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MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers
- nhangen 16y agoGreat for free users - my concern is that it won't scale or that they're not as profitable as they'd like to be.
- bjonathan 16y agoI dont worry for Mailchimp, when I see the pricing difference between Amazon SES* and them (even if it's not the same product I know and agree) * http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
- amdev 16y agoI work at MailChimp. I don't worry about that.
- dlib 16y agoI've often wondered why MailChimp doesn't offer more support for transactional mails. I know there is some stuff in the API but it seems bolted on (am I wrong?). I would really like to use the standard templating for email campaigns that MailChimp has, and use it for transactional mails. An API call to MailChimp with some some arguments would then send a template, the variables (dynamically) filled in, to the user. Email campaigns are so easy in MailChimp and I'd like to maintain the look of those mails in my transactional mails. Nonetheless, you guys provide a great service!
- gtuhl 16y agoWe do have transactional support via Amazon SES now: http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-transactional-email-service-on-top-of-amazon-ses/ http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-launches-transactional-e... It rolled out this very week.
- vrikhter 16y agoWas doing some reading on the company and came across this: http://www.quora.com/How-much-revenue-is-MailChimp-doing-these-days http://www.quora.com/How-much-revenue-is-MailChimp-doing-the... If that's really true, I don't imagine they will have to worry for a while.
- ez77 16y agoJust curious: when they write "Unlimited", what exactly do they mean? Wouldn't this be a spammer's good investement?
- amdev 16y agoI work at MailChimp. The answer is nope.
- ez77 16y agoThanks for your answer. I imagined so. But I could also think of some legitimate heavy-duty users who could threaten your profitability. Is there any fine print for those cases?
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoI don't think so. The cost of running something like Mailchimp isn't in having a couple of servers and some bandwidth, I imagine; the cost is in dealing with spammers, overzealous spam-fighters and people who'd rather hit "report as spam" than unsubscribe. Number of subscribers is not a bad metric. ETA: Also see bjonathan's comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170619 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170619: Amazon, which probably offers something closer to "server and bandwidth", is much cheaper.
- cmorrisrsg 16y agoNo fine-print. Our high volume plans for large email lists are not unlimited, but smaller lists are completely free to send as much as they want. In practice, you'll hit our anti-spam limits long before you hurt our profitability if you try to send lots of email to a smaller list.
- ez77 16y agoThanks for the explanation. I'm glad you stopped lurking, and to have tripled your karma!
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- marcusEting 16y agoExtensive list of e-mail marketing services, free and paid: http://techblog.willshouse.com/?p=522 http://techblog.willshouse.com/?p=522 (Constant Contact, iContact, Vertical Response, StreamSend, and many more)
- antidaily 16y agowish it distinguished free from paid.
- marcusEting 16y agoI think most feature a "free trial" at least. I'll see about adding more info to pricing, but was more concerned with coming up with maintaining a list I could share with clients.
- JacobAldridge 16y agoThanks Marcus - I've added a couple of others in a comment.
- slig 16y agoAnyone with experience on Direct Mail(http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/ http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/)? I'd like to use it with SendGrid and later move to SES.
- JesseAldridge 16y ago
- lukestevens 16y agoProbably worth relinking their excellent blog post "Going Freemium: One Year Later" http://blog.mailchimp.com/going-freemium-one-year-later/ http://blog.mailchimp.com/going-freemium-one-year-later/ Their 'reverse freemium' approach is really interesting -- rather than de-emphasising the free and focusing on the [pre]mium side of their biz, they've been slowly expanding their free options and growing rapidly -- in terms of profit -- because of it.
- zacharycohn 16y agoI think the major difference here is that it's easy to have to migrate from free to paid. If your site/newsletter starts doing well, you hit a point where you HAVE to start paying them.
- petercooper 16y agoYeah, and you're usually glad to as well :-) I have 8500 subscribers on my account so far and it's $75/mo well spent. (But boy, do they ratchet the tiers up fast. Once I tip over 10k subscribers, it leaps up to $150/mo! A few more intermediate tiers please, MailChimp.. otherwise my 10,000th subscriber will cost me $75/mo alone ;-))
- kevinburke 16y agoAwesome! Any chance you can get the site to load more quickly?
- tapz 16y ago"No Credit Card Required. No Contracts." Thanks. A lot. - a teenager
- DenisM 16y agoI wonder, can't you buy a anonymous credit card from a department store?
- showerst 16y agoThat's not terribly common in the US. It's possible to buy VISA or AMEX gift cards in some stores, but the markup tends to be significant (10%+).
- adrianparsons 16y agoIn the US at least, you can -- and should -- set up a bank account with a debit card. Sometimes it requires a parent to cosign, but it is quite worth it.
- timjahn 16y agoI love MailChimp. They're branding is so friendly, their people are so friendly, and overall they just love their customers. I'm a fan of their model. If you have more than 2,000 subscribers, you can most likely afford to pay without issue.
- jefe78 16y agoWell said! I'm pretty excited to use these guys again. My last job used them and I instituted the template and stuff but it'll be nice to set everything up from start to finish. Its a great product.
- jotgot 16y agoWhat happened to their old design?
- joelrunyon 16y agoMailChimp seems bound and determined to never let me pay for the service. I guess I'm okay with that. :)
- jkahn 16y agoDoes anyone know of an easy way to migrate to MailChimp from Aweber?
- vaksel 16y agoYou can just do a bulk import. So download your aweber list csv and then just upload it to mailchimp. The only problem is that autoresponders don't seem to work for old users unless you do a dirty hack
- jkahn 16y agoDoes the bulk import send everyone a resubscribe message? I've got a very small list (sub 100 people) of customers and prospects that I meet with IRL, and I don't want to annoy them by asking them to subscribe again to a list they've already subscribed to.
- cmorrisrsg 16y agoNo, bulk importing does not send a resubscribe message. MailChimp assumes that if you have access to the address list, then you have permission to send.
- mise 16y agoI wish they gave better campaign-like reporting for autoresponders.