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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
I used to use phplist and I really don’t recommend it. Bulk emailing from your own server is a recipe for all kinds of trouble.
Good luck if your server gets blacklisted.
I’d rather use a trusted sender like MailChimp or StreamSend – and my clients are willing to pay a fair fee for transmissions – so the price isn’t an issue for me.
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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
Also, if you are using shared hosting – check your terms of use. Because you may be in breach of service by running a bulk emailer on your site, for the reasons I outlined above.
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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
planeth wrote #279282:
Hi Colak,
have you another mailing service in mind which could be better ?
Mailjet is another good option. I use it for cloud emailing for a business which requires consistent delivery of emails and a means to check if a mail was received/opened or not. They also do transactional mails and newsletters, but their newsletter designer is arguably not as good as Mailchimp.
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On the subject. I normally use lyris.com/us-en/contentchecker before sending any bulk emails to minimize its chances to go into spam. I know that mailchimp has its own filters.
>Edited to add: mailjet’s pricing looks more reasonable. I only send about 8 emails/year to a db which currently has 2400 subscribers. Can anyone post a brief comparison between mailchimp and mailjet or provide an alternative?
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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
There’s no magic filter that can stop your emails being flagged as spam, all it needs is for a few of your hotmail/live/gmail users to manually flag an email and you could risk being blacklisted. The threshold that most senders set is 0.1% (some are lower) so that means if more than 1 in 1000 recipients flag a message as spam you are potentially at risk.
I think MailChimps credits pricing would be your best route. Also check out StreamSend as an alternative – it’s not as nice as MailChimp IMHO (although it’s still good) but might have a more suitable pricing structure to you.
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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
colak wrote #279299:
mailjet’s pricing looks more reasonable. I only send about 8 emails/year to a db which currently has 2400 subscribers. Can anyone post a brief comparison between mailchimp and mailjet or provide an alternative?
Mailchimp allows you to send more mails (12000) to more subscribers (2000) than mailjet on free account. I checked very shortly just to estimate the need of my client.
Don’t know how long it would take to write some code to use Mailchimp API. Basically : subscribers db sync, and newsletter sending.
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philwareham wrote #279300:
I think MailChimps credits pricing would be your best route.
I never understood that one!
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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
My question Phil, if your client is using Mailchimp, is the newsletter content completely apart from his website ?
Or does he pull the content manually from the website to include it in the layout provided by Mailchimp ?
Excuse all my stupid questions, i’m just trying to figure out how to make things easy for my client.
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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
We created a template for clients within the MailChimp system – it’s separate from the CMS, they create content that points back to articles on their Textpattern sites. Fairly simple but it works well for them.
I have another client that does have complete CMS integration of user accounts into the mail sender, but that is a Drupal to Exact Target integration and it’s big money they spend. They do have 1.4 million subscribers though.
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Thanks Phil
philwareham wrote #279313:
We created a template for clients within the MailChimp system – it’s separate from the CMS, they create content that points back to articles on their Textpattern sites. Fairly simple but it works well for them.
So they just copy/paste the permanent url of their content into the template.
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Re: getting newsletter to subscribers
Yep
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