Make it easy for contacts to forward your email to a friend

Insert a Share button in your email so contacts can easily send it to others via email

When you insert a Social Share block in an email, in addition to giving your contacts the option to share your email on their social media pages, like Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), and LinkedIn, you can also include an option for them to share your email with others directly from their inbox. Giving your contacts the ability to share your email helps to extend the reach of your message and could result in new subscribers!


 

While editing your email:

1. Drag-and-drop or click-and-stick the Social Share block into your template, using the pink guideline to help you find the right spot.
   
   
    
2. Click on the Social Share block to open the left-hand panel.
3. By default, the Social Share block includes buttons to share your email on Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Click Add Another > Email to add a button for sharing via email, or click the drop-down for one of the default networks and select Email to replace it.
4. (Optional) Click the trash can icon next to any network you want to remove.
   
   
   
   
5. (Optional) Update the text that displays on each button. 
6. (Optional) Change the order in which the buttons appear in your email by clicking the stacked dots and dragging them up or down to a new location.
   
   
    
7. (Optional) In the Social buttons section, choose a color for the Social Share buttons in your email and adjust the Round corners amount if you want to make the buttons rounded. Click "Reset to default" to undo your changes.
8. (Optional) Change the alignment of the buttons.
   
   
   
   
9. Click the Background color swatch to choose a background color for the Social Share block.
10. In the Padding section, you can adjust the space around each side of the button group, or click the toggle to apply the same amount of padding to all sides.
    
    
     

Once you're done, simply click outside of the Social Share block to continue editing your email.

When contacts click the Share via Email button in your email, a new message will open in their email client with your subject line and the permanent link for your campaign automatically included in the message body. They’ll then be able to customize the rest of the message and send it to their friends’ email addresses.
 

Example default email forward draft	Example email forward draft with customized message

Because the email forward shares the permanent link for the sent campaign, the Share via Email button in your email won’t work properly when previewing or sending a test email. If you want to test the email forward functionality, make a copy of the email and send it to your email address. 

Note: Clicks on the Share via Email button, as well as clicks on the permanent link for your email, aren't trackable and will not be included in the click reporting for your email. 

Questions?