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Old 01-04-2007, 11:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Need E-Newsletter Advice

Hi All,

I know this is supposed to be RE land, but I don't know where else to turn for GOOD advice.

My CEO has decided that we need an E-Newsletter. Do you have any companies you can recommend or any advice?

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Old 01-05-2007, 09:47 AM   #2 (permalink)
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We haven't used them, but a lot of the nonprofits here in the Portland area like working with Email Marketing Solutions from Constant Contact
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Old 01-05-2007, 09:51 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Are you looking for someone to design it for you? or a service to send it out for you? or both?
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Old 01-05-2007, 01:32 PM   #4 (permalink)
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We probably want someone to send it out. We really don't have the capability to send more than 20 emails at a time. As to design, it is probably something I would handle.
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We probably want someone to send it out. We really don't have the capability to send more than 20 emails at a time. As to design, it is probably something I would handle.
We use lyrus for our email blasts. It's cheap and good. Fairly intuitive.
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We used to just do a mail merge within Outlook to send a text-only email. We have now started to use constant contact in order to do a "fancier" newsletter. It's easy to use and really resonable (30% discount for 12 month pre-pay for nonprofits). And they offer a 60-day free trial so you can get a good feel for it before having to pay anything. However we have already discovered that their templates won't work for everything we want to do so we'll have to do some work to develop a custon template. Also, there's no connection to RE so anytime there's a bounce-back or Unsubscribe, it has to be manually updated. Feel free to contact me off the forum (email below or 612-625-4644) if you have questions.

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Hi Andrea


We use a product called DoList.
It can manages the subscribes and unsub's all in an access db or MS SQL.
Subscribe at e-news

The email out can be plain text and or HTML

DoList DOLIST E-mail List Server This link is english the Prestataire, campagne E-mail, Emailing, email is french
Dolist has a range of $$$ options depending on the number and size of your lists.

Problem is that DoList only stores very basic bio type data. name and email.
So is best to have all your data in RE and export to use DoList.

We have been slowly moving to RE Netsolutions though.

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I have to ask do you have Net Solutions. If you do, you can create your own newsletter. All you have to do is create the web pages you want and place them on the server. Then all you have to do is import the main page into Net Solutions, and e-mail it that way.
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No Net Solutions....

It looks like the CEO is going with a marketing company that will handle the whole thing. So far they haven't though..... I am just glad that the newsletter is no longer one of my jobs... I have written all these suggestions down and bookmarked their websites just in case she changes her mind again. I am guessing that will happen in about 3-4 months.

Thanks for all your help -

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