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Toddle was featured in the Tuesday push a few weeks ago and we got some amazing feedback, both praise and constructive feedback. Thank you to everyone who took the time to check us out.

A few of the nice things said:

Toddle is an elegant, easy-to-use and frankly disarmingly beautiful email marketing solution.
Alexia Golez

I like Toddles charge per design rather than charge per recipient. Email is for intensive purposes FREE. Charging people per recipient is counter-intuitive.
Robin Blandford

I would suggest Jason (Calacanis) takes a close look at this product.
It does what it says on the tin “Beautifully simple email newsletters”
Pat Phelan MAX Roam

Toddle makes it easy to create pretty HTML newsletters, using a nice interactive, easy to use web app. With 2 free credits, and a perfectly simple login barrier (all you need to enter is your email address!) there’s very few reasons not to try toddle.
Peel me a grape

My clients are mostly “normal” businesses so they are not interested/able/bothered about learning or using complex solutions to anything. Toddle.com fits the bill for those of them who want to send email newsletters.
Keith Bohanna

Fabulously simple and eminently usable.
Toddle isn’t for power users; it doesn’t have an address book (you send the newsletter from your email client), the templates are set and there is no scheduled sender mechanism. Toddle doesn’t need any of these nor should it ever complicate itself with further features.
Paul M. Watson

You don’t need to have any special skills to create an attractive email newsletter that you can send to your clients or prospects, as their intuitive interface does all the hard work for you.
Blacknight Solutions

The key to Toddle is that you don’t need to know anything about HTML to create stunning HTML newsletters. They use a very intuitive user interface so that non-technical people can create newsletters with their own logos/images and content in a matter of minutes, literally.
Cathal Garvey

Alan O’Rourke and his team of spoilt children are gonna get one hell of a push because their product Toddle is simply a textbook example of how online tools should be built.
Pix.ie Photo Sharing

Toddle is an online application that allows you to send really good-looking email newsletters. Like little email Zoolanders.
Stewart Curry

The interface is clean, clear and great to use. I know a few businesses that have asked for email templates, I’ll be recommending they sign up to Toddle now!
E-Write

Toddle’s design is simplicity at it’s best.
There are no complex or unnecessary features, which leaves the interface uncluttered.
David Kelly

From its one line registration process to hyperajaxified interface the whole interface smacks of Alan O’Rourke’s wonderful attention to detail.
Joe drumgoole, Putplace

Those in the know. Know to use Toddle. It actually manages to turn the whole process into a pleasure. And leaves you with the energy to put out some compelling content.
Niall Larkin, ReleventM

Toddle helps you build and send great looking email newsletters. Simple idea, amazingly simple way of designing them.
Damien Mulley

Absolutely trilled to find out today that Toddle has been shortlisted for the Best Internet & ICT Award in the Drogheda Chamber of Commerce awards.

The award recognises companies that have a strategy to reduce costs, grow sales or improve their focus on customers through innovative and effective use of the Internet and ICT.

Our sister company Spoiltchild Design has also been nominated for Best Small Business Award
Thank you for the nomination and we will let you know how we get on at awards night on November 8th.

Just a few months off the starting block and we are off to a flying start!
We are delighted to announce that Toddle has been accepted on to the
Hothouse incubation programme.

Hothouse is a year long programme that provides knowledge intensive start-ups with the
expertise, networks and tools they need to develop and grow highly successful businesses capable of competing in global markets. Based in the invigorating and entrepreneurial environment of Docklands Innovation Park, Hothouse will help guide your business through the chaotic start-up phase and provide you with the focus and pace necessary to succeed.

Having helped launch over 250 companies during the past ten years, Hothouse has a wealth of experience and expertise in the management and delivery of practical programmes for dynamic Irish businesses. We have supported a further 50 companies under our Fast Growth Programme and have provided early stage ventures within our portfolio, the opportunity to access seed funding through the Small Enterprise Seed Fund.

Excited is not the word! We are honoured to be ranked among these current and past participants and we realise we have a lot of hard work ahead to realise our potential. Why don’t you stick around with us for the journey.

Spinnaker Pro is a web-based email marketing solution which enables you to deploy your email marketing campaigns to your subscribers and track the results. Today they announced support for Toddle allowing you to easily import your email newsletters. Here’s how:

• Log in to Spinnaker Pro and open your Content Editor
• Click on the Get external content button and you will see the screen below looking for the web address of your Toddle newsletter.

• You need to copy the URL of the HTML version of your email newsletter from Toddle. This is the all singing dancing version with images and colours. You will find this link in the “ADVANCED SENDING OPTIONS” box on Toddle after you click send.

• That’s it, your campaign is ready to be sent.

Toddle and the Spoiltchild team got a nice mention in the Irish Independent newspaper and Silicon Republic today.
The piece focuses on the Irish tech start up scene and how they find finance for their business.

You can read it here.

I am speaking at the Digiweb Edge seminar tomorrow on the subject of getting started in Email marketing.
To celebrate we are giving away a custom email newsletter design to one lucky person as well a a years paid Toddle account. All you have to do to be eligible to win is subscribe to our monthly email newsletter below before midnight this Saturday 24th. Winner will be announced next Monday.

Tomasz has added a lovely little touch to Toddle. Now when you send a newsletter to yourself a link will appear to open your web mail to view it. It’s a simple thing but anything that reduces clicks for a user is great.

As the title says we have move office into a larger space here in Drogheda.
You will now find us in Units 1 & 2 in the new Chamber of Commerce building on the Dublin road. It’s directly across the road from our favourite eatery The Black bull but I am not sure that is a good idea :)

Our new contact details are as follows.

Phone: +353 41 9830152
Skype: spoiltchilddesign

Address:
Units 1 & 2, Broughton house
Dublin Road, Drogheda
Co. Louth, Ireland

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But that’s a good thing.

You want your message appearing to your subscribers the way you intend. Creating an email newsletter that will display the same in the many many different email clients is a nightmare. What works in Outlook might not work in Yahoo Mail, or Lotus Notes. With Toddle you don’t have that worry. Below is a preview of Toddle in all the major email clients. For the ones that don’t support images, mainly the mobile email clients, your newsletter degrades gracefully to a nicely formatted text based newsletter. Click below to see the full previews.

UPDATE: Added Apple Mail 2.1, Apple Mail 3, Lotus Notes 7 and Lotus Notes 8.

Web-based email clients

AOL Web	Comcast	Earthlink
Gmail	Mail.com	MSN Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail	Yahoo! Classic	Yahoo! Mail

Desktop email clients

AOL 9	Lotus Notes 6.5.4	Lotus Notes 7
Lotus Notes 8	Apple Mail 2.1	Apple Mail 3
Outlook 2007	Outlook Express 6	Outlook XP
Thunderbird	Windows Mail	Outlook 2003

Mobile email clients

Blackberry

Windows Mobile 5

Windows Mobile 6

We have been testing various newsletter designs over the past few months and you guys have given us some great feedback and suggestions.
We have made some very necessary changes to the newsletter templates and these will be coming out over the next few weeks. First to be released is the free newsletter template. Here is a quick overview of the changes we made and why.

First and most obvious is the change of the header colour from black to white. We realised quite quickly that most people have their logo with a white background and don’t have the ability to change it. So now the design supports this.

Secondly, [is] we made the first image a feature image. This allows you to give your message a more prominent visual kick and gives a clear visual hierarchy to your newsletter content.
A few new features have been released for Toddle over the last few months. These include the ability for your subscribers to receive the newsletter by an RSS feed [instead] and see an archive online of all the previous newsletters you sent. This new information has now been added to the newsletter design.

And finally, it is vitally important that your subscribers know how to unsubscribe from your newsletter if they wish, otherwise you risk being labelled as spam. We rewrote the unsubscribe information at the footer of the newsletter and made it clearer for everyone [who reads it].

We also tweaked the underlying code, tidied it up and made the newsletter compatible with even more email clients.

If you have any feedback [for us] please leave a comment below or email us.

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