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Newsletter 2.0 Test Drive 📢

It's Brand-New!

Welcome to Hail's brand–new newsletter design. It's built from scratch to be much faster to load with dozens of improvements and awesome new features. You can read all about it here.

Want it?

You don't have long to wait — the Newsletter 2.0 design will replace the current style this Thursday. From that day all your existing and future newsletters will be automatically upgraded.

Have Questions?

Just get in touch with our friendly team. If you're not yet a Hail user you can sign up for a 30-day free trial here.

Contents

Beautiful newsletters on every device 

Check out Hail’s Brand–New Newsletter Style!

by Tom Barnett

This is BIG. Read on for a sneak peek of the Newsletter design 2.0 and get ready to WOW your community all over again.

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Pixabay for free stock images

Featured: Free Imagery Available in Hail

by Tom Barnett

Good imagery makes all the difference to your stories, but if you don't have anything on hand it's been a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating experience to search for and add high-quality imagery to your articles and newsletters. Not any more thanks to our brand new Pixabay integration!

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Now you can add quick-links to the top of your Hail Homepage

Hail Tips & Tricks: Quick-links

by Tom Barnett

Quick-links are a handy way to highlight specific content on your Hail Homepage, Newsletters, Blogs, Yearbooks and Articles. You can add quick-links to Hail articles, publications and any external websites or pages.

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.beer is one of over 1000 top level domains now available

.beer, .ninja, .plumbing?! Do All These Crazy New Top Level Domains Affect SEO?

by Hailey Bird

With it being harder and harder to secure the .com you're after you might be tempted by the new TLDs available, but will it affect your Google ranking?

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Share your content with our Trusted Connections Feature 💞

by Hail Team

Hail changes the game with the Trusted Connections option.

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Video: Documentary- The Story of Content: Rise of the New Marketing

The Story of Content

by Hailey Bird

The Content Marketing Institute has created this fascinating documentary about the history and recent resurgence of content marketing.

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Don't build your house on rented land

How to Get The Most Out of Social Platforms Without Building Your House on Rented Land

by Tom Barnett

Social media platforms are amazing distribution channels that can drive serious engagement for your content, but when are you giving them too much?

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Turn your yearbook into a yeah!-book

Digital Yearbooks Go Further

by Tom Barnett

The longer you use Hail the better it gets! If your team's been creating and sharing stories with Hail during the year you'll now have a nice archive of everything that’s happened this year — ready to be published as an incredible digital yearbook in no time.

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(Shared) Content is King

Content is King, but only when published everywhere

by Tom Barnett

Content is your biggest differentiator and asset. As web technologies continue to become more and more accessible and commoditized it’s your unique content that stands you apart from the rest.

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Now you can schedule your posts for a later date and time

Hail Tips & Tricks: 🕘 Scheduled Posts

by Tom Barnett

Ever wanted to publish to social media and send out your email campaign at a later date and time? Now you can! 😀

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Video: Creative Commons Kiwi

Hail Adds Creative Commons Licenses

by Tom Barnett

Now you can license your content in Hail with Creative Commons.

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Now you can select multiple items for editing

Hail Tips & Tricks: Bulk Image Editing

by Tom Barnett

We're extremely pleased to bring you our most requested feature yet — bulk image editing!

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Video: MailChimp Drips

All the Power of MailChimp, None of the Hassle

by Tom Barnett

MailChimp, the world's most popular email marketing service, sends over 10 billion emails per month from over 10 million users. Now with Hail, making the most of the Chimp has never been easier.

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Video: Work/Life Balance Is a Non-Issue If You Find Your Purpose, Says Dan Pontefract

Forget Work-Life Balance: Achieve Work-Life Integration

by Big Think

"The problem with work-life balance is that it traps us in a career or job-oriented mindset, working for either a paycheck or purely to climb the latter." Find purpose instead, says Dan Pontefract.

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Drag and drop article ordering!

New Hail Feature: Article Ordering

by Tom Barnett

You all asked for it and we’ve delivered — you can now choose between having the articles in publications and the homepage sorted by date or rearrange them into any order you like!

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Mobile killed the print star

The death of the PDF newsletter

by Tom Barnett

Did you know that worldwide over 50% of emails are now opened on mobile devices? It's a simple little data point that has far reaching implications for your email newsletters.

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Free stock photography has never been so high-quality or accessible

Hail How-To: Photo Downloads

by Hailey Bird

Good imagery makes all the difference to your content, but what if you haven't got the right photo? Discover our favourite free photography sites.

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Said no one, ever

Content marketing in plain language

by Tom Barnett

If this was a typical content marketing article it would be titled something like "17 Top Content Marketing Secrets For Guaranteed Overnight Success Online", but the truth is there's no secret recipe for success online—just writing and lots of it.

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