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Occasionally emails do not arrive after you send them from toddle, and due to restrictive email filters in companies, they may not arrive as beautiful as they should. It is rare but it does happen.
So we have done some testing and have an alternative way for you to import your finished Toddle newsletter into your email client ready to send to your subscribers.
So far this is tested on Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail (Windows Live) and Outlook 2003. This does not work with Outlook 2007 unfortunately. We are doing further testing with the other email clients.

• After you hit the SEND button in Toddle, go to the HTML version of your newsletter. You can find the link in Advanced Sending Options in Toddle under the sent button.

• When the new page opens displaying your newsletter, click EDIT > SELECT ALL and then COPY. This copies the entire newsletter into your clipboard.

• Open your email app and start a new message. Make sure your editor is set to HTML or Rich Text. Select EDIT > PASTE.

Now your email newsletter is ready to send to your clients.
If you have any problems with this or you are using this in any other email client not mentioned above please let us know how you get on.

You can get vastly different results from your email newsletter depending on what day and time you send it.
Guesswork, testing different times/days and carefully monitoring your email stats is normally the best way to find out but i have a great shortcut for you…Twitter!

This is how you do it.

• First, go to http://search.twitter.com and type in a few keywords related to your industry. In this example the marketing manager of a hotel wants to target people looking for ‘hotels in Dublin’. This search shows all the people on Twitter talking about and looking for Hotels in Dublin.

• Twitter very nicely gives you an RSS feed of these results in the top right hand corner. Copy the URL of this link.

• If you have not already, sign up for a Google reader account.
• Click the ADD A SUBSCRIPTION button in Google reader. Then paste in the URL of the Twitter RSS feed.

• Click SHOW DETAILS in the top right corner and you will see a blank graph. After a few days this will show some fantastic data on what day of the week, month and time that people where talking about “Hotels in Dublin”.
• This is a great time to send out an email offer about Hotels in Dublin.

Happy emailing.
Tell us how you normally find the best time to send your email?

Thanks to Chris S Penn for this great tip.

Aweber.com helps you in creating lasting customer relations though effective Email newsletters, Autoresponders, RSS to email and other email marketing tools.

Sending your Toddle newsletter through Aweber.com is fairly easy. Below I will explain all the steps invloved in the process.

• First, sign up with Awebber.com or log in to your existing account.

• Once logged in, click on Messages, then Broadcast and then on Create Broadcast Message button.

• Now, go to the HTML version of your Toddle newsletter. You can find the link in Advanced Sending Options in Toddle. Right click on the newsletter and view page source. Copy all of the code.

• Choose Basic Plain template in Templates. Enter your email Subject, and paste your HTML code in the text area for HTML message under Source tab.

• You can preview what your newsletter looks like in the Preview tab.

• Scroll down. You will find an area for text version of the newsletter. You will find the text link in Advanced Sending Options in Toddle. Copy all that text and paste it in Plain Text Message.

• Scroll down and enter additional information required for sending your newsletter. e.g. sending schedule, who to send to and so on. Then click on Save Broadcast Message. Your message will be sent immediately or saved for later according to the schedule options you chose.

• This is all there is to sending your Toddle newsletter through Aweber.com.

Blue Sky Factory is an industry-leading email service provider and provides both full service and self service email marketing solutions to a global client base. Their leading web based platform, Publicaster offers enhanced deliverability solutions, detailed and customized reporting and analytics, and an easy to use intuitive user interface. Learn how to send your Toddle Newsletter through Blue Sky Factory’s Publicaster below.

• Go to www.blueskyfactory.com and sign-up. Log-in if you have an existing account.



• Once you have logged-in, click on Campaign Manager located on the Dashboard.



• You shall now enter the required information in the form. Click New Email when done.



• For the template, upload the content of your Toddle Newsletter by entering its HTML version URL. This can be found inside the Advanced sending options box at toddle.com.




• You shall now see the HTML version of your Toddle Newsletter.



• For the Text version, click View Plain Text. Open the Plain Text version URL that is also found in the Advanced sending options and copy the entire text into the editor.



• Click on Save.



• There you go, your Toddle Newsletter has been successfully imported and sent using Blue Sky Factory!

ConstantContact.com can help in creating create high-impact emails that are as professional as your business. It’s the easy, effective, affordable way to stay connected and build strong,lasting  relationships.

Sending your Toddle newsletter through ConstantContact.com is easy. Below is a simple step-by-step guide.

• Browse to www.ConstantContact.com. Create your new account or log in if you already have an account.

• Once logged in, click on Create an Email.

• Enter a name for your email campaign and click Next.

• You will see a list of templates. Scroll down and in the left column you will find the link Use My Own Code. Click it.

• For creating your Toddle Newsletter email campaign, you have to select XHTML as your Email Format.

• Scroll down to select Advanced Editor. This will provide options where we can enter our Toddle newsletter HTML code and Text.

• For HTML, open the HTML version of your Toddle newsletter. It’s link can be found under Advanced sending options in Toddle. When the Newsletter is open, right click and slect View page source. Copy all the source code.

• You have to paste the  page source code in the area for HTML code.

• Copy the text in Plain text version of your Toddle newsletter. It’s link is also under Advanced sending options in Toddle. Paste this text in the specified area for text. Click Save & Return.

• This will take you back to where you can enter other information needed for you to send your Email Newsletter Campaign. You will have options to enter Email Subject, your own Email information, Email Greetings, your Address, the Contact List that will recieve the newsletter and some other information that will help in creating an effective campaign.

• You can save the created email as draft, or send it right now. Also, you can schedule it to be send automatically at a specific time and date in future.

• This is all there is to sending your Toddle.com newsletter through ConstantContact.com.

You have a huge variety of ways to send your email newsletter from Toddle.
It works with email clients such as Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Apple Mail etc by arriving in your inbox ready to forward on to all your clients and customers. It could not be any simpler.

For the more technical email marketer who may want to use one of the many advanced email service providers to manage their subscribers, email distribution and tracking we have great news. You can still use Toddle for its simple editing and award winning email newsletter design, then simply import it into your email manager. Below are a few simple guides on how it works.

Toddle works with many many more services then this, we just have not finished the guide yet. But you can try it yourself. If your email marketing software allows you to import a html file, a URL or copy and paste in code then Toddle can work with it.

• Campaign Monitor
• Group Mail
• Spinnaker Pro
• iContact
• Campaigner
• Constant Contact
• Vertical Response
• Blue Sky Factory / Publicaster
• Aweber.com

Check back often as more guides are added all the time.

Save a few trees this year and send your clients and subscribers a Christmas ecard.
We have released two Christmas email templates just in time for the holidays.

Christmas Wrapping                                               Christmas Gift

As always these templates work great with Outlook, yahoo mail, hotmail, gmail etc…

Of course you can add some Christmas cheer to any of the existing newsletter templates by adding some seasonal images from the always great iStockPhoto.com for as little as $1 an image.
Here are a few of our favorite images. Just search for ‘Christmas’ or ‘Santa’

Log in and get started now.

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.

Group-Mail.com is a great desktop application for windows that allows you to manage your subscribers and send bulk mail to a lot of people at once. Below is a simple guide on how to send your Toddle email newsletter with Group-Mail.

• Browse on over to www.Group-Mail.com and download and install the application on your computer.

• Start Group-Mail and click on file, New Message

• Select File, Import, Web Page (URL)

• 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.

• Paste the URL of your newsletter and click OK
  You should now see a preview of your Toddle newsletter in Group-Mail.

• Add an appropriate subject to the newsletter and click send

• You should now get a confirmation that your newsletter has been sent.

• Thats it! Congratulations your Toddle newsletter has been sent.

Campaign Monitor is a great simple to use email newsletter tool built to send your email campaign, track the results and manage your subscribers. Below is a simple guide on how to send your Toddle email newsletter with Campaign Monitor and track who opened it and what they clicked on.

• Browse on over to www.campaignmonitor.com and sign up for an account or log in if you already have.

• Once you are logged in click on “CREATE/SEND CAMPAIGN”.

• From here you are guided through a simple 4 step process.

• Select “HTML and plain text” when asked.

• First you will be asked for 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.us

• Some of your subscribers reading the email newsletter will not be able to view the all singing all dancing version. Some might use email programs that cannot display it or they might have chosen to turn that option off. For these cases we provide an alternative version of the newsletter in nicely formatted plain text. Click the Plain text link in Toddle and copy and paste the text into Campaign Monitor.

• Then its a simple matter of allowing Campaign Monitor guide you to sending the newsletter. If you are anything like us you will waste a few hours clicking the refresh button after sending your email campaign tracking who opened your newsletter and what articles they were interested in. It can be very addictive!!

• Thats it. Simple wasn’t it. Enjoy.

Read why it might be a good idea to send your email newsletter through a third party like Campaign Monitor instead of sending it yourself.