Groundhogg: New Personalized Dashboard & Broadcast Batch Scheduling

Adrian from Groundhogg has just released version 3.7 of its marketing automation and CRM plugin for WordPress, introducing personalized dashboards, batch scheduling for broadcasts and a new option to convert emails to posts in one click.

Personalized Dashboard

Replacing the old Welcome screen, the new Groundhogg dashboard is personalized for each individual CRM user, displaying information that is specific to them. This includes tasks, deals, recommendations, notifications, contacts, news and broadcasts.

Each of the dashboard widgets can be collapsed or completely disabled. Various add-ons and integrations will add widgets in the future. An Events widget is already planned for the Calendar add-on. It’s also possible to add your own custom widgets.

Broadcast Batching

Broadcast batch scheduling allows you to send your broadcast in ‘batches’. This is useful if you want to use batching to prevent a whole bunch of traffic coming to your site all at once, or for deliverability reasons if you’re warming up an email list.

You’ll be able to adjust the number of emails in each batch and how far apart each batch is sent. In addition, you can also see an estimate of the total send time based on your batch settings.

If you leave batching disabled, Groundhogg will try to send all your emails as quickly as possible, as usual.

Email to Post Conversion

If you have put so much effort into an email, you might want to share it as a blog post. Groundhogg already has some embedding options, but they don’t allow you to easily manipulate the content.

They now have you covered if you want to create a post with the same content as an email, but then edit the post without editing the email.

Convert any email to a post with a single click. Your email will automatically be converted to Gutenberg compatible blocks!

What’s More?

In other news, Groundhogg now allows you to manually track parent/child relationships within the contact record.

If you’re personalizing your frontend and using Gutenberg, you can use Groundhogg replacement codes directly in the block without using shortcodes.

Finally, you can now restrict blocks based on contact filters when using the Content Restriction add-on.