I have no experience with MailChimp or ExactTarget, but I bought a copy of Admin Pro Tools Mail List Manager a number of years back. It was a complete waste of money (we ran it for about 1 week), and their support was non-existent. I would certainly steer well clear of that.
/.02 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Jason Fisher <ja...@wanax.com> wrote: > > If you're doing large volumes, I recommend ExactTarget. CF can't > actually manage things like bounce-backs, since that's all on the email > server-side. You could write all those hooks yourself, if your email > server allows you to embed applications, but it's more efficient to let > the pro's handle it for you, at least in my experience. Subscriptions > you can certainly do with CF, but you can just as easily have your CF > subscription system write back to ExactTarget when necessary, so they're > not exclusive, depending on your needs. > > > On 7/21/2011 5:05 PM, Russ Michaels wrote: > > You really should look outside the coldfusion box on this one. > > take a look at www.mailchimp.com > > It is free for lists up to 500 users. > > It has an API and is pretty easy to integrate with and also has a > > Gmail/Google Apps plugin. > > > > I'm sure many others will back me up on how good Mailchimp is. > > > > > > -- > > > > Russ Michaels > > > > www.bluethunderinternet.com : Business hosting services& solutions > > www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion developer community > > www.michaels.me.uk : my blog > > www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine > > ** > > *skype me* : russmichaels > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
