Hi @cmerz1 , thanks for posting on this community!
Very interesting use case, thanks! This is how you can do this:
1. Welcome email
This can be natively managed in the form: choose to send a confirmation email when user subscribes, at the 4th step of the form setup:
2. Content Mail 1 (the following Sunday)
This can be achieved with the help of Segments and Automation. What we’ll build is an automation that:
- every Sunday, at let’s say 10am
- will take the contacts added between the previous Sunday and the Saturday just before
- and will send them Mail 1
For this:
- first, create a segment that will identify the contacts who have been added to your contact list between 7 days before (last Sunday) and 1 day before (last Saturday):
Save this segment.
- then create the automation:
- starting point: contact correspond to a filter: as a filter, you’ll choose the segment created just above. Choose to check this filter on a weekly basis, on Sundays at let’s say 10 am
- action point: send an email template
Your automation should be as simple as that:
3. Content Mail 2 (next Sunday)
Similar to the previous example, but here the segment that you’ll create will be:
Contact added
Between 14 days before and 8 days before
etc etc for the other emails
Does this reply to your questions?
PS: if you want to be more granular when targeting your contacts, in case you are receiving contacts from other sources that your form, in addition to « Contact added » you should add a condition like « Contact belongs to a list », so that you’re sure of which contacts will receive the emails