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How to Get Your Brand Into an HTML template in Gmail | IdeaLynx. For the longest time I have been using Mozilla’s Thunderbird to send out my emails through my Gmail business account. It worked fine for me because I was able to check mail all in one place and brand my emails using a signature plugin that allowed me to embed HTML (I used the signature only and typed my emails in the middle of the signature). Recently they updated Thunderbird to version 6.0. With this “upgrade” they look away my ability to look at HTML, so building my template or fixing things became impossible. And Outlook is no help because their system for templates is even tougher. So it finally sent me on a hunt to find a way to brand my emails in Gmail, so I could just directly use my Google Account for all of my communications. This video is a step-by-step on how to use the Canned Responses feature in Google’s Gmail to create a beautiful email template that is highly flexible.

Instructions for designing Gmail template (See example at :58 seconds) ChoiceResponse. Tout - Templatize, Track and Organize Your Repetitive Emails. How to Set Up and Use Email Templates in Gmail. In the beginning, the typing practice was all good. We learned to type and type fast as lightning by keying in the same response some twenty times each day in Gmail. Then, we learned to copy and paste. It was awkward, and it was not much faster than typing; it worked, though, and felt much better. Now, we click. Set Up and Use Email Templates in Gmail To enable message templates in Gmail: Click the Settings gear in your Gmail's toolbar. Save a Message as a Template in Gmail To save an email for future use as a template in Gmail: Make sure "Canned Responses" is enabled.

Create a New Message or Reply Using a Template in Gmail To send a canned message or reply: Do make sure "Canned Responses" is enabled, of course, and the canned reply is created. Note that Gmail will not overwrite any existing text except if you highlight it before inserting the template's text. Have Gmail Send the Canned Replies for You Using message filters, you can make Gmail reply with a template automatically. Outsourcing email: Do the benefits outweigh the risks? On March 30, the email marketing company Epsilon was hacked. It's too soon to tell how widespread the exposure is. Right now, Epsilon has said that the customer lists of a number of major brands have been compromised.

Epsilon claims that no personal information other than names and email addresses were revealed. Being a naturally suspicious person, I think I would rather wait for the other shoe to drop before breathing a sigh of relief--as well as keeping an eye out for targeted phishing scams. I just received an email from Tivo: Dear TiVo Customer, Today we were informed by our email service provider that your email address was exposed due to unauthorized access of their system. I think it's great that the companies whose marketing lists were hit notified their customers. This situation points out a glaring fault in the outsourcing of your email marketing to a third party company. When something like this happens, people usually get fired.