GetResponse
GetResponse email integration
Send a signup on to ForwardThis and the contact lands on the GetResponse list from your instructions, tagged and with its fields filled in. GetResponse allows only letters, numbers and underscores in a tag, so VIP lead goes in as VIP_lead and the receipt says so.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect GetResponse
Create a free account and connect GetResponse. 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
Re: Your pricing guide
Add priya@corelight.studio to the Newsletter list and tag her as a lead.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Thanks for sending the guide over. Keep me posted on new releases and any offers - happy to be on your mailing list.
Added to the Newsletter list
priya@corelight.studio - tagged lead
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “Move dan@brightco.uk to the Customers list.”
- “Take maria@oldmail.com off the Weekly list - she asked to stop.”
- “Look up which list sam@acme.com is on.”
- “How did the August newsletter do?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in GetResponse
Create contact
Add a contact to a list
Update contact
Update a contact, or take them off a list
Change tags
Add or remove a contact's tags
Look up a contact
Look up a contact
Read a record
Read a contact's details
Look up records
List a list's or segment's contacts, or the account's tags and fields
Read a spreadsheet
List the contact lists
Read a report
Read a newsletter's results
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to 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 GetResponse?
- In GetResponse the sender is added to the list from your instructions, tagged and with custom fields set from the same instruction, and a tag name with a space in it becomes an underscore, because that is all GetResponse's tag names allow. Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a simple instruction, like "add this person to the Newsletter list". ForwardThis adds the contact and replies to confirm; with one list in the account there is nothing to name. The first time, you'll need a free account with GetResponse connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the entire GetResponse email integration.
- Can I add a contact to a specific list?
- Yes. Name the list in your instruction - "add her to the Customers list" - and the contact lands there. If your account has one list, ForwardThis uses it without being told. GetResponse calls a list a "campaign" in a few places, but you never need that word: the list's name is enough.
- Can it tag contacts and fill in custom fields?
- Yes. Say "tag him as a lead" or "set company to Brightco" in the same instruction. A tag that doesn't exist yet is created for you - GetResponse only allows letters, numbers and underscores in tag names, so "VIP lead" becomes "VIP_lead". Custom fields need to exist in GetResponse first.
- Can it remove someone who asked to be taken off my list?
- Yes. Forward their request and say "take them off the list". GetResponse has no way to restore a deleted contact, and that is why ForwardThis checks with you before removing anyone, then replies to confirm it's done.
- Will it ever send anything to my list?
- No. ForwardThis manages contacts one at a time: it adds them, updates them, tags them and looks them up. It cannot create or send newsletters, autoresponders or any other message to your list - sending stays in GetResponse, with you.
- Do I have to set anything up first?
- Connect GetResponse once - it takes about 30 seconds - and you're done. There are no rules to set up first: each email you forward says what should happen to it.