On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Mar 23, 2016, at 10:03 PM, Dave Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2016-03-23 16:32, Franck Martin via mailop wrote: > >> In fact, these providers offer OAUTH2 to allow you to send as using > their infrastructure, and if you have bigger needs, many domains are going > cheap at the moment... > >> > >> Not ideal, but some options... > >> > > > > Are there really that many customers using freemail domains, yet paying > for ESP services? For realsies? And if so, wouldn't this be an obvious > upsell opportunity or partnership to get these customers using their own > domain? > > There are a lot of small businesses that use yahoo, aol, gmail email > addresses as their primary contact and as part of their branding and have > done so for years. It's on their business cards, on their stationary and on > their vehicles. Some have mailing lists and those that don't are potential > customers for Constant Contact or MailChimp. > > Upselling them to their own domain would likely be more disruption to > their business practices as you changing everything from hireahit.com to > purpleaardvark.com, and that's likely more work for them than the > benefit. And from the ESP point of view - do you really want to be > supporting a crappy webmail system at a loss? > > Cheers, > Steve > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop >
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