What is the Marketing Studio?

The Marketing Studio is TeleportHQ's built-in marketing tool, in the editor's Growth panel. It works with the people who sign up to your site: you group them into contact lists, send email newsletters, and run email or SMS campaigns that AI plans, writes and schedules. It also creates social media posts and marketing graphics with AI, which you copy or download and post yourself. Emails and text messages go out through your own sending service, such as SendGrid or Twilio.

Where to find the Marketing Studio#

1. Open your project in the TeleportHQ editor.
2. In the left sidebar, click Growth (the chart icon). If a Welcome to Growth! window appears, click Show Me for a short tour, or Maybe Later.
3. In the Growth panel, click Marketing Studio ("Create social posts with AI").

The Marketing Studio opens next to the panel, on Contacts. You don't need to publish your site first: the studio works before your first publish.

What's in the Marketing Studio#

The TeleportHQ Marketing Studio has two parts:

1. The menu on the left, with six sections. Below it, a box of tips changes with the section you're in.
2. The Marketing Assistant button at the bottom right. It opens an AI chat that can do much of the work for you. See How to use the Marketing Assistant.

What you need to use the Marketing Studio#

• A Trial, Pro or Premium workspace. When the trial or subscription has ended, the Marketing Studio shows "The Marketing Studio is a paid feature". You can look around, but every action opens an upgrade window.
• Sign-up and login turned on. Your contacts are the people who sign up to your site, so the TeleportHQ Marketing Studio needs the Authentication feature. Until it's on, the studio shows Enable authentication to use the Marketing Studio with an Enable authentication button, which starts the setup. See How to add sign-up and login to your site.
• A web app. Sign-in is a server feature, so turning it on in a website first asks you to make the project a web app. See What is a web app in TeleportHQ? and Why does my web app need a slot?.
• Editing rights. In a project you can only view, the studio says "This project is read-only — Growth actions are disabled."
• AI tokens for everything AI writes or draws. See the table below.

How sending works in the Marketing Studio#

TeleportHQ doesn't send marketing emails or text messages from its own account. You connect your own account with an email service (SendGrid, Resend, Mailgun, Postmark or MailerSend) or an SMS service (Twilio, TextMagic, Infobip or SMSAPI). Messages go out through that account, and that company bills you for sending. You set it up once, and your campaigns, newsletters and workflow emails all use it. See How to connect an email or SMS sending service.

Every email TeleportHQ sends from the Marketing Studio has an unsubscribe link. Contacts who unsubscribe, and addresses that bounce or report spam, are skipped automatically.

Where the Marketing Studio saves pictures#

The images and videos the TeleportHQ Marketing Studio creates for graphics and social posts are also added to your project's files: in the Assets Manager, open the Public folder, then the growth folder. From there you can use them on your pages like any uploaded file. See What is the Assets Manager?.

What the Marketing Studio doesn't do yet#

• It doesn't post to social networks for you yet. Each post card offers to connect its network, for example with Connect Facebook, but connecting a network isn't available yet: TeleportHQ shows a message such as "facebook connections aren't available yet. We're finishing the integration." Copy the text or download the picture or video, and post it yourself. See How to create social media posts with AI.
• Social media campaigns and WhatsApp campaigns are marked Soon in the New campaign window and can't be chosen.
• Automation (for example, a welcome email when someone signs up) is marked Soon. To send automatic emails today, use a workflow: see How to send emails and text messages from a workflow.

AI tokens used by the Marketing Studio#

When an AI action in the TeleportHQ Marketing Studio starts, TeleportHQ checks that your workspace has at least this many AI tokens and holds them back. When the action ends, you're charged what the AI really used, which is often less.

When a generation fails, you see "Generation failed. Please try again — your tokens were not consumed for failed work." TeleportHQ charges only the AI work already done before the failure, if there was any. See What uses AI tokens, and how much?.