Mailchimp, Aweber or someone else?

[APOS Recruitment]

I was out visiting some clients last week and I’d made a note to ask if they received our latest e-mail.
In particular I put a short article about attending The Business Show in London and then asked them if they were attending.
When I visited 6 out of 7 said they hadn’t received the e-mail. I checked the dashboard on Mailchimp and it said they had all been delivered (not all opened) etc.
I assume either just because they binned it or maybe it was blocked? Is there any comparison as to whether aweber or a similar e-mail service gets through to recipients or are they just as likely to get blocked?
I notice aweber have a $1 a month trial on. So I may use that, but just wondered if there were any others I could try that people maybe having more success with?
Thanks,
Rob

 

[Annoying Donkey]

My current favoured provider is getresponse. I think they have a 30 day free trial.

 

[APOS Recruitment]

Thank you for that. I'll see what that is like as well.

Cheers
Rob

 

[8420PR]

My experience: I moved away from mailChimp to sendy & amazon SES in order to reduce costs, but found I got a big increase in sales coming from my newsletter (even though the analytical metrics were similiar).

I don't know why, but it's impossible to find any independent deliver-ability comparisons for all the different email services - I guess they are perhaps all the same?. I wish I had enough time to do A/B testing between mailchimp and amazon ses.

 

[GetProspectsdotco]

Best so far is Aweber and Getresponse. There is good alternative - Toutapp

 

[andrewcakebox]

Aweber and GetResponse I'd say.

On the flipside you should experiment with your subject headlines - which makes all the difference in terms of open rates. Aweber has good analytics reports so you can see if they've clicked links in your emails. Feel free to PM me if you need any help

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

I'd choose Aweber over Mailchimp for better deliverability.

 

[JonV6]

I like MailChimp myself. You'll probably find they absent mindedly deleted it before opening it as I so often do.

 

[TheHun]

I personally stopped using MailChimp although it was good as an emailing software. I switched to Salesautopilot (I can't post the link so google it in all one word and it comes up first) because in their system I can connect my lists with a very professional CRM. In fact the whole bundle is one system and it takes away compatibility issues.
Even though I pay some money for the amount of emails I send, I prefer this system.
Hope this helps

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

I like MailChimp myself. You'll probably find they absent mindedly deleted it before opening it as I so often do.

That's not what I meant

 

[adamo]

I can't say I've personally had any issues with MailChimp, though understandably, since the IP pool is shared between other clients, it's possible if an IP gets blacklisted by another client sending out a spam email you'd be affected also. Larger organisations would likely code the newsletters themselves, and need a solid platform such as SendGrid or their own mail servers to send out the emails so they have a dedicated IP address.

 

[munaworks]

You can also try TinyLetter.com for a completely free email marketing service. It is however owned by mailchimp, not to sure if there is a catch there somewhere.