How to Send an Rss Feed to Emails

If you don't host your blog with HubSpot, you can still offer an email-based subscription (RSS) to your blog using HubSpot.

Create a subscription type

Your contacts manage subscriptions to all your email subscription types separately. This way, if they decide to unsubscribe from one subscription type, they won't have to unsubscribe from them all. To create a subscription type for your blog subscription emails:

• In your HubSpot account, click the settings settings icon in the main navigation bar.
• In the left sidebar menu, navigate to Marketing > Email.

• Click the Subscription Types tab.
• Click Create subscription type.
• In the dialog box, add a name and description for your new subscription type, then clickSave.
• If you have General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) functionality enabled in your account,add a process and operation for your subscription type.

Create a custom property

Next,create a custom contact propertyfor your external blog. This will be used in your subscription form to manage which contacts receive your blog subscription emails. Click the Field type dropdown menu and select Single checkbox . Then, click Create .

Create a subscription form for your external website

Next, create a subscription form for these emails that you canembed on your external blog pagesso that visitors can easily subscribe.

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Marketing > Lead Capture > Forms.
• ClickCreate form, select Regular Form and click Next.
• UnderAdd form field, use thesearch barto find the property you just created, and click the property to add it to your form. You canembed this form on your external blog pages.

Create an active list of blog subscribers

Next, create an active list of your blog subscribers:

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Contacts > Lists.
• ClickCreate list.
• In the upper left, click the pencil icon and enter a name for the list, then click the dropdown menuand select Active list.
• Set your list filters toContact property| select the property you created |is equal to| Yes.
• Click Done.
• In the upper right, click Save.

If you already have an existing list of contacts subscribed to your blog emails, you canimport the listfrom a spreadsheet. Be sure to include a column for Email  with your contacts' email addresses and a column with a header that matches the property label for your subscription status property. Enter Yes as the value for all rows in the subscription status property column.

Next, create the RSS email that will go out to your blog subscribers. The RSS email is simply an email template that you can customize to include the latest items from a particular feed, such as the RSS feed from your blog. You can use any email template that you like for this email, as long as it contains amain email body module.

Depending on the email editor you are using, follow the corresponding instructions below to create your RSS email:

Create a new RSS email in updated classic editor

Create a new RSS email in drag and drop editor

Create a new RSS email in the updated classic editor

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Marketing > Email.
• ClickCreate email.
• In the dialog box, selectBlog/RSS.
• Select External blog and insert the RSS feed URL.
• In the Custom tab, select a template for the RSS email.
• In the dialog box, insert a name for your email.
• In the email editor, click theEdit modules icon in the left sidebar, then selectMain Email Body.
• In theRSS feed URL text field, enter an RSS feed URL to see a sample preview of the feed.
• You can also set the number of posts to feature in each RSS email,  andcustomize the styling of your feed within the Item layout/style text box.
  • You can move around the tokens in your RSS email or adjust the fonts and font sizes.
  • ClickAdvanced options to customize your author by line or set a max width for your post images.

Please note: each send will only include new posts since the prior send of the email, up to the maximum number you've chosen. For example, if you've set a maximum of five posts to display in your RSS email and the next week you only publish three blog posts, the next send of your email will only include those three new posts and will not pull in two posts from the previous week.

• Make any additional edits to the email as needed and add yourfrom details.

• Click theSettings tab.
• Click the Subscription type dropdown menu to select the subscription type you created. Make any othersettings changes(web version, campaign, etc.) as needed.
• Click the Send or Schedule tab. UnderRecipients, select thelistyou created.
• In the right pane, select your send frequency and the time of day to send the RSS email. If you select Weekly or Monthly , you'll also be asked to select a day of the week or month.

• In the upper right, click Review and Publish.Your RSS email will be sent to your subscribers every day, week, or month that a new entry has been added since the previous send.

Create a new RSS email in drag and drop editor

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Marketing > Email.
• Click Create email.
• In the dialog box, select Blog/RSS .
• Select External blog and insert the RSS feed URL.
• Click the Drag and drop tab.
• Select a template for the RSS email.
• In the email editor, click the Edit layout icon where your RSS feed displays.
• In the left sidebar you can:
  • Edit the RSS feed URL.
  • Position the tokens in your RSS email or adjust the fonts and font sizes.
    
  • Set the number of posts to feature in each RSS email.
    

• Click the Settings tab.
• Edit the from details and subject line for your email.
• Click the Subscription type dropdown menu to select the subscription type you created. Make any other settings changes (web version, campaign, etc.) as needed.
• Click the Send or schedule tab and select the list you created.
• In the right panel, select your send frequency and the time of day to send the RSS email. If you select Weekly or Monthly, you'll also be asked to select a day of the week or month.
  
• In the top right click Review and publish.
• Click Publish. Your RSS email will be sent to your subscribers every day, week, or month that a new entry has been added since the previous send.

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Source: https://knowledge.hubspot.com/email/set-up-an-rss-to-email-blog-subscription-for-an-external-blog

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