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

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Post by kirkus »

jwblackwell wrote: post #20

We use to use http://sendy.co/ which is a self hosted solution, but doesn't really offer anything in the way of templates and lacks some features. We ultimately left as we now use Intercom but I'd be interested in seeing how this service evolves.

Yeh with Sendy you need to install it and configure it on your hosting. You also need to update it every time new features get released. With SendGlide we take care of all the hosting for you. All you need to do is log in to the SendGlide app and away you go. All new features are free for customers. We're really focusing on making sending emails and managing email campaigns easy and simple.

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

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Post by jaredmiwilliams »

xyby wrote: post #7
jvvlimme wrote: post #5

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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?

Your bounce rate and reasons.

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

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Post by neeraga »

jwblackwell wrote: post #20

We use to use http://sendy.co/ which is a self hosted solution, but doesn't really offer anything in the way of templates and lacks some features. We ultimately left as we now use Intercom but I'd be interested in seeing how this service evolves.

The email template builder at SendGlide is really fantastic. You would definitely love it. Give it a try.

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

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Post by glomph »

neeraga wrote: post #10
xyby wrote: post #6

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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.

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

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

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Post by qu1mby »

xyby wrote: post #6
kirkus wrote: post #3

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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…

Could you use a url parameter on the end of the real url (e.g. example.com/page?source=email_[date]), and then use the history object to strip the param once they land on the url (modern browsers)?

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

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Post by jaxn »

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.

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