Have any of you tried Amazon SES for email? I paid to clean my list and then started using them. I can send out 20,000 emails for $2. Its so much cheaper. I do use a software program called Sendy in conjunction with Amazon which cost $50 (one time).
Just thought Id mention it, but its about 2% of the cost to send emails. Kelly > On Apr 3, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Rob Voyle <robvo...@voyle.com> wrote: > > > Hi Folks > > Robert details all the steps to keeping an email list "clean and valid". > Having done that in the past and for a list of 5000 addresses I would say it > is a > far better deal to go with one of the email newsletter companies. Having > tried > several I can highly recommend mailchimp http://mailchimp.com/ > > They offer several benefits. > > 1. They clean the bounced email and keep the list valid. (no programing to > write > and validate) > > 2. They have deals with ISPs to recognize their bulk email as legit. When I > was > doing that privately it was a headache to stay on top of all the ISP's spam > protections and have my server continually validated. (And if you are on a > shared server forget it as you will be vulnerable to all the other user's bad > practices and reputation) > > 3. The time saving was well worth the $s > > 4. If you do decide to use a provider check their rules about establishing > your > list. (some such as icontact will require you to do a new optin on your > already > established list, and then they will block anyone who does not "re-optin". > Those > address could then never be resubsbcribed even by their owner.) > > Rob > Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D. > Director, Clergy Leadership Institute > For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry > Author: Restoring Hope: Appreciative Strategies > to Resolve Grief and Resentment > http://www.appreciativeway.com/ > 503-647-2378 or 503-647-2382 > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:360366 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm