How to Send Personalized Bulk Emails in Gmail!

Being a Gmail ninja is not for everyone but hey, that's what I'm here for right 😉? In this post you'll learn how to send customized emails to multiple people using only Gmail and Google Sheets. For FREE!

If you run into issues, check out the FAQ section at the end!

Resources

Make a copy of the Mail merge script
You can see how many emails you can send per day here

Watch it in action

Step 1 - Make a copy of the spreadsheet

Go to Developer’s webpage, scroll down to the create “Try it” section and click on the link to make a copy of the sample spreadsheet.

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Mail merge is a technical name for customized bulk emails 🤓

Step 2 - Fill out the tab

With the spreadsheet open you can change any of the columns except the “Recipient” and the “Email sent” section.

Recipient column is where you will write your destination emails and the Email Sent column will show the time when the email ends up being sent

Step 3 - Draft your email

For the “To” field:

Go to your Gmail account and compose a new draft. In the “To” field you need to write “{{”, then go back to the spreadsheet and copy the Recipient header cell and close with “}}”.

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Example: {{Recipient}}

For the “Subject” field:

You can apply any specific information you have in the spreadsheet.

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Example: Read top {{Vertical}} trends of 22nd Century

For the “Body” of the email:

Same here, you can write anything applying the information from the spreadsheet.

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Example: Hi {{First name}}

Step 4 - Start Mail Merge

Go to your spreadsheet, click on Mail Merge and send emails. Press continue and choose your account.

Note: Although Google says it isn’t a verified app, we got the script from the official Google website. In this window just click on “advanced” scroll down and click on “Go to Gmail/Sheets Mail Merge” option. Click allow and it’s done.

Step 5 - Send emails!

Final step, click on Mail Merge “Send email” and copy your subject from your draft and paste Mail Merge pop-up then press “ok”.

Wait a few seconds and your “Email sent” section from your spreadsheet will appear with some data (Date and hours).

How should we use this tool?

We can send personalized emails in bulk for many occasions. For example this personalized holiday greeting email:

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Pro tip: Highlight the two columns you can’t delete (Recipient and Email Sent). Every time you want to run again this script make sure you clear the “Email Sent” column first

FAQ & other common questions

Make sure you use two {{ instead of just 1 {
Make sure your header matches exactly

What's next?

If you don't have a clean Gmail inbox you might want to check out my Inbox Zero Tutorial!