Why do I have to rebuild email templates for every promo?
Changing a promotional offer usually means tweaking the layout, mobile spacing, and copy all over again. Because the email editor fights you every time you try to make these adjustments look decent, the original template quickly turns into a completely different thing.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Rebuilding each campaign from scratch as part of the standard workflowDid this help you?
- 2using pre-made HTML templates to bypass the visual editor completelyDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Every promo seems to create its own little rebuild tax. The offer changes, then someone tweaks the layout, mobile spacing, and copy, and suddenly the "same" template is a different thing again.”source ↗
“Their editor fights me every time I try to make something look decent”source ↗
Where this came up
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