Lesson 1.4.1
Connect the accounts you will send from
What this costs
Free. Connecting an account costs nothing, and sending through it costs nothing.
Before you start
A mailbox you are willing to send from, and a LinkedIn account if you want the LinkedIn steps.
Every send in Kuration runs through an account you have connected. Build a sequence with an email step and no mailbox selected and Kuration stops you, with "Select at least one Email account (required by email steps)" against a Create sequence button that will not go. Connect the accounts first so you are not halted halfway through building, and send yourself one test so you know replies land in the mailbox you actually read.
- 1
Open the sender account settings
Find the sending accounts panel and look at what is already connected. A workspace that has never sent anything shows an empty list, which is the state most people are in when they first try to send.
- 2
Connect the mailbox
Authorise the mailbox you actually want replies to arrive in. Use a real working address, not an alias nobody monitors, because the whole point of the next four lessons is that somebody answers.
- 3
Connect LinkedIn separately if you want the LinkedIn steps
Email and LinkedIn are two separate connections. A LinkedIn step needs a connected LinkedIn account of its own, so connecting a mailbox does not cover it.
- 4
Verify before you trust it
Send one message to yourself. Thirty seconds tells you the mailbox is the one you actually monitor and that the message arrives looking the way you wrote it, which is the part no error banner can check for you.
What each channel needs before it will run
| Channel | Needs | Runs on |
|---|---|---|
| A connected mailbox | Any row with an email | |
| LinkedIn connection request | A connected LinkedIn account | Any row with a LinkedIn URL |
| LinkedIn DM | A connected LinkedIn account | First degree connections only |
| InMail | A connected LinkedIn account with InMail credits | Any row with a LinkedIn URL |
| A connected WhatsApp account | Any row with a phone number |
Create sequence will not go
- What you see
- "Select at least one Email account (required by email steps)"
- The fix
- The sequence has an email step and no mailbox chosen. Connect a mailbox, then select it on the sequence settings.
LinkedIn steps skip every row
- What you see
- Email steps deliver, LinkedIn steps do not
- The fix
- Either LinkedIn is not connected, or the step is a DM aimed at people who are not first degree connections.
Replies go somewhere nobody reads
- What you see
- Campaign shows activity, the inbox is empty
- The fix
- You connected an alias rather than a monitored mailbox. Reconnect against the address you actually read.
Check yourself
0 of 2 answered1.You add an email step to a sequence with no mailbox connected. What happens?
2.Who can a LinkedIn DM step actually reach?
Try it yourself
Connect one mailbox and one LinkedIn account, then send yourself one message on each channel.
- You have done it when
- Both test messages arrive. You have seen them, not assumed them.
- Credit budget
- Free.