Thread: newsletter software

phpmail *might* be easier to integrate

Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp 500 subscribers / 3000 mails a month allowed on the free version ... ?

edit: .. ah I see you saying the 500 email limit now ...

Problem I see with doing this all yourself is you may end up getting your email addresses / domain blacklisted

yea - i really do like mailchimp but after 500 users, 30 per month is a bit steep for me....i think i'll just cheat and use it up to 500 and then bite the bullet and sort out a server based system which i'd say is the best in the long rung

... i think the advantage with mailchimp is supposed to be that you DONT get your email address blacklisted, whereas this apparantly CAN happen when you do it on your own server - but to be honest im a bit confused i'm a bit of a greenhorn here but i cant see how you could protect from being blacklisted either way - any ideas anyone ?

up to 500 users free ...

500 - 1000 users $30 per month (unlimited emails) ... BUT ...

if you're only sending one email a month ... thrown $100 quid into the account as a pay as you go and only get charged per email sent ... makes "cents" .. to a certain point :P

get charged $0.02 per email ... thrown $250 in get charged 0.01 (12 months x 30 = $360) ... and the credit rolls over per month so ...

1000 emails a month = 10 quid or $120 a year

However if you've got that many people signed up to the newsletter and its not giving any return ... then you're doing something wrong

I second mailchimp and what forbairt has just said. It is very powerful handles bounces, gives good reports and is customisable.

I dont actually use it to make money but for communications for some club news letters and for another group that I am involved in for managing communications.

However when I 'write' my ebook on How To <insert best selling topic> I will bombard the world through e-mail and eventually some fool will buy it for the last minute price of $69

Hi byronyasgur,

(and hello to there rest of the forum )

So ho is the mailchimp working out for you? I've used it twice so far for very simple newsletter and now i would like to start putting together more professionally looking one.

Do you have any suggestions what would work the best for me if my html skills are far behind my graphic skills

i thought it was great - but i've only sent out one newsletter so far with it - i dont remember the process of building the mail exactly ( but that's probably a good thing ).... i think they had a good selection of templates ..... they have a very good system for tracking/stats etc ..... only real problem is that you have to start paying when you reach 500 contacts and it starts to 30 p.m which is a slightly steep ( some of the others let you pay a good bit less for the first band) .... but then most dont allow you to have 500 for free ... also they (MC) have a pay as you go option

overall i think they're really good - very friendly website and lots of video tutorials i think from memory ... i'm staying

i use phplist - have done for many years... works great

Thanks for the reply.
Yeah, i think the tracking/statistics options are amazing! but finally i wanted to releases nice looking newsletter rather than just plain text as i did so far