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You can now request a dedicated IP with Amazon SES if you wanted to go that route - SES offers 62,000 free emails and then $0.10 per 1000 more. I run EmailOctopus which integrates with SES and offers front-end/API/etc.
Alternatively, one of our competitors is Ongage who offer a front-end to any SMTP (including Gmail). They're not particularly cheap, but are very well established and respected. https://www.ongage.com/
I have a feeling there may also be Wordpress plugins which do what you're asking - although not particularly clued up on that.
We'll give away 3 months free of EmailOctopus, to anyone, up until Friday at midnight. That'll allow you to send to up to 250,000 contacts. Usual value of up to $327.
Have you thought about slimming your list down? Find people who haven't opened an email in the last 6 months or something like that and just remove them from your list. It sounds like a horrible idea to remove people from your list but if they haven't been opening emails anyway, what's the point in having them.
To answer your question, though, look for companies that use Amazon SES. Something like Sendy or EmailOctopus (note, I've never used these and am not endorsing them ... these are just 2 I've seen mentioned).
I use Mailgun myself, but https://emailoctopus.com might be worth a look. Like Sendy they also use Amazon SES, so should be pretty cheap. And then you wouldn't have to deal with hosting it yourself, unlike Sendy. They say they have a developer API so maybe you can get metrics from that. Both Sendy and Email Octopus have list segmentation which should do the job for hiding sponsors; not sure if either of them support conditional content within an email.
We might be an option for you.
You could create the one account and within that account have multiple lists (there's no limit on the number of lists).
So in your case, each of the five different companies would have their own list in your account. You'd pay for the total number of contacts across all five of those lists.
Within each list you can create custom fields to assign data to contacts, which enables you to segment each company's list. And you can set up time-based automated email sequences for each list, for example, a welcome sequence.
You can find out more about us here: https://emailoctopus.com/
Or reach out to us here on Reddit if you have any questions. :-)
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.
Better to use an external service such as amazon SES to avoid getting your webserver ip blacklisted. MailChimp can get ridiculous expensive once your email subscribers grow beyond the free plan. I tried a few self hosted plugins and mail systems but they are all slow, buggy and compete for cpu power when running. I find emailoctopus (with amazon SES) the best for quick drag and drop newsletter saas without the hassle of optimizing your own mailing system. It's also more economical in the long run. Their support is pretty fast too and responds in a couple hours.
Disclaimer: I have been using emailoctopus for around a year. For those who are planning to try, you can use my referral link and we both get $15 credit: https://emailoctopus.com/?urli=P456f
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!
This looks cool. I run a platform that connects to Amazon SES (EmailOctopus) and would be super interested to hear how they stack up against the other ESPs. Do you have any data on deliverability rates across all of your providers? Would make a great blog post :)
I run EmailOctopus, which is a platform similar to Mailchimp. Although a lot cheaper.
Your open rate looks great - in excess of much. But you're right, click through is pretty poor. I'd definitely suggest moving your CTA up. I'd also suggest making the CTA stronger, as others have said.
If you're interested, I'd happily create an alternate HTML design based on my knowledge of what works (free) which you could run as an A/B test within Mailchimp. Just PM me.
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 :-)
Hello, yes, I got plans for Android/IOS release:
You can sign-in to my newsletter, so you won't miss the release:
https://emailoctopus.com/lists/b0519df3-2425-11e9-a3c9-06b79b628af2/forms/subscribe
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. :-)
I'd recommend EmailOctopus their deliverability is top-notch, amazing and easy to use UI, and the best part is they're free until 2500 subscribers. I've tried out many ESPs but found EmailOctopus to be the best.
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> I don't care about monetizing it and don't want to spend time on design so I just choose a free provider to set it up in.
TBH not wanting to monetize it isn't an excuse not to put effort into it. If you want people to spend their time reading it, you should put time into the end product.
https://emailoctopus.com is free for the first 2500 subscribers.
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.
Hello, I got plans for first release in next year (Alpha). Right now I'm finishing settings panel (95% done), then I'm moving to game optimization (I need to redo few things), after it I'm moving into SFX (sounds) redo + going back to main game mechanics. But I got plans for first release in 1-3 months :-} You can join my e-mail newsletter so you won't miss game release e-mail newsletter and Discord
There are a couple other questions where I shared some of my thoughts about what it takes to start working as a programmer. No one can give you a timeframe for how quickly you can get a job, because it depends on so many different things. It's about much more than just learning some syntax.
I've been getting more of these job-related questions lately, so I'm going to write up a more complete response. I have an email list, so if you want to see this when it comes out feel free to sign up. It should be out in the next week or so.
I am also planning to add a number of additional resources to what's currently available:
- Additional exercises and more complex challenges.
- Articles that build on what was presented in the book.
- Core Python concepts that are useful, but weren't necessary to include in the book.
- Extensions to the projects, such as how to write a program that plays Alien Invasion automatically according to a playing strategy that you devise.
- Reader profiles.
- Guided walk-throughs of the documentation for libraries used in the book.
I won't post about each of these here when they're available, because that would become pretty spammy. If you'd like to know about each of these when they become available, you can sign up for an email newsletter here. I do not send frequent emails, and I make it as easy as possible to unsubsucribe if you no longer want these notifications.
Let a 3rd party service handle your emailing.
I use Mailgun for sending transaction/one-to-one emails and will use Email Octopus which uses AmazonSES to send bulk emails.
Mailgun is already very well integrated and you can use the Email Octopus API to subscribe users to lists for bulk sending: https://emailoctopus.com/api-documentation/lists/create-contact
Thanks :) If you wish you can join my email newsletter. Newsletter or discord (link in upper post). Game about it is crazy, but why not :)
Munk One will have his copies available through his site soon. Be sure to sign up for his mailing list since that's mainly where he promotes his poster sales. You can sign up here: https://emailoctopus.com/lists/9dcd27c3-9eb8-11e8-a3c9-06b79b628af2/forms/subscribe
Good luck!
Adding an explainer video to our SAAS really helped with our acquisition. Our platform requires some technical knowledge to setup and it's far easier to explain that through a video. We're currently reusing it for a Facebook campaign but haven't seen a huge amount of traffic from it: perhaps its a bit too long for that form.
I run EmailOctopus which does tracking and unsubscribes. 100,000 subscribers would cost you $22 with SES fees on top. So a one off mailing would cost around $30.
Would imagine you're going to get a lot of bounces though, so might be worth verifying much of the list first.
I've had nothing but pain with Godaddy in the past! Take a look at my project, which will hopefully help: https://emailoctopus.com
It's a bit like Sendy, but there are no upfront costs and you don't have to worry about hosting it.
If you have a basic level of programming, there's an API you can use to do this:
https://emailoctopus.com/api-documentation/
But I understand that's not for everyone, so will be adding a plug-and-play form in the next few weeks. If you sign up then I'll send an email out once it's ready.
I'm not sure how long it will remain free, but currently it lets you send bulk/marketing emails for nothing by hooking up to your AWS account. Great if your business can't afford MailChimp fees.