On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Steve Atkins <st...@blighty.com> wrote:
> > > 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? > YES, this, exactly what Steve said. ^^^^ This is a large problem for ESPs that cater to small/micro businesses. I'll admit there are a good portion of our customers using freewebmail domains that would benefit from an upsell and purchase their own domain if we offered it through a partnership, but for everyone of those theres the local PTA and the Brownie troop, or soccer club. The person setting up a mailling list isn't given an address at the brownies domain or the local schools domain. So there really are a LOT of folks sending from @freewebmail domains still. Tara Natanson Constant Contact
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