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Mailchimp === great UI for ad hoc, "unstructered", newsletters, product updates etc. SES === great for transactional emails if you handle the templating yoursel
by tnolet 9y ago
Mailchimp === great UI for ad hoc, "unstructered", newsletters, product updates etc.
SES === great for transactional emails if you handle the templating yourself. As always, and it gets boring, it depends on what you need. If you're a typical startup you probably need both.
- phonon 9y agoSES just launched templating! Seems nice. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/amazon-ses-introduces-email-templates-for-sending-personalized-email/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/amazon-se... https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-personalized-email-api.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-p...
- tnolet 9y agoDang, I missed that one in the daily deluge of AWS product announcements. The Mailchimp HTML5 editor is REALLY nice though. Probably the reason everyone uses them. Side story: At the former job, we used to create transactional emails with a marketing swing to them in Mailchimp. Marketing loved it! Then we'd copy and paste the HTML to our ratty Salesforce backend and replace some tags and BOOM: super nice transactional emails from SalesHorse!
- phonon 9y agoYeah, I haven't tried them out yet, but I'm a big fan of SES (for transactional emails). I use https://foundation.zurb.com/emails/email-templates.html https://foundation.zurb.com/emails/email-templates.html for templates, and they've worked well.
- mongodude 9y agoYour last line summarized the whole conversation of this thread. As a startup, you do need both!