> On 9 Oct 2008 at 10:54, D. Barboza wrote:
>
>> (4) Does someone knows how to send monthly e-newsletters to more
>> than 300 recipients without the hasle of been blocked as spammer? I
>> need some help on this also because we need to re-design our web
>> page and include a monthly e-Newsletter.
>
> My son who was trying to promote his business as a yoga teacher
> used the following organisation
>
> http://www.streamsend.com/
>
> It handles subscriptions to a mailing list for him and got round the
> problem you have with being accused of spamming.
>
> There are probably other such organisations.
>
> Tony
Actually, there are many, many such organizations. Some will do well
for their clients, some won't. Upfront research is key to choosing the
right one.
Because I know how many of these companies do things, and the DMA even
condones it in some ways, I decided to offer the following as an FYI
only! There are NO accusations should be felt from this:
Many of them miss one key point I'd like to point out:
If I signed up with YOU for a newsletter subscription, and we had a
great relationship, that does not mean YOUR list could be used by your
friend for a similar business, no matter how closely it matched the
reasons I signed up with YOU.
E.G. when I sign up for JoeNews.com's newsletter via a legit
confirmation process I receive those newsletters I'm quite happy. But
if you go out of business or give my address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], even though its the same sort of info I
was getting from you, that is still spam coming from tim.com because I
NEVER opted into any newsletters from him. YOU are the only one allowed
to send me newsletters, no one else is. So anyone else using your mail
list or parts of it, are going to be sending out spam with it, and will
be reported as spam.
Worse, if I discover you are the one who gave tim.com my email
address, I'll also include your upstreams and horizontals in the
complaints as probably a list-seller. The way I do that is to have
created a special e-mail just to receive your newsletters. Since you
are the only one that address was ever given to, anything else is spam.
And by reference could lead right back to you.
Actually, I would advise against such companies, mostly because you lose
full control over your processes. A 300-address newsletter each month
isn't that complex to manage. I would not and do not allow any third
party to come anywhere near my newsletter mailings because I have
promised my clients no other party will ever have access of any kind to
their addresses. You can't do that when you're using someone else,
especially IPs that aren't yours, etc..
But, that's just my opinion, nothing more, nothing less. I wouldn't say
it's wrong to use a 3rd party like that, I'm just saying I wouldn't, and
why I wouldn't.
Twayne
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