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justinw
14,517 PointsConstant Contact
Has anyone designed or created a layout for constant contact? I'm launching an iPad app and I want to shoot out an email and there are no good templates with like an iPad in an email showing an image of my tool. Want to create one, curious where to begin.
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Dave Evans
13,160 PointsThere are quite a few different email marketing companies. Among the most well known are Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, and My Emma. I've used them all and honestly they all provide pretty much the same thing. I believe they all have a trial or free subscription option that you might want to check out before committing, but they will all do the job. In order to just send out a mass email, you either need to have people subscribe to your emails or purchase a subscribers list...which can be pricy. As far as templates, there are thousands of email templates that you could use or just develop your own using the skills you can easily learn here at Tree House. Hope this helps.
justinw
14,517 Pointsjustinw
14,517 PointsDave I use and pay for Constant Contact, it's what I've used for years. I'm just trying to find a way to code, or gather more enhanced templates with ipads and iphones within constant contact. The ones from Constant Contact and other resources aren't visually appealing. Hopefully that clarifies what I'm after. Thanks for the detailed info though, a new user would find that very beneficial.
Dave Evans
13,160 PointsDave Evans
13,160 PointsMy apologies for misunderstanding the question. So, you are just wanting to have an email template that contains iPads and iPhones to promote your new app? I agree with you that the standard templates that the email marketing services provide are quite plain and non-appealing. Again, there are countless templates out there that can be downloaded for free. If that doesn't work for you, and if you aren't wanting to design and develop one yourself using HTML and CSS, there are many freelancers and/or small companies that would be more than able to develop one for you.
justinw
14,517 Pointsjustinw
14,517 PointsYeah my goal is to code it myself, but CC is not rendering properly. I'll keep digging.
Dave Evans
13,160 PointsDave Evans
13,160 PointsKeep in mind email marketing templates require use of older technologies. You won't be able to use floats and CSS styling that is normal practice today. You have to dummy it down and resort to table layouts. That being said, you can focus a lot on images rather than HTML text, so proper SEO isn't needed. If you would like to have me take a look, please send me the code and I can test out what might be rendering incorrectly.
justinw
14,517 Pointsjustinw
14,517 PointsIt would probably help if I didn't delete the template I made =(. I'll rewrite one hopefully today to share. Thanks for offering to take a gander.