I own a brick and mortar store with an online shopping site. I have an opt-in “Preferred Customer List” that allows customers to sign up for emails, snail mails, etc. about upcoming sales, store events, etc. We do not send emails to anyone that has not specifically requested to be included in our email list and we make it easy for someone to unsubscribe should they change their mind. We absolutely do not sell, rent or give out our customer’s information in any way.
I need to send approximately 2,500 emails once every two to three weeks and Outlook Express :eek: just isn’t cutting it anymore. I need a program that will allow me to send and manage these emails. I’d like for it to be able to handle up to 20,000 email addresses at a time.
I’ve had one recommendation for Prospect Mailer. Can anyone else recommend a good, cost-effective program for my PC’s? Or back up the recommendation for Prospect Mailer? We run Windows NT on our pc’s. Thanks!
Can I assume that these requests to sign up for the email service is automated and stored in a database? If that db is SQL Server, you can run a query that gets all the email addresses of the people who opt in and send them an email with the stored procedure “xp_sendmail”. This can be scheduled to run as frequently as you want.
If you’re not using a db (and maintaining the list via hand), do you maintain the web server? You can run a script (windows script file, ASP page etc). Do this by loading the emails from a text file with all the email addresses that you maintain and send it via CDONTS.
These are free solutions (provided you have the tools) that are not too hard to learn about.
If you’re doing it by hand, why can’t you just maintain a distribution list and send out the mailer using that?