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So you’ve built your fabulous double-opt-in mailing list, have a bunch of people who are interested to hear what you have to say and are set to get started. Now what?
Well obviously, you’re going to have something to say to these people and that’s great, but if you look to your website as a learning tool, communication is only somewhat effective when it’s one-way. You’ll also remember from your early days that metrics are a must to improve and tailor your message.
iContact can do that for you.
iContact offers you all kinds of mailing list management features, allowing you to know who you’re sending your message out to, who’s reading it, even if it’s getting forwarded on to other folks. That’s great information if you’re going to take your very valuable mailing list seriously.
One of the black marks that this entire industry has is spam. So it’s very important to work with a company that is serious about this problem. iContact has a strict anti-spam policy for their e-mail marketing tool, canceling any account that is sending spam.
Now everyone promises lots, but whether or not they can deliver is always a question. Thankfully, before you sink any amount of funds into iContact, you can try them out with a 15 day free trial of their email marketing solution. Then at $10 a month afterward for their starter package, you can even keep trying it out for a pretty low investment.
They have a great introductory video to their email software to help you get a better feel for just how it works and what it’s like. If it sounds like something that you need, give it a whirl and see if it works for you.
Ling // May 24, 2009 at 10:14 am
So they can track an email, even if it is forwarded? That sounds foolproof – If you use it, you can be sure you’re getting what you were promised, in case you buy into a list. That’s assuming these guys don’t have their own list?
Web Development // May 24, 2009 at 12:10 pm
It is nice attempt.
Temas para telemovel // May 24, 2009 at 2:05 pm
This the first time I have heard something about icontact, it seems a little like Aweber, no?
Diety // May 25, 2009 at 8:30 am
Good thing they don’t allow spammers. First it’s couple spammers, then some plugins and before you know it all spam looks like your email. And that’s not good.
hammermills // May 29, 2009 at 4:28 pm
iContact is a pretty reputable mailing list solution. I think they are probably AWeber’s biggest competitor. For $10/month I would definitely give them a try.
Cinema Boy // Jun 2, 2009 at 8:40 am
I’ve been looking for something like this for a while, so I’ll give it a go. I’ve seen some free options out there but I don’t know if I trust them.
Karuna // Jun 4, 2009 at 3:24 am
Till today Aweber was the ONLY one everyone could really rely on. Good to know there is an alternative.
oglaševanje // Jun 9, 2009 at 8:53 am
Really nice they keep a strict anti-spam policy. Haven’t heard about this possibility, will keep it in my mind..
Salinas swimwear // Jun 16, 2009 at 6:09 am
I love this as well, not MailChimp or iContact persay but how people by one another’s keywords. Funny thing is I can share some ads Bronto ran some time ago to that affect…. and we did as well with words like “Exact Target” – Exactly Missing Your Target with your email marketing solution? You might want to look at eroi.com…” fun times. It was short lived but fun none the less.
Gaurav // Jun 18, 2009 at 5:44 am
I’ve give it a try. Waiting to test icontact.
gurtey // Jun 21, 2009 at 5:53 pm
wow…seems to be great…emailing becomes easy…well im surprised how it shows that how many ppl read emails and forward to others and such info…anyways thanks