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We absolutely love this monthly newsletter sent by the talented folks at Dublin based Spoiltchild Design.

Not only is the design absolutely gorgeous and easy to read, the newsletter also degrades gracefully in email environments less supportive of modern standards.

Stop listening to me waffle on, go and check it out!

Designer:  Alan O’Rourke (and Diana)  |  See the complete design

"I set up an account so I could test your service out. We were so impressed that the company I'm working for is now starting to use this for all of our client's mailings. I can't tell you enough how great this software is. Thanks and keep up the good work."

Colin Grigson, Trademark Media

Nope. Sorry, but Campaign Monitor has been specifically built not to support attachments. We did this for a number of reasons.

1. We ensure that your campaigns are unable to send viruses that propagate through attachments.
2. You're not forcing an attachment down every recipients throat. Large attachments + slow connection = angry subscriber.

If you have a file that you'd like to give to your customers, we recommend that you host the file on your own server and then place a link to the file within your email. This also means you won't clog your subscribers inbox with attachments they may not even use.

Here's a quick example of how one customer of ours promotes a PDF document in their emails instead of actually attaching it.

When putting together the design for a client's email newsletter, the last thing we usually think about is importing their list into Campaign Monitor. What we fail to realize, is that the quality of our client's list is going to have as much impact on the success of the campaign (and the perceived quality of our creative) as the design itself.

As we've stated before, a smaller permission based list is ALWAYS going to out perform a larger unsolicited list. If you or your client has an existing list you'd like to import, make sure you review the following scenarios to ensure your list is permission-based and OK to use with Campaign Monitor.