Constant Contact Email

[POS Racing]

Do any of you kids use constant contact for Email Marketing??

http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp

Is it a decent way to go? Easy to use? And so on and so forth.

[cleave]

Do any of you kids use constant contact for Email Marketing??

http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp

Is it a decent way to go? Easy to use? And so on and so forth.

I prefer http://mailchimp.com/. If you have less than 2,000 people on your list and send out less than 12,000 emails a month, it's free. And, their RSS-to-email integration is sweet and I haven't seen others offer it. You can set up autoresponders. They are also in constant development and have lots of third party integration built in: twitter, facebook, highrise, eventbrite, etc.

I did a Constant Contact (and a few others) free trial a while ago and decided to go with MailChimp. Haven't thought about switching yet.

[cleave]

Easy to use? And so on and so forth.

On this note, because of the way different email services parse code, none of the email marketing things I tried were super-easy to use. It's not as simple as posting on a forum, for sure, but it isn't a bunch of techno-nerd-speak either. You should be able to figure it out once you learn the system.

If you use it correctly, email marketing can be very lucrative, and it's worth the effort to learn how to do it well.

[cleave]

Once more thing, MailChimp has more of a dfwmiata.com-friendly attitude. The guys at the pointy board probably use something like Constant Contact.

[POS Racing]

Thanks cleave! I appreciate your insight.

[goofygrin]

I've had the same experience with both the tools cleave mentions.