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I fail to understand the need.

GMail has a lab feature called "Canned response", it does exactly what you do and its integrated into Gmail.

Also, search-and-forward would work just fine.

Canned responses work pretty well, but still not as tight of a workflow as I'd like.

Also, I'm working on a premium version where you can track Opens and click-throughs on the links you share -- helping you A/B test and see ROI of your pitches.

I like "A/B test your emails" better. I understand the problem of having to rewrite emails over and over again that are delivering the same message for the same goal, but need to be tailored to some specific-case scenarios. You might be entering into the email newsletter space with the more functionality you roll out so I would think it best to concentrate on those instances where you are doing customer development type stuff. The need to reach out to people in a very personal way entails that I DON'T spam them from an email newsletter, but yes I would want to approach it in a systemized fashion. Have a way to iterate on emails and refine your pitch - I like that.

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