Comments on: Recommendations for a mailing list host?

Question: Recommendations for a mailing list host?

mark7570 — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:40:33 -0800

Does anyone have a good mailing list company to recommend for a big weekly e-mail newsletter? I send a plaintext e-mail newsletter to a mailing list of 25,000 or so double-opt-in subscribers - mailing them 10-15k of plaintext every week or two - and my current host of several years - Sparklist - is giving me billing trouble. My hosting fee used to be less $100 a month and now they're charging $500 or more. I'm looking for a new company to send out the list, give me a control panel to add and remove subscribers, and give a price closer to $100/month than $500.

Note that I'm looking for a company to give me online access to send/manage subscribers ... I'm not looking to run this myself with listserv, majordomo, or some other app that I'd run myself.

By: piro

piro — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:53:17 -0800

My organization's been astoundingly happy with ConstantContact. Reasonable prices, non-profit discounts, and helpful phone staff if you ever need it.

By: gac

gac — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:57:00 -0800

We've been happy with Campaign Monitor -- their fee schedule is $5 / mailing + $0.01 / list recipient.

By: junkbox

junkbox — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:09:28 -0800

If you're looking for an ASP solution, I thought the folks at Emma were super nice. Their product is definitely geared towards the design agency/non-profit crowd. I've also heard good things about MailChimp.

By: traderjoefan

traderjoefan — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:10:05 -0800

I have a lot of experience with Constant Contact as a web designer and my clients love it. I have also heard good things about something called Vertical Response.

By: katie

katie — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:19:45 -0800

Thirding Constant Contact. My boss switched to this service recently and she raves about how much better it is than our former one (sorry, not sure what that one was).

By: wordwhiz

wordwhiz — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:48:44 -0800

What about Got Marketing?

By: mark7570

mark7570 — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:10:41 -0800

Thanks, all - I've heard great things about Constant Contact as well, and my team has also consulted to them on their user experience. My only issue, for my newsletter, is that I don't think they support plaintext - they're HTML all the way.

By: beaucoupkevin

beaucoupkevin — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:28:27 -0800

With the volume that you're looking at, along with the fact that it's plaintext, I'd recommend contacting SwiftPage Email. They offer low rates and if you ever go to HTML, they accomodate very easily.

Disclaimer: I work for a company that has a product supporting the SwiftPage platform for HTML.

By: traderjoefan

traderjoefan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:35:19 -0800

They do support plain text. The preview window has 2 tabs, one for HTML and one for plain text. You can also enter different information in each.