Newsletter help
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I've just started doing some work for a client which uses http://www.exacttarget.com for sending, managing, and tracking email newsletters. My job is to make the HTML emails look pretty but this damn site is template driven and VERY strict. I am very limited in what I can do. The site's fine for some middle manager who knows nothing of design, but it's giving me an ulcer.
What I'm hoping you fine folks can provide is some suggestions on more robust alternatives. I hesitate to ask for bulk mailer software, though, since they can be just asking for trouble.
Any suggestions must be Mac friendly. The above example is IE/PC only.
Thanks very much!
- ribit0
We use Topica to send a monthly newsletter to 13500 subscribers. It's improved a lot lately (although still has Topica branding in there).
We're also looking at PHPList http://www.tincan.co.uk
which runs on your server...
- ribit0
btw.. Topica now allows your own custom HTML and text to be entered, creates an auto-detect format.
- cephas0
i work for a company that does HTML emails. You can use either the templated system or do cut/paste emails. if you want i can hook you up with our team and we can talk about your needs. email me.
- majk0
welded...
we use Exact target aswell... and it's not that strict at all...
what I've done is create a HTML template in dreamweaver (I couldn't possibly ask the Marketing dept to hand-code). So they write the up-sell emails, newsletters etc in dreamweaver, save the file, copy the HTML (between the body tags) and paste it into ExactTargets.
If you go to create new email, and choose from HTML then it's all good - you can do what you want...
Email me offlist if you need anymore info.
Good luck.
// Majk.
- welded0
Thanks for the info, all. I'll take another look at Exact Target, but there's still the issue of the site not being Mac compatible (as far as I've been able to tell).