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How to create a newsletter in Canva. Hey guys welcome back in this video I'll be showing you
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guys how you can get started with building a newsletter on Canva. So let's get into it
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Now to get started simply log on to your Canva account and it's very simple and easy you can
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just sign up for free with your email address and then you can go into the search bar and you're
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going to search for newsletter over here. Once you search for newsletter now you're going to
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go into templates and it's going to show you multiple different types of newsletter templates
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So you have to decide what kind of newsletter you're looking to build. For us in this video
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I would be focusing on an email-based newsletter so as a business I want to provide a valuable
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monthly newsletter to update the customers or clients about the new trends or the new products
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that we are offering. So if you go and search into a newsletter you can select email newsletters
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over here and this will show you multiple different templates available for newsletters
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Now all of these are templates for email newsletters and some of these are available
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for free and some are available on the pro plan of Canva. Now if you're only looking for free
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templates you can go into these filters over here and you can select all filters and on the left you
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have different styles you can choose features, animation styles, themes, colors, everything can be
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customized. Now over here we have a lot of templates you can search for the type of business you are in
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to find a newsletter that is going to look the best for your particular type of business
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So you guys can see we have beauty-based templates, food, real estate, tech, fashion, Christmas sales
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discounts, welcomes, collection launches, you know you have a lot of different options
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So what I'm going to do is I want to build like a fashion or style based newsletter
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So I think I like this one over here the single page newsletter. Some of these are multiple pages
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some of these are single pages so you can really choose whichever one you prefer if you want a
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single page or if you want multiple different pages. So I am going to search for something like
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this I like this one over here but it's a bit text heavy but that's all right so I'm going to be using
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this particular template over here. Now once I do I am going to zoom in a little a little to show
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you guys. Now to see you guys can see this is the first section and I'm going to delete the image
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first and foremost and I can go into uploads on the left panel over here and upload my own image
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like this. You can upload any image you might have of your particular business. I'm going to edit
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this image and I'm going to decrease the brightness over here like this and decrease the contrast as
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well like this. Now after that you guys can see it has some info about the brand so I'm going to add
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Derdin 2024 newsletter we were here and better like this and then we can add you know information
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Now a lot of people ask how can I customize these links well usually whenever I'm sending
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newsletters I'm using something like MailChimp, Sendinblue or Sendingrid. So what I like to do
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is I just like to leave this and then when I go over there I like to add the action button or
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call to action button where it's clickable. However if you want to not leave things for later
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on and just add a reminder over here you can always click on this and then click on the top right or
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just do a right click and click on link and then we're going to link our website. I'll just take
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this business website and then I'm going to link it over here. Now keep in mind that you do have to
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make sure that you're importing correctly if you want these links to work. So because this is now a
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linked button you need to make sure you're exporting this as a pdf not an image because
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images don't have clickable links. After that we have some more images we can change the style
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add more text as well and we have a second page on this as well. Now if I don't want a second page I
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can choose to remove that as well. Now one thing a lot of people know is that wouldn't our newsletter
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look like every other business? Well you can add a lot of dynamic and you know a lot of unique
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elements into your designs and you can even get started from scratch. So this is just one example
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so I'll delete the second page. This is my newsletter over here if I want to include more
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design elements. Let's say I want to provide a textured background over here so I'm going to go
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into elements and I'm going to search for texture over here and then I'm going to go into the
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graphics section and we have a lot of different textures available. So I'm going to use these
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lines over here and I'm just going to put these over here and then I'm going to do command c
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command v making sure that they are joining correctly like this. Now I'm going to click on
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shift and I'm going to select all of these and click on these three dots then go into layer and
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click on send to back. Then we're going to go into the transparency and make it pretty transparent
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over here and now we can also you know click on shift and then hold all three of these together
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to make sure they are aligned correctly and now we have this you know interesting textured background
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You can add a lot of different elements in this way there's so much that you can do with Canva
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and once you have completed your design you can click on share on the top right and then you're
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going to click on download on the right and then you are going to choose your file type so you can
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just go for a pdf standard and download. Once you download your pdf you can upload this into
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MailChimp or any other tool that you are using and you can even break down the blocks and you know
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add your own buttons and links over there as well. Now moving on a lot of people want to get
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started from scratch and if you do you can always go into the create a blank email newsletter and
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you can go on ahead and choose to get started from scratch. Now from here when you open up a blank
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canvas it still gives you the options of you know having multiple different styles on the left panel
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and you can take inspiration instead of you know downloading entire styles you can go on ahead and
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add some of these elements and then you can delete the ones you don't require and you can go on ahead
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and customize you know your template accordingly. So let's say we are Dirden, drop this look you know
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the latest 2024 trends or the fashionistas are here, stop now before we run out before stock
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ends you know whatever you might want to add then let's say I want to add some more images so I can
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go ahead and insert images of our collection as well. So let's say I want to add this mood board
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over here and then we want to add some of the real incarnations of the mood board and then to
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join these together I'm just going to search for join or I'm just going to search for paper clip
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over here and then I can you know use this paper clip design to make it look really nice and settled
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in like this and I'll just resize this a little and then we are just going to resize it over here
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and then just place it on the side like this and you know you can add some more decorative elements
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so just like that you can build a amazing newsletter using Canva. If you found this
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video helpful make sure to leave a like and subscribe