{"id":155,"date":"2014-04-12T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/email-marketing-systems\/"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:11:11","slug":"email-marketing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/email-marketing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Marketing Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been testing out email marketing systems for ages. And as I test there are even more new ones coming on to the market.<\/p>\n<p>My focus was on having a robust reliable system with no advertising, easy to use (I want to delegate the task eventually to someone else), and above all low cost \u2013 it may be my Scottish heritage coming out but I love to get the best deal\u00a0I can!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve tried:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GroupMail \u2013 probably my first attempt outside of using Outlook. It has a free version but it\u2019s limited to 100 and its free version limitations annoyed me after a while. I wasn\u2019t persuaded to buy their upgrades because of the nuisance value but I know people who use it and love it.<\/li>\n<li>Campaign Monitor \u2013 I love the work these guys produce and it is a great standard pricing model but I found it was too techie for me\u00a0<!--more--> to be able to delegate the email marketing to a novice later. A lot of people use CM (links are \u2018createandsend\u2019) without realising it because they are using a reseller version through a web developer or similar. It works well if someone else does the back end for you. I just didn&#8217;t devote enough time to setting up templates for myself etc.<\/li>\n<li>Interspire \u2013 again, these guys do great stuff and they have both an online and a self-install system. I shied away from the self-install job again because I want to simplify and automate things as much as possible and the online version wasn\u2019t as competitively priced<\/li>\n<li>Mailchimp \u2013 I was an early adopter of MailChimp and they were fast and streamlined. For me now though they seem to have become less easy and flexible. I couldn\u2019t find a way to just send plain-text autoresponders for example. I\u2019m still using MailChimp because they have a good free version \u2013 I\u2019m just not sure I\u2019ll go with them for my volume mailings<\/li>\n<li>Constant Contact \u2013 a great reliable system and one of the early email marketing companies. Just not price competitive enough for me<\/li>\n<li>YourMailingListProvider\u00a0 seems promising but I didn\u2019t really give them a red hot go. Since I first looked at them thought they have become more professional<\/li>\n<li>VerticalResponse\u00a0 I liked them, I really did but I had trouble getting access to my account and couldn&#8217;t resolve it. I don&#8217;t think I\u2019m even on their mailing list anymore!<\/li>\n<li>iContact \u2013 I signed up with these guys recently for a 12-month package at a really good price. What I like about them is the simple interface\u00a0 I can train a monkey (sorry, MailChimp) how to use their system and I can do either text or html for broadcasts or autoresponders. I\u2019d like an easier way to access support but following their tutorials pointed out a couple of things that made life easier. Not as intuitive as you think (like a lot of them) but works when you know how!<\/li>\n<li>PHPList \u2013 I avoided self-install packages as I said even though this was a free and respected one (feel free to go this route if you\u2019ve got a techie bent and time). Today I just noted that they have a beta-test version of a hosted solution. Best part is there is a free version and their upgrade plans are very competitive. One to watch as it rolls out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been testing out email marketing systems for ages. And as I test there are even more new ones coming on to the market. My focus was on having a robust reliable system with no advertising, easy to use (I want to delegate the task eventually to someone else), and above all low cost \u2013&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/email-marketing-systems\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Email Marketing Systems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoresponders","tag-email-marketing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-2v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}