[Hidden-tech] email marketing software

[Charlie Heath]

Nice article, Derek.

I've done custom PHP email scripts and it really does take a lot of 
research to get email out these days, including selection of your web 
host. Not many shared hosts allow sending more than 50 or so emails per 
hour - a few allow 500 per hour if you ask them.  And then there is the 
problem getting those emails past different hurdles; AOL, Hotmail, 
Yahoo, etc.  You'll need cron jobs or some other means of throttling the 
send rate.  Then you'll want a mail filter set up to grab bounces, 
unless you do that by hand.

I'm setting up Joomla! sites that need newsletters, and contemplating 
where best to set up a reseller hosting account.until I've got enough 
volume to get a dedicated server.  Acajoom, a Joomla! extension, does 
pretty well for small lists in its free version, though it doesn't 
automatically handle bounces.  You'll need to either do custom 
programming or buy the commercial versions to handle larger email 
lists.  Also, the default HTML template on Acajoom isn't very good; but 
you can replace it, and should start from scratch.

If anyone cares to share their experiences with reseller accounts, 
particularly in terms of handling of mailing lists, I'd love hear about
that.

Charlie Heath
Town Websites <http://www.town-websites.com>



Bronwen Hodgkinson - cdeVision wrote:
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> I'll second MailChimp: www.mailchimp.com  
> It's very user-friendly and very easy to implement custom templates & has
> excellent tracking & stats. They also have a pay-as-you-go plan which allows
> you to pay by the email rather than being bound to a monthly subscription
> rate.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Dan
> Mishkind
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:44 PM
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> Cc: Zara Webster
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] email marketing software
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>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>
> You may want to beware of Constant Contact. Their fine print used to say
> they get use of your uploaded list. We have a colleague that had to bring in
> attorneys to get out if their contract and make sure they didn't use the
> list that they uploaded before they knew.
>
> *Maybe* their policy has changed but beware.
>
> However, we heartily recommend the following two services:
>
> http://www.mailchimp.com
> http://www.myemma.com
>
>
> Dan Mishkind
> Principal
> Pure Branding LLC
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> On 8/12/08 2:35 PM, "Zara Webster" <zwebster at uppermark.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello, 
>>  
>> We are looking for an email marketing software program for sending
>> personalized bulk (less than 1000) email messages.  We would also like to
>> consider features such as tracking whether the emails have been opened and
>> links in the emails opened.
>>  
>> We would appreciate any recommendations.
>>  
>> Thanks.
>> Zara Webster
>>     
>
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