How to Add Links in Benchmark
You can add different types of links to your email and direct your subscribers to your webpage, a survey, or even share a video link! Here you will learn the links Benchmark accepts and how to add these to your email. Note: Each process will begin in the Design step of your email creation. You can add the following types of links to your email: Web Address (URL) Email Address
Drag & Drop Editor Templates & Editor November 24, 2021
Using Block Dividers
Dividers are useful to organize your emails and landing pages, and they also give a clean look to your design. It is always a good idea to add spaces between every section to help the reader to see the information better. Here you can find how to add dividers and set paddings around images and blocks with our Drag and Drop Editor. Dividers To use this block, drag it to
Drag & Drop Editor General questions July 30, 2021
How to Avoid the Top Twenty Spam Words
Many of the words and phrases that ISP mail filters identify as spam are clearly obvious. Incorporating terms such as $$$, Incredible Deal, Earn Extra Cash, Multi-level Marketing, and of course, Viagra and Cialis into your email text or subject line are surefire, express one-way tickets to the blacklist. There are, however, twenty words or phrases that most email marketers wouldn’t ordinarily consider as dangerous, but using them can demolish
Delivery November 5, 2020
HTML Display Errors in Different Email Clients
ISP’s like AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, and many others can cause emails to have a different appearance in their inbox. Not to mention that different browsers can also affect the look of an email. Benchmark is determined to help our clients have the best looking emails. By using our Drag n Drop editor you can ensure your emails will be mobile friendly, and if this isn’t enough we also provide an
Delivery May 21, 2021
Email Webpage Version
The web-page version of your email is meant for contacts who have trouble viewing your email campaign in their inbox. Possible reasons could be: The subscriber has disabled images or graphics in their inbox. Their email provider does not allow graphics and images to appear in emails. Additionally, some recipients could have firewalls that prevent your email's images from displaying correctly. By including a link to the webpage version, you
Email Marketing Getting Started October 19, 2021
Prohibited Industries and Prohibited Content
Every email campaign that gets scheduled for delivery goes through a review process, and based on the results, our system either approves or rejects the email campaign. While most clients won't ever notice a rejected email, some will, and usually, they are in “risky” sending industries. Benchmark Email reserves the right to deny campaigns that are determined to be risky or abusive. Risky industries have a much higher bounce rate,
Create General questions October 25, 2021
How to Create an Email Using the Code Editor
Benchmark offers 3 email editors: the Drag & Drop, Plain Text, and the Code editor. If you have an email in HTML code you can easily add it in the Code editor. For a video tutorial on how to use the Code editor, please watch the video below. [embed]https://bmesrv.wistia.com/medias/2we0j56ws6[/embed] The following steps assume that you have already created your HTML email template, make sure all images used are referenced
Create Email Marketing Templates & Editor January 12, 2022
Where Can I Change the From Email Address?
When you first sign up to a Benchmark account, we use your primary email address as your From and Reply email. However, if this is not the email you would like to use to send from, you can easily add another. You can add a new email address directly from the Email Checklist page, or you can go to the Email Verification page to add multiple email addresses. For best
Email Marketing General questions October 9, 2020
What Is Preview Text and How Can It Benefit My Email?
Preview text is the short summary text that immediately follows the subject line when viewing an email in an inbox. This text is not displayed in your email's layout. This advanced feature allows you to maximize inbox space and can help increase the open rate of your email. It helps give more control over what content an email client shows after your subject line. Keep your most important information in
Templates & Editor October 14, 2021
Does Benchmark Email offer templates for my social media needs?
Benchmark Email offers templates for many different needs, including social media. Utilizing templates for social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter can help promote your business and grow your subscriber list. To view our complete selection of social media templates and choose the one that best fits your need(s), log into your Benchmark Email account and follow these steps: Select Emails from your Dashboard menu. Click on the Create New
Create Templates & Editor May 8, 2019