{"id":5924,"date":"2021-12-13T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helptest.mainbrainer.com\/knowledge-base\/how-to-set-email-sending-goals-for-previously-sent-campaigns\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:48:29","slug":"how-to-set-email-sending-goals-for-previously-sent-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/email\/goals\/email-sending-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Email Sending Goals for Previously Sent Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"aricle_container\">\n<p>While we recommend that you <a href=\"\/hc\/en_IN\/email\/goals\/how-to-set-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">set Email sending goals for your campaigns at the time of sending<\/a>, you can also set goals for the campaigns sent in the past.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"elevio-box-info\"><p><strong>Note<\/strong>: When you set goals for a previously sent campaign, goal performance is evaluated using the data beginning from the moment the campaign was originally sent to the current time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<h2>How to Set Sending Goals for Previously Sent Email Campaigns?<\/h2>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<h4>Step 1<\/h4>\n<h4>Create a New Goal<\/h4>\n<p>Use the <strong>Main Menu<\/strong> on the left to expand the <strong>Create&nbsp;<\/strong>menu and click <strong>Goal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2154 size-full\" title=\"Email sending goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/email-sending-goals.png\" alt=\"Email sending goals. The goal option in the create menu is highlighted\" width=\"488\" height=\"634\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p>The next screen will list all the goals created so far. You can edit an existing goal or create a new one. To create a new goal, use the <strong>Create Goal<\/strong> button <em>(as highlighted in the screenshot below)<\/em> and proceed to the next step.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2156 size-full\" title=\"Create email sending goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/create-email-sending-goals.png\" alt=\"Email sending goals, previous campaign. The create goal button is highlighted\" width=\"573\" height=\"339\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 24px 0;\"><\/div>\n<h4>Step 2<\/h4>\n<h4>Give the Goal a Relevant Name and Description<\/h4>\n<p>This description is purely for your reference purpose. Your customers will not see this, so make it as informative as you want. It will make goal identification easier in the future. Click <strong>Continue<\/strong> when done.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2157 size-full\" title=\"Email name and description\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/name-description-email-goal.png\" alt=\"Email sending goals, previous campaign. Name and describe your goal\" width=\"520\" height=\"502\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 24px 0;\"><\/div>\n<h4>Step 3<\/h4>\n<h4>Select the Email Sending for Goal Setting<\/h4>\n<p>The <strong>Goal Purpose<\/strong> dropdown menu lists the different types of goals you can create for your campaigns. From this menu, click <strong>Email Sending<\/strong> <em>(as shown in the screenshot below):<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2158 size-full\" title=\"Email goal purpose\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/goal-purpose-email-sending.png\" alt=\"Email sending goals, previous campaign. Select goal purpose form a dropdown menu\" width=\"476\" height=\"313\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p>From the subsequently displayed menu, select the relevant <strong>Email sending<\/strong> for which you wish to set the Email sending goals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2159 size-full\" title=\"Select email for distribution goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/specify-email-distribution-goal.png\" alt=\"Email sending goals, previous campaign. Select email for your email sending goals\" width=\"590\" height=\"563\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px 0;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"elevio-box-warning\"><p><strong>Note:<\/strong> In this menu, only those sendings are available for selection for which no sending goals have yet been set. To edit previously set Email sending goals, please use the <strong>Edit<\/strong> option displayed against a goal listing in the above-described Step 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<h4>Step 4<\/h4>\n<h4>Enter Your Goal Parameters<\/h4>\n<p>In the expanded menu that is consequently displayed, enter the target performance values for your Email sending.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2160\" title=\"Email performance overview\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/email-performance-goal-kpis.png\" alt=\"Email goals, previous campaign. Email page performance overview. Enter KPIs\" width=\"640\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>You can:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>Enter the KPI performance targets manually; Or\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2161 size-full\" title=\"Email sending goals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/email-goal-rate-quantity.png\" alt=\"Email sending goals. Set goals by goal rate percentages or goal quantity\" width=\"387\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px 0;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Autofill the KPI performance targets using a pre-saved <a href=\"\/hc\/en_IN\/goal-template\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goal template<\/a><em>&nbsp;(as highlighted in the screenshot below).<\/em> These templates are meant to serve as a starting point. You can always edit the entries as per your requirements.\n<div style=\"padding: 14px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2162 size-full\" title=\"Email goal template\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/email-goal-template.png\" alt=\"Prefill goals from template. The drop down menu is highlighted\" width=\"563\" height=\"156\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p>Specify the start and end dates between which you want to measure the Email Sending&#8217;s performance and click <strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Voila, you have successfully set performance goals for your Email sending. Now that you have quantified the goals you wish to achieve, sit back and let us keep an eye on them!<\/p>\n<p>For the times you wish to evaluate the sending performance, navigate to the Insights section and <a href=\"\/hc\/en_IN\/email\/email-performance\/email-sending-goal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check whether your Email sending has kept up with the set goals<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n  .aricle_container p,.aricle_container li{color: rgba(0,0,0,.8)!important}  .aricle_container span{color:#0070ba!important}.aricle_container li,.aricle_container blockquote{font-size:18px!important;    font-weight: 400;<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you set goals for a previously sent campaign, goal performance is evaluated using the data beginning from the moment the campaign was originally sent to the current time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[360],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-5924","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-set-email-goals-en_gb-en_in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/5924\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainbrainer.com\/hc\/en_IN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}