Bulk emailer software?

[AdrianF]

looking to start sending out newsletters etc and find MailChimp too limiting - eg I have a PA's email address and want the email to be addressed FAO to the boss

what do people find works? free is good but willing to pay if we have to

 

[sitestillup]

We use EmailerGo.com

 

[123 IT Solutions]

Get yourself an email service and a copy of sendblaster and you are all set.

Sendblaster will manage all your lists including unsubscribes. Very good and extremely fast piece of software. Well worth buying the full version (one time cost)

 

[jackb144]

don't forget about delivery rates... some of the free options are notorious for spam, so its best to spend even a little a month so your mails get delivered...

 

[WestTownWeb]

Most web hosting packages offer PHPlist free and it can be easily be installed through the hosting control panel. I use it on one of my 'spare time' projects to deliver a newsletter.

If you want improved deliverability, look an smtp service such as Mandrill.

 

[Deepanshu Gahlaut]

Try CakeMail.

 

[emulsja]

CakeMail seems to be ok.

 

[Alan]

PHPlists is fine.

Don't forget, you will either have to rate limit your sending to whatever your email / hosting limits are (often not high) or use a third party bulk email service like Amazon SES (which isn't expensive at $0.10 per thousand, but you will need to go through an quality approval process to go above 1,000 in 24 hours, obviously to weed out total spammers)

 

[Carl Barlow]

It really depends on what you're trying to achieve. We use Infusionsoft for our email marketing because thats only a tiny part of what it does. I would avoid sending email blasts out with the same message to everyone. Infusion allows me to segment my audience to send a much more targeted message, which means it's much more effective, less opt outs/spam reports and in turn more sales

 

[Small Biz Geek]

I've been using MailChimp but I have recently been battling an epidemic of spam sign ups to the newsletter. It's gotten out of control and this is with double opt in. These cannot be bots!

I'm considering going for the paid versions of AWeber or ConstantContact but I'm afraid I'll still be facing the spam sign up issues!

 

[Carl Barlow]

Try using a honeypot to stop spam signups, pretty easy to implement and works a treat

 

[Small Biz Geek]

I don't know what a honeypot is but I have installed a required field that uses a radio button asking for explicit opt in. This way, only human users can sign up. Bots should be filtered out.

 

[Carl Barlow]

Not sure what you're using to actually capture email, but here's a neutral example:
http://devgrow.com/simple-php-honey-pot/

 

[Daisy_Michael]

I personally used Email Marketer Business and Constant Contact, try them (free) and I hope they would help you decide within no time!

 

[ISETech]

I have used Express Email Marketing tool on a website.. unfortunately i am unable to post link here. that site offers quite promising features e.g. social marketing , survey builders, real time reports, sign up forms , ready made templates etc etc.
good luck!

 

[ExplorerBDM]

Mailchimp works well for the company I work for... I'm not aware of any problems.

ExplorerBDM

 

[amac]

Mailchimp works well for the company I work for... I'm not aware of any problems.

ExplorerBDM

Same. You can even use their more advanced bulk mailing service Mandrill if you're more technical.

 

[123 IT Solutions]

We use our own system with our own SMTP servers which works really well for us and our clients.

 

[EpicWebs]

I've used MailChimp and Aweber in the past, I still use MailChimp when the free version covers the amount of subscribers a client has, as integrating into a website is pretty easy. If the client requires more subscribers or they are setting up an auto responder series then I use Aweber, it feels nicer and i've found I get a better click through rate for some reason.

 

[jackobfernandas]

I Suggest you call4smile and ICTbroadcast autodialer broadcasting software

 

[Small Biz Geek]

I've used MailChimp and Aweber in the past, I still use MailChimp when the free version covers the amount of subscribers a client has, as integrating into a website is pretty easy. If the client requires more subscribers or they are setting up an auto responder series then I use Aweber, it feels nicer and i've found I get a better click through rate for some reason.

Ditto on the MailChimp approach. If it's a small list, it is a good choice. Do you find it easy migrating the list to other services such as AWeber?

 

[EpicWebs]

Ditto on the MailChimp approach. If it's a small list, it is a good choice. Do you find it easy migrating the list to other services such as AWeber?

Yea it's really easy, they except so many formats now, CSV, Excel, Plain Text - even direct integration with some of the email providers.

 

[Mr Demeda]

I've been using MailChimp but I have recently been battling an epidemic of spam sign ups to the newsletter. It's gotten out of control and this is with double opt in. These cannot be bots!

I'm considering going for the paid versions of AWeber or ConstantContact but I'm afraid I'll still be facing the spam sign up issues!

That's bizarre, untill recently I always used MailChimp and never had a problem with spam sign-ups. I've used both the free and paid accounts too.

Recently however, we developed our very own mailing plugin which is not currently available for public use. Depending on how much you spend elsewhere on mail-shots, or if you have to send various mail-shots for clients, it can actually be profitable to hire a developer to create your own software. No subscriptions, no other costs. Just pay to get it developed.

 

[Burtech]

There are already a good number of suggestions above but I have had good results with DotMailer before.

 

[Jeff Nev]

We've had good successes with Mailchimp for managing large volume mailing lists and statistics. Although I've never had problems with spam sign-ups before..

 

[Small Biz Geek]

MailChimp apparently have some "hard bounce" filters in place to remove fake email signups - the ones that will reject delivery because they don't exist as real mailboxes, though how they get around double opt in is a mystery to me.

 

[Small Biz Geek]

Mandrill looks interesting too - I've been using SMTP servers to send website email contact form messages that were otherwise being flagged as spam. I wonder how much Mandrill can improve inbox deliverability if I used GoDaddy's SMTP servers?

 

[Guy Earnshaw]

MailChimp and Sentori are both great

 

[Digihound]

We've been using Aweber for a few client mailings for quite some time but have recently started using GetResponse and so far, so good.

They have all the usual sign up form templates including a hosted landing page generator (if you need it - costs extra) and charge around £12 per month for small list up to a 1000.

 

[macmacman]

Mandrill looks interesting too - I've been using SMTP servers to send website email contact form messages that were otherwise being flagged as spam. I wonder how much Mandrill can improve inbox deliverability if I used GoDaddy's SMTP servers?

What's all this about then? Sounds interesting. So instead of IMAP or POP3 you use SMTP to send marketing emails out?

 

[Parcelhub]

Mailchimp is great for automation and is compatible with pretty much everything, but does start to get pricey, especially when you compare costs to what Amazon Web Services would charge if you built your own bulk email software.

 

[Abe Choi]

We currently use mailgun and are building our own system using amazon SES. You will definitely need technical resources for leveraging amazon's ses.

 

[Adam Shilton]

I've had no problems with ConstantContact in the past, unsure where the spam issues have come from

 

[RPower]

You know, if you wanted something cheap and cheerful, Google Spreadsheets 'Yet Another Mail Merge' is a great tool.

You can send 100 per day for free and can create some nice templates in Gmail.

But as I said that's cheap and cheerful - for bigger systems something like Constant Contact looks awesome.

 

[Sam Richards]

Take a look at ConstantContact

 

[Deleted member 251885]

Really Simple Systems offers an email marketing module that's integrated with the CRM system. This means you can personalise your emails and newsletters using the data you store in your CRM. All your customer engagement data, e.g. click-throughs, is then captured back to you CRM providing great customer insight.

 

[exom_expert]

I heard mailigen is not bad

 

[contracthireacar.com]

For what it's worth, we use AWeber and find it pretty good, and the same can be said for my previous experience with MailChimp. A developer friend swears by DotMailer though!

 

[123 IT Solutions]

Fire me a PM and I would be happy to set you up a free trial of our email marketing system

https://www.123itsolutions.co.uk/email-marketing/

 

[dtdigital]

I recommend campaign monitor, good metrics to use.