THRIVE newsletter template

Final design, 1 October 2026. Sample content from the 25 August issue.

What's included

  1. See the email as it will look in an inbox.
  2. Get the HTML code to copy and paste. The same code is at https://thrive-newsletter-template.pages.dev/thrive-newsletter.txt
  3. Copy the prompt for Claude to load the email into HubSpot and test it.

Prompt for Claude

Copy this into Claude to load the email into HubSpot and test it.

Could you load THRIVE's new newsletter template into HubSpot and test it so it's ready to go live?

Before you start, check you can get into THRIVE's HubSpot account. If you can't, stop and tell me.

1. Get the email HTML from https://thrive-newsletter-template.pages.dev/thrive-newsletter.txt

2. Create a marketing email in HubSpot using a custom-coded template. Don't use the drag-and-drop editor, because it rewrites the code and breaks the layout.

3. Move the images into HubSpot's file manager and point the email at the HubSpot copies. That covers every image loading from thrive-newsletter-template.pages.dev and the two THRIVE logos loading from workatthrive.com/images/brand. Leave the blog post photos (workatthrive.com/wp-content) where they are. All the images are also in https://thrive-newsletter-template.pages.dev/thrive-newsletter-images.zip

4. Send a test email to me and to kevin@everspaces.com.

5. Run as many QA checks as you can:
- every image loads
- every link works and keeps its tracking tags (utm_)
- the unsubscribe, preferences and view-in-browser links work
- it looks right on mobile, and in Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail
- it stays under Gmail's 102 KB size limit so it doesn't get clipped
- the subject line and preview text show properly

6. Give me a list of anything that failed and what you changed, so we can fix the rest before we go live.

Loading it into HubSpot

  1. Create it as a marketing email with a custom-coded template, not the drag-and-drop editor. The drag-and-drop editor rewrites the code and breaks the layout.
  2. The images currently load from this site. Before the first real send, upload them to HubSpot's file manager and point the code at the HubSpot copies. All 22 are in this zip file, named as they appear in the code.
  3. Unsubscribe, preferences and "view in browser" links already use HubSpot's own tags.
  4. Every link to THRIVE's own site carries tracking tags so newsletter clicks show up as email traffic in Google Analytics. Keep them when swapping in new content.

Known limits

Outlook on Windows shows the rounded buttons as square. Gmail uses a standard font in place of THRIVE's heading font. Everything else holds. Keep the finished email under 100 KB or Gmail cuts it off with a "view entire message" link.