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Just curious: when they write "Unlimited", what exactly do they mean? Wouldn't this be a spammer's good investement?
I work at MailChimp. The answer is nope.
As you work at MailChimp, it would have helped if you would have given that detail.
Extensive list of e-mail marketing services, free and paid: http://techblog.willshouse.com/?p=522 (Constant Contact, iContact, Vertical Response, StreamSend, and many more)
wish it distinguished free from paid.
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I work at MailChimp. The answer is nope.
Thanks for your answer. I imagined so. But I could also think of some legitimate heavy-duty users who could threaten your profitability. Is there any fine print for those cases?
ETA: Also see bjonathan's comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170619: Amazon, which probably offers something closer to "server and bandwidth", is much cheaper.
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I work at MailChimp. The answer is nope.
Thanks for your answer. I imagined so. But I could also think of some legitimate heavy-duty users who could threaten your profitability. Is there any fine print for those cases?
Great for free users - my concern is that it won't scale or that they're not as profitable as they'd like to be.
I work at MailChimp. I don't worry about that.
Email campaigns are so easy in MailChimp and I'd like to maintain the look of those mails in my transactional mails. Nonetheless, you guys provide a great service!
Their 'reverse freemium' approach is really interesting -- rather than de-emphasising the free and focusing on the [pre]mium side of their biz, they've been slowly expanding their free options and growing rapidly -- in terms of profit -- because of it.
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I work at MailChimp. I don't worry about that.
I've often wondered why MailChimp doesn't offer more support for transactional mails. I know there is some stuff in the API but it seems bolted on (am I wrong?). I would really like to use the standard templating for email campaigns that MailChimp has, and use it for transactional mails. An API call to MailChimp with some some arguments would then send a template, the variables (dynamically) filled in, to the user. E…
http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-transactional-e...
It rolled out this very week.
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Thanks for your answer. I imagined so. But I could also think of some legitimate heavy-duty users who could threaten your profitability. Is there any fine print for those cases?
No fine-print. Our high volume plans for large email lists are not unlimited, but smaller lists are completely free to send as much as they want. In practice, you'll hit our anti-spam limits long before you hurt our profitability if you try to send lots of email to a smaller list.
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I work at MailChimp. The answer is nope.
As someone who doesn't know much about MailChimp, the original question seems valid. A little more detailed answer (like the one by qeorge) would have helped me understand this better. As you work at MailChimp, it would have helped if you would have given that detail.
Our approach to dealing with fuzzy spam is here: http://blog.mailchimp.com/project-omnivore-declassified/
an update was posted here: http://blog.mailchimp.com/update-on-omnivore-new-3-strikes-r...
Probably shoulda brought that up in my blog post (it's usually the first question techies ask), but it's something our customers are pretty familiar with, so I left it out.
Just curious: when they write "Unlimited", what exactly do they mean? Wouldn't this be a spammer's good investement?
MailChimp are very diligent about spam. If your emails get reported as spam more than %0.5 of the time you'll be banned. So "Unlimited" has a built in limit. (We use/love MailChimp, definitely recommended.)
Have I mentioned I love MailChimp? They take deliverability seriously.
(Also, they do have actual human beings who you can talk to if you get flagged unnecessarily. For example, within 24 hours of opening my account and funding it, it was closed because I used the word "bingo" in a draft email. Their filter smacked me down for promoting gambling. I mailed them and the CS department got back with "Thanks for your explanation of what your business actually does. OK, we reinstated you. Be careful.")