creator integration with campaign

i need to improve my email side of my creator database. i use mailchimp for mass emails but use creator app for emailing from my members table and its rubbish there's no way to really see whats happening or build templates so i want to integrate with campaign which is not so hard with CRM but seems to be much more involved with creator and the cost to do this seems high ... does anyone know a short cut way to do it or other options...