Summary
You can create and publish your first LaunchNotes announcement in just a few minutes. This quick-start guide walks you through creating a simple announcement, choosing who sees it, and getting it in front of your customers.
Steps to setup
1. Create your announcement
Open your LaunchNotes workspace Announcements and New Draft.
2. Write your announcement
Add a clear, benefit-focused title for your announcement.
e.g. New search filters make finding projects faster
Upload an image header or video to the hero section. This will be your main focal point of the announcement, so make it eye-catching!
Write a summary explaining what changed and why it matters to your customers.
Add a screenshot or demo GIF if you have one. In the tool bar, click Add Media to upload.
3. Choose your audience
In the right side under Categorization, select the Categories, Labels or Cohorts to send the announcement to. You must select at least one category, so that's a good place to start.
For a deeper dive on audience segmentation read Organize announcements so the right customers see your updates.
4. Preview your announcement:
To preview the page: In the top right click Preview to see exactly how your announcement will look to customers.
To preview the email: Under Publishing Controls, click Test email and send to yourself to see how the email will look deployed to your audience.
5. Publish your announcement
You can decide if you'd like to publish your announcement to your page, send notifications through Email or send a Slack notification. You can do all of these at once or independently of each other. To understand publishing channels deeper, read Notification Channel Controls for Publishers.
Next, go to the top right, click Schedule announcement if you’d like it to go out on a certain day and time in the future, or click Publish now to deploy immediately.
After clicking Publish now, you'll receive a confirmation modal detailing out how many people the announcement will go to, so don't stress!
Speed up your process next time
Once you've published your first announcement, consider these next time:
Speed it up with AI: Use the AI writing assistant or generate an announcement with Loom to get to your first draft quickly. This can cut writing time in half.
Use announcement templates to maintain consistency across team members.
Connect Jira to automatically generate announcements from shipped tickets. Read more