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Suggest email list management service (besides aweber)

by Dan Allard
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I have a client who wants to change email management providers. He has a list of over 15,000 in the business measurements & roi niche. He needs to be able to import his existing list into a new service, looking for ease of use (receptionist has to be able to copy&paste content) as well as competitive rates. Any companies I should check out?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Griffin Smith
    Mail Chimp is pretty cool,,,
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  • Profile picture of the author MarlboroMonkey
    Mail chimp is nice, especially for price. My new favorite instead of aweber though is GetResponse. It has a great ui, tracking analytics and would be easy for his receptionist to fire off html newsletters with it's WYSIWYG input.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan Allard
      Originally Posted by MarlboroMonkey View Post

      Mail chimp is nice, especially for price. My new favorite instead of aweber though is GetResponse. It has a great ui, tracking analytics and would be easy for his receptionist to fire off html newsletters with it's WYSIWYG input.
      I guess I have some biases against mail-chimp (probably just from the feedback here at the forum). But I'll have to put them aside and take a look at what they have to offer. Thanks for your suggestions I'll check them both out.
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  • Profile picture of the author StuW
    The company I work for uses emailvision but in all honesty it isn't great and I think it's actually more expensive than Aweber.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Allard
    Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

    It's hard to know who to recommend without knowing why he wants to change.

    If he's baulking at the cost of Aweber (you mention competitive prices) then that implies to me he may not be making enough out of his list already.

    And what kind of features is he looking for (apart from the ones that he mentioned)? Every list provider has different features. For example, I've been using Imnica recently and you can even segment depending on the subscriber's cellphone!
    It's not the cost of Aweber it's just that he needs to be able to import his list into a new service. Aweber won't allow you to do that as far as I know.

    Cost isn't a big issue but I don't want to recommend some smaller company that's charging higher prices unless they can justify the extra spend. Seems like the big companies can give the best price as well as most features.

    He doesn't want to get too technical as of right now (i.e. list segmentation) but it would be great if the provider has those features so we can use them later on down the road (once he realizes how valuable his list is and decides to invest more).
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    • Profile picture of the author Janet Sawyer
      If cost is no option, I would suggest to your client that they look at renting their own vps or dedicated server and using arp4 autoresponder.

      Might just be the solution they are looking for.
      Arp4 last time I looked was $147 and free installation and two years free support.

      Dedicated server, depends on who you choose.
      Anything from $97 month upwards.




      Originally Posted by Dan Allard View Post

      It's not the cost of Aweber it's just that he needs to be able to import his list into a new service. Aweber won't allow you to do that as far as I know.

      Cost isn't a big issue but I don't want to recommend some smaller company that's charging higher prices unless they can justify the extra spend. Seems like the big companies can give the best price as well as most features.

      He doesn't want to get too technical as of right now (i.e. list segmentation) but it would be great if the provider has those features so we can use them later on down the road (once he realizes how valuable his list is and decides to invest more).
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  • Profile picture of the author wizzard74
    Aweber will allow you to import lists, however the killer is, aweber force the list to be opt-in so all of his subscribers will have to opt-in again.
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  • Profile picture of the author pinkmaddy
    If your client is corporate, you might consider importing his list into a powerful client management solution such as Salesforce and then using an email marketing service such as Vertical Response that integrates well with Salesforce.
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  • Profile picture of the author stoltingmediagroup
    Aweber has been the most reliable and trusted email provider for many years. The fact that others may let you cut and paste your entire address book into their new system without any questions, (and some don't care whether these email addresses opted in or not) is the reason why you open your email inbox in the morning and find all kinds of crap that you didn't subscribe to, and sometimes without any legit way to unsubscribe.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarlboroMonkey
      You bet Dan. From what I've seen a lot of the hate for mail chimp on these forums is because their TOS prohibits affiliate marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author JimDucharme
    Hi Dan,

    Just so you are aware. If your client wants to avoid having to re-confirm his list (sending out confirmation emails to subscribers) -- you can contact the GetResponse support people and our compliance team can test the list. If there are no problems, we will waive the confirmation emails. And yes, it's easy to import lists for a number of sources -- anyone can do it with a few clicks.

    Regards,
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    • Profile picture of the author InquisitiveMarketer
      I recall that iContact allowed me to import my list without requiring re-confirm emails. Maybe that would be a solution, too. My list was not huge, however.

      I have no complaints about iContact so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasssy23
    Do you guys think any of those are better than aweber?
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  • Profile picture of the author Valerio
    I got my mailchimp account shout because I was doing Affiliate Marketing on MY PRODUCTS. Stay away... they are so arrogant, they do not allow you to use their service for any affiliate activity but THEY have an affiliate program...

    Why don't you get your own software or script that could run with Amazon SES? With $1 you send 1,000 emails.

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  • Profile picture of the author Chronic IM
    Hello!

    I suggest you try Mail Chimp. It's pretty cool and easy to use. It has less hustle and really easy to work with. It makes your work so much more easier and really great. That's as far as I know. I hope that help aid your question. Good luck!

    Best of Luck!
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