today we're going to show you how you can create a Gmail draft all inside of Google Documents a
powerful new feature that they've added to the building blocks of Google smart canvas if you
don't know what Google smart canvas is we've got a separate video on it that you'll find
linked below but this will be an interesting video especially for Marketing sales and those who like
to pre-create emails together before submitting them to other people we'll show you a full guide
on how to do this and I'm excited to dive into today's video if you're new here my name is
Francesco de la Co welcome to this channel this is keep productive where we dive into plenty of
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our brand new email newsletter the routine so here we are with a Google Docs experience and just to
know before we begin you need Google workspace for this I'll include a link to what you'll get access
to as part of this but this is specifically a Google workspace experience that means that
if you've got a personal Google Docs account this likely won't work so you need some sort of
Enterprise account or a workspace account to get started with this so to Simply get this up all you
have to do is actually press I'll do it down here at and then type in email draft and then hit enter
and you can see here that a brand new email draft has become available and I'm going to delete this
one because I'm going to be using the top one here now it very much looks like your email inside of
a Google doc and you can go to this button here and preview this in a new window inside of your
Gmail and this is a draft it's composing a brand new mail for us but as you can see it's blank and
empty because I haven't filled out the primary information that I have here now one of the
things this would have been super helpful for is when I worked with the language learning company
they we were always trying to write influencer campaigns and I'm not very good with words but
other people are and I was able to get all of the marketing stuff in all of the jargon that I needed
them to be interested in and then what happened is I couldn't really convey that very well so I
was always sending drafts of emails to people to check they'd send the draft back and it always got
very Mucky so something like this would be super helpful for that because what you can do is you
can all get inside this document you could all change the grammar change the files change the
um text formatting change every aspect of the email before you send it and then what's great is
you can actually press this button and anybody who is and got access to the Gmail can instantly get
it as a copy for their account so if you have two or three marketing department um people that are
looking to send that influence campaign out they can all send the same one and naturally change the
details for the person they're sending it to so up here you can send you can change who's it to
who's it um cc2 who's at bcc2 which is helpful in particular because if you're writing this
this routinely and you were sending it to say I remember when we were reaching out to bookstores
and being able to capture the pipe Drive BCC was important because it'd be able to capture that
email contact with them so something like that would be pretty helpful uh pretty instantly but
in this case we're going to send it to Acme Corp and we're going to flag it for Bob so down here
what I can do is I can start writing the email as I would so I could say um I'm really interested
in your company joining us for this campaign and what I can do is I can actually link files
like if I press app mention and type in at file I can naturally add it which is
pretty cool so if I said something like everything is linked here if you wanted
and of course one of the things I can do is I can use some of the building blocks that are
available inside of the Google Docs now so if I was like okay let's um use a project assets
so that I can explain what a typical campaign will look like with us and I can fill in all
the details now you're probably wondering how does this look when it comes out well it it
pretty much looks like this minus the sort of more detailed elements so if I would say let me know
what you think great to speak to you and what I can do is press this preview in Gmail
and as you can see the basically what I've written there has come up um and that's pretty much to the
to the pixel which is great and I can use all of the regular stuff like attaching files I can
add emojis I can add layouts details and things like that if I want to and this is a really good
feature especially for collaboration so I'm super interested to see how this evolved for Google
remember it's only available for Google workspace and you can see and learn more about these smart
canvas abilities that I may have demonstrated like the project assets in a video we've got coming
out so I'm excited to dive into more features like this if you are new great to have you here
on keep productive please do subscribe and I look forward to diving into more stuff with you you can
send emails now in Google Docs it's amazing and definitely a big bonus for collaboration anyway
folks see you soon and I will catch you on another video here on keep productive cheerio [Music]
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