Newsletters

Newsletters are great methods to reach out to your followers, customers or prospective clients typically via email. There are various services offering great looking drag and drop newsletter templates that take minutes to create and update. Various statistics suggest people still check their email inboxes more than their social media channels and offer a more intimate and personal approach. 
MailChimp is a drag and drop newsletter builder offering one of the most generous free plans in the industry. Their notable business-enhancing analytical features and strong technology tools still make them one of the first choices for many. MailChimp provides some great resources to help you minimise the learning curve and get you on your way to creating effective, dynamic campaigns. Some of these resources include helpful videos to get you familiar with their interface and several free eBooks that provide practical advice about getting the most out of your email marketing campaign.

Looking for a basic newsletter builder, check out TinyLetter below (Created by MailChimp).  
Flashissue is a super easy to use drag and drop Email Marketing tool for Gmail. Create mailing lists and send bulk email all from Gmail. Flashissue lets you get around the bulk emailing limits set by Google. Great for start-ups who want the convenience and speed of email marketing through Gmail. 

Flash issue also fully integrates with MailChimp and creates newsletters from your blog. Simply add your blog url to Flashissue and it will retrieve all your content. Then simply drag and drop your content to the MailChimp newsletter and presto! a newsletter ready to send in minutes! 
If you are looking for a newsletter builder without all the fancy options and tools TinyLetter is the perfect service. Made from the guys that brought you MailChimp, this stripped back version should satisfy your basic requirements in a newsletter builder. You can still send beautiful looking newsletters but without the cluttered interface and plethora of features for power users. Great for first timers looking to build a newsletter. TinyLetter is completely free! 
Revue curates your content from various sources and builds your newsletter, saving you a tonne of time. Revue can gather content from your social media channels, Pocket, image urls and a handy Chrome extension too. Then simply drag and drop your content into position and add some further text if you require. Revue offers a basic free account, although the customisation is slightly restricted compared to some of its competitors. 

Revue also allows you to seamlessly import all your existing MailChimp contacts across should you have contact list already built. 
Klaviyo integrates directly with your Shopify Ecommerce store. Klaviyo allows you to see all of your customer and subscriber data across both platforms and segment very specifically who receives each email. This way your able to send relevant emails to each person rather than mass-sending emails to everyone on your list. It’s a bit of a learning curve compared to some of the other more well-known email platforms, but it’s incredibly powerful and useful. 

Klaviyo offers a resonable free package perfect to get you started if you have a small email list. 
You spend valuable time writing blog posts. If your readers like what you've written, why not give them a way to subscribe and stay up-to-date? Let Rabbut help you create email opt-in forms and turn your readers into subscribers. Rabbut has a nifty Medium and Wordpress sign up form so you can allow your readers to sign up to receive more of your content. No technical knowledge required. Set up your first email opt-in form in minutes. Rabbut offers a cracking free starter plan which is more than generous for most users. 
Good Email Copy by Front isn't exactly a newsletter client, however, for when you inevitably build up an email list, here's a great directory of email copy from companies like Slack, Pinterest, Trello and some other big names. The approach is really focused on the copy, not the design of the emails. That’s why it’s plain text: easy to search, easy to copy and paste the content and adapt it to your own “style”!