Start an Automation without a Trigger?

southshorepianoschoo

Hi all! I’m a total newbie to AC and am finding my way around until the orientation calls I have scheduled for next week.

In the meantime, I am struggling to get an automation started WITHOUT a trigger. In other words, I would like to simply specify a list of contacts, hit “go,” and the first email of the automation begins. I thought that perhaps I could start without a trigger, use an if/else block, specify that if someone is in the list, they receive the email as the next step, and then we’re good. But, that does not seem to be working as expected. Right now I am using a contact list of 1 with my personal email just to make sure it works properly before trying it with my entire list.

I would love any help anyone can offer me on this. Thank you!

Ryan-Iconasys.com

You could add a custom Tag to the contacts in your list that you want to start a certain automation. Then add a trigger based on that tag that starts that automation.