Problem with email list. Please, help!

14 years ago

Originally Posted by creative

Hi everyone!
We have recently set up a business.
We are 4 people and we have put together our emails lists, making a total of around 800 emails. We have collected these emails from clients who have hired our services.
I have created a Gmail account and have put those 800 emails as contacts. The problem is that Gmail only allows to send 500 emails a day, so I am sending half one day, half the next.
I wouldn't mind doing that, but for some reason many people are NOT receiving those emails, so it seems Gmail cannot handle so many emails in one go.
Another possibility would be to use an email account from my hosting (Hostgator), like info@mydomain.com buth they told me I can only send 500 at a time, to prevent spam!
Alright, so I thought Aweber would be the solution. Since I already have an account with them I could transfer all emails and create a new list. However, they require everyone to confirm their subscription. If we did that we would lose a lot of subscribers...

So Gmail, Hostgator and Aweber are not being very helpful...
Any suggestions anyone?

Here are a couple of solutions for you.

1. You can call Aweber and request that they get put in
without confirmation. They will want to know where they came
from, though they do do it.

2. Mail Chimp is another email provider like Aweber and I believe
they do not require confirmation.
(mention that you may have to move providers to Aweber)

Hope this helps

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Shaun OReilly

14 years ago

Originally Posted by creative

So Gmail, Hostgator and Aweber are not being very helpful...

Actually, GMail, HostGator and AWeber are being very
helpful... to protect the reputation and deliverability of
their e-mail sending servers.

You say that you'll 'lose subscribers' - but have these
people ever physically subscribed to join one of your
lists? If not, you don't have ANY subscribers - just a
collection of e-mail addresses of past and current
clients.

Dedicated to mutual success,

Shaun

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creative

14 years ago

Hello Shaun.
I understand what you are saying. They are trying to protect people from spam and that is very good.
The problem is when we collect email addresses from offline sources. I actually have a physical form which gets signed by my clients in which they write down their name and email address and they agree to be included in my list. This is how we do it here, in Spain to prevent legal problems.
Following Nathan's advice I have contacted Aweber and it seems I can import the list without the confirmation if they have already confirmed before through another source, which is great! I have answered a lot of questions and I am now waiting for their instructions.
Thanks everyone for your answers!!!

Originally Posted by Shaun OReilly

Actually, GMail, HostGator and AWeber are being very
helpful... to protect the reputation and deliverability of
their e-mail sending servers.

You say that you'll 'lose subscribers' - but have these
people ever physically subscribed to join one of your
lists? If not, you don't have ANY subscribers - just a
collection of e-mail addresses of past and current
clients.

Dedicated to mutual success,

Shaun

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Mark McCullough

14 years ago

The only thing email services are worried about is delivering spam. That being said, as suggested above, if you explain to them the nature of the list, they won't force you to re-opt in everyone. If they still insist on it, then find a different email provider. I've used a few that allowed me to import lists.

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creative

14 years ago

Well, Aweber is telling me that they don't have a way to verify that my subscribers actually opted to be in my list, so I guess I will have to find a different email provider...
Anyone knows of an email provider or a software or something that would allow me to import a list without reconfirming?
Thank you very much!!!

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Nathan2525

14 years ago

Originally Posted by creative

Well, Aweber is telling me that they don't have a way to verify that my subscribers actually opted to be in my list, so I guess I will have to find a different email provider...
Anyone knows of an email provider or a software of something that would allow me to import a list without reconfirming?
Thank you very much!!!

I did the same thing today...MailChimp

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creative 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Nathan2525

I did the same thing today...MailChimp

I've just been chatting to a MailChimp agent and I still have to reconfirm.
Any other suggestions, anyone?
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  creative 14 years ago
  
  Thanks Shaun!
  I'll try that one too!!!
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- Nathan2525 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by creative
  
  I've just been chatting to a MailChimp agent and I still have to reconfirm.
  Any other suggestions, anyone?
  
  Sorry about that. It was fine for me today.
  
  Strange?
  
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  creative 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Nathan2525
  
  Sorry about that. It was fine for me today.
  
  Strange?
  
  Don't worry...
  I have been chatting to icontact and it seems they don't have a problem with physical opt-ins so I'll just cancel my Aweber account and use icontact.
  Thanks!
  
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TopKat22

14 years ago

Before you cancel anything, wait and see how it works out with icontact.

If you haven't emailed to your list in a long time (or ever), they could consider this spam.

I have gone around and around with this with clients of mine and we used several services like icontact and constant contact and yes, they did allow us to upload the list, once a lot of those people started opting out, they closed the accounts.

We finally went back to aweber and this is what was done.

Using their existing email service, we sent out emails to some of the list everyday saying that we were changing our email services and that they would be receiving an email that stated confirmation required. We told them to please make sure they confirmed that email in order to stay on our list and for doing so, we are including a coupon for one free (something of value) for everyone who confirms.

yes, we still lost people, but not too many and I figured the ones that were lost probably would've never done anything anyway.

Good luck.

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creative

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TopKat22

Before you cancel anything, wait and see how it works out with icontact.

If you haven't emailed to your list in a long time (or ever), they could consider this spam.

I have gone around and around with this with clients of mine and we used several services like icontact and constant contact and yes, they did allow us to upload the list, once a lot of those people started opting out, they closed the accounts.

We finally went back to aweber and this is what was done.

Using their existing email service, we sent out emails to some of the list everyday saying that we were changing our email services and that they would be receiving an email that stated confirmation required. We told them to please make sure they confirmed that email in order to stay on our list and for doing so, we are including a coupon for one free (something of value) for everyone who confirms.

yes, we still lost people, but not too many and I figured the ones that were lost probably would've never done anything anyway.

Good luck.

Excellent advice!
Thanks a lot!

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mwashington

14 years ago

I have many suggestions. I am interested in helping you. Get in touch with me at help@manuelwashington.com and I'll get back.

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creative 14 years ago

Originally Posted by mwashington

I have many suggestions. I am interested in helping you. Get in touch with me at help@manuelwashington.com and I'll get back.

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