--- title: Personalize your newsletters with first name and other shortcodes description: You can personalize your email blasts, automated emails and newsletters by including the first and/or last name of your subscribers. 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To do this, click into the text editor of your email and then look for the icon in the screenshot below (looks like 3 people).  ![Screen Shot 2021-06-04 at 2.39.20 pm](https://support.bizinkonline.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-04%20at%202.39.20%20pm.png?width=351&name=Screen%20Shot%202021-06-04%20at%202.39.20%20pm.png) This then gives you a few shortcode options to select from: ![Screen Shot 2021-06-04 at 2.46.55 pm](https://support.bizinkonline.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screen%20Shot%202021-06-04%20at%202.46.55%20pm.png?width=352&name=Screen%20Shot%202021-06-04%20at%202.46.55%20pm.png) Click the one you want (eg First Name) and it should bring in the following: Hi \[subscriber:firstname | default:reader\].  In the example above, it will show Hi **reader** if you don't have their first name on record. You could change this to Hi there or similar to suit your style.  ### Full list of available shortcodes **User:** - **First Name:** \[user:firstname | default:subscriber\] - **Last Name:** \[user:lastname | default:subscriber\] - **Email Address:** \[user:email\] **Newsletter:** - **Newsletter Subject:** \[newsletter:subject\] - **Show number of posts:** \[newsletter:total\] - **Show latest post's title:** \[newsletter:post\_title\] - **Display the issue number:** \[newsletter:number\] **Date:** - **Current day of the month number:** \[date:d\] - **Current day of the month in ordinal, ie. 2nd, 3rd, etc :** \[date:dordinal\] - **Full name of current day:** \[date:dtext\] - **Current month number:** \[date:m\] - **Full name of current month:** \[date:mtext\] - **Year:** \[date:y\] **Links:** - **Unsubscribe link:** \[global:unsubscribe\] - **Edit subscription page link:** \[global:manage\] - [Getting Started with Bizink](https://support.bizinkonline.com/getting-started-with-bizink?hsLang=en#main-content) - 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