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Email questions

by rugman
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I have a realtor that also owns a cleaning company. He wants to send out emails to all the agents in the local MLS with a link to a video about his service. He can pull them from the MLS but needs a service that he can upload them to and send out the emails. This will not be an opted in list but it will be from a fellow realtor so will get opened.
Any service for this?
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  • Profile picture of the author kebertt
    Sending out lists that aren't opt-in can be tricky - you have to be sure that the list is cleaned well.

    1) Set up your own SMTP Email server

    2) Pay a bit more, and have a company send out your campaigns for you via their hosted server. I've used PhpList in the past and had great results. https://www.phplist.com/hosted
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    The other option is for him to send it from his own PC - his provider said they would flag for spam if he sends all 2K at once. I told him maybe do 100 at a time over a few days?
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    • Profile picture of the author kebertt
      Originally Posted by rugman View Post

      The other option is for him to send it from his own PC - his provider said they would flag for spam if he sends all 2K at once. I told him maybe do 100 at a time over a few days?
      You'd need to limit the amount of messages per hour - I know that Gmail allows 400/day per account, and that's a free service.

      In reality, 2000 emails shouldn't be too much of an issue over the course of a few days. Most SMTP's can only handle 4-5K a day.

      Keep in mind though, that in order to get the best results you should have someone who knows what they're doing to manage the campaign. Email marketing can be difficult; monitor, track, test. No sense in sending 2000 messages if they all get trapped in spam.
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      • Profile picture of the author rugman
        Originally Posted by kebertt View Post

        You'd need to limit the amount of messages per hour - I know that Gmail allows 400/day per account, and that's a free service.

        In reality, 2000 emails shouldn't be too much of an issue over the course of a few days. Most SMTP's can only handle 4-5K a day.

        Keep in mind though, that in order to get the best results you should have someone who knows what they're doing to manage the campaign. Email marketing can be difficult; monitor, track, test. No sense in sending 2000 messages if they all get trapped in spam.
        Spam on the receiving end shouldn't be an issue - he is a realtor and will be sending to realtors and somehow I think he is already in their inboxes.
        I wouldn't call this a campaign really - he wants to dive them to a series of short youtube vids on his service.
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  • Profile picture of the author kellyyarnsbro
    Originally Posted by rugman View Post

    I have a realtor that also owns a cleaning company. He wants to send out emails to all the agents in the local MLS with a link to a video about his service. He can pull them from the MLS but needs a service that he can upload them to and send out the emails. This will not be an opted in list but it will be from a fellow realtor so will get opened.
    Any service for this?
    Where is you friend from? I have a list of realtors with their email address, it was about 3000 in that list.
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    • Profile picture of the author rugman
      Originally Posted by kellyyarnsbro View Post

      Where is you friend from? I have a list of realtors with their email address, it was about 3000 in that list.
      NY - he has the addresses already.
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