Their main pricing page, http://mailchimp.com/pricing/, is much better from a marketing and sales standpoint. I'm surprised they even provide a link to the "all" page since it probably doesn't apply to 99% of their potential customers.
Mailchimp's pricing
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#12If an infinite number of monkeys type on an infinite number of keyboards, eventually one of them will write an infinitely scrolling, infinitely minute & obtuse pricing list.
Pardon the snark; This week I have to move a client off of MC because their WYSIWYG style editor is practically useless. Anyone with a recommended service?
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#13I think I would much rather roll out my own solution using Mailgun/Amazon's API with a basic RoR/Golang prototype than use these shady monkeys.
It's their business and they have every right to price it the way they see it fit, but when there's something deceptive going on, as an end user I think I have every reason to point it out.
For example, when you start with a free plan and you decide to upgrade to a paid plan, you actually need to go about 5 levels to actually get over 2000 users! And it's not pretty cheap either. I mean $100k to send just emails? (Keep scrolling down)
I once used them when Feedburner bailed out on us, only to never look back at these monkeys (that's their trademarked mascot) and I rolled out my own basic solution on my VPS in just good old PHP (with Wordpress) and it worked well. And I definitely didn't spend $5 for 50 emails, just $20 for my basic Linode.
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#14I started out using mailchimp when I had less than 2000 subscribers. It worked great! But now that my mail list is growing, I find it increasingly expensive. Any recommendations on alternative providers?
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#15Some clients of mine left mailchimp for this very reason (and because the web style editor wasn't great, but mostly pricing). You start on a free plan, and get 2000 users, you hit that limit, and are considering moving up, then realise that their lowest plan is actually below the number of users on the free plan - you have to go up to the 5th plan to actually get over 2000 users again. The limits are pretty low and t…
> Some clients of mine left mailchimp for this very reason
left in favor of? Mind sharing them?
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#16I think the real thing here is:
0 - 500 $10 unlimited
501 - 1,000 $15
1,001 - 1,050 $20 // $5 = 50 emails
1,051 - 1,150 $25 //$5 = 100 emails
1,151 - 2,500 $30 //$5 = 1350 emails
2,501 - 2,600 $35 // $5 = 100 emails
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#17That is the mother of all pricing tables. It almost looks like a parody.
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#18I thought that there was a strange bug on this page, look at the ridicules price hikes. 501 - 1,000 $15 1,001 - 1,050 $20 5$ for 50 mails ..... 10 cent per email wow, I think you could get a better deal at the post office :)
That's the number of subscribers, number of emails you can send is unlimited. But regardless, this is a pretty stupid way to list out your pricing scheme.
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#19What are we expected to discuss here? I do not see anything wrong with this page.
The price jumps are all over the place.
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#20I think I would much rather roll out my own solution using Mailgun/Amazon's API with a basic RoR/Golang prototype than use these shady monkeys. It's their business and they have every right to price it the way they see it fit, but when there's something deceptive going on, as an end user I think I have every reason to point it out. For example, when you start with a free plan and you decide to upgrade to a paid plan,…
If you're capable of banging out basic RoR/Golang prototypes which can be used by non-technical email marketers, this skill alone can get you $20k+ engagements to build them with a bit of company-specific secret sauce in them. The sauce doesn't have to be that complicated at all -- for example, "I wish there was a way to send people an email on day N of their trial if their account had less than X objects in it... and I want N, X, and the object type to be editable without having to talk to Engineering" justifies $X0k at a lot of places.
(That's sort of software-firm specific because that's who I typically sold that to. Let's see, what's a more prosaic option. Oh, OK: consider a small insurance company in Kansas which collects a meagre $20 million in premium income per year. There exists a non-technical marketing manager within that company who wishes that there was a way to email business customers a solicitation in December to pre-pay their premiums for the following year to book a current-year expense for tax purposes. She calculates that getting an extra 6 months of float on 20% of their $12 million in business policies is worth approximately $100,000. Can you imagine what you could sell her for $40,000?)
In related news: businesses pay serious money for things which make them money. Consider adapting one's behavior to optimize for this. You can use the resulting money to buy lots of fun things, including stupefyingly large amounts of MailChimp credits if that floats your boat.