How to Send a Broadcast in Manychat to 1 or Thousands of Facebook Subscribers

A broadcast is an automated message sent to your subscriber list. You can send content to your entire list, or to a segment of your subscribers.

Here are some short steps for how you can do this if you’re planning on sending your scheduled message to 1 or THOUSANDS of people!

1. Set up your page chatbot with Manychat (it’s free!)

You can set up your page chatbot with this quick guide.

2. Open Manychat and go to “Broadcast” on your nav bar

It’s a chatbot platform (free!) and allows you to schedule messages to your subscriber list.

This means you can send an automated message, AKA a “broadcast” to 1 or thousands of people who are subscribed to your page bot.

Here’s what it would look like:

2. You can customize who you send to…

Using user “tags” you can segment which subscribers are getting your message.

3. You can schedule your message to send immediately, or schedule for the future…

You also get to pick WHEN your subscribers get the message — will they receive it in 4pm their time? Do you want to limit sending so that it is spaced out over the span of a few hours?

4. AND you get to choose what KIND of notification your subscriber receives on their end.

You can choose from any of these options:

Regular Push — Regular Push notification will make a sound and display a phone notification. Use it for important messages.

1 Regular Notification — This broadcast will trigger only 1 regular notification (the first message in the broadcast) and the rest of it will be sent in silent mode. Great for times when you have 2+ messages in your broadcast, but don’t want to send too many notifications.

2 Regular Notifications — Same as above, but with 2 regular notifications that ping the user’s phone.

Silent Push — Silent Push notification will display a phone notification without sound. Use it for regular messages that don’t require immediate action.

Silent — Silent broadcast will not display any notification. Use it for silently sending content updates.

Broadcasts are a great way to keep your subscribers engaged & your brand top of mind.

But remember, Facebook messages are personal, so you never want to be spammy or annoying.

Make sure that your subscribers can easily opt-out with an “unsubscribe” button with every send. This avoids frustrations and maintains a better relationship with your list. :)

-T

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