Are you a blogger with a growing following and you
need to keep them in the loop with what you're doing?
You might have considered creating an email list and
then sending a lot of BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) Emails.
This is especially true if your blog produces a
newsletter for your avid readers, as pointed out in the article “Five
mostly free mass mailing applications”, published November 4, 2013 By Brien
Posey, TechRepublic.
But you're Gmail account will get shutdown for sure,
creating another headache of the nature which is difficult to recover. Unless
it's the fast rising Mobile Social Media platform such as WhatsApp on a
smartphone, posting online hardly generates traffic.
So what's a blogger to do?
Free
Mass Mailing Applications - Step up to paid for advanced features
If you really need to legally and ethically send out
lots of email to your flock, you can take advantage of mass mailing
applications online.
These programs, some free and some paid, are
especially useful for the following:
1. Opt-in
advertising
2. Communicating
with group members (clubs, churches, etc.)
3. Newsletter
for an online Website
4. Blog
post distribution
The last one applies to me, as I get considerable
traffic from my current subscription service and I've been bulk email people my
blog articles. Using Social Media, especially Facebook, is proving to be quite difficult, especially as Facebook is blocking
certain content from being published.
This makes mass email that more attractive as noted in my blog article entitled “Facebook Controversy Shows Why You Need to be Email Marketing”, published May 16 2016 by David Boutin, SocialQuant.
This makes mass email that more attractive as noted in my blog article entitled “Facebook Controversy Shows Why You Need to be Email Marketing”, published May 16 2016 by David Boutin, SocialQuant.
However, after having lost two (2) Gmail accounts
due to my online shenanigans, I've invested some time in researching mass
mailing applications online. In the process I’ve uncovered a few free mass
mailing applications:
2. e-Campaign
Most of these free mass mailing applications have
built in reporting and tracking to allow you to do the following:
1. Track
who received your email
2. Track
who opened your Email
3. Send
individually tailored email
4. Database
Cloud storage for your mailing list
5. 100
emails per send
So now you see the limitations of the free version,
perhaps the paid versions may be to your liking
Paid
Mass Mailing Applications – Email Renaissance
To get more advance features, like unlimited sending
to hundreds or thousands of people as well as scheduling the sending of your
email, you'll have to upgrade to a paid version as noted in the article “The Best Email
Marketing Software of 2016”, published JULY 28, 2016 by Molly Mclaughlin, PC Magazine.
Here’s a list of the best paid Mass Mailing Software
if you’ve decided to get serious about your email campaign:
3. SendinBlue
5. Infusionsoft
6. Campaigner
7. Emma
8. RedCappi
9. AWeber
10. MailChimp
Still, if you
have more than 100 followers, you may have to invest in multiple Gmail accounts
as well as use all of these email services until you can afford to upgrade to a
paid version.....just saying! With the problems being experienced by Facebook
users as it relates to content censorship, email might just be on the cusp of a
renaissance!
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