If you’re an ActiveCampaign customer, you’re going to love this email newsletter tip that will help save hours of time each time you send an email out. If you use another email provider service, you can still follow along and apply your learnings there as well!
As a marketer, your day is jammed packed with emails, social media, report requests, partnership management, influencer campaigns, event management and much more! With the constant juggling act, it’s always exciting when we can figure out ways to save hours in our week by streamlining processes and using tools to eliminate redundancies in our work!
Brace yourself you’re going to be able to reallocate your hours saved toward more meaningful marketing efforts!
Did you know that marketers spend on average 3.48 hours a week sending emails?
That is the equivalent to:
(3.48 hours) x (52 weeks) = Nearly 181 hours every single year!!!
That is an enormous amount of time spent creating and sending emails!
Well…what if you could achieve the same results by reducing your time by at least 75%?!!
If you use ActiveCampaign or any marketing automation service for sending out newsletters, we’re going to blow you away with a technique that we know will make you jump for joy:)
elink.io – The Best Way To Create Your ActiveCampaign Newsletter
elink.io is a content creation suite that helps you create visually appealing and responsive newsletters, webpages, social bio links, and more in minutes. Just add links to the content you need to share (articles, videos, images) and elink will automatically create a stunning web page that you can share online, embed anywhere, or share as a newsletter!
This nifty tool offers a huge collection of beautiful and fully responsive newsletter templates from which you can choose your favorite, and customize it however you want. It literally is the fastest way to create a stunning newsletter!
Moreover, elink has a robust editor that allows you to add elements like images, texts, bullet lists, numbered lists, dividers, buttons, and even social media icons in your header and footer body. You can even add a search bar in the newsletter and make it easy for your readers to find what they are looking for.
You can even bundle links directly from the RSS feeds and create a stunning newsletter in just a few seconds. Also, using elink’s nifty automation tool, you can automate content creation for your newsletters, websites, and more. All you have to do is pick sources and add filters in order to make your content more effective and relevant. What could be better than that?
The best part? elink integrates with all major email clients like ActiveCampaign! Now that you know the essence of elink as a newsletter creator, let’s go over how to create a stunning ActiveCampaign newsletter using this awesome tool.
How to Create ActiveCampaign Newsletter on elink?
Step 1: Choose a Newsletter Template
The coolest thing about elink is that you don’t have to worry about all the tricky design rules. With elink’s stunning newsletter templates, you’re already way ahead when it comes to designing.
Now, here’s what you need to do: choose a template and customize it the way you want. We’ve quite a splendid collection to choose from, so take your time to find the one that fits your needs the best.
By the way, you can also create a newsletter from scratch. It’s totally up to you.
Step 2: Add Links to the Newsletter
Here comes the fun part. You can add links to the content (articles, videos, products, etc.) that you want to show up in your active campaign newsletter.
elink is so robust that it will automatically generate an image, a title, and a short description with each link. Of course, you can modify and customize any of this information if you want.
elink is also an RSS reader and a bookmark manager so you can quickly select your preselected links directly from the link library or the RSS feeds or enter them manually.
Step 3: Add Header
We know that a compelling email header design decides whether the reader would read your entire newsletter or bail on it. That’s why we’ve given you the option of designing your header body the way you want.
You can add images, text, bullet lists, numbered lists, buttons, social icons, and dividers in your header body. elink even lets you choose from over 6 font sizes for your header body.
What’s more? You can also use elink’s Canva integration and design an eye-catching banner directly in elink.
Step 4: Add Footer
An email footer is a place where the recipients would look for details about your brand. It is a place for transparency, clarity, and good design – exactly what elink provides.
You can add images, text, bullet lists, numbered lists, buttons, social icons, and dividers in your footer. Moreover, you can link the social icons with your own social media accounts in seconds.
Step 5: Choose a Layout for your links:
Just jump right in and don’t worry about wasting valuable time designing the layout of your Activecampaign newsletter. elink has already done all the heavy lifting for you. You can choose your favorite layout from all the different options with a simple click of a button and elink will change the formatting of those tiles to your chosen style.
Step 6: Design and Customize
You’ll get a perfect combination of colors in our templates. But, if you want to change the colors, you can do that too. Apart from that, you can also customize the font styles, button text, and more – in just a few clicks.
One of the most robust features of elink is that you can even add a search bar if you are adding a bunch of links such as resources etc.
Step 7: Share Your Newsletter
Yay! You’ve now created a stunning ActiveCampaign newsletter that is ready to be shared with the world. Now, hit the ‘Publish’ button on the far right corner of the screen, and a pop-up will appear, allowing you to customize your content URL.
Once you have customized the URL, another popup will appear where you need to select the ‘newsletter’ option. From there, you can share your masterpiece via Gmail, Mailchimp, or any other third-party email marketing tools like Get Response, Mailchimp, etc.!
To learn more: How to Export Email Newsletters via Active Campaign?
To Learn More Watch This Video Tutorial 👀👇
Tell us below how long it takes you to create ActiveCampaign email newsletters via elink.io. We would love to hear how much time you’re able to save!
Start creating your 5-minute email newsletters today with elink.io!
PS: If you don’t use ActiveCampaign, you can still send out visually appealing Newsletters using Gmail or Constant Contact in minutes with elink.io!
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Further reads :
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- The Best Newsletter Creator in 2022 – Elink!
- 10 Newsletter Marketing Strategies for Marketers!
- 7 Newsletter Trends You May Have Missed!
- How to Create Awesome Newsletter Headers?
- Monthly Newsletter: How to Create it in Simple Steps? (Templates Included)
- RSS to Email: Create Automated Email Newsletters Using RSS!
- The 10 Best Email Newsletter Services In 2022
- How to Save Time On Your Next MailerLite Newsletter?
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Very helpful. I need to send out newsletters.
By the way Crystal, if you’d like any more tips for ActiveCampaign success, feel free to reach out to activecampaign.com/support – we’re always happy to help! 🙂
Great tips! Really useful post 🙂
Tiffany
This was so helpful! I feel like they take so much time!!!
I’ve just been looking at setting up subscriptions and newsletters for my blog readers. This post is perfect timing and full of so many great tips. Thank you!
Thank you for this post. I am looking for good way to start sending emails to my subscribers. This could be it!
Very helpful post, I think I’m going to have to bookmark it as a reference.
Very helpful and useful post. Plus thanks for helping me save a bit of time.
This could very well be a life saver! Thank you!
Sophia
Helpful! Thanks!
thank you very helpful
Oh wow this really looks like a quick way in getting your newsletter out in no time.
interesting, I use RRS feeds for my newletters in mailchimp but I might check this out
Hannah @ The Northern Writes
Hi Hannah, That’s wonderful to hear. It’s a great way to add your own personal touch to the content your sharing, but still save you a tremendous amount of time. FYI, elink.io also works with MailChimp as well!
That was really helpful! I don’t have some many followers yet but i think it’s time to start using my email list.
i use MailChimo and to be honest was not doing it often because of the time. I will try switching to Active Campaign and implement your trick. That would improvemy business ans readership, Thank you for this article
Hi Sharon, You can use this tool with any email marketing service including MailChimp! Excited to help you save a tremendous amount of time!
Sending out newsletters always takes me longer than it’s supposed to for some reason. Cutting that email time will really be worth it. And lol those gifs though!
Yes! Creating an awesome looking newsletter can take a lot of time. That’s where elink.io comes to the rescue.
I use mailchimp but I feel like I might switch over to something else. I just want things to be feaster!
Hey, Jackie! You can use elink with any of the major email marketing tools, be it MailChimp, Active Campaign or anything else and send out newsletters in minutes 🙂
Interesting tips and info!
Very handy!
This looks awesome! I will need to try to check this out!
This is really helpful. I only send out newsletters for one of my blogs, which is really bad!!
Louise x
No worries! You can create a newsletter using elink and then export it to your MailChimp or Gmail account in minutes!
Yes, you can use elink with MailChimp and even with Gmail 🙂