Whats the best service for using/making attractive email templates?

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We've used Mailchimp and Autopilot and neither we're really nice enough to use or allowed us to make really nice looking emails (we're about to launch some new features and wanna do a nice announcement email). Looking for something with either really nice templates or a good builder with good features!

james frewin · Accepted Answer

Have since tried Intercom and it's pretty close to what I was after! The emails are good looking and automatically work on mobile and desktop.

Also has really nice audience filtering and analytics.

eWebDesign · Answer

I really like working in Postcards, it has a very friendly UI and it saves us a lot of time creating our newsletters.

Daniel J. Murphy · Answer

Hi James, I'd argue instead of wasting too much time on templates and optimizing for clicks, you could put the emphasis into the email copy and telling the story of your product launch.

Your leads probably don't care about color schemes or how nice your emails look. They care about how your product can help them do their job.

As it happens we just launched Drift Email for Marketing and we even have a pre-packaged Playbook to help you share your product launch news.

More details: blog.drift.com/drift-email-marketing

happy to chat more about it if you'd like.

Ivan Burban · Answer

We have 250+ ready to use responsive HTML email templates with Pure code and 1 click export to your ESP's

Andrew Laurentiu · Answer

I have tested the demo version, looks good.

Bryan Blair · Answer

They have a great email template editor, with global headers footers and vars.  Designed to move design of transactional emails out of your developers hands.

Emily Brooke Robertson · Answer

The best/easiest way we have found to create templates and allow for quick edits by anyone on your team. Because mjml is similar to markdown or basic html, edits can be quickly implemented by marketers with very little effort or training. I had a lot of trouble trying to create the look I wanted using existing email templates/template builders. Now, with MJML, I feel like I am an email expert and can get new emails created and sent in a fraction of the time.

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Hey, full disclosure: I work for cloudHQ.

But, the templates extension we put out is great (and customizable). Also, if your template designers want the next level of customization, we have a free HTML tool for customizing templates: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/free-html-editor-for-gmai/ioinaaeeacahcmbgfmeaaofhfkijpdeb

Janos Rusiczki · Answer

It might require a bit of extra effort from the engineers but the upside is that there is no lock in with MJML. You can continue to use the email delivery system of your choice.

Saketh Rasakatla · Answer

Well, there can be only one "best" tool for making attractive email templates and it is Agile CRM, (www.agilecrm.com)
Before I present to you its email marketing feature, I would tell you why Agile CRM is the best!

Well, it has been rated the best by:

- G@Crowd, 
- Capterra and 
- TrustRadius

It serves over 14,000 businesses.

In short, Agile CRM is the only comprehensive, end-to-end CRM that delivers sales, marketing and support automation
to help small and medium businesses manage all parts of the customer journey, from a single platform, in order to drive
sustainable, scalable growth.

Coming to its email templates service, Agile CRM gives you a range of prepackaged email marketing templates to give your business the visually appealing, professional look and feel it needs. Check out Agile’s email marketing template examples, then select the template you prefer, draft your message, and automate the send. You can also create custom templates—with no programming experience—that pull in your branding for added impact.

Find out more at - https://www.agilecrm.com/email-marketing

Its free, so give it a try and let me know your feedback! :)

Dan · Answer

Super simple (and free) drag and drop editor. You can then export the HTML and use anywhere you like.

Soumitra Sengupta · Answer

Simple and free Responsive email builder with a decent amount of existing templates.

Jose Zamora · Answer

Here's a lower level one for developers.  They explain it better than I can:
"HEML is an open source markup language for building responsive email. It gives you the native power of HTML without having to deal with all of the email quirks."

Lindsay Saewitz · Answer

I like Bee (they have a great free version) this is for designing the HTML email and then importing it into your sender of choice (Mailchimp, etc.). Also like Topol.io as someone else mentioned. They also send great newsletters with ideas and examples of great emails.

Jose Zamora · Answer

<3 Intercom

Abhi Agarwal · Answer

The templates on here are quite amazing. Lots of selections to pick from!

Sandipan Banerjee · Answer

Great Templates

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HTML email templates designed and delivered in 24 hrs for $100 each.

Ovi Demetrian Jr · Answer

If you want the best custom branding and design, you should work with a designer and a developer to code a custom template. You can then have the template implemented into Blocks Edit for an editable, drag and drop editor for you and your team to review and edit content and build out new emails without having to code them.

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Mailchimp as well has its own templates which can easily fit on every kind of email/newsletter

Dannie Nguyen · Answer

basic and super simple to use as you only have to drag and drop your items and nice templates are always available for u to use

George Kollias · Answer

Have tried most solutions and I believe MailerLite's builder and templates are currently the best out there.

Tejas Kinger · Answer

Revue has gorgeous templates if you're looking to create newsletters.

Brandon Reid · Answer

If you're looking to code your own, this is the best framework I've used for emails.