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Re: MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

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Post by zacharycohn »

lukestevens wrote: post #16

Probably worth relinking their excellent blog post "Going Freemium: One Year Later" http://blog.mailchimp.com/going-freemium-one-year-later/ 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.

I think the major difference here is that it's easy to have to migrate from free to paid. If your site/newsletter starts doing well, you hit a point where you HAVE to start paying them.

Re: MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

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Post by slig »

marcusEting wrote: post #5

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)

Anyone with experience on Direct Mail(http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/)? I'd like to use it with SendGrid and later move to SES.

Re: MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

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Post by ssharp »

patio11 wrote: post #20
qeorge wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

0.1% actually. I kid you not. (This causes me a minor issue once a year. One of my autoresponders caught a flag in January for having 6 / 4000 = 0.15% spam complaints. They were quite clear in their mail: I'm on probation.) 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 o…

I ran into an issue with Constant Contact that basically banned one of my mailing segments of around 500 emails. The rest of the list was okay to send to, just one segment was blocked. The issue was a false positive spam test by Constant Contact and they refused to unlock that segment. Even had they unblocked it, the CS experience was still bad enough to raise a warning flag.

I've since moved on to MailChimp and have been much happier with it than I was CC.

I'm glad to see them improving on an already highly functional free-tier.

Re: MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

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Post by vrikhter »

nhangen wrote: post #2

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.

Was doing some reading on the company and came across this: http://www.quora.com/How-much-revenue-is-MailChimp-doing-the...

If that's really true, I don't imagine they will have to worry for a while.

Re: MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

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Post by jhammer »

slig wrote: post #25
marcusEting wrote: post #5

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)

Anyone with experience on Direct Mail( http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/ )? I'd like to use it with SendGrid and later move to SES.

I'm the developer of Direct Mail, if you have any questions. We have several customers using Direct Mail with SendGrid and they seem to be very happy with the setup.
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