Customers sometimes report that they don't receive test emails. We know this can be frustrating when you want to finish and send your email. We're investigating ways to improve the delivery of test emails to ensure they arrive in your inbox quickly.

Improved Delivery of Test Emails

As an email marketer, you know that the work behind building an email doesn’t pay off until it’s delivered to the inbox. Yet, 

 can be a challenge for even the most seasoned email marketing pros. At Benchmark Email, we’re doing the heavy lifting for you with Smart Sending AI.

Smart Sending technology is a machine learning tool built by the Benchmark Email team that automatically:

In short, with Smart Sending AI, you get more emails to land in the inbox where your most important contacts are ready to engage with you.

Smart Sending AI

Some customers have requested a wider array of font options so they can be more creative and better reflect their organization's brand. Let us know if this is important to you, and which specific font options you care about.

More Font Options

Customers asked us to store their brand colors so they are always available in the email editor, even if they are not the most recently used colors. Let us know if this is important to you and how many colors you have in your brand color palette.

Save Brand Colors

We improved the text alignment for bulleted lists so they now look neat and tidy.

Improved Text Alignment for Bullet Lists

We made it easier to wrap text around an image in the same block. Now when you insert an image into a text block, you can more easily select the image. We also added a size slider to easily adjust the width of the image to get the size just right.

Easier to Insert Images in a Text Block

Publish your Canva designs straight to Benchmark Email! You can use your Canva designs and images to create beautiful Benchmark emails without the extra steps of exporting and importing image files.

Canva Integration

Mark wants to send an email every week, but finds it challenging. "I can't write a sermon every week. It's about the content and logistics. I regular feed of content would help."

Wisconsin Unitarian Universalist State Action Network (WUUSAN)

Smart Content

No more starting from scratch with saved blocks! Store and reuse the essential blocks you’ve already built in our drag and drop editor so you can spend your valuable time focused on creating engaging new emails and landing pages instead.

Saved Blocks

I wish I had a block that was designed to show product information from my ecommerce website.

Ecommerce Block

We’ve officially leveled up our Shopify integration again with the Shopify product block. Easily connect your existing Shopify store to your Benchmark Email account so you can seamlessly pull your products right into your emails. Create beautiful emails in the drag and drop builder to market and sell your products in just a few steps.

Shopify Product Block

No website? No problem. Skip the expensive hosting costs and cumbersome website builders. Paid users can now build and publish professional, branded landing pages on a personal Benchmark-hosted domain.

Benchmark Domains

Easily promote your products to your Shopify customer list with Benchmark Email. With Shopify List Sync, you can seamlessly pull your Shopify customers into Benchmark Email and intelligently promote your Shopify products. Match any Shopify segment with a targeted Benchmark Email list to add existing customers. Once the sync is in place, as new customers are created in Shopify, they will be included automatically in your Benchmark Email lists. With a streamlined workflow, you can shift your focus from list management to sending email campaigns that drive sales.

Shopify List Sync

We've heard that you want the colors in your email designs to exactly match the colors from your carefully selected images. To help you do that, a color picker tool would allow you to click on part of an image to grab that specific color and apply that color to buttons or fonts in the email.

Color Picker

We know you want to make emails more engaging to grab the attention of your audience. Improved support for animated GIFs will help you do just that.

Improved Support for Interactive GIFs

To help make your emails more dynamic and engaging, you can upload 2-4 images and have them automatically rotate like an animated GIF.

Rotating Image Carousel

We know that some customers have multiple people working on the same email campaigns. So, we're exploring the option of having multiple users on the same account with different permission options.

Multi-User Access

Some customers have requested the ability to save font styles for headers and body text to make it easier to update email templates to reflect your brand. Please let us know if you need this along with the details.

Saved Font Styles

We've heard that you want easy access to stock photos and images to make your emails look amazing and professional. Let us know if this is important to you, and which specific stock photo providers you care about.

Free Stock Photos

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