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Today we’re featuring a nicely designed monthly newsletter for Lloyd’s of London, the world’s leading insurance market.

The email design certainly gets all the basics right:

• A link to a web-based version of the email.
• The table of contents in the top left of the page so they always appear in the recipient’s preview pane.
• Using text for all important headlines and links in case images are disabled.

Hat’s off to the team to Conchango for not only getting the fundamentals right but designing a great looking email to boot.

Designer:  Roger Houghton  |  See the complete design

You guys might have noticed the posts have been a little thin around here lately. Unfortunately, it's not because we've been surfing in Indonesia. We've actually been hard at work on a brand new email marketing application called MailBuild, which is launching some time next month.

Just like Campaign Monitor, MailBuild has been built for you guys - web designers and email marketers. But the similarities stop there. We've built MailBuild for those clients of yours that want to create their own emails and manage their own subscribers, but still send great looking emails. Here's a quick screenshot to give you a taste of what's coming.

You can use MailBuild to:

• Create a separate account for each of your clients - which they can log-in to from your own site.
• Completely customize the app so it looks like your own tool. Like Campaign Monitor, it's completely private label.
• Design great looking templates for your clients or re-use any from our growing gallery.

Your clients can use MailBuild to:

• Create and send awesome looking emails in seconds with no knowledge of HTML - see this in action (1 minute, 6.3MB)
• Manage their own subscribers - we handle unsubscribes and bounces for them.
• Check out attractive reports on the results of their campaigns.

The best part is, the pricing model will be just like Campaign Monitor, so you can easily charge your clients a marked up rate to use the software.

We'll be officially launching some time in July, but we're currently accepting applications to join our beta program. If MailBuild sounds like something you'd be interested in, apply for an invite code today. OK, one last screenshot, we couldn't resist.

"I have been using GotMarketing Campaigner for almost 4 years now and I was finally fed up with the shortcomings of their system (there are many). In desperation I signed up 10 days ago to use Constant Contact, even though I have no need for their template support. Then I found Campaign Monitor. Your system is a complete realization of my wish list. So far it has worked beautifully (first campaign went out this morning). I'm looking forward to doing many more campaigns with you. Thanks!"

Craig Miller, Ithaka Partners

We instantly loved this monthly newsletter by UK based Recycle Now. This is definitely one of the nicer looking emails I’ve seen in a while, especially for such a good cause.

On top of looking great, the newsletter features loads of useful content. From tips, interesting recycling trivia, interactive games and even a poll for their subscribers. To top things off, the email even looks great with images disabled.

This one’s going to be tough to beat.

Designer:  Ben Enright  |  See the complete design