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12-19-2011 12:31 PM #1 richardj (Member)
Best Email Marketing Platform?

From everyone's experience here which is the best email marketing platform for a small business?

I'm looking for super fast activation email sends no matter how much volume you are doing and almost zero downtime...

We did use a company called Pure360 and they weren't very good!

12-19-2011 01:44 PM #2 tijn (Moderator)

Hey

there are a bunch out there.

how much volume are you talking about?

If its non affiliate / make money online -> mailchimp is awesome

Otherwise checkout:

aweber
icontact
getresponse

icontact seemed to cope best with high volume mailing when using a API to add contacts.

Tijn

12-19-2011 02:44 PM #3 richardj (Member)

Thanks!

At most we are talking about 100,000 per month.

iContact sounds the best from what you said as we do add contacts using API.

12-19-2011 05:53 PM #4 brodgers (Member)

Interspire + Amazon SESw/new SMTP functionality = Win

12-20-2011 12:55 AM #5 shermanchoo (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by tijn View Post
Hey

there are a bunch out there.

how much volume are you talking about?

If its non affiliate / make money online -> mailchimp is awesome

Otherwise checkout:

aweber
icontact
getresponse

icontact seemed to cope best with high volume mailing when using a API to add contacts.

Tijn
other providers i tested, the emails, even the confirmation opt in message
went to the spam folder of hotmail or gmail.

im on getresponse and aweber.
i recalled signing up hotmail and gmail accounts to test emails
sent from both of them.

both were delivered to inbox.

with aweber, the cost racks up fast, especially if a list is 100,000 ++
so its best to do double opt in, so the list is clean.

12-20-2011 02:28 PM #6 tijn (Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by brodgers View Post
Interspire + Amazon SESw/new SMTP functionality = Win
Do they now properly support SES? I looked at it a couple of months ago and it didnt really support SES.

12-20-2011 02:32 PM #7 brodgers (Member)

Yup, got the email a few days ago and now you can set your smtp to tls://email-smtp-server.Amazon.com.

I sent out test messages and work like a charm. Way easier to integrate than using the API. still need to create smtp credentials, confirm the email you're sending from and ramp up production volume slowly but IMO its the best solution by far on the market now.!

12-20-2011 02:50 PM #8 tijn (Moderator)

cool! it should help prevent your IP from getting blacklisted as well?

12-20-2011 04:02 PM #9 brodgers (Member)

Amazon handles all deliverability issues. IP rep etc etc. And the cost per thousand emails is unbeatable

12-20-2011 05:25 PM #10 cashdoctor (Member)

I do a lot of emails (relative I guess) 5k per day. I use TheBat Autoresponder and looking for an economical solution. Is the Amazon solution something that would work for me? I don't receive complaints but was recently blocked by hotmail which I believe is from volume. My 1 domain name emailing 1000 hotmails per day. Hope I did not Hijack thread. Thanks for info.

12-20-2011 06:10 PM #11 brodgers (Member)

Amazon's SES service is like the rest of their services. They aggressively build out a huge infrastructure, and then charge you a fraction of what it would cost to do it yourself. They manage reputation, IP blacklisting, all complaints, etc. The solution proposed here would probably be ideal for your setup or most other setups for that matter. 10 cents for 1000 emails pretty much guaranteed delivered is lower than you'll find anywhere else

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