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Emailing clients from my local desktop

by Joseph Then
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I have a database of clients, amounting to about 300+ and I want to email them updates of my business.

However, I don't want to use any of the online services like AWeber, Getresponse, etc. because they will require my list to double-confirm the email. This will make me lose a lost of contacts. They are not spam because they ARE my clients and I have already worked with them.

Thus, I would want to try emailing them from my local desktop. However, I understand that there will be issues too because emailing too much will cause a spam-trigger.

Questions:
1) How do you email your clients using local desktop?
2) Is there a software/services that I can use to email my clients locally?
3) Is there a autoresponder service that allows me to import without double-optin?
#clients #desktop #emailing #local
  • Profile picture of the author David Keith
    300 contacts is not many to get to double optin if you already have a working relationship with them. import the names to an autoresponder service and then contact each one individually if they don't confirm the optin.

    you other solution would be to use a self hosted autoresponder script to send the emails from your web server hosting account.
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  • Profile picture of the author mgreener
    Hi,

    First, if they are your clients, then you can just email them in batches through outlook, mail or whatever you use.

    Yes, there are mass sender softwares, but unless you want to go through a lot of hassle of setting up ips, proxies and all kinds of junk to get your email delivered, then it's not worth the hassle.

    Host Then Profits will let you import without a double optin I believe: Host Then Profit - Powerful Business Tools & Hosting GVO Host Then Profits
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  • Profile picture of the author AndersonGray
    If you will send these from your desktop, then these will be sent to spam folder. better is to use any software to send those emails. There are many good email sending software available on the internet.
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  • Profile picture of the author mindreaderwriter
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    Hi Joseph,

    As our fellow Warrior said, you can use MS Outlook. A collection of 300 email addresses isn't big at all. If you find it painstaking to send out emails manually, you can purchase some tools from the internet so you'll just have to enter the email addresses and the software will change the name of the recipient according to what you entered into the database. That's your first option. Second option would be hiring a VA from freelancing sites or from this forum. You can outsource the job either on a fixed or hourly rate. You can try Odesk for their hourly-rate projects so you can see exactly what the worker is working.

    Just my two cents.
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    • Profile picture of the author JackieGold
      Originally Posted by mindreaderwriter View Post

      Hi Joseph,

      As our fellow Warrior said, you can use MS Outlook. A collection of 300 email addresses isn't big at all. If you find it painstaking to send out emails manually, you can purchase some tools from the internet so you'll just have to enter the email addresses and the software will change the name of the recipient according to what you entered into the database. That's your first option.
      You don't need to buy any additional software - you can just use the Mail Merge functionality in Word/Outlook.

      I have had several personal and business lists of comparable size and had no problems with this method. Just remember that you are not CAN-SPAM compliant.
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      • Profile picture of the author Daniel Thompson
        My personal webmail service mails up to twenty email addresses at a time.

        Put your 300 emails into 15 groups of 20 and mail them one after the other. In less than 20 minutes they're all done.

        You can even do this with Gmail accounts.

        Daniel Thompson

        PS: But the best idea is to eventually get them into a typical auto-responder. Time is worth more than an AR.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dean Dhuli
    I think Outlook is good for what you want to do.

    You should send the mailing out in batches, spaced out evenly
    over the period of a few days.

    This should hopefully help you get around the spam problem.


    Take care,
    Dean.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Then
    Thanks for the replies. I know of the solutions that you are giving but we have problems sending emails to our clients, because our emails usually ended up in their spam or bulk folder.

    It may have to do with our domain name, which have spam trigger words. (No no no, it's real legitimate business!)

    That's why I'm looking at reliable mail servers, or auto-responders to email our newsletters.

    Any solutions?
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