Having used both MailChimp and CampaignMonitor, +1 for CampaignMonitor. Kind regards, Keri Henare --------------------------------------------------- [e] [email protected] [w] kerihenare.com [m] (+64) 021 874 552
PLEASE NOTE: I check my email 3 times per day and will respond at these intervals. For anything urgent please ring me. --------------------------------------------------- On 9/07/2010, at 1:42 PM, Craig Boxall wrote: > +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] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
