The reach is visible before you send
You build a slice — everyone subscribed who wrote to you after March — and see the count and the first names right away. Before, not after.
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You need to tell a hundred people the same thing. Gather the ones who let you write to them, see the number before you send, send it — and get back more than the word sent, a line for every person, who received it and who did not and why.
What it does
You build a slice — everyone subscribed who wrote to you after March — and see the count and the first names right away. Before, not after.
The recipients are fixed once. While the broadcast runs, someone will unsubscribe and someone will write to you first; none of it changes a send already in flight.
Not one flat number, but counters that say what happened — no address in this channel, permission withdrawn, the channel could not carry it. This is usually where the answer to why so few actually lives.
Someone blocked you an hour after you pressed send? The message is put out on approach instead of flying into a wall.
One word — stop, unsubscribe, leave me alone — takes a person off your broadcasts, with no form and no work from you. After that they are out of reach.
Not when you first thought about the broadcast. Someone who withdrew before you pressed send is left out, and nothing has to be rebuilt for that to be true.
It goes in batches of a hundred, and the queue picks itself up where it left off until the list is exhausted.
Someone answers your broadcast and it is a normal thread with the whole history behind it, not a line in a report.
How it works
Subscription status and last activity. "Everyone who wrote to me after March" is one choice, not an export to a spreadsheet.
If twelve people match instead of the two hundred you expected, it is better to learn that now.
The draft is saved separately from sending. Write today, send tomorrow — two different actions, and the second one asks you to confirm.
Seven numbers instead of one — total, eligible, queued, delivered, skipped, failed, cancelled.
What is guaranteed
Permission is not a checkbox but a history — who granted or withdrew it, when, and on what basis. Withdrawn yesterday holds today, and "where did you get my number" has an answer with a date on it.
Questions
Broadcasts
Start with the people who already wrote to you. Build the slice, look at the number, send one message — then you will know whether you need a second broadcast.