+1 for CampaignMonitor too. On 9 July 2010 03:00, Keri Henare <[email protected]> wrote:
> Having used both MailChimp and CampaignMonitor, +1 for CampaignMonitor. > > Kind regards, > Keri Henare > --------------------------------------------------- > [e] [email protected] > [w] kerihenare.com > [m] (+64) 021 874 552 > > PLEASE NOTE: I check my email 3 times per day and will respond at these > intervals. For anything urgent please ring me. > --------------------------------------------------- > > On 9/07/2010, at 1:42 PM, Craig Boxall 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 out http://www.campaignmonitor.com/api for 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.com is 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]<nzphpug%[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]<nzphpug%[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]<nzphpug%[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]<nzphpug%[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]<nzphpug%[email protected]> > -- Chris Toynbee | +44 (0) 794 404 2924 | Skype: ctoynbee https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTI4MDQ1ODk -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
