I would love this. It would make it so much easier to be able to make a whole section under a smart rule instead of individual modules. We have 2 sections that hae a title, image, and text for 4 different audiences and that is a lot of setting up. Please consider making this a reality!
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This is still needed!!
My use case for smart sections involves having highly customized emails with entire sections dedicated to specific audiences. From a marketer’s standpoint, testing and checking 20, 30, or sometimes 50+ smart modules is a feat by itself. Plus the acrobatics needed to adjust padding, margins, and empty image placeholders for content and spacing that shouldn’t show is an afternoon’s worth of work.
Having whole sections, where you can apply images, buttons, videos, etc. to be tailored to a specific audience would be amazing. While you could manage this by having separate emails, my use case is a little more complicated because I’m sending to 20+ internal client brands at a time. It’s a lot easier to use smart modules (and one day smart sections!) than it is to send 20+ separate emails to my client brands. Plus, I can still get all the reporting I need per audience from the one email.
Let me be clear: a smart section is not the same as a saved section with smart modules. The whole section should be smart so that the modules within the section don’t have to be individually set as smart content.
Any updates on this?
Would love to get smart sections up and running soon. Our new B2C division is currently sending 18 different versions of the same newsletter because we can’t use smart sections. Smart modules still require too much padding and margin spacing; this would be so much simpler and easier if the whole section could be smart and accessible by list membership or lifecycle stage.
@GMinney I’d value hearing your use case for smart sections in marketing emails. I’m sure there’s a ton of ways to use it that lots of HubSpotters would find helpful.