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Email blasts software suggestion
Jack McCoy, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 3:34 PM on 05.06.09 |
->> Can anyone suggest/recommend a company (software program) that allows you to send out mass emails at one time? Looking at just copying and pasting 300 or so email addresses and adding a sentence or two of copy in the email. That's it, don't need templates or anything else.
Thanks in advance for your help.
--Jack |
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Jeff Mills, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 3:51 PM on 05.06.09 |
->> I would assume most email applications can handle that, either just select all in your contact list, or paste all the addresses into the header, with a coma between each.
I know even freemail programs like yahoo and hotmail allow you to "select all" from a contact list and the email applications with most any website hosting such as sitemail which I have through Hostway defiantly has a wide range of mass email options, auto responders etc
I really don't think you need any sort of special software program to do what your looking for. |
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Osamu Chiba, Photographer
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Vista | CA | USA | Posted: 4:10 PM on 05.06.09 |
->> I agree with Jeff. Nothing sounds special. Or am I missing something?
Make sure e-addresses are in BCC, if the recipients don't need to know each other.
Also, make sure your service provider won't think you're a spammer. Aplus.net, my web host, has this rule: 500 e-mails (both outgoing and incoming) every 1/2 hour. I had broken the rule many times, and my web site was shut down each time. Mostly unintentional, though, and I won't go into details.
I use my own perl/cgi script to send bunch of e-mails in order to update my database. One advantage of this way is I can customize each e-mail like recipient's name, etc.
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Rick Osentoski, Photographer
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Martin | OH | United States | Posted: 4:35 PM on 05.06.09 |
->> I use a company called Vertical response that allows you to track the emails, who opens, click through if you have links ect.
http://www.verticalresponse.com/ |
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Jack McCoy, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 4:37 PM on 05.06.09 |
| ->> I'm on aol (yes I know nobody uses aol anymore). I can't send out more then 20 emails at a time via aol without me being locked out of aol because of sending too many emails to too many people at once. This has happened to me twice...that's why the question regarding another option. |
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Neil Turner, Photographer
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Bournemouth | UK | United Kingdom | Posted: 4:39 PM on 05.06.09 |
->> I use a similar service to Rick http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ and they can handle a lot of emails very quickly. We use them for newsletters for my own stuff and for the British Press Photographers' Association as well. Very happy with them for over six months. They charge $5 per email plus $0.01 per recipient.
Neil |
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N. Scott Trimble, Photographer
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Lake Oswego | OR | USA | Posted: 4:52 PM on 05.06.09 |
| ->> I use Agency Access myself. Pretty happy with that. Although its a service, and not a program. |
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Tyson Trish, Photographer
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Blairstown | NJ | | Posted: 5:21 PM on 05.06.09 |
| ->> try icontact.com, they have a free trial, the tracking options are awesome, |
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Jim Fridenmaker, Photographer
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Portsmouth | OH | USA | Posted: 5:34 PM on 05.06.09 |
->> Along the lines of others suggestions, I'd suggest http://www.aweber.com
The advantage of using a service like those suggested are that your customers must "opt-in" and can "unsubscribe" easily by just clicking a link.
Remember, just because someone has given you their email address does not mean they've given you permission to "spam" them anytime with anything.
Jim |
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Lesley Ann Miller, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Allen Murabayashi, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 9:34 PM on 05.06.09 |
->> some vendors:
- campaign monitor
- exact target
- constant contact
- vertical response
the reason to use a tool is:
- you can track open rates
- you can track click-thrus of links
- you can easily segment your lists, and "A/B test" things like subject lines, etc.
- the allows you to gauge the ROI (return on investment) of your marketing activity. if you don't, you're just throwing time and money down the tubes, imo.
i absolutely advocate using a tool if you regularly send out e-mails to your client base.
- cost should be about $0.01/email
- open rates off a qualified list should be in the 30-50% range.
- open rates off an unsolicited list should be in the 5-20% range. |
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Michael Strong, Photographer
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Lubbock | TX | USA | Posted: 10:32 PM on 05.06.09 |
| ->> Of the two that Allen mentioned I'd go with Constant Contact. In my experience they are the cadillac of the industry. |
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Jack McCoy, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 7:56 AM on 05.07.09 |
| ->> Thanks for all the suggestions... |
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Brian Tietz, Photographer
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Fort Myers | FL | USA | Posted: 9:18 AM on 05.07.09 |
->> I just did a blast with a service from former Sportsshooter member Dave Cone called Ave One Studio Mail.
http://www.AveOneStudios.net
Extremely impressive tracking interface and it was a piece of cake to set up a nice professional looking HTML email blast.
5 emails and less are free, and no monthly contract or service fees. |
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Christopher Rossi, Photographer
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