Creating Group Contact Mailing Lists in Gmail

There are many situations when we need mailing lists. For instance, at New Delhi SEO, we often need to send alerts to our clients about recent SEO, digital marketing and web technology developments. It is hard to remember each client, especially when you have 100s of them. So we use mailing lists. Since we use google apps for our mailing purposes this is how weem.

This post is compiled as a FAQ from our clients ? “How to create mailing lists in Gmail or Google Apps?”.

Follow these simple steps to create a Group Contact

Click on the “Mail” shown on the top left corner and choose “Contacts”.

1. There are multiple options to send mail to a group in Gmail which is given by default.
   
   Circle:?In Circle option you can choose a group created by your Google Plus account. You can directly send mail to that group. Like in the given image I can send mail directly to my Friends group having 20 persons, which is indicated as “Friends (20).
2. • Directory: In this option you can send mail to those people who belong to your company’s network or member of your company having company’s Email ID. Like: abc@yourcompany.com, xyz@yourcompany.com, 123@yourcompany.com.
   • New Group: In this option you can create a new customized group where you can add email ID manually.
   
   

   To create New Group

   • Click on “New Group” shown on the down-left corner on your Gmail interface.
   • Give a name to your customized group (i.e Test Group) and click OK.
   • You will see a new option of “Test Group” below “My Contacts” option, Click on that.

3. Now you will see an Add People button on the top, click that and you can add multiple email id separating them by “comma ( , ) “.

4. Click on the checkbox option given on the top menu to select all email id. If you don’t want mail to some particular member of that group then you can simply uncheck that person.

5. Once you are done with all these steps you can move to the process of sending mails by clicking on the Mail Icon given on the top menu or you can directly send mail to a that group from COMPOSE option. Just type the group name you created in the recipient (To:) column.

6. I hope this post was helpful if you needed to create Mailing Lists or Contact groups in Gmail and Google Apps.