AWeber: email marketing service launches design contest with Tuts + Premium

If you’re an email marketing service looking for some new email templates, what better way to freshen your look than source the new designs from your customers?

That’s what Huntingdon Valley-based email marketing service AWeber decided to do after it updated its email editor with new a “drag-and-drop” feature in March. The 11-year-old company partnered with design and technical e-library Tuts+ Premium to create an email template design contest that concludes April 20.

“We wanted to make sure designers not only heard about this major upgrade, but had a chance to try it for themselves,” said senior business development manager Hunter Boyle. “What better way to let them test the system then by designing their own templates?”

Click here to submit your design before April 20, 2012.

The contest, which kicked off at the end of March, will be decided by a panel of AWeber marketers and winner stand to win prizes in the form of Tuts+ Premium and AWeber services, according to the press release.

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Friday Q&A: Justin Premick of AWeber can beat you in Call of Duty

Justin Premick of AWeber.

Technically Philly first met Justin Premick of AWeber in December at our first meetup at Nodding Head over a pint of Monkey Knife Fight.

Since then, we’ve had out eye on the growing email marketing company.

The privately held company was founded in August 1998 by Tom Kulzer. Kulzer, a salesman with a programming background, wanted to automate following up with clients by email and began coding software. After a few years, he left his job and bootstrapped AWeber.

The company has since been based at two other local locations before settling on its new digs in Huntington Valley with plans to continue growing.

AWeber’s new office is five times larger than their last (by the way, they’re hiring) and the company is looking to expand on its existing 75,000+ customer base

We talked with Premick about what exactly the company does, why they decided to lay down roots in Huntington Valley and AWeber’s sweet setup for pwning n00bz.

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