After more than 7 years, and billions of emails and millions upon millions of lines of code, we give you highlights of some of the recent new features and improvements.
Curious about how your email will look to everyone when it arrives - both in their inbox and in their mobile device? With a single click, SendLabs will send a copy of your email to all of the major email programs and the most popular smart phones, quickly providing you a screen shot report on how well your email will render for everybody. In addition, we'll also run it up against the most popular desktop, server and gateway spam filters and let you know where your emails might get mistaken for spam before you send.
Ever have a chunk of content you'd like to simply reuse often in your email templates like a CAN-SPAM footer, a header, or a side bar item? With snippets, you can create a library of reusable content blocks and with a simple tag, drop them into your emails without needing to recreate them every time. Stay tuned as we provide some stock snippets for you such as headers, footers and social networking tags.
We've added a completely separate Image Manager to allow you to upload, manage, organize and edit images, separate from the email creation tools. Now you can quickly upload images in bulk into your Image Manager, sort alphabetically or by size or by date added - and even launch an advanced Photoshop-like image editor from right inside of SendLabs. Quickly rename and view images on the fly inside the all-new Image Manager!
We're proud to announce that in many cases, you'll have no need to launch Photoshop anymore. We've just integrated the ultra slick, ultra cool Picnik application that we think you'll love. It's an awesome web-based photo editing service that is basically an online version of Photoshop. Crop, resize, color correct, add borders, text, you name it. No need to launch photoshop. Just click the edit option when selecting an image in the image manager and presto - Picnik launches. Once you make your image edits, simply save and bam! You've got some cool new images to add to your email!
Try it here for free and then try it inside your SendLabs account!
Ever want to preview your email EXACTLY as your subscriber will see it - meaning with all of their merge data included? Now with Live Data Preview, just click the preview link under Email Campaigns and then click Show Live Data. SendLabs will go and fetch subscribers from your list and merge their data into your email. For example, let's say you mail merge their first name (Dear Josh) and company (We were glad to see XYZ Technologies at the event). Normally you would have to send this along as a test mailing to see the mail merge data. Now with Live Data Preview, you can sample live data merged into your campaign before sending!
This one is pretty slick. Do you update content in a blog or corporate web site and would like to include this inside your email campaign? With RSS-to-Email, SendLabs can pull data from any XML/RSS feed and populate your email templates! No more copy and paste. Simply set up your template with RSS snippets (special tags) and we'll do the rest. Then simply manage your site or blogs content as always and we'll prepare your email content dynamically!