Is anybody familiar with MailChimp?

[cookie_monster]

ive been recommended MailChimp as a good way to manage email distribution lists and email marketing....but does anybody have any experience of using it?

you lot all know im no techhead so any info/advice/experience you can offer would be brilliant

thanks,

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[wmrcomputers]

The only program I've ever used for marketing is GroupMail. It was good and had all sorts of options so that you could (for example) only email people in one particular group that were aged between 20 and 30, or joined between certain dates etc etc.

Saying that, the version I have is quite old now so there's probably much better out there.

 

[cookie_monster]

it does talk about market segmenting in the mailchimp blurb...but i dont know if thats a freebie option or not.

thanks wmr....maybe ill have to wait until tuesday when people are back at work before i get some more answers!


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[Andreas Rex]

I've got a lot of experience using Newzapp. Extremely easy, very good in terms of reports (who's clicked which link, from which email etc) and cheap compared to other similar offerings. The only thing is you'd need to have someone who can design your ads..which I'm pretty sure you have already.

 

[cookie_monster]

I've got a lot of experience using Newzapp. Extremely easy, very good in terms of reports (who's clicked which link, from which email etc) and cheap compared to other similar offerings. The only thing is you'd need to have someone who can design your ads..which I'm pretty sure you have already.

no.

and mailchimp says you can do your own no matter what your level of experience.

however, the fact that i couldnt even create my list in mailchimp suggests im dimmer than your average chimp! lol


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[Andreas Rex]

One major thing to bear in mind is that you need to incorporate a decent proportion of actual words in your mailing. I don't mean words which are part of the jpeg/whatever, I mean actual text. A big reason for email marketing failures is just sending a picture to someone whose filter will immediately class it as spam. I will be available for a phone consultation on this topic tomorrow evening, should it be required. I did a lot of research into this very topic not very long ago.

 

[gdavies]

Will take a look at mailchimp itself and get back to you my thoughts on it i have used quite a few of these things over the years but never actually touched mailchimp

 

[cookie_monster]

One major thing to bear in mind is that you need to incorporate a decent proportion of actual words in your mailing. I don't mean words which are part of the jpeg/whatever, I mean actual text....I will be available for a phone consultation on this topic tomorrow evening, should it be required. I did a lot of research into this very topic not very long ago.

words arent a problem....i have a lot to say! lol

your kind offer is duly noted- im clearing my diary for this evening

Will take a look at mailchimp itself and get back to you my thoughts on it i have used quite a few of these things over the years but never actually touched mailchimp

that would be great thanks....ive never used anything along these lines so a compairson would be useful.



thank you :mwah: to both of you

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[Andreas Rex]

however, the fact that i couldnt even create my list in mailchimp suggests im dimmer than your average chimp! lol

With other emailing progs I've used you usually create your list in Excel and then upload the doc. This makes it very easy to keep track of who you've mailed/who has unsubscribed and enables you to keep in-sync with your customer database...which I also assume you have. If not, I have plenty of suggestions for this too!

 

[cookie_monster]

yup, in mailchimp you can upload either an excel or csv file version.

will defo give you a bell tonight


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[Dawz]

yeah don't use mailchip. Your paying for something you just don't need too. I assume if your sending email marketing your running a business of some sort? I'll also assume you have a webserver /web host.

You can just install mailing list software server side. Theres lots of options out there, a good three are Dada mail, phplist and pommo. Its all open source software with lots of contributing developers. Your all set.

I've personally used PHPList to great effect.