Comments on: Is Your Email Getting Through?

By: email archiving

email archiving — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:23:12 +0000

While we are discussing about topics relevant to Is Your Email Getting Through? | SE Conspiracy, Making use of your host’s mailing list software system has the advantage that it’s free of charge (or rather, you will have already paid for it as part of your web hosting service package) and it’s (normally) advert-free (for example, no adverts are included). Depending on the software program your host uses, you also have pretty decent control over the list: you can include subscribers, remove them, block certain subscribers, change the verification messages, and so on. On top of that, the automatic system also frees you from the task of physically including and removing subscribers.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:01:44 +0000

Give in to them run your own server, but send your outgoing emails to gmail using their pop3 option. You can set your reply to address. Or failing that- route them out (eg only gmail yahoo destinations) via gmail. The email system will only be for spammers soon, its becoming unuseable for business now.

By: puravida

puravida — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:05:04 +0000

Oh wow! Thanks for your comment, Erica.

I did not know about ESPs… That does sound like a very probable solution for my problem. I will have to look into them now.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Brandon

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:00:09 +0000

This is a very good post with some very good suggestions. But, I would suggest allowing email campaign management providers, or ESPs, to do a lot of this work for you. You mentioned Constant Contact, which I believe charges per email sent, and you mentioned that would be a little pricey due to your large subscriber list. However, there are ESPs out there that don’t charge per email sent, but charge monthly without a limit on emails that can be sent.

ESPs take extra care to ensure their high deliverability rates, so you don’t have to fool around with a lot of the coding and authentication issues that ESPs can do for you. However, with ESPs, you get what you pay for. If you use a free ESP, then you will usually have much lower deliverability, as spammers may also use these free services so the ESP does not have a very good reputation with the ISPs.

I would suggest using MailChimp, Listrak, or emailBrain for your campaigns. Like, I said, they may be a little more then you would like to pay, but if you are running a legit email campaign, you’ll get what you pay for: high deliverability rates with little work on your part.

Great post! Thanks!

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Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:42:22 +0000

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