Hello there,
We are all real novices when it comes to email and newsletters and are umming and arring over the best way to do this. There seems to be two options open to us, both with their pros and cons:
1) Getting a third party to host and send the email. Such as Email Marketing Solutions from Constant Contact and others. These will charge each time per email meaning quite a lot of expenditure each time.
2) Doing it ourselves with certain software such as SendBlaster etc. This means no reoccurring costs but means that we would have to host and send this ourselves. I think that would mean buying space on a Outgoing mail SMTP server so that our own server wouldn’t be blocked if there were issues.
Do I have this correct and what do you think would be the best way for us to go about this problem? Obviously the cheaper the better. But we do not have a lot of time to dedicate to this. We want to do this right and not be spammers! I really appreciate your help.
We are all real novices when it comes to email and newsletters and are umming and arring over the best way to do this. There seems to be two options open to us, both with their pros and cons:
1) Getting a third party to host and send the email. Such as Email Marketing Solutions from Constant Contact and others. These will charge each time per email meaning quite a lot of expenditure each time.
2) Doing it ourselves with certain software such as SendBlaster etc. This means no reoccurring costs but means that we would have to host and send this ourselves. I think that would mean buying space on a Outgoing mail SMTP server so that our own server wouldn’t be blocked if there were issues.
Do I have this correct and what do you think would be the best way for us to go about this problem? Obviously the cheaper the better. But we do not have a lot of time to dedicate to this. We want to do this right and not be spammers! I really appreciate your help.
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