Amazon SES, The ultimate mailing system? (11)
Lately I've seen a lot of spam traffic the managed to come to my inbox for amazonses service, meaning they have good deliverability.
I checked it out and it seems they have their own platform for sending email which is quite cheap - 0.10 cent for a 1,000 email's sent.
Did anyone tried them? What is your thoughts about them? I
They are great.
I use them for my my "legit" business.. sending newsletters and allowing members to retreive passwords etc..
between SES and Sendy.co, it's more than enough for what I need, it may not be enough for a full time email marketer though!..
we decided to go with mandrill over ses for transactional emails for our web app, but if anyone can confirm like amazon deliverability blows mandrill out of the water would be happy to switch.
Wondering myself, currently I'm using Get Response and I know I'm paying a lot but for me it's the deliverability that matters so if it proves that Amazon SES is the way I might go there.
I'll run a test campaign there I think and see how it performs.
It's worth a test. We used to use Mandrill for users to collect account info, but moved.
Deliverability is good, probably better imo, but I hate anything linked to mailchimp, so I am biased lol
Depending on your volume, and what you need admin wise for creating campaigns etc.. If you have a reasonably basic set up, sendy.co and SES is the cheapest and most reliable way to go, and I've tested most the "well known" solutions out there..
But even without Sendy, Amazon SES is cheap as chips and solid for sends.
Amazon SES with Sendy is solid, just a little challenging to keep an account open. They explained that "sending third party promotions is a use case that Amazon SES does not allow." I do know people that have had (and are continuing to have) success with the platform so it might have just been another unknown variable that resulted in the account closure.
Also, be sure to watch your bounces and complaints as they raise your ceiling caps.
I'm testing amazon this week. I'll let you know how it goes.
We have 50k per day limit in EU, so we're ramping up 5 k a day to see what happens.
Been testing a few last week.
I was going to try elasticmail aswell, but their confirmation email landed in my gmail spam folder, so I decided not to bother.
Yeah we got shut down after 2-3 days.
deliverability wasn't too good, but it's cheap.
Good to know.
The reason I checked is because I got spam emails slipping into my gmail from SES.
Good to know.
I have been blocked on ses... several times... but.. was able to get capacity up to a million.
(Generally it would take us a month or two to get shut down)
They just don't like affiliate marketing.
We kept offers on the website page... no third party links in the emails.
The links would come to a page on the domain the mail goes out on. if the subscriber was interested they could click through.
We had .05 percent and less, bounces... complaints could go as high as .08 percent as well.
But, they shut us down account after account.
And, yeah we used sendy.
Has anyone else had a better experience sending offers via amazon?
I would love to find a way to mail on them, and build a couple of brands.
Thanks
Tried Amazon SES with Sendy in the past. Got shut down after the first mail while I was pushing a legit offer to my own list.
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