02 Jan Email Marketing for Less Than $10 a Month?

Hello guys and gals out there in Black Internet Marketing Land!

So someone emailed me yesterday asking for the best, and most inexpensive way to send out their newsletter list.  BUT, here were the requirements.

• Must allow her to upload her list of 4,000 people
• Must allow her to send HTML and regular text email to her clients and past customers
• Must allow her to create multiple lists
• Must allow her to do all of this inexpensively.

Now, there are multiple options out there.  One that I love is Aweber.  Now, Aweber,  may not be the solution for her immediately.  While she can do all of the above for under $20 a month, all of her list is going to have to OPT IN which means that they will have to Click on a link in an email and prove to AWEBER that they WANT to receive her email newsletters. 

That is not a bad thing… in fact, it is great to minimize the complaints that the Spam Act requires.  However, if these were indeed her clients and customers and she can prove they wanted her newsletter or signed up with it in another opportunity, then the best way for her to do this is with PHPList.

Why?

PHPList is FREE… and can be run on servers for under $10 per month.  Here is their summary from the PHPlist vendor website…

“phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded more than 10 000 times per month and is listed in the top open source projects for vitality score on Freshmeat. phplist is sponsored by tincan. 
 phplist’s 30+ feature set includes:

double opt-in subscription mechanism
scheduling
RSS
list segmentation
click-tracking
attachments
bounce management  ”

Now… with this she is going to be able to Upload her emails and send them out in HTML format, AND she is going to be able to know what URL’s in the email were clicked on and get her message out. 

Now, to do this for UNDER $10 a month.

1.  Get a Hostgator.com account.  Click here and select the plan for $9.95 a month. Get the BABY shared hosting account or email me for me to walk you through it.  Put in the coupon code “jury” to ONLY pay one penny for the first month.

2.  get your account and go to Fantastico. Install it in about 5 MOUSE CLICKS and upload your emails. 

3.  Start sending out emails shortly afterwards! 

Now, the con with this way is that most web hosting servers will have a Throttle, meaning that you can only send like 1 email per six seconds. 

Other than that, you have a MACHINE that is sending out newsletters and helping you to stay in touch with your clients.  I am available to discuss the pros and cons of different email deliverability clients.  Please feel free to email me at brandon@locovoco.com/blackinternetmarketing.com where we can set up an appointment for advanced consulting as necessary.