1. Alan O'Rourke

    MD at Spoiltchild

    31 May 2007 15:51pm

    Alan O'Rourke

    Anyone know of an automated serialised email newsletter app?
    I found one that deals with RSS but not email. http://www.feedcycle.com/
    I am looking to set up a "weekly tip" service for a particular product of ours. It would have 2 years of tips (104 tips/weeks). It needs to be able to handle unsubscribes and if possible an api to add new subscribers.
    Does such a thing exist or will i have to get it built?

    Thanks,
    Alan

  2. Denis Kondopoulos

    Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com

    31 May 2007 19:54pm

    Denis Kondopoulos

    We have a system that can do what you want.    See the knowledge base to get answers to your questions (http://emarketingkb.naxtech.com)  or see the following address for a simple tutorial: http://emarketingkb.naxtech.com/idx/61/090/article/

    regards,

    Denis
    Naxtech.com

  3. Tony Addison Silver

    Managing Director at Free Rein Ltd

    01 June 2007 09:54am

    Tony Addison

    Hi Alan

    There are a lot of them out there. Some a simple and give you basic control.  Other such as ours gives you far more flexibility and control but may be too much for what you have in mind.

    Take a look at the website www.free-rein.net and see if we are in the right area for you now and your future plans. Contact details are all their.

    We are a small company (means you speak directly to people) but have a lot of high profile clients.

    Regards

    Tony Addison

  4. Kaya PPC

    Internet Marketing Manager at Optimised Media

    01 June 2007 14:21pm

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    Hi Alan,

    I would suggest Aweber . They seem to offer the best service and lots of features at reasonable cost. I tried lots of free solutions before choosing this service but none of them lived up to my expectations. I think they have a free trial on at the moment so have a look. http://www.aweber.com/?220034. I believe the type of service you are looking for is also known as "evergreen autoresponders" so if you havent searched for that term yet its also worth a try.

    Hope that helps

    Kaya

    London Online Marketing

  5. dan barker

    E-Business Consultant at Dan Barker

    01 June 2007 17:40pm

    dan barker

    One simple way of doing it is:

    1. set up a wordpress blog
    2. use feedburner to manage the RSS & send out emails each time the blog is updated
    3. load up your posts for the next 2 years using the wordpress 'timestamp' feature
    Feedburner automatically manages subscribes/unsubscribes & makes the feed available via both RSS & email.

    Hope that helps!

    daniel

  6. Alan O'Rourke

    MD at Spoiltchild

    01 June 2007 19:02pm

    Alan O'Rourke

    >wordpress + Feedburner<
    Clever, I love it :)

    Thanks for all the replies guys i will check out the links over the weekend.

    Alan

  7. Sarah Alder Silver

    Managing Director at Cranmore Digital Consulting Ltd

    04 June 2007 08:44am

    Sarah Alder

    You could look at awebercom. It was recommended to me and seems good. I am currently setting up a campaign on it but it hasn't gone live yet.

  8. Kate Gowers Platinum

    Principal Digital Consultant at OgilvyOne

    05 June 2007 11:17am

    Kate Gowers

    Our digital marketing platform, Traction (www.tractionplatform) allows you to set up a recurring email broadcast which automatically updates the mailing list to exclude anyone who has unsubscribed since the last email newsletter was sent out.

    Traction also allows you to set up a template for this email newsletter which could grab content from an RSS feed, thereby allowing you to update the email content from a location external (eg your CMS) to our platform if you wanted.

    Our platform will automatically manage unsubscribes and has a number of APIs including one to add customers (eg from a web registration form) 

    Given your tip service, you may also be interested to know that within the same platform, Traction can set up SMS alerts triggered by RSS feed updates and emails can be triggered when customers meet certain criteria (eg. a week after registering, 3 days after having clicked on a link in an email).

    Happy to discuss furthe if you think it beneficial.


    On 15:51:56 31 May 2007 AlanORourke wrote:

    Anyone know of an automated serialised email newsletter app?
    I found one that deals with RSS but not email. http://www.feedcycle.com/
    I am looking to set up a "weekly tip" service for a particular product of ours. It would have 2 years of tips (104 tips/weeks). It needs to be able to handle unsubscribes and if possible an api to add new subscribers.
    Does such a thing exist or will i have to get it built?

    Thanks,
    Alan

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