1. Tracy Rohan

    Director - Focalpoint at Web Development and Marketing

    15 January 2004 16:29pm

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    Hi,

    I am looking into providing email marketing campaigns for my clients. I have seen the plethora of online service providers. Can anyone provide a recommendation of one over another? Can you please provide approximate or range of costs per email for a 5,000 email broadcast and timeline for setting up such a campaign to email blast? Quality service, noSPAM and reputation or key. Really appreciate some feedback.
    Thanks,

    Tracy Rohan
    Completecents
    New Media Marketing Strategies

  2. Tony Addison

    Managing Director at InSourced Ltd

    16 January 2004 17:48pm

    Tony Addison

    Hi again Tracy

    Looking at all your posts, we cover pretty much all you need. The bonus is that the solutions are intended for you to use yourself rather than outsourcing to us and the consequent loss of control - but you don't need to develop new skills.

    Call me on Tuesday (or Tom Chevous on Monday) and I can walk you through what we do.

    One additional key difference is that all our solutions work together, so people involved in an SMS campaign can be tracked to web, email similarly and all is stamped back into a CRM database for the campaign (bouncebacks, automated response etc).

    One question though, how much on an eCommerce solution is involved and are all your scenarios linked to the same campaign?

    Regards

    Tony Addison
    InSourced Ltd
    0870 774 4462

  3. Pete Bresser

    Marketing Consultant at Green Link Consultancy

    19 January 2004 10:22am

    Pete Bresser

    As you say Tracy, there are plenty of online services for sending out email campaigns. As your list is fairly small, I'd recommend a service called Tuglet on www.tuglet.com and I have used this myself to great effect.

    You can put your own html code into the emails, or design your emails on line. You can host your images on their servers; provide simple tracking of links for html or text emails; it provides personalisation in the body text area and; has a very good subscribe/unsubscribe system. You can also send attachments.

    Uploading your data into the software is straightforward as you use CSV files and downloading them again is just as easy.

    For the size of mailing you are looking for, costs are around $20 which you pay online by credit card.

    The one drawback is that the area allowed for hosting images or attachment files is limited to 5120k - I have found that this can be a problem when sending attachments.

    Pete Bresser, Visionet (www.visionet.co.uk)

  4. Tracy Rohan

    Director - Focalpoint at Web Development and Marketing

    19 January 2004 11:02am

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    Thanks, very helpful.
    On 10:22:57 19 January 2004 pbreser wrote:
    >As you say Tracy, there are plenty of online services for
    >sending out email campaigns. As your list is fairly small,
    >I'd recommend a service called Tuglet on www.tuglet.com
    >and I have used this myself to great effect.
    >
    >You can put your own html code into the emails, or design
    >your emails on line. You can host your images on their
    >servers; provide simple tracking of links for html or text
    >emails; it provides personalisation in the body text area
    >and; has a very good subscribe/unsubscribe system. You can
    >also send attachments.
    >
    >Uploading your data into the software is straightforward
    >as you use CSV files and downloading them again is just as
    >easy.
    >
    >For the size of mailing you are looking for, costs are
    >around $20 which you pay online by credit card.
    >
    >The one drawback is that the area allowed for hosting
    >images or attachment files is limited to 5120k - I have
    >found that this can be a problem when sending attachments.
    >
    >Pete Bresser, Visionet (www.visionet.co.uk)

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