[consulting] What do you use for your email newsletters?

[Scott Trudeau]

I like CampaignMonitor.  Similar to MailChimp.

Scott

On Feb 4, 2008 7:40 AM, Tim Deeson <timd at deeson.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Chris
>
> I'm of much the same opinion, there's more to running large scale mass
> email systems then just managing subscriptions and pumping emails into
> Sendmail.
>
> We've been using Drupal to manage and generate the HTML and the issues
> etc and then using MailChimp to do the actual emailing. We've embedded
> MailChimp subscribe and unsubscribe etc into the template.
>
> This has given us a CMS for non-techie staff to manage the newsletters
> without getting into all the complicated deliverability issues. I
> don't see that we can address the deliverability issues at a price
> that makes sense compared to MailChimp's (for example) rates.
>
> We also use their InBox Inspector (email program HTML proofer) and
> statistics which could be replicated but at their prices why re-invent
> the wheel?
>
> An example of this is www.green-places.co.uk (demonstrates principle
> although doesn't use MailChimp). This site was created specifically to
> house and manage an email newsletter.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
> www.deeson.co.uk/emedia/
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm new to this list so please forgive if this has been addressed
> > before.
> >
> > I often get requests from clients for email newsletter facilities, and
> > i know Drupal has a module that handles this, but I've usually chosen
> > a third party solution like Mailbuild, or Mailchimp over it though.
> > I'm doing this because there seems to be way more to email marketing
> > than simply bolting a module onto a Drupal install, and I don't have
> > the resources to track white lists and spam filtering, and all the
> > other niggly things about sending bulk emails.
> >
> > Well, those are the reasons the third party solutions give in their
> > sales pitch anyway!
> >
> > Has anyone here had good/bad experiences with providing Drupal-related
> > newsletter services to clients here they would be prepared to share?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
>
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