newsletter software?

[islandphoto]

Hi everyone, I have been trying to figure out a way to send bulk emails to people without it looking like spam in my email. Do any of you recommend a good software or email program to do this with? I use gmail.com and You can't email more than 500 people at a time. I have a really long list of email addresses from the last bridal expo I did.

Thanks!

[tim]

There are companies that specialise in this, I can't remember any offhand sorry, but googling something like "reliable email delivery" might help.

[sierra_nova]

I trialed these guys - www.constantcontact.com - and quite liked it. When my email lists get a lil bigger it will be more worthwhile paying for the service. Not sure if it's exactly what you are after though.

Cheers,
Naomi

[islandphoto]

thanks! i'll check them out.

[Banbert]

DJ is one of the masters of self promotion and marketing, he uses http://www.icontact.com and it looked very full featured when I looked at it.

I don't do newsletters myself but I have created a feed from my blog using www.feedburner.com (now owned by google) and that means people can subscribe to my blog and it sends them an email when new things are posted. If several things are posted in the same day they will still only get one email for the day, if nothings posted they don't get any email, not many subscribers as of yet but from small acorns large tree's eventually grow. One of the nice things about feedburner is that its free, plus having a feed from your blog also opens up other options for promoting yourself, e.g. I have a little banner on one of my other sites (www.boundlessinfo.co.uk right hand side under the google ads ) that continually rotates the latest things posted to my blog, its static code on the boundlessinfo site that produces dynamic ever changing content there direct from the blog, you could even have a whole blog page on your static website thats just reflecting the dynamic content posted to your blog, theres lots more examples of this nature that feeds can be used for and I expect this to be an area that we see people exploiting more in the future.