+1 for CampaignMonitor * It is far easier to use by a non-techie person than MailChimp. * The API is well documented and implemented. * You can brand it with your own logo if you need clients to login and use it. * Can do what Nigel mentioned below.
Check out http://www.campaignmonitor.com/api for more info on the API and what it can do. +0.5 for MailChimp. Its a great product but far too confusing for non-techies. We have a few clients that use it and they are constantly on the phone to us asking for help with the UI. Cheers Craig On 9/07/2010, at 1:35 PM, Nigel Hulls wrote: > +1 for mailchimp, with their api you can generate and send emails from within > your app without having to manually login to their website. > > Have yet to have any mail delivery problems with them yet, always seems to > get through to hotmail, gmail and yahoo. > > On 9 July 2010 13:07, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > We've done alot of work with email marketing services. The setup of the > server is vitally important as there are so many hidden things in the way > they are configured that can automatically break the game at the client end > if their spam filters do reverse checking on the source server. This is the > benefit of paid services like Mailchimp. The servers are configured by > specialists for optimum delivery. If you plan on doing this yourself, you > want to allow for some research in how this all works. If the server isn't > setup right, it won't matter how your code works, or what your content is, > you won't even get that far. > > The way around this is to use your own software in a normal hosting > environment, and set it up to use an external SMTP service. Best of both > worlds so to speak. www.smtp.com is a good place to start to get an idea of > the cost of such a service. > > As for the software, I've had alot of experience with Email Marketer from > Interspire.http://www.interspire.com/emailmarketer/. My experience with it > and the company is both good and bad. Their licensing changes in the past > have been very ugly, and at one stage they were removing complaint after > complaint from their forums and even banned some users for hearsay. Haven't > upgraded or been there for a while so not sure now. The product is fairly > good. The original was great. Some of the upgrades have been a little buggy > however and some users have chosen not to upgrade. My last look at them was > about a year ago, so a trial might be worth a shot. The software will > certainly do everything you have listed and then some. There was even talk of > SMS messaging at one stage. > > Aaron > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Olwen Williams > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:55 AM > Subject: [phpug] Mailing List Software > > I tried to send this from my gmail account but maybe I messed up the > subscription there because it never made it. > > One of my customers has a need for some versatile mailing list software that > has several features. > > Must allow customers to come from a number of sources (I can push them into a > database from my sources) > Must allow customers to subscribe/unsubscribe > Customers must be able to select different emails that they will get > Preferably has some reasonably comprehensive survey components > Easy interface for entering emails. > Emails sent in the back end (i.e. schedule them to be sent and it just > happens over a period of hours) > Some emails will be sent automatically when something triggers them. This > may come from several sources. > > They have a Joomla site, but they also have other software that supplies > leads. > > I've discussed it briefly with one developer who said he had had a 50% > failure rate sending to Xtra (falling into spam filters) and suggested that a > commercial service might be better. I'm prepared to consider that if it had > the flexibility for us to push our leads into it. > > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
