E-Newsletters

[Penfold]

Helpski!

I signed up with a company for e-newsletters and it's just not working out. They're called Benchmark Email and it's not working as it's supposed to. The templates so match up with the final result etc etc.

Anyone come across or know of a cheap and easy way to send out e-newsletters? I'm happy to design and write them (I guess) but I don't know the best way to distribute them - email obvioulsy but embedded or attached etc.

Anyone familiar with this sort of thing?

Thanks

[Gandalf]

We use Mailing Manager at work, good interface and the prices are good too.

[Penfold]

Thanks that'll be great for the future.

In the interim, I have an email which has been created and I can save it as html. Anyone know how I can send it in the body of the email - via outlook or eudora or something?

Thanks

[Jabbs]

Thanks that'll be great for the future.

In the interim, I have an email which has been created and I can save it as html. Anyone know how I can send it in the body of the email - via outlook or eudora or something?

Thanks

Try opening the HTML in IE or FF, selecting and then copying and then pasting into a new email message?

Course if recipients have their program to receive text only you will need to put something like the standard "If you are having trouble viewing this email, click here" Clicking the link will take them to the HTML page on your website (which I'm sure you can do!)

[Gaara]

An e-mail campaign sending program we used at my former job is called Campaign Monitor. This allows you to create an HTML template of your e-mail, which you can provide with content through the campaign monitor program.

It tends to get a bit techy, but it might be worth a look.

[Gandalf]

Also, for small mailshots, we use G-Lock EasyMail. There is a free version too, with restrictions. Easy to use (which is good for the monkeys that work here!) and the business version we use can hook into an external database.

[Dewey]

I've just looked at this at work as we are also looking to send out eNewsletters - Campaign Monitor looks very good as it allows you to measure stats on your eNewsletters ie how many people have clicked on a link, opened the eNewsletter etc.
 
However we ended up not using it as there was no merge database facility that I could fine - and we would have to use exported csv files monthly outputting from our current staff system - meaning each month if someone wanted to unsubscribe everytime you updated it there subscribition details would be lost.
 
Still looked very good value though and easy to use.
 
The problem with eNewsletters is they aren't what you'd call accessibile as the layout is made from tables.
 
 

An e-mail campaign sending program we used at my former job is called Campaign Monitor. This allows you to create an HTML template of your e-mail, which you can provide with content through the campaign monitor program.
 
It tends to get a bit techy, but it might be worth a look.

[Dewey]

OOh hooks into external database - will have a look at that thanks Gandalf.
 

Also, for small mailshots, we use G-Lock EasyMail. There is a free version too, with restrictions. Easy to use (which is good for the monkeys that work here!) and the business version we use can hook into an external database.

[Penfold]

Thanks guys, there are some great links there.

We started to use Benchmark Email but it's US-based and clunky to say the least. Lots of nice UK alternatives here.

Thanks again - what would I do without you all ? :3cheers: