06-13-07 11:11 AM - Post#45911    

How many of you are currently involved in an active email campaign with your customers / users?

How often do you send out material?

What info do you send out?

What software do you use?

Tony Owner and General Manager ChevyTalk - The Worlds Largest Online Chevy Community www.chevytalk.org Need a professional email marketing tool to supplement your message forum?

06-14-07 07:29 AM - Post#45928    

    In response to Scorpio

At Cyberwalker, we use Constant Contact.

We send material to our members once a month.
This material consists of (1) video newsletter (tech related) and (2) a coupon newsletter to software (also tech related - usually security orientated) that we have arranged to offer a discount to our readers.
With both of these, we give the member an option to sign up to receive both, just one or none.
I try to spread both types of emails to b sent every two weeks. This way the member doesn't feel they are getting spammed.

I hope this answers your questions. If not, feel free to PT or email me.

Cheers
Craig

06-15-07 12:31 AM - Post#45945    

    In response to CraigW

Thanks Craig,

Thats exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
How do you establish that they wish to receive the email to begin with? Do you use the message forum records or do you start an opt-in list outside of that?

Tony Owner and General Manager ChevyTalk - The Worlds Largest Online Chevy Community www.chevytalk.org Need a professional email marketing tool to supplement your message forum?

06-15-07 10:18 AM - Post#45952    

    In response to Scorpio

We have our site setup so that if you want to view an entire article, you need to sign-up as a member.

Once you do that you get directed this page to choose which newsletters or items you desire to receive.
By putting a check mark next to the desired item, you allow our script to add you to the list for that particular item.

Cheers

06-15-07 06:28 PM - Post#45961    

    In response to CraigW

• CraigW Said:

How many members do you have?

06-15-07 08:35 PM - Post#45970    

    In response to CraigW

I just priced the Constant Contact solution for my list and I have to call for a quote.

Tony Owner and General Manager ChevyTalk - The Worlds Largest Online Chevy Community www.chevytalk.org Need a professional email marketing tool to supplement your message forum?

06-15-07 11:48 PM - Post#45984    

    In response to Scorpio

With our 9,000 members, it looks like it would cost us $75 per month just to send one message per month.

http://www.constantcontact.com/pricing/i...

06-16-07 11:23 AM - Post#45989    

    In response to Claude

• Claude Said:

We have approx. 12k members.

I will add that Constant Contact was not my choice.
There are many other companies out there that do the same, check Google for them and you will see.