Looking for an email marketing tool without proprietary restrictions? Want to have template-free custom design? Need an open-source solution that will allow you to create and send emails on the fly and at your fingertips?

AGPMail, the revolutionary new award-winning* email product from Avant Garde Productions, is the answer.

AGPMail's features are simple and sophisticated:

• Custom designed emails
• Email client-friendly programming
• Free CMS to edit your emails each and every time
• Freedom to use your email broadcaster of choice

Simple and revolutionary. Here's what one of our clients is saying about AGPMail.

Jeanne Denton, Marketing Director, Nikkei Credit Union
"I was looking for a simple way to email my members without compromising the quality or the brand. I've used templates before and they can be a nightmare. The WYSIWIG features are limiting and then you have to rely on expert HTML coding to fix it."

"With AGP Mail, I can send out emails easily. AGP has engineered a solution that kept our variables in mind. Our emails have an attractive, professional look and the layout is flexible and can adapt to whatever type of text or graphics I throw at it."

"Sending branded emails that only look time-consuming is a breeze and AGP made that possible with such a smart solution."

Call us today to find out how AGPMail can make your email marketing easy and effective.

*CUNA award recipient, 2009

Labels: agpmail, email marketing, nikkei credit union

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., 2010 TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

A special message for our credit union clients: Do you have a web site that you're happy with, but maybe it doesn't have those one or two little things that would take your satisfaction with it over the top? If so, this article is just for you. Read on and discover the little things we can help you implement to make your web site a great experience for your members!

Social Media
Adding social media icons to your web site is easy, but do you need content for your Facebook, Twitter or Ning accounts? No problem. We specialize in making your social media accounts fun to read!

Rate Sheet Updates
Do you have an online table that displays your rates? Do you have an easy way to update your rates or do you have to manually update it week after week? Guess what...we've got a solution for that! Ask us about our My CU Rate Sheet Editor.

Mailing List Sign Up
Want to do some email marketing to your members? Need to install a mail list sign up form. No worries! We can help implement the sign up widget and even supply and email broadcasting solution that fits your branding!

Banner Ad Marketing
Do you have multiple promotions but no way to promote them? That's easy! We can design animated ads that get the attention you deserve. We an even program a solution that lets you choose what gets displayed and how often.

Online Banking Integration
Does your online banking provider offer your members a truly branded experience? If not, talk with us about how to customize your members' ebanking experience so that it matches your web site and offers cross-promotional opportunities.

As a credit union marketer, your web site should be one of the strongest tools in your arsenal. If it's not doing these basic things, we'll be glad to help you with the "little things" that will make you over the moon with your web site.

Contact us today to talk about what your needs and wants when it comes to your site!

Something a little revolution is a good thing.

Everybody knows ROI means Return on Investment, but here at Studio AGP, we prefer to replace the return with relax!

Why relax, you say? There's a "new kid" on the marketing block that can make your life so much easier! it's called email marketing and it's not just a phenomenon, it's a valid and viable marketing method that's here to stay. It's been gaining ground over the last five years, but recent research has shown just how strongly it has become a major player and has directed affected ROI.

Have a look at these numbers:

1. According to research conducted by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing generated an ROI of $48.34 for every dollar spent on it in 2007. The expected figure for 2008 is $45.06, and the prediction for 2009 is $43.52. As such, it outperforms all the other direct marketing channels examined, such as print catalogs.
2. The Ad Effectiveness Survey commissioned by Forbes Media in Feb/March 2009 revealed that email and e-newsletter marketing are considered the second-most effective tool for generating conversions, just behind SEO.
3. A summer 2009 survey of Irish marketers found 79% rating email marketing as important or very important to their marketing strategy.

Still don't think it's for you? Just take a look at the return for traditional print campaigns and you'll see the impact. Numbers don't lie!

At AGP, we're here to help you start up or fine tune your email marketing program. That's why we've created AGP Mail, a simple and powerful tool to add to your marketing arsenal.

With AGP Mail, you get custom emails branded to your look at feel and an easy-to-use content management system (CMS) to make creating and editing a snap! Contact us today for a FREE demo of this remarkable product.

Announcing AGP Mail. A better way to eblast.

Want to communicate to your members and customers electronically? Need to send branded emails that look good and are email-friendly? Tired of email newsletter template hell?

We feel your pain. We here lots of stories, both positive and negative, about email broadcasting, but there is always one comment we hear regardless of the overall outcome. To paraphrase, it goes something like this: 'We're tired of templates!'

Email broadcasting companies like Lyris, Constant Contact, iContact, etc., do an amazing job of email campaign distribution. They even have a suite full of "helpful" templates for the novice user to help them speed up their email communication campaign. But what most users realize, oftentimes after they've spent hours customizing and editing these templates, is that despite their "ease of use," they just don't beat out custom emails.

Enter AGP. We've built a system for our clients that allows them to use artwork that is customized to THEIR brand (or campaign) which is also easily editable using a simple CMS solution.

The process is exceedingly user-friendly. Check it out:

1. We design your email artwork, whether it's a newsletter, eblast or any other format.
2. We convert your artwork to HTML code
3. We load your HTML file into a FREE online content management system (CMS) that allows easy editing of your text and images
4. We train you on how to edit your custom emails and transfer them to your email broadcaster

It's that easy! Within minutes, you'll have a fully customized HTML email that is ready for distribution using your email broadcaster of choice.

Contact us today for a FREE demo on this amazing product!