Campaign Monitor
Email to Campaign Monitor,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to Campaign Monitor. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Campaign Monitor
Create a free account and connect Campaign Monitor. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Please add me to your mailing list
Add her to the Newsletter list in Campaign Monitor and create a contact in HubSpot.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hi - I was at your talk on Tuesday and would love to get the newsletter. Could you add me? Thanks, Priya.
Subscribed priya.sharma@vellum.co.uk
Newsletter list
Created Priya Sharma
New contact
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “Take dave@brightco.uk off the Weekly Digest list, he asked to stop.”
- “Which lists do we have and how big are they?”
- “How did the March newsletter do?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Campaign Monitor
Create contact
Add a subscriber to a list
Update contact
Update, unsubscribe or resubscribe a subscriber
Look up a contact
Look up a subscriber
Read a record
Read a subscriber's history
Look up records
List a list's subscribers
Read a spreadsheet
List your lists and their sizes
Read a report
Read a campaign's results
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Campaign Monitor?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a line saying what should happen, like "add her to the Newsletter list". ForwardThis adds the subscriber, using the name and email address from the message, and replies to confirm. The first time, you'll need a free account with Campaign Monitor connected, which takes about 30 seconds.
- Can I add a subscriber to Campaign Monitor by forwarding an email?
- Yes. Forward the email and name the list - "add them to the Newsletter list". ForwardThis picks up the person's name and email address from the message, adds them, and replies to confirm. If someone is already on the list, their details are updated rather than duplicated, and undo works for 24 hours if the wrong person goes on.
- Can it unsubscribe someone who asked to stop receiving emails?
- Yes - forward their email and say "take them off the list". Because unsubscribing changes what a real person receives, ForwardThis checks with you first, then uses Campaign Monitor's own unsubscribe so the record looks exactly as if they had clicked the link themselves.
- What happens if someone unsubscribed and later asks to come back?
- Say "resubscribe them" and ForwardThis checks with you, then puts them back on the list. It never quietly re-adds someone who took themselves off: if you forward a signup for an address that unsubscribed, it tells you and asks instead of overriding their choice.
- Can ForwardThis send campaigns from an email?
- No, and that's deliberate. ForwardThis manages who is on your lists and reads your results - it never creates or sends a campaign, so nothing you forward can ever email your subscribers. Sending stays with you in Campaign Monitor. It can tell you how a sent campaign did: recipients, opens, clicks and unsubscribes.
- How is this different from Zapier or Campaign Monitor's own integrations?
- Those are the better choice for a fixed, always-on rule, like every new form signup joining a list automatically. ForwardThis is a Campaign Monitor email integration for everything that arrives as an email instead: a signup request, an unsubscribe request, a question about a list. You forward it, say what should happen, and there are no rules to build first. It handles the email automation your inbox needs, in Campaign Monitor and dozens of your other apps.