[IT Advice] Need to send 13,000 emails to past customers- how do I do this?

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I think you can send other items too besides newsletters though I'm not too sure. I know someone who used this before. Sorry if it's not of any assistance.

 

Actually never mind, I don't think it'd be of any good use. I re-read your post.

As for Go Daddy, I think their bulk mail policy is set to 250 recipients.

 

I am an IT admin for a company that does bulk email and marketing. First, did your customers specifically opt in when they signed up with their emails. As in, was there a checkbox that said they would like to receive future emails. If this is how the emails were acquired then you should be ok with sending.

You can't bulk send if the email addresses you got from customers asking for quotes, or attained from other means without them specifically telling them that you can use their email address for future contact. The reason they do this is because the mailing server and IP addresses are attached with a reputation, which allows bulk senders to send mail without being blocked by the ISPs for spam sending. If a customer didn't sign up, they will hit the spam button which goes to a feedback loop, marking the sending server and IP address as spam, therefor causing trouble for the email people like constant contact, mailchimp, etc.

Now, with that being said, you can try and do an import with those email addresses, but you MUST specify an opt in and opt out clause in your newsletter. It has to say something like, if you wish to receive future emails, or stop emailing me. Most of the senders have something like that built in already, but you can only send to those email addresses 1 time. Most likely, they'll either opt out, or mark you as spam and you'll take that hit. You can then send to your opt in list only.

Some good senders I like are mailchimp and myemma. Good luck with your sending.

 

Do you mean ONE email to 13,000 customers...or 13,000 emails to all your customers?

 

You need a bigger keyboard.

 

IBTL,

I would say a Newsletter is exactly what you are sending out. Make sure it is personalized with the recipients name...to maximize effectiveness.

I'm not sure why you are against a Newsletter for announcing a new product/service. Can you explain? It seems almost a semantic difference.

 

I think doboyz meant that you can't include a quote-inquiring customer's email to the bulk email list.

If a customer sends an RFQ via email, you can only send relating correspondence, such as the quote itself, to that specific email. Unless that customer tells you to copy other emails or gives you other directions and permission.

On to your initial inquiry, we do not usually do bulk mailing and do not want to pay a telemarketing company to send out an email to thousands of accounts.

I am the marketing manager for a small engineering company, and we do our own call-out ads. We use a program called "Email Campaign." It's very bare bones. Very glitchy, but it sends out the email well.

 

http://mailchimp.com

Free for up to 12000 emails a month.

 

I'm a Marketing guy, not an IT guy, but I have tons of experience in email marketing.

1. You don't have to have a leads permission. People buy and sell email lists all of the time.

2. You don't have to build up your IP's reputation, that's what 3rd party mailing services are for.

3.

You simply import a CSV with the contact info and click a box that certifying that those contacts are opted-in. Easy as that. There is no verification process.

I recommend iContact.

I'll do any copywriting, list building/uploading , e-mail template creating, landing page creating, design, and deliverability reporting for you. If you pay.

 

rep not necessary but thanks anyway. Email Campaign by Summitsoft. We got it from Fry's.

http://www.frys.com/search?search_type=regular&sqxts=1&query_string=email+campaign&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&cat=0

 

I have a spammer program taht I wrote that sends out 100 emails a minute. i'll mail it for you for a hundred dollars flat rate.