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sonic

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Hey everyone,

I want to start sending out a monthly newsletter to 1000 or so addresses. I was hoping you could give me some guidance on where to start! As I am relatively new to this (I am just an amateur) could you suggest some software that I could use to design a template? One with my own logo and branding, and editing number of columns etc etc.
As for the emailing part, is there a free way to send 1000s of emails without it automatically being put in the spam folders of the recipients? If not, is there a paid version?
Any pointers are greatly appreciated!, I have knowledge of HTML and CSS so editing the templates to suit myself should be ok.
 
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link8r

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You could try toddle.com - I've heard great things about it and it's easy to use.

Do remember you need people's permissions first and you need to let them opt out permanently.

I dont know how good a marketing platform it is butI'm guessing a 1000 addresses won't do a lot.
 
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sonic

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Thanks for those suggestions, both are really good. I may pm you php.allstar with more detailed questions about campaign monitor in the future about setting it up, if you don't mind!
 
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php.allstar

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@sonic - well you can pm me if you like but I don't mind chatting about this in the open forum from my point of view, the information might prove useful to other users!
 
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php.allstar said:
@sonic - well you can pm me if you like but I don't mind chatting about this in the open forum from my point of view, the information might prove useful to other users!
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Agreed.

If you can discuss things in public it's more helpful for the rest of the members :)
 
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sonic

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No problem guys!

Well campaignmonitor seems to be the solution for me, its a great service and reasonably priced.
I've encountered my first problem maybe you can help me with it! I'm using one of the given templates, a single column one. I've changed the logos and images all fine but when I want to edit the default text in the HTML file, I get an error on uploading - the title and description tags are missing. I can't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm using Kompozer to edit the HTML files and all seems fine to me but as I say once I upload the file as a template for a newsletter, its not accepted because the tags cannot be found!
 
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php.allstar

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Not sure if I stand under you but are you talking about meta title and meta description tags? If so, these are stripped out as the email template is purely whats within the <body></body> tags of a html file...
 
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sonic

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Here is a shot of the template at the moment - a simple one:



See the abc widgets text? I want to change that and I want to add an option to put an image in each article.
 
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php.allstar

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ah ok...

have you included these tags within a repeater tag?

Code: 
<repeater toc='true'>
  < link='true' default=''$>
  < default=''$>
  <img src="< link='true'$>" width="200">
</repeater>
 
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sonic

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Thanks Allstar.

I figured that it was the editor that I was using that was messing things up. I was using kompozer but it wasn't working out. After changing to coffeecup it was simple, just changed the html and uploaded it fine!
 
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