When you run a business as a content creator, you probably also know that email marketing is not yet another tool you need to incorporate into your business toolkit. Email marketing is a powerful channel to build and engage your audience, and what is most important, it is your most personal form of outreach. If you manage your social media profiles, you have the chance to reach a massive audience, but your posts’ captions are usually more general. When you send an email campaign, it can be fully personalized and more meaningful in building a relationship with your most loyal and engaged customers.
Nowadays, there are many tools available, and many of them say they are for content creators as well. But hey! Are they?
One of the platforms considered as a tool for content creators is Flodesk. It gained popularity by offering beautifully designed emails and unlimited sends. However, for creators who run their businesses based on passion, seek the most intuitive platform, sell their digital products, and prioritize their customers’ data privacy, there is a new product that deserves attention: the Creator Suite powered by Elastic Email.
Table of Contents
- Budget matters for content creators
- Features that help you grow
- Online human support 24/7 - for free
- User experience that delights you
- How to migrate to Creator Suite from Flodesk
- Creator Suite - Your go-to alternative to Flodesk
Budget matters for content creators
We often advise marketers, small businesses, and content creators to stop overpaying for email marketing tools, as we firmly believe they don’t need to be that expensive. With Creator Suite, it's no different. In fact, Flodesk offers a flat fee for its product. But when you start and are not sure where to start or whether it will work for your business, is a flat rate really beneficial?
With Creator Suite, we designed this in a more approachable way. You can start for free - create your basic setup with no coding skills, and once you’re ready to start sending your newsletter or any other email campaigns, you pay just $19 a month. The pricing scales as your business grows, but you still have access to the powerful yet really intuitive tools created for creators like you. So if you’re scaling your business and monetizing your content, Creator Suite gives you more for less from the beginning.
Features that help you grow
When choosing the right toolkit for your business, not only does price matter. There are also things like: whether this platform will grow with my business, whether they can offer real help instead of pure guides or video tutorials, and whether they can secure my data and the data of my customers, and so on.
And while Flodesk is known for its clean interface, Creator Suite is designed for creators and creatives who are passionate about what they do and the audience they have gathered around the business. Creator Suite is a true growth engine with tools designed to help creative businesses grow securely and sustainably.
Link in bio builder
In both Creator Suite and Flodesk, you can create a mini-site for Instagram or any other social media platform that helps you grow your audience. At Creator Suite, there is no need to have your domain (so you can save money instead of investing in expensive hosting) - you can simply create your domain link using our subdomain creator. Thanks to this feature, you will be able to have your place on the internet in just a few seconds, accessible at yourname.myelasticemail.com. If you'd like to learn more about the link in bio feature, feel free to read our article on the topic.
Templates gallery at your fingertips
You don’t need to be a designer to send a professionally designed template or release branded layouts for your business. Creator Suite, the same as Flodesk, provides a gallery of beautiful and optimized email templates that you can use for your email campaigns, link in bio pages, or landing pages. If you want to add a personal touch to the template you've picked, it's possible, easy to do, and takes just a few minutes to create a real masterpiece.
Web forms that convert
Whether you want to add the signup form to your newly created landing page, or a simple link in bio, or add a pop-up web form to your website - it is all possible with Creator Suite. Of course, you can also create a form or pop-up with Flodesk. Both tools offer pre-designed web form templates and solutions to prevent spam or bot activities on your website.
Audience insights and management
If you gather contacts through your link in bio page or a simple web form on your website, you likely want to manage them properly and learn more about them through the insights of their activity. It’s all possible with Creator Suite. While Flodesk says it offers audience insights and analytics, the Creator Suite provides more robust solutions for audience management. Both tools offer contact upload or the option to segment your audience, but only Creator Suite offers contact list management. When you add your audience to Flodesk, they are visible as “All subscribers” or segmented according to your needs. With Creator Suite, you can gather your contacts on a specific contact list and also segment them according to your needs. Moreover, with Creator Suite, you can use custom contact fields, allowing you to gather as many different types of information about your contacts as possible, including their birthdays, the industry they operate in, or their country if you wish. We can also help you with geolocation tracking, so thanks to this, you know the location of your contacts. Creator Suite also offers you automated contact purging, which means that we can automatically clean your audience of inactive contacts to keep your reputation high.
Email campaign management you deserve
Building and sending an email campaign could be overwhelming, but not with Creator Suite! The email template editor is the easiest and cleanest drag-and-drop editor we have ever seen. In fact, with Flodesk, you can also edit the email template you choose, but let’s be honest: it’s challenging, not really flexible, and what’s important, you can choose the predefined blocks only! Would that help you create the unique content you deserve? We know you know the answer. But what definitely helps you create unique and personalized content are the merge fields that we offer at Creator Suite. Thanks to them, you can use specific information related to your content, for example, the name of your recipient. Within our campaign management tools, you can also find the scheduling options, A/B or multivariate campaign tests for your email campaigns, as well as the send-time optimization option that helps you send your campaigns in a way that boosts their deliverability.
If you want to automate your campaigns, it’s also possible with both Flodesk and Creator Suite. But Creator Suite offers you more triggers. At Flodesk, you can only start the automation when someone subscribes through a web form or when a subscriber is added to a segment. It’s also possible with Creator Suite, but in addition, with Creator Suite, you can also start your automation when someone clicks a specific link in your campaign or when they simply open your email. We also offer diverse conditions depending on what the contact does or what list they are on, which makes the entire automation process even more powerful.
Built-in Checkouts for selling products online
As a creative person building a business on your passion, you may also want to monetize your content to earn a living. To help you in this journey, we built a Checkouts feature that allows you to send products (digital or physical), services, ebooks, or courses directly from your simple product landing page. No third-party tools or integrations needed, no coding skills or technical headaches. Just simplicity, letting you scale your business the way you want. With Flodesk, you can also sell your products, but again, you can’t fully customize your products page as you can with the Creator Suite's intuitive drag-and-drop editor. If you would like to deep dive into the Creator Suite’s Checkouts feature, please feel free to read our article on that topic.
Paid newsletters to earn a living with email
Sending newsletters is just one thing, but earning money with them is an entirely new level of monetization for content creators. Sometimes you have a unique message or a set of exclusive information that you want to sell to a chosen group of subscribers - from now on, it’s possible! We prepared a whole new article about the paid newsletters feature, so feel free to read it to discover this feature in detail. But the process of creating and sending it is super simple - first of all, you need to design your sales page with our intuitive drag-and-drop editor. It is a place where all your subscribers can sign up for the exclusive, paid content that you’ll be sending them. Each of your subscribers can choose whether they want to pay you a monthly, quarterly, or yearly subscription, depending on what you allow them to choose. Your paid newsletter subscribers will be added to a special list, allowing you to target your content precisely. There is no additional cost for this feature - it’s a part of our affordable offer: just $19 a month!
Advanced analytics to help you make better decisions
Instead of relying on your gut feeling, we want you to see the real data and make the smart decisions based on what you really know about your campaigns or audience. Although Flodesk also allows you to measure your campaign’s performance, the Creator Suite’s robust analytics give you a better understanding of how your email marketing is performing. If you want to check the performance of a specific contact, you can use our custom search option and search the campaign logs for a particular email address. You can also review the click map of your email template to see which content performs best for your audience. When your contact decides to unsubscribe, you can also quickly review the reason behind his decision. You can also quickly export the data to a CSV file for further analysis.
Online human support 24/7 - for free
We’ve heard the rumors that our customer support is often slow to respond. We know we are fast when it comes to our responses, and lots of positive words are just proof of that. See yourself:
Bradley spent a long time walking me through some of the intricacies of fixing my DNS records. He replied in minutes and stayed responsive until the issue was fixed. He was fantastic. Could not have been more helpful. Top class customer support. - Rob
They have good supportive customer service. They respond quickly and resolve the issue or doubt very quickly.ustomer support. - GalenX
Easy to use, reliable and impeccable customer support. Faultless. - Yogi
What makes it excellent is the great customer service that has responded quickly when we needed help - IT Hippoland
The customer service is amazing, they respond within minutes even after the jet, all the executives are helpful and they make sure your issue is resolved quickly- Parag N
What is even more important, despite being fast in helping businesses with their struggles, is that we offer free 24/7 human support, no matter if you are a free or a paying customer. This means that every request sent to us is treated seriously and with the proper urgency by someone who can understand your needs and help accordingly.
*All quotes above are copied from our page on Trustpilot, G2, or Capterra.
User experience that delights you
From the very beginning of Elastic Email, we believe that simplicity is the key for small businesses. Now, when we decided to serve content creators and creative businesses in general, we know how important it is. While Flodesk’s interface appears clean and simple, it can be somewhat confusing when you start using it. The Creator Suite interface is straightforward, and the menu contains all the features we offer without the need to click through the product to find what you are looking for. Lots of great UI messages, clean screen designs, and excellent app performance make the Creator Suite product an intuitive yet powerful tool for those who don’t want to waste their time. But if you want to read more about our features, we offer comprehensive help guides that clearly explain how everything works. Prefer to watch tutorials? A handful of video content is available for you on our YouTube channel.
How to migrate to Creator Suite from Flodesk
Once you realize how beneficial Creator Suite can be for your business, it is easier than you think to make the switch. And of course, you can reach out to us, and we would be more than happy to help you with the migration process, guiding you step by step.
1. Create the account with Creator Suite
To start the migration process, you need to create an account at Creator Suite first. No credit card is required, and we offer two ways to sign up: a simple sign-up with Google or a standard sign-up with your email address. You can create an account using our Creator Suite sign-up page.
2. Create the link in bio with Creator Suite
If you had the link in bio created in Flodesk, it takes 2 minutes to create and publish it in the Creator Suite. Right after you sign up, you can create it on the home screen.
3. Migrate your contacts
To import your contacts from Flodesk, please open your Flodesk account, go to Audience, choose the right segment, and on the chosen segment, click on the three dots on the segment’s card, and click on “Download CSV”. After you receive an email with your contacts list, download it to your computer or device. Then, open the Creator Suite account, go to the Audience tab on the left-hand menu, and click the “Add contacts” button available on the screen. Pick the “Upload contacts” option, read and confirm the terms, and choose the way of uploading your contacts. The migration process is completed after verifying and assigning contacts to a list.
Note! If you use custom contact fields at Flodesk, please verify if we can match them with our system. If not, please adjust the custom fields’ names to be compliant with ours. Here is the complete list of the custom fields we allow.
4. Design your email or landing page templates
Of course, we don’t offer the same templates as Flodesk, but our talented graphic designers prepared various templates with modern, mobile-optimized designs that we believe will be perfect for your business. But if you have a template that you really loved at Flodesk and would like to create a similar one in the Creator Suite, send it our way to marketing@elasticemail.com, and we will try to prepare something for you.
5. Start selling your products with Creator Suite
If you are selling digital products, you can also move them to Creator Suite. No extra fees, no tech headaches when setting up your sales page. The same as in Flodesk, if you have the link to your product, you can now paste it into one of our templates, and that’s it! Once again, if you had a template that you loved at Flodesk, send it our way to marketing@elasticemail.com, and we will try to prepare something for you.
Creator Suite - Your go-to alternative to Flodesk
While Flodesk may be a good fit for those who simply want elegant templates, it may become more challenging as your audience grows and your business becomes more complex. Elastic Email’s Creator Suite is a smarter long-term choice for creatives who want to grow their business. It’s scalable and flexible as you grow, without breaking the bank.
If you are ready to take your business to the next level, work with the best-in-class solutions for creators, don’t hesitate to switch to Creator Suite and give your email campaigns the power they deserve. If you have questions before you switch, test the speed of our support team at support@elasticemail.com or reach out to our marketing team at marketing@elasticemail.com.
Summary:
The article compares Elastic Email’s Creator Suite to Flodesk, focusing on features relevant to content creators. While Flodesk gained traction for its visually attractive emails and flat-rate pricing, Elastic Email’s Creator Suite positions itself as a more scalable and cost-efficient platform for growing creative businesses. Key differentiators include flexible pricing starting at $19/month, intuitive drag-and-drop design tools, robust email automation triggers, contact management with custom fields, integrated digital product checkouts, and monetizable paid newsletters. Creator Suite also offers real-time analytics, spam-resistant signup forms, and 24/7 live human support, even for free-tier users. The guide concludes with a step-by-step migration process from Flodesk, making the switch accessible and hassle-free for users seeking more advanced and customizable tools.
Anna
A marketing minded individual with a heart for a deeper story. When I am not at work, I co-create non-profit projects, play tennis or explore Instagram.
