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When you initially captured the opt-ins, is the service/content they opted in for still the same or are you reusing addresses for different projects/services/etc. not related to the initial opt-in agreement?

Also, have you taken the time, throughout the years, to prune the list? Removing hard/soft bounces, unsubscribes, and low/no engagement accounts?

You can read more about omivore here https://mailchimp.com/help/about-omnivore and also you can contact their support if you're confused. We're not tech support.

Mailchimp is free for under 2000 contacts (with limited functionality) and very user-friendly. Hopefully, if you can show that a mailing service is a good investment, they will provide you with the tools to help you be successful.

https://mailchimp.com/pricing/marketing/

If you've got 2,000 or fewer people, the best option would be Mailchimp. You can sign up for their free account, upload the names/emails/companies, and use the field merge tags in an email to dynamically pull in that information. https://mailchimp.com/help/getting-started-with-mailchimp/

Well, you have a lot to learn, so I would start google "how to warm up your email" and start from there.. I'm not an expert in this stuff so can't help you with the last bit. Figure out what blacklists you're on by checking at https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

From my experience with mass emailing on my customer lists that are larger than this, it depends on your previous use of mailing from the domain and the IP. If you have used the same mailing IP and domain for some time and done consistent mailing, you should be fine sending it all at once.

If you have never mass emailed the list before, this is a good guide to follow:
https://sendgrid.com/docs/assets/IPWarmupSchedule.pdf

The reputation for webdotcom will be affected (which will affect the emails sent from your Sendgrid account).

Please check each website to see if they accept emails like that as most people will just delete them (or mark them as spam) as they get them so many. How will you be different than everyone else asking for this?

Moz has a good guide to getting backlinks which is worth a read since you are new to it.

I have seen many people & companies have a separate domain just to do emails like this, which is an added cost but keeps the reputation for webdotcom clean.

We might be a good option for you.

With EmailOctopus you can turn off open and click tracking. And we offer a free plan for up to 2,500 subscribers.

You can find out more at emailoctopus.com though if you have any questions, happy to help out here too.

Sending via Amazon SES is a good way to save money (I actually co-founded a platform which does that).

What's the name of the service you saw on Facebook? $5 sounds like a good deal!

you can either send email one by one from your outlook / gmail or you can create xls (csv) with all the email addresses in format email, name, surname , marc, thompson

idea is that with ESP ( email service provider) you can create content that is like

Hello |LS:FIRSTNAME| |LS:LASTNAME|, I want to send you personalized offer, ....

Email service provider will send to all of your email addresses at the same time based on data that is in your xls and then track who opened email, who clicked on it and so on. Note that sending emails with gmail address this way wont work well so you will need to buy your own domain.

This may sound a bit complicating but it isn't, get an Email Service Account like ListShine that has support for free customers and see if support can help you. Note, I work for ListShine

It appears they coded this themselves. They've styled td's as inputs and then have embedded javascript to handle the form submit.

This is a very risky and not recommended way to collect data, you should never try to embed javascript in an email due to so many email clients blocking scripts for security reasons.

https://mailchimp.com/help/limitations-of-html-email/

Sounds like you're looking for a "welcome series". I don't know why everyone else is telling you Mailchimp can't do that...

https://mailchimp.com/help/create-an-automated-welcome-email/

Just set this up and as you add new clients to the list it will fire off the email.

You could do something similar with merge tag fields in mailchimp to create a custom URL to each of the files. You'd just have to organize everything pretty logically and then add some columns to your list.

This document describes one way you could do it:
https://mailchimp.com/help/use-merge-tags-to-send-personalized-files/

Any of the email platforms below will do that for you, 2 not mentioned are emailout.com + mailchimp.com which are both free, which is always handy when you're starting out.

Good luck with the new project.

Select a template in mailchimp that best fits your needs. Based on what you've said, I'd use the FEATURED template named MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT. Add your graphics, links and copy. Test and tune.

Yes. It's all about providing some value. And when you get someone to opt-in you just have to maintain it. Relevance is the key. If we're talking about achieving this with email marketing - it's segmentation and personalization, and analytics of course, to unsure you're doing it right. I use SendPulse to build my list and automate my segmented email campaigns. I have my list divided in several ways based on several criteria and have a separate campaign for each segment. This way I ensure the maximum relevance of my messaging and keep my content pipeline organized.

Sending emails from servers that send bulk promotional emails for other accounts makes your emails prone to get into spam. Amazon SES sends out hundreds and thousands of emails every second - which isn't great for your deliverability.

I'd suggest if you want to ensure better delivery - stick to sending using Gmail or Office365. If you want to send multiple emails at once, you can use tools like SalesHandy.

Also, refer to this email deliverability guide for complete list of checks to make sure you're taking every step needed to ensure good deliverability .

You guys need a CRM. or someone who knows how to run things in house (open source software). Like n8n.io

I also would not use a local excel file. Use google sheets or something similar that you can share across users.

You should have your boss come up with a solution so he can see how futile it is to work with what you described.

Have you tried looking at Zapier? https://zapier.com

They've got an integration with campaign monitor, and I'm sure you can find a way to connect SQL data to import into your CM instance automatically.

I was able to automate some pretty cool things I never thought possible between some apps that don't integrate with each other.

Not really because of spam :(

Email still works, but text/sms marketing is better.

This app is so good for both email and sms marketing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emailmarketing247

If you know coding, you can use EC2 VM -> call to SES to send email.

You have 60k free each month :)

If you have android, please try iMarketing Center fully support Amazon SES and bounce back processing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emailmarketing247

Use a native URL shortener. What I mean by this is that, for example, we have our own URL shortener, hosted on our server, so we can put a short URL in email and that short URL forwards to the actual, longer URL. Here are a couple of resources (I have not used these, we have our own in-house dev, but these give you the idea):

https://yourls.org/https://dev.to/commonshost/build-your-own-url-shortener-in-15-minutes-279n

Okay, so 200-600k emails is a large variation of subscribers. I doubt it that they are your subscribers (cause the number varies three times, plus it's a HUGE list).

You could use [Amazon SES])https://aws.amazon.com/ses/) . It is one of the best solutions for HUGE databases

Or you could use Sender.net. You should contact us to get a custom quote, but I think it would be somewhere from 400 euros to 1000.

If your list is scraped, you won't get an approved account, we value our IP reputation too much. We are a newsletter , not a cold-mailing service! :)

200% it is to pick up a copy of Launch by friend and colleague Jeff Walker; he just released an updated edition in the past year. Or get it from Audible - Jeff himself narrates it. Trust me, it will be the best thing you can do for yourself and your launch.

Amazon link (not an affiliate link): https://smile.amazon.com/Launch-Updated-Expanded-Anything-Business/dp/B098KPT3PG/

If you want to import your old HTML newsletter templates, you'll have to upgrade to Mailchimp's Standard plan, as it's not a feature they offer on their free plan.

https://mailchimp.com/help/import-a-custom-html-template/

Prices for the Standard plan for up to 500 contacts would cost you $14.99/month.

If importing existing templates is important to you, then you can always give us a try. Our free Starter plan covers your first 2,500 subscribers and you can import as many HTML templates as you need to.

Let us know if we can help at all.

MailChimp has a disclaimer here in their article about this how unfortunately there’s no way for them to see which ones are from a spam filter.

Hi u/Donny_Writer,

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We believe experimentation with colour saturation and intense gradients are contributing to more vibrant designs that can't be missed.

After all, isn't the end goal making a lasting impression and establishing a good relationship with one's subscribers?

You'll just need to open the index.html file with a text editor. You should already have notepad on your computer, but you can also download something like Sublime or atom.io and open it with these programs. From there you can copy/paste the code to your ESP.

You will probably need to add certain things to the html code for it to be able to work though, like an address and unsubscribe link.

Usually recommended to warm up if new IP and domain. I like the sendgrid warm up schedule if you are already using your list. or InboxAlly if using seeds to warm up.

I'm going to throw our hat into the ring here.

If all you need is a simple email marketing service to grow your list and send emails to that list once or twice a month, we (EmailOctopus) cover your needs perfectly.

We've got a number of indie authors using the service already – sharing this link in case it's useful: https://emailoctopus.com/customers/authors

But if you've got the time and inclination, it's worth testing a few out. The best tool for you will be one that you enjoy using.

Out of the different services that have already been suggested, Mailchimp and MailerLite would be the better options as they're easier to use and offer a generous free plan.

A limitation with ConvertKit is that the editor is designed for rich text emails, rather than more design-heavy emails. So if you want to create prettier emails, this might be harder to do in ConvertKit.

Klaviyo and Drip are very much ecommerce focussed, with either no or limited free plans. As an author, you're unlikely to use many of the features they offer and they start to get expensive as your list grows.

Constant Contact and Active Campaign can also get expensive quickly, and unless you need sophisticated automation, you'll be paying for features you don't use.

Hope this helps :-)

Great summary, thx for posting this! I'd like to add one more MailChimp alternative. It's a good choice if you're looking for a reliable ESP with outstanding customer support.

Flodesk has very easy to use templates that look beautiful but as far as their segmenting and flows, I'm not sure what their capabilities are. If you are savvy in a design program like Photoshop, you could buy email templates from https://creativemarket.com/ and customize them to fit your needs. Then you just upload the flat graphics into Mailchimp.

There are two alternatives that I know:

1. Google Meet (Free): If you'd go to meet.google.com , you'll be able to schedule your meetings and keep them synchronised with your google calendar.
2. TidyCal (Paid): On AppSumo, there's an app called TidyCal for 19$ (at the time I'm posting this) and they offer a lifetime deal and looks quite similar to calendaly.

Hey mate,
Seems like a customer services issue; I'd recommend looking at Zapier.

Zapier (Non-Affiliate) is a tool that allows you to create automation that integrates with commonly used marketing and sales tools, it's relatively cheap and could help solve your problem by forwarding incoming Emails to a Slack / Asana chat room.

I've used Mailchimp for internal newsletters before, I think it's easy to use, reporting is clear, and depending on the system you use for employee information there could be an API

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https://zapier.com/apps/mailchimp/integrations/microsoft-outlook

I don't know if there's a native way to do it, but this is where applications like Zapier come in handy.

https://zapier.com/apps/eventbrite/integrations/mailchimp/12/add-new-eventbrite-attendees-to-a-mailchimp-list

We might suit your needs:

• Our free plan covers your first 2,500 subscribers, then it's $20/month for up to 5,000 subscribers with 50,000 emails per month
• Although we don't have an official tagging feature, we have custom fields (up to 18) that you can use to segment your audience
• We integrate with Integromat
• We have a time-based automation feature for setting up welcome emails and longer onboarding sequences (no limits on the number of emails in a workflow)
  

Here's our website if you wanted to find out more: https://emailoctopus.com/

Or you can reach out to us here on Reddit if you have any questions. :-)

If it's a simple drip campaign that you're after that's time based, you could try EmailOctopus. You can set up automated emails that are sent as soon as someone signs up to your mailing list and then deliver further emails in a sequence.

It's free for your first 2,500 subscribers and then very reasonably priced after that.

If you're looking for more sophisticated automation then other platforms like Moosend and SendinBlue would be a better option. Both reasonably priced too.

> We used Typeform’s in-email NPS

Do you mean this one?

>Campaign Monitor recommend against it due to some email programs blocking forms.

Yes, heard that too. But seems like Typeform is not using form, they use links (/to/EG?email=&score=10&plan=&country=&signup=)

It is very important to keep up with the times and always look for something new. I also act like you and lately came across interesting article where found great tips and the list of free services with working templates that are ready to be tested. Here you can read more. https://proofy.io/top-10-free-services-amazing-responsive-html-email-templates/ Hope it will be helpful)

In this article https://proofy.io/improve-inbox-placement-email-deliverability-spam/ there are some tips that you can use even without buying any programs to not go to the spam. I always try to do evetything for free, manually, and if something goes wrong then I buy programs.

"I want to clean/verify about 25,000-50,000 a month, and cost-wise most sites charge 150-300.00 for this. And I'm worried I will get a bunch of unverified/errors/etc. on top of that." -- I think I have suggestion for you, try this service https://proofy.io -- it in your request

Check out sendx.io They are really affordable, you have to pay as less as $7/month for 1,000 subscribers. They allow you to send unlimited emails across all pricing tiers.

You can only reach out to people who have Opt-in as per CAN-SPAM, which means avoid sending emails to folks who have not opted-in. Maybe if you are looking at relevant tools to help you with opt-in, check if this helps https://sendx.io/blog/using-mailchimp-alternatives/

You can try SendX.io I've been with MailChimp for long but shifted out due to the high cost and poor support system. Before settling with SendX, I've tried getresponse and mailerjet. However, found SendX to be more affordable and easy to use. Especially, their email automation piece is straight forward to setup.

Try sendx.io It is one of the cost-effective platforms that allows you to send unlimited emails. Be it bulk mail or pure-play email automation, the features you get for the money you pay is just amazing.

What you're looking for is not really email marketing, its marketing automation, which is more expensive. Since you are thinking around $50, try Drip where $49 gets you up to 2,500 contacts.

This is a great summary on GDPR (and any other cold email laws) https://prospect.io/blog/cold-email-illegal/

Emailing a business with a relevant offering and following the individual laws such as opt out and physical location, stating who the sender is clearly and the purpose of the email etc will be necessary regardless of data source. Within GDPR you have to email businesses and not consumers. That’s the biggest difference from the USs CAN-SPAM laws.

Certain countries such as Germany are a no fly zone altogether. Definitely do your homework when reaching out!

Thank you for considering ActiveCampaign. I am Director of Marketing there. Let me know if I can answer any questions about ActiveCampaign's features, benefits, pricing, etc.

AC and CK have very similar features. I would say AC has many more capabilities, but those capabilities aren't necessarily relevant to your particular business profile.

I would say this biggest difference between AC and CK, in your case, is that AC has integrations with all the popular landing page services. Rather than locking you into a limited solution, we let you pick the landing page service that has the features/price you are looking for.

For instance, we integrate with Unbounce, Instapage, LeadPages, OptimizePress, and many more.

This one is called ListShine, Not striving to be cheapest because amazon ses is not used but features are au par to mailerlite and inbox delivery rating is 9.9/10 according to senderscore.org. Recently it was featured on alternativeto.net so well.. so far so good :)

You can search for the tools over the Internet, but I would recommend using something verified. NEWOLDSTAMP generator allows you to make Yahoo mail signature almost effortlessly, and it will keep nice and well-formatted, without mistakes or merged lines.You can look at examples all email signature here https://newoldstamp.com/email-signature-examples/. I hope it helps you.

at an old job, we used CiviCRM. we also had a developer link it up with our wordpress site but it seemed fairly useful. that was before i did any significant email work so i didn't pay too much attention to that side, but it worked pretty well for our small non-profit with a ~10k person list.

I’m not sure that by email management you are looking for a software that helps you manage your inbox and never miss out customer opportunities or an email marketing tool that helps you send bulk emails. 

If you’re saying you’re searching for email management software, then I’d recommend you to check out ProProfs Help Desk. It has a free plan for people to kick start their support and other email management purposes. But if you’re looking for an email marketing solution, then I’d suggest you to give MailChimp a try. They have great service and help you streamline the bulk emailing process efficiently.

What you need is an Auto-responder i.e to send email to the user who filled the information which will include further details about the event along with the payment link. Couple of options here:

• Create a Custom Thank you page or Redirect to Payment page directly on form submit, but you have to show the price and information upfront
• Create a Thank you page which gives the link to take user to complete the payment.
• With or without thank you page, send an Auto-responder email with the information and the payment link. One reference from Mailchimp - https://mailchimp.com/help/create-an-automated-welcome-email/

Let me know if it helps.

Mailchimp has gotten really weird when they changed to audiences instead of lists. It’s actually one of the main reasons I don’t recommend them for any moderately complex email marketing.

I don’t think you need to change email providers, rather you need to change the way you think about your “audience” as they say. Each interest is a “group” and here is an article from them on how to segment them out in campaigns

https://mailchimp.com/help/send-groups-audience/

Sorry if you’ve already seen this and is repetitive. Most other email services will have lists in the way you think of them but may cost more or require a lot of work to move.

MailChimp has a nice explanation of their ToS about affiliate marketing here. Basically speaking, as long as you legitimately use affiliate links to add to your content (maybe recommend a product within a blog post or something like that), you should be fine.

You can send simple polls or surveys with that integrated functionality in Mailchimp.

Another way I've integrated a live survey in an email is using Typeform's start a survey in email, which has the first question (which must be an opinion scale question) in the email. The link click on the survey passes the survey response via a query parameter and the user enters the survey on a different web page.

If you look at the source code of your congressman's email, it will likely offer clues as to how they set up their survey.

Right, I understand what you're saying now. I guess your main issue is that you just don't have the time to grow a list organically, but if you did you would.

Here's a link from Mailchip with instructions on how to import a list: https://mailchimp.com/help/import-contacts-mailchimp/

If you'd like though, I could help you send out those emails for a nominal fee of around $50 or something?

It tracks the source automatically, and segmenting it by source is pretty intuitive. You would just select 'create new segment' then you just select from the drop-downs which would look something like this: ['Signup source'] ['was' or 'was not'] [list of all available sources]

I only have 1 landing page that is directly linked to mailchimp so it just says 'hosted landing page' - I'm not sure if it will differentiate between the different landing pages if you have multiple. If it does not, that would be a good place to use tags.

You can read about segmenting here: https://mailchimp.com/help/getting-started-with-segments/

>Gotcha, so instead of real groups it's just having a custom field in the subscriber profile that indicates which "group" they below to and create segments with those?

Yep, that's right!

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>I see this working for future audiences, but do you know of anyway of adding the new "group" field values to existing contacts? (without having to manually change each contact)

We had few enough subscribers at the time, that we were able to manually go through and update them to the appropriate "group." However, if you export your audience, add in the custom field selection for those who are missing it, and then import them back with the "Update existing contacts" option selected, I think this might allow you to update them in bulk?

If you want to start the email sequence only for users who signed up using this popup, you can put a hidden checkbox into the signup form that will add the user to a a group like this:

https://mailchimp.com/help/automatically-add-subscribers-to-a-group-at-signup/

...and then set the trigger for the sequence to "User joins group". This will trigger it only for people who signed up using this form. You can also recognize these users in your audience by group membership.

Well, best is such a subjective term. I think Goolara Symphonie is the best, but, of course, I'm prejudiced. If you have under 2,000 subscribers, MailChimp is hard to beat. If you've got over 500,000 subscriber, I would definitely be looking somewhere else. In the end, it comes down to what features you need.

Thanks! To start, I sent an actual Mailchimp campaign to MailGenius, and it resulted in a score of 93/100:

• -4 points for HTML Body Best Practices
  • "Your email body includes URLs that are too long" (it's just the standard Mailchimp campaign and tracking codes that make them that long)
  • "Your message body contains more than the recommended (12) amount of HTML links"
• -3 points for DMARC
  • "Your 'from' address does not match your SPF 'from' address."
    • Make sure your SPF authentication is setup correctly so your SPF from domain matches the from domain in your emails.
    • Your From domain is: mydomain.com
    • Your SPF MailFrom domain is: mail106.atl281.mcsv.net
    • Existing SPF header attributes:
      

>Status: pass
Message: mail106.atl281.mcsv.net: 198.2.143.106 is authorized to use 'bounce-mc.us20_' in 'mfrom' identity (mechanism 'ip4:198.2.143.106' matched)
Receiver: p-pm-smtp-inbound01b-aws-useast2b
Identity: mailfrom
Envelope-from: bounce-mc.us20_
Helo: mail106.atl281.mcsv.net
Client-ip: 198.2.143.106

• Your DMARC record policy is set to none.

...So, I know my DMARC policy is set to none, but what's this about my "from" address not matching my SPF "from" address?

I notice that it says the status is "pass" and I do have the following TXT record in my DNS for SPF, which isn't exactly what Mailchimp says to include, but G Suite support said was correct, when also including the SPF record for sending via G Suite:

• v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.google.com ~all

Do I need to fix my SPF record?

No I can't because I don't know, because I'm 1.2 weeks into the job, and MA is not my role but I've been invited to a meeting so trying to go in prepared.. This is why I posted here lol

But this is one of the problems: https://mailchimp.com/shopify-statement/

For the past couple of years I've mainly worked with Salesforce and Selligent, so I had to look into things some more. The key thing here is that you are trying to send transactional emails. So yes, Mailchimp's main functionality, aimed at campaigns, is not what you need. That's why I mentioned you may need a transactional email service. For most email marketing platforms, transactional mails is something they do, but it's not their main focus. Mailchimp offers transactional emails for instance, but for your use case you'd probably need to add Mandrill to your account (which requires a certain account type):

https://mailchimp.com/help/about-transactional-email/#Transactional_email_in_Mailchimp

You can also integrate Mandrill with Integromat, and for Mandrill there's an action called 'send message'. I've never used Integromat, but I signed up and saw you can specify a recipient when you use the 'send message' action, so I'm assuming that can be done dynamically as well (as in, based on who's signing up).

Same for SendGrid, which started purely as a transactional email service. If you integrate that, you also get a 'send an email' action, which I assume will work roughly the same way as Mandrill.

Of course this all relies on having an integration with whatever you use as a source. If that's a spreadsheet then in all honesty I don't know why you'd want to automate only part of the whole process as I don't see that much more work in copy pasting an email and pasting the mail address from the spreadsheet. Ideally you'd have some kind of membership system which integrates with Integromat so that you automate everything and don't have to screw around with spreadsheets. It's 2019 after all :D Good luck!

Here you go.

https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-benchmarks/

Remember, the larger the list — the lower your opens will be.

Always keep a clean list and use segmentation to help increase a small percentage.

Also test subject lines.

— Mike

PS: There’s a few sources if you look up email marketing benchmarks. Some really good data to notice and keep up with. Here’s another from mailchimp —

https://mailchimp.com/resources/email-marketing-benchmarks/

Former Chimper here. Omnivore will very likely flag the purchased list as those emails should register as being publicly available. Not only that, if you can get the emails imported to an MC list then try to send a campaign to them, Omnivore scans every recipients list again before allowing campaigns to sent out to them. So even if the import gets past Omnivore, sending an email out to them will likely still get flagged.

For reaching out to their Compliance team, there's a couple different ways to do it: Compliance only communicates via email (due to hyper strict security on the company's side) so don't bother trying to get them in a live chat (MailChimp doesn't have phones for any team). You can email [email protected] asking them or reach out to @mailchimp on Twitter to get in touch with their Social team, who usually have much faster response times and will send request over to Compliance on your behalf. Requests are truly answered in the order they're received and they try to get requests turned around in 24hrs but if the queues are swamped, it can take longer.

It's also against MailChimp's Terms of use to use a purchased list, so they do reserve the right to automatically shut down your account without an explanation if you do decide to try and use the bought list anyway.
https://mailchimp.com/help/requirements-best-practices-audiences/

However, you can always create a MC signup form (or landing page) and send that out to your list outside of MailChimp (via Gmail, Outlook, literally anything else) and if those people opt in to your MC list through the form/landing page, you can send to them any way through MC from then on.

MailChimp is an optimal solution for a lot of mid-market consumers, but if you're looking for a phone support, obviously MailChimp won't work.

If you decide to stick with MailChimp, they just released an update for M2: https://mailchimp.com/integrations/magento. Might be worth looking into. Also you might try the Ebizmarts forums, who did work on the plugin: https://ebizmarts.com/forums

Do come back and let us know how it works out. Would love to know where you land.

what? did you read the article yourself?

> While the Mailchimp forever free plan is ideal for most new bloggers, it has certain limitations. For instance, the forever free plan doesn’t offer an essential feature like email automation, which I think is a huge deal breaker.

then the very first alternative posted lists all those features as part of a TRIAL...

these aren't alternatives to mailchimp... an actual alternative would be a free service with a different feature-set..

since mailchimp HAS those services in their tiered offering (https://mailchimp.com/pricing/growing-business), I'm going to assume you don't know what you're talking about or I've severely misinterpreted this post

Test your email with this tool: https://www.mail-tester.com

You could also check if your server/domain is blacklisted here: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

Mxtoolbox got lots of useful tools for email issus.

And as mentioned above, don’t send emails to contacts thats hasnt consent to your emails. Getting your mailserver blacklisted is not fun.

Btw I only saw one retard in this thread, and its not you.

Good luck!

It’s actually 5 days:

https://mxtoolbox.com/problem/rhsbl/sem-fresh

And yes not every isp will use this blacklist. And “master lists” would be spamhaus or something, it’s widely used but yes spammers still go around it obviously. Also each isp probably has their own lists and metrics.

Have you checked your domain or server to see if it has been blacklisted? You can do that here.

If you have an email account of your own to send it to that it actually ends up in the spam folder, check the headers of the email. In gmail it is the drop down menu to the right of the reply button, then "Show original". In the headers you can google around to look what things mean, but to do a quick search for the word "fail" to locate what likely caused it.

On your server side, make sure you are sending email from a machine with a valid spf record, and it would also be wise to use DKIM signing.

Each one has a server signature based on the domain name etc.

They are not difficult to spot in the email source code.

Here's a list I found with 30-sec google search

https://github.com/JannikArndt/EMailTrackerBlocker

Here's what hey.com blocks:

https://hey.com/spy-trackers/

1. Use any of the form tools to capture user information.
   1. Typeform, jotform, Google form, Airtable for forms only
   2. Webflow, softr.io, swipepages, carrd.co etc for a single page with more information
2. Put up a checkbox (consent) along with terms and conditions link and a sweet message of not spamming ever.
3. As part of list building for future, you should ask for email and phone number (optional). Send an introductory email on form submission (Auto-responder)

Phone numbers seems like a too much to ask over a landing page/form until and unless its a well qualified lead or customer. Instead, you can ask for phone number in email via live chat etc. (more personalised way).

P.S Tools mentioned are free as well as paid versions.

If it's just a landing page that you need, try Carrd. It gives you much greater flexibility and only costs $19/year. It also integrates directly with Mailchimp, so you can collect subscribers on your Carrd website and email them using Mailchimp.

With Mailchimp, and any other email platform, you are building your own mailing list – you own that data and can export the full list at any time.

If you are looking for a list of Shopify users, this is a good resource.

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https://builtwith.com//

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You can use it for basically finding any tech platform.

I've been trying to find good affiliate offers for my niche (dating) but have been unsuccessful so far with the exception of one dating website offer.

Because my niche is very focused, there aren't a lot of affiliate offers for it.

I tried to apply to a few general dating websites such as match.com but was auto-rejected from commission junction due to geographical location I suspect. I emailed the affiliate manager twice but never heard back from them.

I also looked around on Clickbank, and although there are some dating products that I could promote, the products themselves don't seem to be very good and makes me feel uncomfortable promoting to my readers as it will potentially ruin the trust I have built with them.

If you are searching for a great emailing service which can allow to send a high quantity of messages, I want to recommend you Sendpulse. This platform is simple, easy-to-use and it has a great diversity of tools for creating an email campaign. There are various pricing plans which are one of the cheapest on the market. You can choose the best plan for you and in case of any wrong decision, you can ask their support team to refund your money. The Sendpulse support is online for 24 hours and ready to help you at any time. Furthermore, they use DKIM and SPF technology for better deliverability and to filter it from spam. In addition, I leave here a link https://sendpulse.com/?la=ub , if you are interested in it.

Hello! I'm familiar with your problem. Recently I tried the service SendPulse . It's completely satisfies all my needs in email marketing, but I haven't tried others systems yet...

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/lessons-from-300-indie-hackers-posts-about-newsletters-6eb8d3c44b Also this could be useful!

Yeah, go for a free service for emails like MooSend. It's great.

You can also have a look at Automate.io to get 300 free emails automated from e.g. a Google Sheet with your leads. I do that often with more emails.

There's a cheap deal on AppSumo for Sendinblue.com right now. Check it out. 10.000 emails/month for life.

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Good luck!

Did the person mean to say setting up your own decim versus using the default dkim of an ESP?

https://postmarkapp.com/blog/dkim-and-the-via-label-in-gmail

If so, then there are times where this could help boost your reputation initially, because you're essentially piggybacking off of their good reputation.

This depends on which ISPs you're sending to however. Gmail for example this will only help for a few days before your own "domain reputation" has enough "weight" that the minor boost of using their DKIM is irrelevant.

u/KingMe87 Hey, i dont know if you have opted for a tool that can help you with email prospecting or not. There are multiple options for that, firstly, you can use Hunter. It gives you 50 leads as you signup. I know they are gonna be less, but you can use multiple email addresses to get good chunk of leads. Another option that you can opt for is Vocus.io. Its basic plan start from $5/month and it can serve as a tool for all your outreach automation needs. From prospecting to automated follow-ups. The tool also offers a free 30 day trial with no card details.

I hope I am not late and this proves to be helpful.

Good luck with your future endeavors!

I hope you get what you plan for. Well when it comes to email marketing yeah your right that choices are quite limited for newbies. If you are looking for something that can be hooked with Gmail (try vocus.io). Its a chrome extension that can help you with prospecting, email tracking, followups, mail merge etc. You'll get a 30 days trial before making the actual purchase, and the basic plan starts from $5.

I can highly recommend SendGrid. The way you want to work is easy with their API:

https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Web_API_v3/Mail/index.html

You send a call with the required information, define the content type (text/html for instance) and then pass through all the HTML.

Email automation is pretty standard these days. I would check out this article from SendGrid to learn more about it and how you can set it up for your subscribers. https://sendgrid.com/resource/what-is-email-automation-and-how-to-use-it-in-your-campaign/

Yes, we had a chat with sendgrid support, they said we didn't perform the ip warm-up the right way. We overdid it. We have to follow a plan, that was described here, https://sendgrid.com/docs/ui/sending-email/warming-up-an-ip-address/#automated-ip-warmup-hourly-send-schedule Now we have a low domain reputation and ip is also in bad condition. We have bought a new IP and is also using a new domain.

I will checkout your recommendation. Thanks.

SendGrid is only $9.95/mo for 40k emails, but I don't think they have a drag and drop editor like MailChimp if you need that. I honestly haven't used them for a few years, but I remember them being decent.

Hello! I may be able to shed some light on this situation for you.

What you're taking about is setting up very basic automated workflows: these are all the rage right now (and rightfully so because they save everyone time and $$). Many ESPs are coming out with ways to do this so if you think that Infusionsoft may be overkill then stick with your gut.

Actually, MailChimp have this feature as an add-on, they call it their 'automation', you can google it to find out more. Active Campaign are very good at this type of setup, too, and have had the technology for a while. They're a little on the pricier end but will likely do exactly what you're looking for. Campaign Monitor also have it, but again might be a bit pricier.

GetResponse is the company I work for: we're about to launch these capabilities in our platform but they're not quite ready yet, so depending on when you're looking to move it may not be a great fit, but it is on the way!

Really, many ESPs have this but it might come down to other factors like price, interface etc. Zapier wrote a nice little blog about this stuff you might find it helpful: here

Nice write up! Why does it stop at 2008 though?

One minor mistake:

"Unsolicited Bulk Email didn’t sound bad enough, so spam fighters used Sun Tzu (The Art of War) to reference an enemy with something distastefully common to the public, so they used Hormel’s SPAM® luncheon meat to reference unsolicited bulk email. The term “Spam” was born and consumers took the bait."

Actually it was born from the Monty Python Spam sketch.

You can try iMarketing Center. This app has more than 100 templates and support a lot SMTP server like Amazon SES, Sendgrid, Elastic IP....

Check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emailmarketing247

Aweber does not have this feature. There is a mobile app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aweber.asubscribe that let's you add subscribers from your phone or tablet and it's certainly possible via their api as well.