locked off.

Pick a persona, generate, then edit. As everywhere else, nothing sends until you explicitly schedule it.

Every issue is saved to Generation History, in its own tab separate from social campaigns.

Two things must be configured before you can send: at least one active subscriber, and a sender name in Settings. Without either, the Schedule button will not complete.

Sending

From a generated issue, click Schedule and pick a send time. The issue goes to every active subscriber on your list.

An unsubscribe link is appended automatically. You do not need to add one, and you should not remove it — it is what keeps you compliant and out of spam folders.

Check the From address before a large send. Production mail can go out from a no-reply reminders address depending on configuration. Verify the From address, and set a Reply-To you actually monitor, before any blast — replies to a no-reply address vanish silently.

Managing subscribers

Go to Subscribers in the sidebar.

Adding people

MethodHow
ManualPaste addresses, one per line
CSV uploadOne address per row
Public formShare your subscriber link and let people sign up

The public form is the one to prefer where you can. It gives you consent you can point at, and it keeps the list clean without you maintaining it.

List hygiene

Subscribers carry an active/inactive state. Unsubscribes flip to inactive automatically and are excluded from every future send — you do not need to prune them by hand.

Bounced addresses are worth removing periodically. A list with a high bounce rate damages your sending reputation across every future issue, including your outbound campaigns if they share a domain.

Newsletters versus outbound email

These are different systems and it is worth keeping them straight:

NewsletterOutbound
Who receives itPeople who opted inLeads you sourced
Sent fromOzigi's sending infrastructureYour own connected inbox
ContentOne issue to everyonePersonalised per lead
UnsubscribeAutomaticHandled per campaign
Setup neededSubscribers + sender nameConnected inbox

Sending cold outreach through the newsletter surface is a fast way to damage your list and your domain. Cold contacts belong in Campaigns, which sends from your inbox at a controlled pace and detects replies.

Making issues worth opening

The banned lexicon strips the obvious filler, but it cannot supply substance. Two things move open and reply rates more than phrasing:

A specific subject line. "What broke in our payment retry logic" beats "Product update — March". The engine will not invent specificity you did not give it.

One idea per issue. A newsletter covering four things gets skimmed and forgotten. The pieces that get replies usually make a single argument and support it properly.

If your issues consistently read flat, the persona is the lever — see Personas.