Email Creation Upgrade

We're back with another update for you on the upcoming Email Creation Upgrade at VerticalResponse! In today's post we'll cover some of the cool new features that we think you'll love. We're streamlining and honing the email creation process to make it easier than ever to design and send emails. Some of these mega email upgrades coming to VerticalResponse this Spring:

The New Email Wizard
Way more flexibility and customization options, drag and drop formatting, and all the tools to help you create professional emails, even if it's just your Fantasy Football league you're trying to impress! You can add links anywhere in your email, edit overall styles for fonts and colors, and see everything in a single page editing view. The New Email Wizard's customization tools make it easier than ever for anyone to create unique emails.

Marketing Tips and Tricks
Ever get stuck writing your email? Need some help with newsletter 'best practices'? In the Email Creation Upgrade, you'll get new and improved help and tips as you create your emails. From writing actionable subject lines to crafting successful copy, we'll provide you with marketing tips to help you create great-looking email and increase your response rates.

Brand New Email Layouts
Over 100 new layouts for your email newsletters, promotions, invitations and more! Whether you're a non-profit or a ski school in Tahoe (lucky you!), you'll find some great new design options (see below). And have no fear, we're not gonna bore you with placeholder text in Latin, these are just some early screenshots to give you a snapshot of what's coming.  

But Wait, There's More...
You'll also get improved image editing tools that do all the work for you - no more fiddling around with clunky images that don't fit your email. And last but not least, the Email Creation Upgrade will have full browser support for Google Chrome, in addition to full support for Safari across all email creation methods.

Questions? Comments?
Drop me a line, or better yet, join the Email Creation Beta to try out the new stuff and share your ideas with the Product Team.

Comments

[Joe Dearman]

Very exciting news. I wondered if you guys had something like this up your sleeve. Looking forward to using it!

[Jean DeLuca]

Looking forward to giving it a whirl.

You know what else would be really great? Updated info on industry-specific (list-size-specific, too) open, click, bounce, unsubscribe averages. Thanks!

[Hatef Yamini]

This is super great news! I wish we were on your beta test team. We're a VR Agency Pro partner. Is there any chance we can get on the Beta?

[Patricia, Product Mktg Mgr]

Hatef, we'd love to have you join the Beta - just fill out the short form here: http://blog.verticalresponse.com/product/2010/02/join-the-email-creation-tools-beta.html

[Debra Heinze]

I'm about to do a special on 10%off/case on 6 of my exclusive wines. I was looking to see how I could post this or segment it, to my Drink Better Wine page on Facebook.
VERY happy I can do what I wanted to, I did not know this was an option, so it is a wonderful suprise.
I love the option!
Debra

[Linda McKay]

Wonderful news....we have a swag of notices that need to go out soon and would like to add the wow factor. When is this going to be available as we may wait until it's up and running before we send the newsletters out. Cheers, Linda (New Zealand)

[JesusIsMyDogg]

As a Non profit user, will these upgrades automatically be shown in the SalesForce.com VR edition?

[Charles Yan]

I really like the user interface of Vertical Response and have recommended to many clients in Australia. Some more functions in auto-responder would be great for some advance users.

[James Thompson]

Will this update include support for creating emails in Opera? I use Opera as my main browser and it is a pain having to switch to Firefox to use your tools.

[Sylvia]

Hi,

What I would really like to see is the ability to hi-lite text in edit graphical mode and then have it show up as hi-lited in edit source mode. That way if I want to work in the html or look for a problem in it, it will be easy to find the text of interested quickly. It can be very time consuming to find otherwise, especially if the newsletter has 2 or more columns. I use IBM Homepage Builder for my website and it is possible to do this in that program. It sure helps!

Thank you,

Sylvia