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Creating Electronic Invitations With Mailing Lists

By Leola Walls


These days, people have gone digital when it comes to shooting invites of their special events to guests who are to come. This method is definitely so much easier and cheaper than the traditional way of buying invitation cards and writing on them or printing on them one by one. So for those who want to learn a way on how to save a lot of time and a big chunk of money, here is how to create electronic invitations.

Probably the easiest way to create a digital invitation is to use an email mailing list program like Mail chimp and such. Now the best thing about these mailing lists is that one does not need to know much about HTML codes and such. All one must have to do is sign up and just start creating.

So the first step would be to start a new project and decide the size of the invite. Always remember never to make it very wide because prospected guests will have a hard time reading from one side to the other which is a big hassle. Once that step is done, then the next thing to do will be to choose which template will best suit the invite.

Now when it comes to the wording and designing one must be a little creative. Of course the heading must be very catchy and must be really big so that the reader can see it. As for the details of the event, keep it short and simple so the readers will be able to get to the point.

Now it is always best to add some pictures in order to keep the reader engaged. So some pictures about the company or about the event should be put there in order to keep the reader entertained and not disregard the email. Now one important reminder would be to never cram a bunch of pictures into the invite because it will look messy if there is way too many.

Those are the basic steps on how to use email lists to design the invitation. The next thing one would do would be to select who he would want to send the invites to. Now the advantage of using email mailing managers is that he may easily create a list of his recipients by just entering all of their email addresses into the system.

One very important tip that should be done before sending out the invite would be to test whether it came out nicely or not. One may do this by first sending the invitation to himself so that he can see if it looks nice or not. If it looks exactly the way he planned it, then he should proceed.

So basically, that is how to create electronic invitations using Mail chimp or other kinds of email mailing lists. The best benefit of using these kinds of systems is that they are so easy to use and so fast. One does not need to learn kind of HTML codes in order to do this because all of the options are already provided.




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