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I maintain a small (local) food & lifestyle magazine site with about 500 pages of back-issue content, and 100 advertisers in a directory-style 'sponsors' section.
The site owner holds monthly competitions - to enter applicants fill in a form, and tick a box agreeing to be placed on a monthly newsletter email distribution list. We don't provide or on-sell the obtained email addresses to any other orgranisation.
The site has approximately 3,000 unique visitors a month, and approximately 1,500 people have entered competitions over time, thus providing their email addresses.
The only source of revenue from the site are the directory 'sponsors' listings - which cover hosting and editorial costs.
Until now the site owner has never utilised the email addresses collected through the competitions, but would now like to launch a monthly email newsletter advising of the monthly additions to the website. The 1,500 email addresses are stored in an Excel document containing Firstname, Lastname, and Emailaddress.
Can anyone suggest a mailing list software I could use to send out HTML emails to these 1,500 addresses? Ideally I need to be able to load an HTML file (utilising in-line CSS styles) into the email software, and then have it auto-send that HTML file to all recipients on the database. Thus, presenting to the end user an HTML email in their inbox.
Ideally I need the software to be able to utilise at least both the Firstname and Emailaddress fields from the Excel database - so each recipient can be greeted with "Hello Firstname".
(If it's not possible to recommend software in this forum - could someone please advise what sort of product I should be looking for online? Many thanks!)
EVO
