How to Get Email Newsletter Templates

Find the right email newsletter template for your email campaign.

No matter what your experience, email newsletter templates are an easy and effective way to start an email campaign to promote your business, website, blog or just stay in touch with friends and family. Finding the right template to match your needs can be a bit challenging. Luckily, there are several resources to choose from to be sure that your email campaign is successful.

Instructions

1. Get free email newsletter templates if you plan to use them to promote a blog or just stay in touch with family. There is no need to spend any money to have a successful marketing campaign. There are many free email newsletter templates that can be downloaded and then customized to suit your project, if you choose. Search for "free email newsletter templates" in your favorite search engine.

2. Purchase email newsletter template software. Generally these types of software consist of hundreds of templates for you to choose from. The advantage is that there is usually technical support that comes with it, and you have the ability to rotate out your templates as often as you choose in order to change the look with the seasons, for example.

3. Hire a professional designer to code your email newsletter template for you. This is a small investment to make that could return considerable business to you. This option is great because it allows for your email newsletter template to be branded to complement the style of your business, blog or website, allowing your customers or traffic to remember you better.

4. Check the template's compatibility with all email clients. Be sure to check that all templates have been tested in all the major email clients (i.e., Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail, etc.). This is an important step that should not be overlooked, because your email newsletter may look strange when it is opened or may not be able to open at all in some instances.

Tips & Warnings

• Brush up on HTML code to customize the email newsletter templates yourself.

• Be sure to retest your email newsletter templates in all major email clients if you make any major changes to it.

References

• Nielson Norman Group: Email Newsletter Usability