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Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by jaysonelliot »

We've got about 12,000 people on our announce list. I switched us over to Sendy three months ago.

It doesn't have the slick, "just works" appeal of MailChimp, but it also doesn't carry the big monthly price tag.

We've had the same open and clickthrough rates with Sendy as before, and I haven't encountered any problems getting marked as spam. That said, our entire list is people who actively came to the site and signed up for updates.

If price were no object, we'd go back to MailChimp in a heartbeat. But they were charging us $125/month just to keep our mailing list on the service, whether we sent anything that month or not. Just not a good use of funds for us at this stage. Sendy is great at our current size.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by bhouston »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #24
bhouston wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have 100,000 users (which we have), MailChimp is really expensive. Details: http://mailchimp.com/pricing/high-volume/ Mailchimp is thus $475.00 per 100K per month ($5700 per year!) That is a lot to spend on just email. With Sendy + SES it costs me $10 to do a send to our 100,000 users. Now I could play around with switching plans all the time at MailChimp to try and always minimize my costs, but I don't want t…

If I'm reading the FAQ correct, SES maxes out at 10k emails/day, meaning it'll take you 10 days to email your entire list.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/request...

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/manage-...

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by pbowyer »

SuperKlaus wrote: post #28
pdeuchler wrote: post #6

shameless plug Or you could just use the free Sendgrid plan for up to 12k emails a month :)

Or you could avoid doing business with Sendgrid and use mailgun or mailjet.

Finally someone mentioning these! I've used Sendgrid, but I love Mailgun.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by Zaheer »

Sendy is awesome and for non-technical people it is even easier and still has enormous cost savings to use a fully managed Sendy hosting provider. I use SendyHosting.com and it's worked great in my 2ish years of use with over 50k subscribers:

My referral link: http://www.sendyhosting.com/?utm_source=tagsforlikes&utm_med...

link: http://www.sendyhosting.com

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by zippergz »

bhouston wrote: post #19
_neil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a bit over the top. Mail chimp is hugely valuable if you are in their target user base. And for non-technical clients, mail chimp is (imo) a massive step up from other mailing list providers.

If you have 100,000 users (which we have), MailChimp is really expensive. Details: http://mailchimp.com/pricing/high-volume/ Mailchimp is thus $475.00 per 100K per month ($5700 per year!) That is a lot to spend on just email. With Sendy + SES it costs me $10 to do a send to our 100,000 users. Now I could play around with switching plans all the time at MailChimp to try and always minimize my costs, but I don't want t…

Clearly it depends on your business and how you measure the value. I've worked for companies that spent over $5k/mo on Mailchimp and thought it quite worth it.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by cglee »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #31

We've got about 12,000 people on our announce list. I switched us over to Sendy three months ago. It doesn't have the slick, "just works" appeal of MailChimp, but it also doesn't carry the big monthly price tag. We've had the same open and clickthrough rates with Sendy as before, and I haven't encountered any problems getting marked as spam. That said, our entire list is people who actively came to the site and signe…

Are you sure that's true? Doesn't Mailchimp have a per-per-credit alternative to their recurring monthly pricing?

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by elif »

cglee wrote: post #37
jaysonelliot wrote: post #31

We've got about 12,000 people on our announce list. I switched us over to Sendy three months ago. It doesn't have the slick, "just works" appeal of MailChimp, but it also doesn't carry the big monthly price tag. We've had the same open and clickthrough rates with Sendy as before, and I haven't encountered any problems getting marked as spam. That said, our entire list is people who actively came to the site and signe…

Are you sure that's true? Doesn't Mailchimp have a per-per-credit alternative to their recurring monthly pricing?

yes there is pay-as-you-go and alternatively you can suspend monthly billing.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by detaro »

cglee wrote: post #37
jaysonelliot wrote: post #31

We've got about 12,000 people on our announce list. I switched us over to Sendy three months ago. It doesn't have the slick, "just works" appeal of MailChimp, but it also doesn't carry the big monthly price tag. We've had the same open and clickthrough rates with Sendy as before, and I haven't encountered any problems getting marked as spam. That said, our entire list is people who actively came to the site and signe…

Are you sure that's true? Doesn't Mailchimp have a per-per-credit alternative to their recurring monthly pricing?

They have, but it would cost the GP $240 per mailing to all 12.000 users (0.02 per mail).

12.000 mails on Amazon SES are only slightly above 1$ (+ Sendy hosting of course). So the question is if Mailchimp offers features that save them 200$ worth of time.

Re: Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy

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Post by Animats »

IgorPartola wrote: post #33
Animats wrote: post #25

This article is a spam from a spammer for a spamming tool, aimed at other spammers.

How so?

When you see the word "campaign" associated with email, it means "marketing campaign", which means spam.

Canada is having a crackdown on spam. "CRTC Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer issues $1.1 million penalty to Compu-Finder for spamming Canadians" ... "Compu-Finder sent commercial electronic messages without the recipient’s consent as well as emails in which the unsubscribe mechanisms did not function properly. The emails sent by Compu-Finder promoted various training courses to businesses, often related to topics such as management, social media and professional development."

The next time you consider "informing people about your webinar" via email, remember that.

[1] http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=944159

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