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035: Customize Your ConvertKit Email Template With these 5 Videos
If you'd like to customize your ConvertKit Emails to match your brand, this blog is for you. Below I've listed five most asked for videos/tutorials when it comes to customizing the look of emails inside ConvertKit.
Take a look at the following blog posts that have step-by-step directions with screenshots, code for copying into your template as well as complete video walkthroughs.
023: How to Create A Custom Opt-Out link (Path 2: Custom Template)
In ConvertKit, there's one unsubscribe link. It is at the very bottom of your email in the footer.
And there's really no way to have your subscribers update their preferences. So what if you have a launch sequence or a free email course sequence and you want to give your audience to opt-out just from those emails. But still stay on your list. What do you do?
You create a Custom Opt-out Link.
022: How to Create A Custom Opt-out Link in Your Email (Path 1: Within Each Email)
In ConvertKit, there's one unsubscribe link. It is at the very bottom of your email in the footer.
And there's really no way to have your subscribers update their preferences. So what if you have a launch sequence or a free email course sequence and you want to give your audience to opt-out just from those emails. But still stay on your list. What do you do?
You create a Custom Opt-out Link.
020: How to Use Clickable Buttons in Your ConvertKit Emails
Let's say you want to have your readers click a button in your ConvertKit emails that goes to a page on your website. This could be for really anything - link to blog post, link to a sales page, link to a video on YouTube - really any link. Let me show you how to set this up!
018: How to Change "Unsubscribe" into German or other languages in your ConvertKit Emails
This video tutorial is specifically for you if you are writing your emails in a language other than English.
Yes, a lot of your readers may be bilingual or multi-lingual and may understand what it means when you write "unsubscribe". But let's say everything you write is in Dutch or French, then to have this one lone English word in the footer of your emails, just stands out unnecessarily.
016: How to Change Unsubscribe Link Color in ConvertKit
Alright, my friend! You know how to change the link color in your emails in ConvertKit (partly because you saw this quick tutorial: How to Change the Color of Your Links in Your ConvertKit Emails). But that was for the email content. What about changing the color of your unsubscribe link that's sitting at the bottom of your emails?
005: How to Add a Banner or Logo in your ConvertKit Emails?
If you are using ConvertKit for sending out emails you know how awesome it is to have a clean, minimalist design that helps your emails land in inboxes. But you may be thinking, "How about adding a banner image to add that brand recognition!" Well, you can add a banner or a logo for that matter to the top of your emails as a header and you do this by following these steps.
002: How to Add Social Media Links to Your Convertkit Email Template
ConvertKit's unique selling proposition is that their emails are simple, to the point and focus on the message. This style of clean emails also makes ConvertKit the email marketing platform of choice for many successful entrepreneurs as it is more likely to make it into your subscribers' inboxes rather than ending up in the spam folder. (Emails with lots of design and images are more likely to be looked upon as spam).
Having said that, you may still want to add a bit of design, especially when it comes to adding quick links to your social media presence. So how do you do that? Well, follow these quick steps to create those quick links! It involves a bit of code but if you can copy and paste, you can do this! :-)