I’d like to have a convenient way to email all of my clients at once to advertise new specials and other things of that nature. Can anyone recommend a free site that will make this easy to do? I use Yahoo for standard emails, but need a better “mass email” system.
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April 9th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
If you have a website your hosting company may provide a mailing list script. If your client list is very large, this method may bog down your site while the mailing goes out.
Some free mailing list services (they may require that your clients opt-in):
Yahoo Groups (you can make a private group)
Your Mailing List Provider
Bravenet
Zinester
Google has group mailing too, but I don’t know anything about it, including whether you can make private groups.
Be sure to research reliability and deliverability. Free services are often busy and the server may be slow or unavailable at times. And spammers tend to use free services so the service may end up blocked by spam filters.
Free mailing list services usually place advertisements on your mailings so if that’s a problem for you, you’ll need to pay for a service. If you have a responsive list, you’ll recoup the expense very quickly.
April 10th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Set up a distribution list in Yahoo mail… Problem solved. Or you could buy a minivan.