Marketo Email Template Designs

[Anonymous]

I know Marketo has Creative Services for designing email templates and that there are some recommended 3rd party designers.  It is kind of pricey.  Has anyone found a site that provides other basic templates designed for Marketo?  Whether it be free or small fee?  

I am just looking to switch it up a bit, nothing fancy.  My previous Email Service Provider (ExactTarget) had a WYSIWYG template designer that made it easy.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks

[Alok_Ramsisaria]

You can download free Marketo Guided Templates here: http://go.grazitti.com/free-responsive-email-templates-and-landing-pages.html

[Fab_Capodicasa3]

Check the Email Template Builder from Hoosh Marketing. You can quickly create customized emails, with no coding required. There’s a Free trial on the website.

[Pierce_Ujjainw3]

First one is free, and then it is a small price 🙂

[Pierce_Ujjainw3]

While everyone is adding their two cents, I would like to add one more.

At this week's Marketo Summit, we introduced a brand new product, called Knak. Knak makes creating beautiful responsive Marketo templates, simple.

I am a Marketer, not a coder. I don't plan on ever learning how to code. But, I still want to make amazing Marketo templates on my own. I shouldn't need to hire an agency.

That is why we created Knak.

Knak allows Marketers to quickly and easily create their own Marketo template. They can customize it with their colors and logo, and even add their social media links. All with no coding required. From there, they can get the code and pop it into the Marketo WYSIWYG editor, and edit the email just like any other email.

We have tested all of our templates using Litmus, so you can be sure they work great across all email clients and devices.

Best part? You can build your first template for free! Simply go to www.knak.io and enter your email address to get started.

We already have over 100 users building their templates using Knak and are receiving amazing feedback. Let us know what you think...

[Anonymous]

Our company recently released a responsive email template builder that is fully Marketo comaptible for only $2 a template. You can customise colour palettes and layouts with a few clicks of a mouse. 

You can check it out here:
http://launchpoint.marketo.com/hoosh-marketing/1489-marketo-email-templates-builder/

[Anonymous]

Since your email template is such a very important branding element for Marketo efforts, and it is currently so HARD and frustrating to code templates in Marketo, it seems to me it would behoove Marketo to invest more in bringing this part of their app up to speed with common email marketing tools in the market place so that plain 'ol everyday marketers who don't have the luxury of  team or a coder on staff can quickly get their work done. </rant>

Just sayin.

[Anonymous]

www.emailology.org has some great tips and templates as well.  You will need to revise any 3rd party template to have editable DIVs for Marketo.

[Anonymous]

Your email template is a very important branding element for your marketo efforts.I'm frugal too, but sense this would be a good place to spend employ an talented HTML resource.

I have intermediate HTML skills and have been tinkering with responsive design recently. As others have said, building a responsive email template is fairly routine for those who have HTML skills. I've found value in starting with code from MailChimp (www.mailchimp.com) or Campaign Monitor (http://www.campaignmonitor.com/templates/). These vendors share their tempates, they've solved the basics for media queries, column width and effective use of white space. What's more they seem to have done a solid job with cross browser and cross email client compatibility. Not sure if I'll trust myself in the end, but I'm learning a lot along the way.

Adding the marketo classes for editable areas and finalizing fonts and colors is pretty routine stuff for those with skills.

Bill Freedman

[Anonymous]

The Email Designer only lets you edit (HTML or WYSIWYG) select portions of the email as defined by the DIV tags that Naor mentioned.  If you want to change the layout, you either have to revise the template upon which the email is based, create a new template and create a new email basedon that or start with the Blank template and completely start from scratch (although you can paste much of the HTML from another source if you wish).

[Denise_Valles]

So you cant just insert the code using the HTML editor in design builder?

[Anonymous]

Elliott's response is best here; there is nothing truly unique about Marketo's email templates. Any web designer with HTML email design experience can make a template "Marketo friendly". 

[Anonymous]

There are a couple of Marketo help articles on adding editable sections to templates.

• Add Editable Sections to an Email Template
• Beyond Basic Templates: Advanced Landing Page Template Development
• Creating a New Landing Page Template

[Anonymous]

I've used a number of consultants. Let me know if you want some names.

[Anonymous]

It's much easier than you think. Basically you just add div class ="mktEditable" wherever there is a div that you want to allow text to be entered into. That tells Marketo that the div is editable. 

The difficult part for us was deleting parts of the email we DIDNT want. 

If you have problems, send me an email nchazan@verilogue.com and I can share our template HTML so you can compare

[Anonymous]

Thanks Naor.  I am definitely going to try your suggestion.  Is there an easy cheatsheet on how to add the code?

[Anonymous]

May I recommend graphicriver.net ? You can EASILY take any of their HTML email templates ($5-$15) and add Marketo code. If you need help I'm happy to go into more detail.

See Elliott, today I am on both sides of the fence

[Anonymous]

I submitted the free template offer last July.  The templates were nice looking, but weren't exactly what we were looking for.  We wanted the ability to have a large hero image at the top.  Our Marcom person is talking to them and I'll let you know if they are more comptetitive.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Elliott.  I did see the Spear Marketing and I filled out their form for Free Templates found here: http://info.spearmarketing.com/free-template-offer.html  but haven't heard back.  DId you get to see their Free Templates?  When you hear back can you let me know if they are more competitive?  Thanks

[Anonymous]

We found the same thing to be true with Marketo's Creative Services.  We are waiting on a proposal from Spear Marketing (www.speamarketing.com) for a new email and landing page template to see how it compares.