Sample size

This setting sets the maximum number of recipients to be sent this mailing. The default, blank, sends to all recipients.

If a number less than the total number of possible recipients is entered here, those recipients are selected from the list of potential recipients. If multiple lists or subsets are selected, the maximum number of recipients are selected from each list or subset. For example, if you set this number to be ten, and you select three lists to send to, there are be thirty recipients of the message, ten from each list.

Aurea List Manager picks a random point at which to start pulling email addresses. For example, if you select a sample size of ten, Aurea List Manager picks randomly where in the list of email addresses to begin the sample, and then select the next ten email addresses for the list or segment by member ID.

This feature is helpful if you want to send out a test message to gauge its effectiveness to a limited number of your list members. You can then purge the recipients of that message when you send it out to the entire list.

Alternatively, you may find that responses to your mailing overwhelms your company's resources to respond to say, a discount offer. Sending to a part of your list allows you to respond to just part of your membership at a time.