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Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by aezell »

glomph wrote: post #27
neeraga wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right, deliverability can be measured via pixel image itself. That is the same process that we follow at SendGlide.

Google caches those images though. So it isn't accurate for gmail.

Only for repeat opens. The original open still accesses a particular URL specific to that recipient so the open is recorded even if Gmail hides IP, browser, OS, and other data via their proxy. If the user doesn't view the images, that open is never recorded anyway. So, the caching doesn't actually affect the open rate.

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by neeraga »

jaxn wrote: post #30

I think there is a pretty small market for small businesses who want to use a service like this, but want to / are capable of setting up their own Amazon SES setup. The small business market is already hard since budgets are small and support needs are high.

We know setting SES might be little hard for the first time and that's the reason we have written thorough guides which users can follow to setup their SES account. http://www.sendglide.com/setup-amazon-ses-account-with-sendg...

Potential savings over long run is pretty high once someone setups and connect SES with SendGlide.

Other than that we are always available to help incase someone needs any help in setting up their SES account.

If you willing to join us, you can contact us anytime via contact link on our website.

Thanks Neeraj

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by neeraga »

martin-adams wrote: post #26

Might want to set up redirects, canonical or robots.txt on http://www.owlsend.com/ as right now you're double serving your content to Google and is not optimal from an SEO standpoint, let alone confusing for customers.

Thanks for the feedback. I will add redirect to SendGlide.

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by jrs235 »

This is owlsend (owlsend.com) re-branded after causing confusion with sendowl (sendowl.com). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154

I'm glad to see they fixed their logo so it isn't a blue owl.

I'm disappointed to see that they still haven't made it more clear that the $29 / month is a flat rate to use their interface and the end user still pays $1 / 10,000 emails to SES. If you send a weekly email (4/month) to 10,000 subscribers, you pay $29 + $4 = $33. If you send a daily (30 / month) email to 10,000 subscribers you'll pay $29 + $30 = $59. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070921

Re: Show HN: SendGlide – Beautiful email marketing for small businesses

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Post by neeraga »

jrs235 wrote: post #37

This is owlsend (owlsend.com) re-branded after causing confusion with sendowl (sendowl.com). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068154 I'm glad to see they fixed their logo so it isn't a blue owl. I'm disappointed to see that they still haven't made it more clear that the $29 / month is a flat rate to use their interface and the end user still pays $1 / 10,000 emails to SES. If you send a weekly email (4/month) to…

Yes, You got it right.

If you have 50,000 subscribers and you send bi-weekly emails or roughly 10 campaigns every month.

You would be paying $49(Flat Fee) + 10*($5) = $99

Any other email service charges roughly $250 or more for the same. So overall there is huge cost saving with SES along with SendGlide.

If you are willing to join SendGlide, Feel free to jump on the live chat on the site or send an email. http://www.sendglide.com/contact-us/

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