Start To Create Your Template
After logging into your MailChimp account, from the sidebar of the dashboard , you will find the option “Create Template”.
Click on this option.
After clicking on it, you will be redirected to another page. Then you will find different templates of different categories.
Select Your Favorite Template
Here you will get Featured and Basic types of Template.
You can use “Sell Products”, “Make an Announcement”, “Tell A Story”, “Follow Up” and “Educate” templates in the Featured section.
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And in the Basic section, 1 Column , 1 Column – Full Width , 1:2 Column , 1:2 Column – Full Width, 1:2:1 Column, 1:2:1 Column – Full Width, 1:3 Column, 1:3 Column – Full Width and Simple Text email templates is available in MailChimp.
Today in this article we will see “Sell Products” templates from the Featured templates.
And I have also selected the “ “Simple Text” templates from the Basic email types templates to show you.
“Sell Products” template Design
Here you have to set your branded logo, your product image for showcasing, and texts to your email recipients.
You will get a lot of editing tools like image card, image+text, background image, footer, button, social follow, video, and so on tools.
When you put the cursor on the logo, at the sidebar, you will get the option to set your brand’s image.
From the “Replace” option, you can be able to upload images from your folder.
Click on, Replace > Upload > select the image > select > Insert
Then you can be able to edit your brand’s image and dimension by cropping or resizing it. Custom, square, 4:3,16:9, and different sizes are available here for customizing it.
Besides, you can be able to rotate the logo image at different angles.
From the “Style” you can choose different types of borders like solid, dotted, groove, etc that you want for your logo.
If you want, you can add any links with this image also.
After this, you need to show your product’s picture to your recipients.
By adding a product picture in “Showcase your product”, you can show your products to the recipients even if they click on your emails or not.
You can be able to customize the color and image of the image.
After this you have to upload the main image of your product from the “Replace” option like before.
Click on, Replace > Upload > select the image > select > Insert
From the “Content” and “Style” section you can be able to edit the image size , font, and other necessary elements with link insertion.
Now come to the text editing options.
And here you will get different options like style, font, size, image, and link for arranging your text better.
MailChimp allows different types of web text format like Arial, Georgia and so on. You can use different size, color, align, line height etc that you want for your text editing.
You can be able to edit button text from the “Content” section and the link for web and email address, File, and Anchor link for the button.
Different types of borders are available here for use like logo and product image editing borders.
And at last, you can add related product’s image and text also. As with logo and product image and text editing, you can edit these texts and images.
Now your template is ready for campaigns. From the “Preview and Test” option you can see what your template is looking like in the mobile, desktop, and inbox.
You can add your social media accounts links from the “Social Follow” tools.
Besides you can also test it by sending it to someone via email address.
After the preview test, Just click on the “Save and Close” and it is ready for sending.
Simple Text Template Editing
It is so easy to edit the simple text email template. After clicking on the Template you will get some editing tools on the new pages.
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Here in the “Blocks” section, you will get text, image, footer, button, video adding and editing tools.
When you put the cursor on the footer part of the email template, you will get the content, style and settings options for editing the template.
Then you can be able to decorate your text email by editing the font size of text, text style, color, size, etc from the “Style” section.
Like this,
Now it is time to choose the number of columns for your emails.
You can be able to choose how many (1/2) columns you want to keep in your email format.
Now come to the space between the email lines.
Here you can choose normal/slight/double and so on options for keeping space among the lines to decorate it more attractively.
Besides, if you want, you can add any URL here from the Link insertion option from the text editors.
Like this,
In this simple text template, you will get the chance to preview your template from the “Preview and Test” option.
Press on the “Preview and Test” and see your templates on your own eyes how it will be looked on different devices.
After finishing the edit of your email texts, formats, and templates you have to save these changes.
Just click on the “ Save and Close” and it is ready for sending.
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