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Today we’re featuring a great looking email campaign from the folks at UK based Connectpoint Advertising.

The newsletter features all of the creative ingredients for a successful email. Short, concise text. Check. Bullet points where possible. Check. Clear call to action. Double check. Bundle all of this into a great looking design and you’re clearly on to a winner.

I know where I’d like to be heading for a weekend some time soon.

Designer:  Adam Knowles  |  See the complete design

If you send lots of test campaigns for your clients (which you should) then you'll love today's update. We've now made it easy to delete any test campaigns that might be crowding your interface from your account.

As we mentioned earlier, we were hesitant to give you guys this functionality because it provided an audit trail against any potential complaints, plus keeping a record of everything is just plain old best practice.

We think we've found a happy medium with the new approach. You can remove test campaigns from your account, but we'll keep an archive of everything on the server just in case. If you ever require this data, just let us know and we can chase it up in the archives.

Ryan Heneise from Art of Mission has just posted his thoughts on a recent Campaign Monitor experience.

Thanks Ryan.

If you’ve got a subscribe form on more than one page on your site, Campaign Monitor provides a really simple way of tracking which pages or forms your subscribers are signing up from.

Here are the steps:

1. Add a custom field to your subscriber list called “source” (or something similar).
2. Head into Create a subscribe form and make sure you select the new “source” custom field to be included. Save your changes and copy the supplied code for your subscribe form.
3. Add the subscribe code to your site, but change the text for the source field from <input type=“text” to <input type=“hidden”.
4. Place this code on each of the pages on your site, and give the hidden field a value. For example, the front page could use value=“frontpage” and the contact page could be value=“contactpage”.
5. Every time someone completes these subscribe forms, they’ll be added to your list and the hidden form value will passed into the “source” field.

This gives you an easy way to find out which pages on your site are converting the most subscribers.