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Can anyone recommend a good web-based mass email tool?

Asked by lefteh (9429points) December 3rd, 2008

I am responsible for sending out mass email communications for several groups and organizations. I really, really dislike using my Apple Address Book to store hundreds of addresses of strangers that clutter my personal contacts. I am looking for a web-based replacement that would allow me to create lists and send an email to everyone in that list. I would also need to be able to important the contacts that I already have in Address Book (so it would need to support imports of vCards, CSV, or something like that). Any ideas?

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funkdaddy's avatar

Campaign Monitor is great and one of the originals (as far as I know), now there’s several companies providing essentially the same service with their own spin.

The other two I hear about usually are Constant Contact and Mail Chimp, but I haven’t used either personally.

You may just want to poke around their sites and see who’s pricing and features are the best fit for you. As far as I know all will support an import from your address book fairly easily.

Good luck with the lists, where do I sign up? ;)

shadling21's avatar

Yeah, what are the lists for, lefteh?

lefteh's avatar

Haha, they’re local things mostly. An internal commission email, my high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, Young Dems of Franklin County, etc. Thanks funkdaddy, i’ll check those out.

Trustinglife's avatar

I recommend Constant Contact and Streamsend.

For those with much bigger lists and needs, InfusionSoft is excellent.

lrk's avatar

For what its worth, I’ve used Mailchimp for a non-profit org before; worked great when I set it up for them, and they’re still using it today. I know Mailchip has s

Mailchimp (and Campaign Monitor, etc.) are based towards actually designing and setting up a newsletter, keeping track of opens/click-throughs, etc.—if you essentially want a mass emailer (your HS’s GSA probably doesn’t need to track how many of its 25 members clicked on a link—at least not if you have to pay for it!), you might just want to check out some of the google hits for listserv hosting.

also, hi! Long time no chat.

lefteh's avatar

Hey, thanks! :P

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