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?
I would try Constant Contact (http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp). They have a 60 day free trial.
They only allow you to import 100 people during the trial, I have a couple of thousand. I appreciate your input.
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.