Designing, Templating, Inlining and Sending Email!

In this show, Scott and Wes talk about about sending both transactional and marketing email. Everything from designing to templating to inlining the CSS to getting it sent. Enjoy!

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Show Notes

0:00

• WELCOME!

2:00

• An update on GraphCool, Prisma and Yoga

3:45

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• #TastyTreats

5:40

• Email ain't easy!

6:20

• How do Scott and Wes use email in their apps and businesses?
• Transactional vs Marketing Email

9:00

• Dealing with multiple emails and modifier
• Signing in with Facebook vs Email?!

11:00

• Transactional Email
• The Process to creating single one-off email

13:00

• Scott's Setup:
• Handlebars
• Meteor Email Docs

• Mandrill

• Wes' Setup

• Pug Templating - the artist formerly known as Jade
• Juice CSS Inliner
• Foundation for Emails
• Inky
• NodeMailer
• Postmark

20:00

• Why does email get blocked?
• Amazon SES
• SendGrid
• MailGun
• MJML
• Email Reputation
• MailTrap
• MailHog

30:00

• Designing Emails
• CSS is very limited
• MJML React Email Templating
• Tony from Twitter also told me about HTML

37:22

• Debugging and Testing Emails
• Litmus
• Email on Acid is way cheaper

45:00

• Marketing Emails
• MailChimp
• Drip

52:00

• Host your own Platforms
• Sendy
• Email Octopus
• Mautic
• MailTrain

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• Scott: Personal Capital
• Wes: Nothing is Sick this week

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