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
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