Hi, we use Pure360 to manage a few of our lists that come to around 60k subscribers in total. For that we pay around £300 per month as a service cost, then we need to buy x number of credits. Whilst the interface, newsletter builder and reporting are quite swish and intuitive, I do wonder if there's anything that does the same but cheaper? It seems if we want to integrate it to our Woocommerce instalallations that will add an extra £100 per month so you are looking at a monthly service cost of £400 plus...not sure if that is cheap or expensive compared to other offerings e.g. mailchimp etc?
How much are those 60K subscribers worth to you? If they generate £10000 in income each month £400 in fees isn't a lot to pay. I use the £14.99/month package from mailchimp and built my own integration plugin so it's a lot cheaper than your current costs.
Thanks fisicx. Not quite performing on those levels unfortunately so looking at doing the same but cheaper so looking at all options. Dan
OK. So if it's not performing to those levels is it worth even having the list? You could spend that £300 on adverts and generate £10K in income. Or maybe you could work in increasing the opening percentage to generate more income. I get about 60% opening rate because I've culled my list making it much easier to target the message. Reducing the size of your list might mean you can downgrade your package. Just mulling over options here...
Thanks, yes they are all valid options but I don't think we'll cull it significantly to get to the lower level, if anything it willbe growing as we concentrate on digital rather than print advertising. Of course, it may then be more worthy of the current expenditure but I'm just putting it out there in case someone is managing lists this sort of size with something with cheaper service costs. I was not involved in choosing Pure360 but I'm guessing it was chosen as it may have been comparatively better than, say, Mailchimps comparative package.
Even if you use the premium Mailchimp service it will still be cheaper as woocommerce integration is free. But you won't need to premium service if you are just sending out mailshots.
What features of Pure360 would you need in a replacement system? Is there anything else you need it to do other than woocommerce integration? There are some much cheaper solutions that might fit your needs. Rob
I would agree with Mollie Rhodes. Mailchimp is the perfect email marketing tool for a huge subscription list. Mailchimp has many other amazing features that may help you to grow your business as per your terms.
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