Email Newsletters

looking for a company that handles e-newsletters or a way to do it myself

[sweetla21]

this may not be in the right forum, but right now i use a company called constant contact for my e-newsletters and i'm looking for another one to use, or if possible just send my own. any suggestions? thnx in advance.

[tedster]

I've moved this post over here from Browsers and HTML.

There's no shortage of companies who can manage your bulk emails and newsletters - you can find a host of them with a quick search on any SE.

The interesting part of the question for me is what do you need to take this process in-house. Seems that it's very dependent on volume, and how scalable you need the solution to be.

[Jas0n]

Tedster is right about being volume dependent. Small volume (few hundred or a couple of thousand) are obviously much easier to manage then tens of thousands.

Other issues to consider:

Make sure you are verifiably "opt-in" because if you get complaints to the e-mail your web site and or ISP account may get shut down/suspended (some actually shut down first and ask questions later).

HTML vs. Plain Text Newsletter (or both) - Impacts design time, skill level you need, and the design tools you will need (assuming you can't just do your HTML in notepad) and can also impact message size which in turn impacts the type of bandwidth you need to send the suckers out.

Middle Route - There are services online (for instance bCentral ListBuilder which let you send the mail and manage subs/unsubs through them but you actually create and send the messages online through their servers using their utility--I'm not affiliated just used them years ago when they bought out ListBot).

HTH.

Jas0n