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12 Apr 2007, 04:51 AM | #1 |
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Preparing For Mass Marketing E-mail
HELLO EVERYONE;
I have had a great idea and I need to send a bulk e-mail. I am a complete novice in this field but I presume there is some software out there that lets you send thousands of e-mails at a time, instead of the fifty emails that I can currently do in hotmail!! Could anyone out there direct me to some software that is really really easy (and jargon free!) and preferably FREE?!! Thanks in advance! |
12 Apr 2007, 05:06 AM | #2 |
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Welcome to the forums sandown42. Have all these thousands of people (who you are planning to email) opted in, and authorized you to send mail to them?
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12 Apr 2007, 09:27 AM | #3 |
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As David says - be aware that if they haven't explicitly opted in, what you are describing is spamming, and nobody on these forums can help you to spam.
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13 Apr 2007, 02:56 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for that Edwin...
The answer is a resounding yes; I have their permission. Can anybody help me instead of pre-emptively berating me. I currently trawl through hotmail and I have looked around on the internet. The free ones seem to be very limited and not very user friendly. (I have downloaded about three or four and wasted a lot of time). Anybody got any good suggestions please? |
13 Apr 2007, 03:19 AM | #5 |
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You said you downloaded something, and found it unsatisfactory. Well, mass-mailing is a specialised application, and without knowing (a) your hardware+software setup (b) some info about your internet connection (c) your computer skills, it's nearly impossible to give a meaningful advice. I suggest you subscribe to a dedicated mass-mailing service. Yes, it's not free, but it saves a lot of hassle.
I have two suggestions: authsmtp.com and aweber.com. Full disclosure: I have absolutely no experience of the former, and I'm on a mailing list handled by the latter (as a recipient, not a list owner). |
13 Apr 2007, 03:34 AM | #6 |
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Thank you for your advice.
I thought it would be quite easy, but its not turning out to be! |
13 Apr 2007, 03:44 AM | #7 |
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As a general observation, mass mailing has never been free in "the real world" AFAIK. Not sure why that should be any different now.
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13 Apr 2007, 03:47 AM | #8 |
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Checkout this thread.
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13 Apr 2007, 04:12 AM | #9 |
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Thanks; a person mentioned that outlook allows 300 recipients per mail. That is much better than Hotmail's 50. Does anyone know of any that allow more than 300?
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13 Apr 2007, 09:19 AM | #10 | |
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- Members' email addresses are protected. - Duplicate and malformed email addresses are automatically scrubbed from the list. - Members can automatically remove themselves (unsubscribe) from the list. - Dead email addresses that fail are automatically removed from the list. - Good services or software provide reports on delivery rate, etc. |
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14 Apr 2007, 01:02 AM | #11 |
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http://siteinteractive.com/subent/
I've used this for years and years... not free, but the $99 (free setup) is WELL worth the money invested. |