July
13
How do i send bulk email, not spam?
Posted In: Other - Advertising & Marketing by admin
Hyder asked:
I had started accepting newsletter subscribers about 8 months back on my website… i forgot about it completely then. Now, I’ve got over 60,000 email addresses sitting in my database.
I had started accepting newsletter subscribers about 8 months back on my website… i forgot about it completely then. Now, I’ve got over 60,000 email addresses sitting in my database.
And I don’t know how to send newsletters to them. Do I simply use my email account? It’s a non-profit so I can’t be paying much for premium service… I would rather prefer a free solution.
Any advise would be appreciated.
Thanks for all the answers guys… and i don’t intend to make any money off of the newsletters, it’s more of an awareness campaign… and i certainly don’t need a loan.
I don’t think you would get a free one.
EmailMarketingProfessional.com offers a free email marketing software that offers a good list of features — importing list, automatic unsubscribes, tracking bounce backs and campaign statistics, etc.
The problem though is that you will be working around the limits of your ISP. Most ISPs, in order to prevent spam, limits the number of emails you can send in an hour or in a day (e.g. some allow only 100 emails per hour). If such is the case — and you say you’ve got 80,000 emails — then that means spending (and wasting) 800 hours just to send a single newsletter! That’s a lot of hours.
If time is of value to you, you are better off using paid solutions such as ConstantContact.com where for a very low monthly fee you can just hit a single SEND button and your email is sent immediately — without going through your ISP.
Free is great, but sometimes, there’s a catch somewhere
You can get an account at AWeber or GetResponse.
They’re both very solid with some real nice features.