+1 for Mailchimp. although I'd have to agree *slightly* about the non-techie comment. Not so much a "techie" but just someone that might understand HTML would probably be better.
I use it for Amnesty NZ's emails (several a month!) and it is generally our comms team which drafts and sends. No tech skill amongst them, and there haven't been much tech queries to my technical team at all! :-) On Jul 9, 1:42 pm, Craig Boxall <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for CampaignMonitor > > * It is far easier to use by a non-techie person than MailChimp. > * The API is well documented and implemented. > * You can brand it with your own logo if you need clients to login and use it. > * Can do what Nigel mentioned below. > > Check outhttp://www.campaignmonitor.com/apifor more info on the API and what > it can do. > > +0.5 for MailChimp. Its a great product but far too confusing for > non-techies. We have a few clients that use it and they are constantly on the > phone to us asking for help with the UI. > > Cheers > Craig > > On 9/07/2010, at 1:35 PM, Nigel Hulls wrote: > > > +1 for mailchimp, with their api you can generate and send emails from > > within your app without having to manually login to their website. > > > Have yet to have any mail delivery problems with them yet, always seems to > > get through to hotmail, gmail and yahoo. > > > On 9 July 2010 13:07, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've done alot of work with email marketing services. The setup of the > > server is vitally important as there are so many hidden things in the way > > they are configured that can automatically break the game at the client end > > if their spam filters do reverse checking on the source server. This is the > > benefit of paid services like Mailchimp. The servers are configured by > > specialists for optimum delivery. If you plan on doing this yourself, you > > want to allow for some research in how this all works. If the server isn't > > setup right, it won't matter how your code works, or what your content is, > > you won't even get that far. > > > The way around this is to use your own software in a normal hosting > > environment, and set it up to use an external SMTP service. Best of both > > worlds so to speak.www.smtp.comis a good place to start to get an idea of > > the cost of such a service. > > > As for the software, I've had alot of experience with Email Marketer from > > Interspire.http://www.interspire.com/emailmarketer/. My experience with it > > and the company is both good and bad. Their licensing changes in the past > > have been very ugly, and at one stage they were removing complaint after > > complaint from their forums and even banned some users for hearsay. Haven't > > upgraded or been there for a while so not sure now. The product is fairly > > good. The original was great. Some of the upgrades have been a little buggy > > however and some users have chosen not to upgrade. My last look at them was > > about a year ago, so a trial might be worth a shot. The software will > > certainly do everything you have listed and then some. There was even talk > > of SMS messaging at one stage. > > > Aaron > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Olwen Williams > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:55 AM > > Subject: [phpug] Mailing List Software > > > I tried to send this from my gmail account but maybe I messed up the > > subscription there because it never made it. > > > One of my customers has a need for some versatile mailing list software > > that has several features. > > > Must allow customers to come from a number of sources (I can push them into > > a database from my sources) > > Must allow customers to subscribe/unsubscribe > > Customers must be able to select different emails that they will get > > Preferably has some reasonably comprehensive survey components > > Easy interface for entering emails. > > Emails sent in the back end (i.e. schedule them to be sent and it just > > happens over a period of hours) > > Some emails will be sent automatically when something triggers them. This > > may come from several sources. > > > They have a Joomla site, but they also have other software that supplies > > leads. > > > I've discussed it briefly with one developer who said he had had a 50% > > failure rate sending to Xtra (falling into spam filters) and suggested that > > a commercial service might be better. I'm prepared to consider that if it > > had the flexibility for us to push our leads into it. > > > -- > > NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected] > > > -- > > NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected] > > > -- > > NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
