Folks in the wonderful world of Internet Marketing. Thinking about building a list for my wonderful forex site. Instead of doing aweber and getresponse, I am going to build an email list system, using php/mySQL ajax, and DHTML. I know a few of you use email marketing, and I was wondering if I should invest the time. Tom Howell The Forex Guy
Personally I feel that you are far better off just using iContact if you are going to be sending out newsletters, etc. Getting ISP's to trust you will take a long time and as a result most of your messages sent from an in-house program will simply end up in the spam folders/firewalls. Good luck either way though
Aweber is $19 a month to get started. Not cheap, but fair. Over time, you will manage to convert your leads into dollars, and like Gallito says, it is very important that your leads get your message (if interested buyers don't get your message, you will lose more than $19 a month!)
When you pay aweber or getresponse, you're not paying for a mailing service, you're paying for deliverability. They have people working to keep these emails from being filtered out by major isp servers.
From reading everybody's response to my thread so far, I would probably end up throwing into the marketing budget, service from aweber or getresponse. Thank you for your help! Tom Howell The Forex Guy
Forexguy, I want to go aweber myself because of the deliverability issue. I have thought about phplist. Check it out its free. Does anyone who has used aweber able to export the list and take it with them or are you stuck? If I can export the list then I will consider aweber!
* You can import and export * You can only import if the list is clean - they will verify where and how you got this list - they won't allow 'most' lists though. (just had a list of 30K rejected - websocials.com DB and optin...). * Deliverability rate is key quote: Personally I feel that you are far better off just using iContact if you are going to be sending out newsletters, etc. Getting ISP's to trust you will take a long time and as a result most of your messages sent from an in-house program will simply end up in the spam folders/firewalls. Good luck either way though ^^Bingo - it's not about the solution - it's where it is hosted, and what trust it has among all levels of the mid-big boys. I use to push a 130K newsletter - and another clients 70K - absolute nightmare if you use in-house systems. verticalresponse.com is amazing for big blasts but also very strict on quantifying your list. Back to deliverability though << That is your main key when you have big lists. Aweber is DA BOMB - You can setup (or I can setup - i heard they changed plans for newcomers...) unlimited web forms - I make 10 giveaways in popular sectors, get some SEO at them with a 'optin to win' - and a year later I have xx,xxx valuable prospects - takes time but the sooner you setup your 10 (or any number ) freebies your lists will grow quickly over the year. Think one year down the road now - you have 100K or close to it - of people you can email - imagine 98K got your offer no matter what?! Now imagine an in-house system - up to 40K max - and a HIGH chance that it will be your last sendout from that server/solution, as your domain and Ip and whatever else gets flagged and noticed as a bulk emailer... aweber baby. NC.
I was thinking about the list system, only because I just acquired a website contract for a local restaurant, and I was to build them an email system, which would be a small system, nothing as big as an internet marketing list, and I thought I could of replicated it for my needs. But from hearing deliverability and I have noticed that aweber never hits the bulk or junk filter on my mac. I will definitely push the aweber thing in the budget over the next few months, Thanks again for all of the suggestions everybody! Tom Howell The Forex Guy
I own a restaurant and use ConstantContact for my subscribers. Real simple and manageable for sending simple newsletters.