Bulk e mail question

[kevs]

I have some e mail lists ( not spam, opt in) of few thousand names. I was
going to use this web based bulk mailer, but did test and all e mails ended
up in my junk mail. I tested with 5 newly created web based e mails
addresses and same thing-- but it did make it into Lycos mails inbox. Then
found better company.

Better company got into all the inbox (except Lycos!), and all my personal
inbox -- much better performance. I called the good company and asked why
did it not get into the Lycos account? -- which even the crappy company
achieved. Guy said, " oh, our isp is blacklisted from Lycos mail"

I asked how many isp's is he blacklisted from, he said maybe 2%, not a lot.
(could it be more?)

Here is my question:

I still thinking of using the good company, but wondering, what about using
a computer based bulk e mailer? the pro would be probably more mail being
accepted (since my home isp is not a known spammer and not blacklisted
anywhere) -- to my knowledge. And it would just be a one time $75 fee -- as
opposed to $1000 year using the web based company.

The con is that there are no stats (how important is that really?), and
there is a big learning curve to learn how to schedule e mails at 50 per
hour, and 500 max per day, and monitor that over a week or some from home.

Any opinions? thanks.

Kevs

OS 10.4.7
Office 2004

 

[Scott]

I had (have) the same issue going on. I have 2500 email addresses from
my business, and finally decided to start contact them with a bulk
mailer, to send out monthly specials, but also to find out which ones
were inactive or no longer wanted to be in our database.

I finally chose MaxBulk Mailer, based on some reviews I'd read from
some of the long-time Entourage users. I really like it. It does have a
learning curve, and I still don't know how to use all of the features,
but after a couple of tests and tweaking, it worked.

I also did a key thing with my ISP: I called them and told them I
needed a much-larger hourly and daily email allotment. This took
awhile, because they wanted to see my "optin" method, and I no longer
had any (they were all paid members to my site, or had purchased
something from us). But once we proved that we weren't spammers, and
would always include a way to get immediately deleted off our database,
they agreed.

We've since mailed out 2 mass emails. Each time, a bunch of them (about
50) bounce back, and we assume they're dead emails and we delete them
from the DB. Some probably end up in people's junk folder, but that's
inevitable, and if they're like me, they periodically go through their
junk mail filter to find any that are good. But because we're sending
them through an email address that they've seen before, and through a
well-known ISP, I think this is a minimal problem.

Scott

 

[kevs]

Thanks Scott:
I've decided to go with the easier web based method (more expensive), but if
it does not work out, Max Bulk it at top of list.

My ISP charges $70 month (lot!) and only increases the usage from 500 to
1000 day!

Kevs

I had (have) the same issue going on. I have 2500 email addresses from
my business, and finally decided to start contact them with a bulk
mailer, to send out monthly specials, but also to find out which ones
were inactive or no longer wanted to be in our database.

I finally chose MaxBulk Mailer, based on some reviews I'd read from
some of the long-time Entourage users. I really like it. It does have a
learning curve, and I still don't know how to use all of the features,
but after a couple of tests and tweaking, it worked.

I also did a key thing with my ISP: I called them and told them I
needed a much-larger hourly and daily email allotment. This took
awhile, because they wanted to see my "optin" method, and I no longer
had any (they were all paid members to my site, or had purchased
something from us). But once we proved that we weren't spammers, and
would always include a way to get immediately deleted off our database,
they agreed.

We've since mailed out 2 mass emails. Each time, a bunch of them (about
50) bounce back, and we assume they're dead emails and we delete them
from the DB. Some probably end up in people's junk folder, but that's
inevitable, and if they're like me, they periodically go through their
junk mail filter to find any that are good. But because we're sending
them through an email address that they've seen before, and through a
well-known ISP, I think this is a minimal problem.

Scott

OS 10.4.7
Office 2004