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What do you use for direct mail management?
 

I've been manually handling an email list of over 12,000 addresses of previous buyers. Every 2-3 weeks I send out a blast email directing them to my personal website, but doing it manually is getting tiring.

I can't find a service that charges an "OK" amount of money for mailing lists of this size. Mailchimp I think is the cheapest, and even then their prices are ridiculous.

Any input or advice?

Re: What do you use for direct mail management?
 

I was using phplist till my host got sniffy and banned it and demanded I upgrade to a dedicated server account for a 7.5k list sent 3 times a year, told em to stuff it so an also looking for somewhere reasonable to host it again. Will have to research it soon and find somewhere what with Xmas coming

Re: What do you use for direct mail management?
 

12000 addresses - wow

Re: What do you use for direct mail management?
 

You can try SendInBlue https://www.sendinblue.com/ , with free plan you have up to 9,000 per month. The next is $7.37 then you will have 40,000 per month. It is cheaper than Mailchimp.

Re: What do you use for direct mail management?
 

Sendinblue is buggy

:pout:

Re: What do you use for direct mail management?
 

Were you on a host for a website, or on a VPS? The workload generated by this program might be a bit much if you are sharing the server with a thousand other websites, so if that is the case your host may have had a legitimate gripe. But a VPS should be able to handle it without much of an issue. I need be, you could split the list into 2 or 3 smaller lists. And a VPS isn't too expensive. A $15 per month host should be able to do it.

I am NOT a tech guru, but this simple program shouldn't require a full blown dedicated server. Maybe others will chime in, I could be missing something.

Re: What do you use for direct mail management?
 

In fact, I just looked into this and the people who wrote phplist have a hosting option that is not too expensive. A package that allows 15,000 emails per month is €24.99 which is $31.28 in dollars. It could be worth the small extra cost because of their expertise.

https://www.phplist.com/hosted