HI! I have a client who wants to create an email that will be sent out to 1400 of her clients. She wanted an attractive html based e-mail incorporated with some nice design elements. I am just curious of what you people think about doing this.

Are there considerations I should think about when creating an HTML email, for those that don't have their HTML option turned on in their email program? Is there a better option than using an HTML format in an email? And, if I do use HTML for the email, how the heck do I set that up? I use Outlook, would I just create an HTML right in my Outlook program? I am a web designer, so I know HTML, but I am not sure how to go about setting this up.

Thanks for any insight!

Kristi

The best way that I've found to do this is to create an HTML file, then open that HTML file with MS Word. Once you're in word, you click on File>Send to: and then enter your email addresses

Hey - that works perfectly! Thanks for the tip!!

Kristi

One thing to remember when sending mass email from a personal email client.

Don't put the addresses in the To: field. If you do this all recipients will see the entire email list. When doing this use the Bcc: field this field is hidden to everyone else. In-other-words, If you sent this to me, I will only see my email address..

Very important for obvious privacy issues. you don't want to give out email addresses of your clients/prospects/newsletter recipients..

Looks like this thread is a bit old, but in case anyone else came here from a search, I'll throw in one last bit of advice.

The Bcc field will work fine, but I think it's even better to find a program that sends your message individually to each recipient. I think that's more personal.

PC iMail is a mail merge sender that will do this, and will also let you embed each recipient's first name and/or last name in the message itself. It will also let you insert mail merge fields into the subject of each message.