How do I publish a monthly blog post and newsletter with MONA?

Ask MONA to create a monthly agent that drafts a post and adds it to your MONA website. Then export an audience from Clients and send the newsletter from your email tool.

Quick answer: ask MONA in chat to set up a monthly agent that drafts a blog post and adds it to your MONA website. For the newsletter, build an audience under Clients, Audiences, click Export CSV, and send the email MONA writes from your own email tool.

How do I get a blog post on my website every month?

  1. In chat, ask for the agent in one sentence, for example: "On the first Monday of every month, draft a blog post about a recent project and add it to my website as a new page. Show me the draft before publishing."
  2. MONA shows what the agent will do and when it runs. Say yes. It now appears under Agents in the sidebar.
  3. Each month the agent writes the draft in its chat. Read it, ask for changes, then say publish.

When the post is published, MONA adds it as a new page and keeps every other page on your site exactly as it was. Photos come from your MONA Library, so they are hosted with your site.

How do I send the newsletter?

MONA prepares the list and the email. The send itself happens in the email tool you already use.

  1. Click Clients in the sidebar and switch to Audiences.
  2. Choose who should get it: Who, Pipeline stage, On a project that is, Tagged, City, Trade type or Not touched in.
  3. Check the counts. Reachable is how many will be in the export.
  4. Click Export CSV.
  5. Ask MONA: "Write this month's newsletter as HTML from the new blog post." Copy the HTML into your email tool.
  6. Import the CSV into your email tool and send.

Who is left out of the export?

Unsubscribed and bounced addresses, contacts with no email on file, and anything on your Do not email list. MONA shows each count on the Audiences screen before you export, so you know who will not get it.

Why does MONA not send the newsletter itself?

Bulk email needs unsubscribe handling, sending limits and sender reputation that your email tool already manages. MONA keeps the list honest (consent, suppressions, live audiences) and hands you a clean export instead of sending on your behalf.

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