Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
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Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#2I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me.
My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to measure any benefit of styled newsletters over text. So I usually use just text.
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#3I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me. My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to meas…
Yeh you can better measure stats like open rate, CTR and deliverability. It's especially good for marketers and entrepreneurs that want an easy to use interface to manage their email marketing campaigns.
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#4I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75.
So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit
Mail Chimp - $75 - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/
SendGlide - $29 - http://www.sendglide.com/
Still favourable for you but significantly different. I appreciate that pricing is always complicated. Am I missing something?
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#5I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me. My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to meas…
Deliverability is going to be substantially better. IPs from commercial providers are trusted among ISPs and have a better chance not being flagged as spam.
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#6I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me. My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to meas…
Yeh you can better measure stats like open rate, CTR and deliverability. It's especially good for marketers and entrepreneurs that want an easy to use interface to manage their email marketing campaigns.
As far as I know, there is no good way to measure open rate. You can see if images in your html email are loaded. But that could also happen automatically or in a preview pane that is displayed by default.
The reason why I shy away from measuring CTR is that I then cannot give people the real url. I like to directly give them the final url instead of some intermediate page. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer that.
How do you measure deliverability?
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#7I'm sending out a newsletter every now and then. A simple text newsletter that goes out to about 50,000 subscribers. I send it via a PHP script I wrote myself. It can do a/b tests, bounce- and optout-handling. Every time I see commercial offerings like this one, I wonder: Would I gain anything by using them? They seem pretty expensive to me. My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to meas…
Deliverability is going to be substantially better. IPs from commercial providers are trusted among ISPs and have a better chance not being flagged as spam.
What would be a good way to measure that?
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#8I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75. So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit Mail Chimp - $75 - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/ SendGlide - $29 - http://www.sendglide.com/ Still favourable for you but significantly different. I appreciate that pricing is always complicated. Am I missing something?
Ahhh yeh you're right...we were looking at MailChimp "Pay As You Go" plans.
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#9Was a thread about this a couple of days ago also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154 . Looks like they changed their name since then.
Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeh you can better measure stats like open rate, CTR and deliverability. It's especially good for marketers and entrepreneurs that want an easy to use interface to manage their email marketing campaigns.
As far as I know, there is no good way to measure open rate. You can see if images in your html email are loaded. But that could also happen automatically or in a preview pane that is displayed by default. The reason why I shy away from measuring CTR is that I then cannot give people the real url. I like to directly give them the final url instead of some intermediate page. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer that. How…
You're right, deliverability can be measured via pixel image itself. That is the same process that we follow at SendGlide.