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We get frequent questions from designers wanting to use HTML email for client projects or their own marketing. Here is our comparison of the four prominent email delivery services on the market today.

1. Campaign Monitor
2. MailChimp
3. AWeber
4. Constant Contact

Implemented properly, email newsletters are a powerful marketing tool. Financially, they are one of the most cost-effective ways you can keep in front of clients and prospects. We’re seeing more creative studios using email as a core part of their own marketing effort. And we’re seeing a lot of design projects with studios creating email marketing templates for their clients.

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This short 7-minute segment comes from CreativeTechs’ Marketing with HTML Email Newsletters webinar on August 20, 2008. This webinar covered the practical how-to’s for developing an effective, ongoing marketing strategy with HTML Email Newsletters. This clip demonstrates the fundamentals using a service like Campaign Monitor. The full online training includes demos of a number of other services including MailChimp, and Constant Contact. As well as digging into ways to preview and proof your designs on a variety of email clients, and show you how to easily send good looking, desired, emails to a growing list of clients and subscribers.