Jul 25 2017

Organize your email content with lines

By Gabrielle Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Lines are basic, fundamental design elements that you can use to create professional newsletters. In fact, you can use a line on its own as a separator of two different sections of your email template. Or you can try to insert multiple lines, place them in a row, and add some space in between them to separate two sections of your newsletter.

When it comes to organizing your email newsletter content, we will show you how handy line separators can be. Not only can lines act as separators, but lines are also great for guiding the eyes of the readers. You can strategically position the lines within your newsletter to give hints on the direction and flow of the email content.

Jul 19 2017

Create beautiful color transitions for your email design with Mail Designer 365

By Gabrielle Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Colors are important design elements that stimulate different emotions. Over the past decade, adding colors to designs has transformed. Whether you want to use soft, pastel colors or bright, loud colors - implementing smooth color transitions has become essential in creating beautiful effects. Gradients help add eye-catching visuals without being an eyesore. Creating transitions from one color to the next can give depth and contrast to the overall layout design of your email newsletter templates.

Jun 19 2017

Beginner’s Guide to Email Marketing – Step 7: Sending Your First Email Design

By Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 7

Sending your first email design

May 19 2017

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing – Step 5: Sign Up For An Email Service Provider (ESP)

By Gabrielle Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 5

Sign Up for an Email Service Provider

By this step, you know how to build your subscribers list. Ideally, you have created your checklist of your most needed features and researched your ESP options. Finally, you are ready to sign up for an email service provider! Congratulations!

May 16 2017

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing – Step 4: Quick Guide to Email Service Providers

By Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 4

Quick Guide to Email Service Providers

Why can't I use my regular email service provider?

You are probably familiar with inbox providers, which are email platforms like Gmail or Yahoo Mail. Inbox providers are amazing options for sending one-on-one social emails. But if you are a business, you are sending emails to hundreds and even thousands of people, which is also known as "bulk emailing" or "mass emailing."

When you hear "bulk emailing" or "mass emailing," what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Most likely, it's spam. Spam is frequently sent in bulk, either by a bot or an anonymous sender. More often than not, spam contains hostile malware.

At one point or another, we've all received spam in our inbox or junk mail folder. With time, we have learned to treat spam with caution, and we're not the only ones. You may be a legitimate business, and you pride yourself with great quality email newsletters. But regardless of whom the emails are from, mass emails can still give red flags to both inbox providers and internet service providers (ISPs).

May 03 2017

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing – Step 2: Build Your Email List

By Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 2

Build Your Email List

Apr 28 2017

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing – Step 1: Set Up Your Goals

By Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 1

Set Up Your Goals

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If you are new to email marketing, we suggest starting out by organizing your thoughts and plans by first clearly defining what your goals are. Email marketing may be a new tool for you that lets you communicate with your audience. Therefore, it is really important to figure out what your goals are and what you want to achieve through your email newsletters.

Understanding the goal that you want to achieve will help pave the way to how you style your newsletter designs as well as to what type of content to include in your emails. It will also determine what type of metrics you will be using to measure whether or not you met your goals.

Apr 06 2017

Inverted Pyramid Model

By Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Age-Old Dilemma

When it comes to creating newsletters or emails, you often encounter an age-old dilemma. How can you grab and retain your customer’s attention without losing the complete message you want to share? You are not alone.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a fine line between writing too little and writing too much. Write too little and your consumers do not get enough information. Write too much and you lose your customer’s attention. Or worse - cause them to disregard the email or newsletter completely. So how do you find a good balance?

Feb 24 2015

Max it out! Create email layouts with a full surface backgrounds

By Gabrielle Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

Full surface backgrounds leave lasting impressions in any inbox.

Mail Designer includes Design ideas incorporating this style, giving you a taste of how affective they can work. With Mail Designer and Mail Designer Pro, it’s easy to create this newsletter style.

Sep 12 2014

Working with our collection of shapes

By Gabrielle Mail Designer 365 Newsletter Academy

We want to help you shape up your email designs!

Shapes can be helpful in grabbing attention within your email or newsletter campaign. You can also use shapes as buttons.

Create beautiful designs with Shapes

To help you get started quickly, we’ve included several helpful buttons and shapes as vector graphics.

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 5

Sign Up for an Email Service Provider

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 4

Quick Guide to Email Service Providers

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Beginner's Guide to Email Marketing

Step 1

Set Up Your Goals

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