Does anyone know of, or have an evaluation of the various mailing services out there.  Some of the services seem useful but expensive.  Some don't even have a phone number to speak to a marketing or support rep! Gotta reach out by email if you need help. (Scary if you're having a critical deadline.)

I'm emailing about 5,000 messages a month (our database consists of 3,000 subscribers) for a government agency notifying constituents of policy changes and software upgrades. So I'm not selling any product where I need payment transactions.

Please provide links to any articles, blogs which evaluate these types of services or blogs/sites which discuss these types of services.  When I google, I get link farms and other oddities popping up in search results.

I'm contemplating shutting down my Exchange operation; a single Exchange server in a medium size church, with five full time staff members.  There is a really large Contact list, but it is not used for mass emailings because of our slow internet onnectionk (DSL). Constant Contact us used for that.  One alternative I'm pondering is just using Gmail.  Each staffer would have his or her own address in the form of Individual-Identifier.Organization@gmail.com, e.g. ronh.ChurchName@gmail.com.   There could also be, I think, a general purpose / multiuser address, e.g. office.churchname@gmail.com to which each staff person would have access.  Each person would/could have his or her own contact list, sort of like some do already in their Outlook clients.  A contact list could be maintained in the multiuse account, somewhat simulating the Global Account List in Exchange.

I'm hoping that the community will point out any flaws in this approach and make suggestions.

It is increasingly seeming to me that running an Exchange server in this environment it like using a diesel locomotive to crack walnuts, especially with the existence now of such services as Gmail which wasn't an option 18 years ago when we adopted Exchange.

I'm already using Google Groups for a closed group that 20 church leaders use to send messages among themselves and no others.

Any and all thoughts much appreciated.

ron hicks

I say Free, but wold pay $29. I need to tele-market to the media and need a program that can have list of follow-ups calls I need to make, once I have filled it with calls I will have made.

What tools are there for this?

I am a Mac user so this must work on a Mac OS, or via browser.

Thanks

Can Constant Contact be used to generate INDIVIDUAL emails via php on a web server using an API?

If so, examples?

Thanks

Hi Experts

Want to achieve the following:
1. sending a massive amount of emails over a short time period (ie. 75,000 to 100,000 emails in under one day).
2. should be allowed or possible to import 30,000 to 50,000 email contacts at one go or per one import session
3. will subscribe for third party smtp email service provider for this service

Suggestion/Recommendation request  
a)can you please suggest to achieve the above,  is it recommended to setup the infrastructure by procuring the good hard ware server  and install Sugarcrm and with dedicated upstream internet bandwidth 20 to 25 mbps
 OR
 b)going for cloud service of dedicated server and setup sugarcrm and configure the third party smtp server so that need not invest on server and huge dedicated bandwidth recurring cost , please let us know the names of cloud service provider to whom I can reach

the reason iam not thinking about the cloud based email marketing solution like constant contact, mailchimp because they do not allow massive email campaigns on one go/same day also very expensive

considerations or limitations: it is accepted by my functional heads on non-opted-in email accounts will make the email delivery to spam but still they are okay with this. can you please suggest on what best I can do here for my company needs

Thanks in advance

Need help getting this right.

Keep getting this error: [{"error_key":"http.status.unauthorized","error_message":"No authentication is present."}]

Sub Bentely()

strPostURL = "https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/contacts?status=ALL&limit=50&api_key=[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]"
strPostString = "Authorization: Bearer [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]"
Debug.Print strPostString

Dim objRequest As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP
objRequest.Open "POST", strPostURL, False
objRequest.Send strPostSting
strPostResponse = objRequest.responseText
Debug.Print strPostResponse
Set objRequest = Nothing

End Sub

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Is there some kind of add-on support limitations with Outlook 2013? I think the version I have installed is one downloaded from the portal.office.com where I sign in and ran the software for desktop.
Is this not full Outlook 2013? Version 15.0.4701.1002

I'm finding that when trying to load the Constant Contact importer add-on, it will not show up in add-ons. I can't find it anywhere to enable. I logged into Constant Contact, downloaded the add-on for Outlook and ran the installer.

For a minute I saw the add-no when I ran Outlook with Administrator privileges, but there was a yellow toolbar griping about disabling for some bizarre performance reasons or something.
Uninstalled Constant Contact then re-installed, can't even get it to show anymore. The "Add-ins" menu also doesn't even show at the top of Outlook.

We have a user that is currently using Outlook 2010 and we use a Hosted Exchange 2010 platform for our baseline.  This user has built up a list of contacts into groups in Outlook.  This user sends emails to these contacts on a daily basis always using BCC to keep the recipients discreet while getting bids for a current project.  This has been working well for months for this user but the Outlook Contact Groups are getting to a point where they are starting to fuss about the size.  The contacts have a bit of details inside of them like the signatures pasted in (pictures included) and details copied into the appropriate fields so they are not so tiny anymore.

My question has to do with trying to find a better way to send emails to these large lists of people.  Keeping the contacts inside of Outlook isn't the problem but more the problem concerns the number of contacts inside of a Group.  He has some Groups and we talked about breaking them out alphabetically and creating multiples next to each other but that would get less organized and confusing overall.  I thought about using software like Infacta's GroupMail which acts as a mailer but I don't know if this would simplify the grouping of contacts any better.  I also thought about using Constant Contact (with Outlook Sync options) but that isn't really the strong point for CC either.  I am looking for some software that can synchronize up with an Outlook Address Book (Contacts) and make it easier to send emails to a bunch of …

I am working for a small organization with maybe 200 mailboxes in their Exchange 2003.  They use constant contact to send out bulk emails to their people as well as to people who support their organization.  Every time they send out a bulk email two or three of their internal users do not get the emails.  The odd thing is that out of 20 or so of their internal people who are on this list, only these three do not get the email.

They contacted constant contact to ask them for help and the response from CC was sending them the NDR which is:

status=bounced (host mail.ajrsem.org[108.46.205.66] said: 550 5.7.1 Requested action not taken: message refused (in reply to end of DATA command))

Again, this only happens for three of the names on the list, so I think it cannot have anything to do with their domain.  I would think it has to do with the specific people.  I have tried whitlisting whatever I can, but with Exchange 2003 it is limited.

They are also using Sonicwall Spam filtering.  This was added recently, the problem was appearing before they started using this and the same three people are not getting emails.  Since there was no major change, I would think that the problem is not with the Sonicwall.

I am being put under pressure to figure this out especially since one of the three email addresses is for the head of this organization.  Can anyone help?

W3C compliance issue with the following line.

<a href="http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=u6nm85dab&p=oi&m=1103768205236" target="_blank"><img src="images/send.png" alt="send button" width="131" height="40" class="center"/></a>

I tested the page in the Validator link below.  You can see all the issues that are all appearing on line 152 of my page.  I received the code from constant contact.  How do I fix this as it's clearly not W3C compliant.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livewirewebsolutions.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.3+http%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2Fservices

Bulk emailing really isn't my thing - so I'm not really aware of all the legalities/customs/conventions/etc with how lists are to be managed.

I was told today that if, say, I wanted to move my list from Constant Contact to Mailchimp (or go from any "mailer" to another) - I legally have to notify everyone on my list that the change is being made and give them the option to opt out before the switch is made.

Is that true?

What is considered the best email plugin for WordPress that is somewhat like constant Contact, where subscribers can maintain the data base themselves and as administrator I could do mass mailings.
Thanks
Don