How to create a newsletter in 30 minutes

From high ROI to higher engagement rates than social platforms, email marketing is one of the best ways to generate interest in what you’re promoting or selling. But you still need a strong foundation to build that interest on. You need a powerful newsletter to increase audience engagement, promote your content, grow your community, and create a personal connection with your audience.

Watch this video for actionable steps that’ll help you create a newsletter of your own for free in ConvertKit and check out our full newsletter guide at http://convertk.it/create-a-newsletter-yt.

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Claire Cre8tes : Angel is literally spoon feeding us the "secret to success" been binging your videos all day thank you now just gotta get over imposter syndrome and do it!!!!
CHARMAIN CRAWFORD : Great video. Question. What if I already have manually added an email and want to send the landing page/newsletter to the email I manually added? How do I do that?
Maureen Abuor : Very very good work. Thank you so so much, Angel.
Abhishek : Will convertkit block our account if we send affiliate link in the emails ?
Antoinette Watson : Thank you. Your presentation was very informative.

12 Email Newsletter Design Tips to Boost Your Email Marketing Results

If you want people to open your emails, you need to pay attention to your email newsletter design. Good design is key to enticing readers to scroll through your entire email, and better yet, click to your website. And Visme is the perfect start for creating email designs that your audience loves: https://www.visme.co

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If you're currently experiencing poor email marketing results, the first thing you need to do is take a look back at your most recent emails. How do they look?

Then compare your emails to some of the best brand emails you've ever gotten. Do they compare? If the answer is no, then it's likely other emails are stealing your audience's attention, even if they aren't even direct competitors.

You want to stand out in your audience's inbox as a must-read email newsletter. The best way to do that is by placing an emphasis on your email newsletter design.

In this video, Mike Ploger dives into 12 email newsletter design tips that will help to boost your company's email marketing results.

By implementing these, you'll see an uptick in opens and clicks and a decrease in unsubscribes. Follow along with this video to learn more about these 12 email newsletter design tips:
1:29 Design for Mobile Devices
2:05 Use a Clean and Organized Layout
2:31 Keep Text Short and Sweet
3:19 Create Visual Hierarchy
4:19 Embrace White Space
4:59 Frame Content With Headers and Footers
5:37 Set The Mood with Color
6:12 Simplify Font Choices
6:57 Use Stunning Images
7:36 Embed Videos / GIFs
8:16 Inform With Infographics
8:53 Create a Compelling Call to Action

Quality email newsletter design isn't an impossible task. And if you get started with a design software like Visme that includes tons of beautiful email templates (Check them out here: https://www.visme.co/templates/graphics-for-websites/email-header/), your email newsletter design will be both easy and efficient!

To learn even more about email newsletter design tips, check out our full blog post on the subject: https://visme.co/blog/newsletter-design/

Also, check out our blog post on color psychology that Mike mentioned in tip #7 to learn more about choosing the right colors for your email newsletter: https://visme.co/blog/color-psychology-in-marketing-the-ultimate-guide/

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https://templates.mailchimp.com/design/calls-to-action/
https://apple.com
https://reallygoodemails.com/promotional/featured-product/feet-need-love-too/
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Mike Duran : Im not even done with this video but wow this is very concise straight to the point hardcore tips. Love it man, great content. Thanks for creating!
E-Mail Marketing Snacks : I love that "It's pronounced JIF"-part a lot! Made me laugh a lot Nice tips!
La galinette rebelle : Very interesting. Thank you very much.
Nina Oglesby : It's the JIF for me. That part of the video had me chuckling a little too loud while I was at the library. I'm sure the person the cubicle over was a little annoyed. Note to self. Limit the engaging content when in quiet coworking spaces. Lol!
Ade2Bee : The inventor/CREATOR has come out and said it is 'GIF', not 'Jif'

The Newsletter Plugin - Subscription forms

The Newsletter Plugin Tutorial #2
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Let's take a look together at the basics of the central feature of any newsletter creating system: the subscription forms.
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Documentation: https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com/documentation
Premium Addons: https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com/premium
Agalychnis Callidryas : The Newsletter Plugin looks like a well thought out plugin but the documentation is ALWAYS lacking with the important questions not answered so this is frustrating. The info given in this video does NOT cover the most important questions.
A. There is a CUSTOM FORMS section with Forms and HTML samples with Forms 1 - 10 boxes for code, no where in the documentation is there info how this works or what these boxes are for
I imagine you can have forms numbered 1=10? There is a link to click on with "Read More about forms which brings you to custom forms docs with a useless image of an arrow pointing to the link how to get to the page I just came from. WHY?

They need someone to write proper ENGLISH for the docs as it's horrendous and more confusing than informative.

BELOW IS AN EXAMPLE"
To help in this task, Newsletter (since version 3.0) has a special panel where to get and copy the pre-generated form, created following the setting of the form fields panel. The simple format we provide should be easy enough to elaborate it.

To new users "Since 3.0" is useless

"created following the setting of the form fields panel. The simple format we provide should be easy enough to elaborate it. "following the setting of the form panels?, The simple format we provide SHOULD be enough be easy enough to elaborate it? WHAT IS "IT"? You mean to explain the form?

THERE IS SAMPLE CODE:


That I assume you cut and paste this to the (lets say Form 2 box behind the Forms tab.
Then you insert the shortcode as mentioned below:

To recall a stored custom form you have to use the the shortcode [newsletter_form] by adding the form number you need: [newsletter_form form=“X”], where “X” is the form number.

So I insert into the TEXT portion of the page below:
[newsletter_form form=“2”]

Because I added the sample code from the sample page to the Form 2 entry block

BUT..................................................................
When you save the page and view it in a browser NOTHING Appears

Can the developer at least give some WORKING EXAMPLES? so we can "elaborate" what ever that means?

This is the worst part about this Plugin the poor ENGLISH used in the video is NOT Clear like saying "LAHHHHBELLL" instead of "LAYYYYBELL" for the work "Label".
The lack of where to find examples of how it all work, too much is assumed and nothing obvious
Chris Boulanger : This video is a great example of the problems I have with this company. How can you have a video about setting up a subscription form that doesn't show how to set up the form on a page? I've gone through all the documentation and this is the best I've found:

"You can find it in your blog page list, where you can also personalize its design. There is just one simple rule: the Newsletter page should be a regular WordPress page that contains only the [newsletter]shortcode!"

Unfortunately, this information is poorly written. I spent 10 minutes looking through my pages trying to find the page. I'm chalking it up to a bad translation of the documentation, but its extremely frustrating. Also, why is there no video about how to design the form?

FYI: I am a premium (blog package) customer trying to setup the plugin.

Please do a video showing how to create the actual page for the subscription form. Thanks
Tomer Levi : can you show how to design the form and insert it to page ?
Joseph Gunawan : How can we add re-captcha into the subscription form? This feature doesn't seem available out of the box.
Mystic Flickr : I am using the free version of the newsletter plugin, how do I use this as a pop-up for a subscription? When I visit certain websites they immediately show a pop-up window saying subscribe, which I am not able to with news letter any suggestion?

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