Email Marketing Help

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Romanorc, Jan 23, 2009.

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    I have a list of people that I want to send an email to via a service. I want a free trial service if at all possible that will allow me to import the list using excel.

    Anyone know of such a service?
     
    Romanorc, Jan 23, 2009 IP
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    They only allow you to import 100 people during the trial, I have a couple of thousand.

    I appreciate your input.
     
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    You've got 3 options.

    1st option is the one the 1st poster explained a free trail service with a limited amount of e-mails. They services are great if your starting your list building because if you import a large junk list your pretty much done working with them


    2nd option is find a real ESP (email service provider) there are lot's around email direct, yes mail. All these services are great if your list is top notch, by that I mean real high quality and real responsive. Most of these type's are services are expensive and only worth it if you send a large volume to make up your difference in cost...... 5k+ a month minimum.


    3rd option and my favorite is do it all yourself, what you'll need is a custom database, front end interface, mailing software system (port 25) is the standard it's enterprise level, and get at least 1 class C of Ips to mail on. How much will this cost you say? Well the database / front end depending on program time and skill set should be 1 - 2 months x a real good programmers pay. Class C ip's are about 1k a month these days. The port 25 software you'll have to check out there website.

    Oh I forgot you'll need a few top notch servers to run all of this on. This is what real email marketers use at the higher level's.


    Hope this helps you out.
     
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