If you are unsure of the exact type of e-mail template will work best for your project and don’t want to spend a lot of money on templates that may or may not fit your needs, we recommend using a variety of our free templates to test the waters – it costs you nothing and provides the opportunity to experiment with a variety of styles.

Choosing the most effective template for you can be a difficult task. Luckily, most templates have a title assigned to them to help you start the decision process of which ones might be best for you. It’s best not to just go by what the title of the template is. Take the time to go through the templates. Some are better than others. Some will fit your needs while others will be completely unhelpful to you.

There are questions you can ask yourself to make your task easier. First, what do you want to accomplish with your e-mail? That decided, the second question is, what do you think the template needs in order to help you accomplish your goal? The final question is, once you’ve decided these things, how do you find the perfect template?

All of these questions will help you find the best possible template with the least difficulty. Once you’ve made up your mind what you need, it will take much less time to sort through the templates. Look through our free templates with your mind already on what you need rather than being confused by what we offer. 

Another option for finding the perfect template is Streamsend. Streamsend is a great product for helping you find what you need. Streamsend can help you polish your product until it is certain to accomplish exactly what you need.

While the majority of our posts tend to focus on the larger picture – from opt-in list building to eye catching, comprehensive email templates – today we will focus on the details. Certainly, you need a solid game plan and attention grabbing presentation to succeed, but without attention to the details all of your hard work can be countered by minor, unprofessional touches. And this is where email signature templates come into the picture. With a solid email signature template you can ensure a professional look throughout your emails without having to constantly keep the little things in mind.

Those interested in applying an email signature template to their emails will find nearly a dozen different styles at Wise Stamp.com, offering a solid mixture of both professional and personal signature templates, allowing you to choose which is best to use depending on the individual situation.

If you would like to add a personal touch to your signature template, you may want to use a personalized signature creator, such as the one featured at Signature-Creator.Software.Snformer.com. Here, you will find the tools needed to create personal, handwritten-style email signature templates that can help you stand out from the pack.

For those that have no clue as to the exact style that would best serve their purposes, you may want to visit Hanselman.com and look over Scott Hanselman’s helpful article on proper email signature etiquette.

And as always, it is highly recommended that you use StreamSend to help organize any email marketing project you may have. Whether relying on the html templates provided by StreamSend, needing the security provided by an individual, private IP address or just needing an easy way to manage your email marketing strategy, you will find that StreamSend can provide help in every area.

Most people think that in order to be effective you must be memorable. In most cases that is true. In the business world, you must be memorable but that is only a small part of what it takes to succeed. There are so many aspects to business success that there is no way to possibly consider them all. There is, however, one that is understood to be one of the most important factors.

Are you able to complete your work quickly to the highest possible standards?

If you have the resources to devote to personalizing your emails and newsletters, then you are lucky. Most business do not have those vast resources, especially small businesses. That’s where we can help. By using our free email templates you put yourself in the same shoes as the big companies. Our email templates are tried and true and will help you send more effective emails and newsletters.

The best part (aside from being FREE) is that these templates save you time. After you download an email template you simply plug in the information you want to send to your subscribers or customers and ta-da! You just sent an effective newsletter or email update in no time at all. Isn’t it nice to know you can finish something quickly and finish it the highest possible standards?

With the ability to provide stream-lined design, visual cues and the potential for added creativity, there is simply no denying the effectiveness of html emails when compared to simple text. However, programming an html email can take sufficient background knowledge in html and time to program to prove effective… until now.

At EmailTemplatePro.com, you will find a variety of html email templates that can easily be used with no prior knowledge of html. Simply download the email template that appeals to you, add text, and watch the results!

Aside from EmailTemplatePro.com, with StreamSend you will also find professional html email templates along with the professional assistance needed to maximize your message’s potential.

Regardless of whether you are a home business or multi-national corporation, the Internet is allowing us all to be on the same playing field more and more each day, and for the moment html email and services such as StreamSend are the forefront of providing an advantage to all.

Effective marketing is the key to any successful business. Therefore, the question on every company’s mind is “How do we increase the effectiveness of our marketing?” There are several things you can do, but the quickest, easiest, and cheapest is sending out email newsletters.

If your a company just beginning to explore the idea of email blasts or email marketing, the idea can be daunting. Do  not fret. There are so many ways to get started. If your company has access to a creative team that can tailor your email templates to suit your company that is the best option. However, not every company has the time or resources to devote to this task. If that is the case, there is another option.

Your company can always use pre-made email templates. That’s were we come in. By signing up as a member of this site, you and your company gain access to everything you need to create effective email newsletters. The best part is they are pre-made, tested for optimal efficiency and FREE! It’s your one-stop-shop for email marketing.

Unless you’re living in a cave, you’re being bombarded with reminders about the Holiday season. Don’t be annoyed by these ads, listen to them, examine them, learn from them. Take a great commercial you’ve seen on television, turn it into an email and blast it out to your subscribers.

My most successful email marketing campaigns have stemmed from the Holiday shopping season.

Remember, if you have a product, that product could be a gift. Don’t just remember for yourself, remind your customers! Sometimes it just takes one sentence: “Looking for that perfect gift? YourProductHere is the number one choice for YourNicheHere” to plant a seed in your subscriber’s mind.

My stats for last holiday season:

• 23% Higher click through ratio

• 19% More Sales

• 27% Less opt-outs

Take advantage of the Holidays! Get motivated and send out some extra emails, throw in a coupon or a limited time sale, and you’ll see better stats too.

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Attention grabbing opt-in templates like these are by far the fastest and easiest way to get visitors to give you their name and email address so you can start building a targeted list of buyers that you can send offers to for as long as you’d like! Just drop these “interactive magnets” into your website to start your email harvest!

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If your message isn’t ending up in your recipient’s inbox, what’s the point of the email? Deliverability is essential in every email marketing campaign. If you’re ending up in the spam folder every time, something needs to change. Deliverability can be affected by many different variables not limited to just your email service provider.

There are hundreds of email service providers out there which give you the capability to “check for spam” in your outgoing email messages. So what is your provider doing when it’s checking your email templates for spam? I’ve put together a list of tips for optimizing your email messages for maximum deliverability.

Think like an email marketer, not a spammer

The most obvious rule of all deliverability tricks is to create your email from a business and marketing standpoint, rather than a spammer’s standpoint. Spammers are looking for little backdoor nuances to sneak their email into your inbox. Such a tactic is the manipulation and misspelling words which are generally flagged as spammer words (ie: v^i^c^o^d^i^n…look familiar?) It may seem sly, but trust me it will only hurt your campaign. Why? Spammers send out millions of emails in very short periods of time to low quality purchased and harvested lists.

To get a better idea of what I’m talking about, try this; for the next few days don’t delete the spam that comes into your inbox. Carefully analyze these emails and take notes on which tactics you think they used to get into your inbox. Also make note of whether the unsolicited email was in HTML or plain text format. Once you have a good list of 10 different messages, review and post this list near your desk. This will help you to not do what spammers do every time you blast out your email campaign!

Template Optimization

The biggest mistake I see when I watch the spam accumulate in my inbox is poor HTML email template optimization. Of all of the mistakes you could make when designing and coding an HTML email is poor slicing techniques. We’ve all seen the emails that are just one big graphic with small text at the bottom. Although these are not always necessarily spam, they will almost always end up in the spam folder your client’s email program.

I am by no means discouraging the heavy use of graphics in emails, in fact I am a big advocate of eye-catching email designs. However it must be done properly so you don’t waste your time and money blasting out useless email templates. The best peice of advice I can give regarding graphics in emails….Slice away! Your graphical HTML email should consist of at least 5 separate graphics, but don’t stop there.

Add inline CSS so that when you’re email images are blocked automatically (ie: yahoo, gmail, hotmail), your recipient is still seeing a shell of colors of what the email looks like. Rather than a completely blank white screen with opt-out text at the bottom. Clever use of inline CSS in your email designs can convince your recipient to unblock those images, and view your message.

When should you send a designer made email, and when should you send a good ol’ fashioned plain text email? This question has aroused a massive debate in forums and blogs all over the ‘net in recent years. I’ll give my personal experiences when dealing with both types…

Use an HTML template with…

• Auto-Responders: Payment notifications, email verifications, and account confirmations all fall under this category. Branding is very important when sending out these types of emails. This could just mean placing your company logo somewhere in the message, accompanied by a simple graphic to separate the heading from the content. But don’t forget to include a footer bar to separate your content from the can-spam compliance information. I’d recommend always using an HTML email template in your automatic response messages.

• Product Promotions:  When sending out product announcements, promotions, and sales notifications always use a nicely designed HTML email template. These emails should immediately grab the attention of your recipient, hopefully converting into a sale. When you walk in to Best Buy, you don’t see a bunch of plain text ads hanging from the ceilings and pasted to the walls. You see big text with pictures and bright colors. The same rules apply for email marketing. If you’re still using plain old text emails to sell your products you’re missing the boat, big time.

• Newsletters: In my experience, a well designed HTML email newsletter can be a very profitible marketing tool. Have you ever read a plain text email newsletter? Probably on your email enabled phone, but with the advent of the iPhone your emails can now look just as great on mobile devices as they do on your computer screen. I can’t stress enough how profitable a carefully crafted newsletter can be to your email marketing campaign.

Use plain text with…

• Sensitive Information: This mainly applies to companies dealing with money, and other sensitive information such as banks, and stock traders. Always leave these emails as plain text as there is less of a risk it will be flagged as spam. When I receive my weekly bank statement via email, I’d be discouraged to see bright colors and graphics next to my sensitive account information.

• Internal Business Communications: If you think that pretty background with colorful text is going to impress your fellow co workers in an important email, well, think again! Always send plain text emails when communicating with co-workers internally via company email. This practice is normally frowned upon, and many companies even have policies on proper email usage and mailbox disk space usage. Play it safe with this one, keep it simple so you can keep your job.

• External Business Communications: Unless you’re a business to business email marketer, you should not be sending HTML emails to your company’s business partners. This could potentially hinder important business relationships, and make your company look less professional. Again please refer to your specific company policies, and if it is not mentioned in the policies, always play it safe and just send it plain text.

Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas about these, or any category I may have missed via comments.