| Free email marketing is a difficult enough exercise | | | | to consider the fact that you are not doing business |
| without having to worry about things like creativity and | | | | with the best. You should also think about what suits |
| design. While some would argue that this is an integral | | | | your business needs specifically. |
| aspect of the marketing mailer experience and not an | | | | Design templates come in all forms and sizes. What |
| independent aspect, the process requires time and | | | | you should do is look for a template that doesn't |
| effort - both of which translate into costs for the bulk | | | | radically disturb your existing design guidelines - unless |
| email marketer. It is probably then a boon and a | | | | that is a change that you purposefully want to make. |
| godsend for most email marketers to know that there | | | | Some of the general facets to look at from these |
| are service providers who offer this service for | | | | templates is the amount of text area, the image |
| absolutely no cost. Of course, when it comes to taking | | | | settings and placement, the ability to add multimedia, |
| up something that is zero cost, there is usually always | | | | and from a coding perspective, how robust is the |
| a catch involved as well. | | | | template to adding flash elements. Multimedia is a |
| Most service providers have decided to use an | | | | contentious issue for some bulk email marketers who |
| approach from regular business: hire some ace | | | | would say that most email clients block the download |
| graphical designers and coders and make them create | | | | of images and video. This is a valid argument but the |
| templates instead of doing one-off projects for each | | | | counter argument for this is simply that genuine |
| individual client. This makes absolute business sense | | | | marketers would have already ensured that they are |
| for the service provider who can now offer creative | | | | part of the "safe senders list." |
| design services that takes no production costs at all. | | | | Free email marketing design templates are a great |
| And in all fairness, some of the design templates for | | | | way to start off your email campaign but again, the |
| bulk email mailers and newsletters are indeed quite | | | | question comes up, what is the catch? The simple |
| impressive and after seeing them, you would wonder | | | | answer to this is that most of the freedoms that you |
| why more people don't read bulk email. | | | | could have enjoyed if you created your own email |
| Free email marketing service providers offer | | | | from scratch are history. If you previously prided |
| templates for mail creation along with a slew of other | | | | yourself on eccentric designs and non-conformism in |
| services like tracking, reporting, and analysis of | | | | mailer design then this would now be a problem for |
| performance. These are usually a standard set of | | | | you. Additionally, this service is of no use if your |
| offerings and if your service provider is not giving you | | | | content is largely image based and has a low |
| all of these, as a bare minimum, then you might have | | | | proportion of text. |