Comments on: What Email Campaign Software Do You Use?

By: jhall987

jhall987 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:06:05 +0000

We use Constant Contact. It works for most our needs, gives us a bit of flexibility. It's not a great tool, but it's functional.

By: @cmdtv

@cmdtv — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:43:38 +0000

I went open source and used phplist.com It works great, you can do message tracking and a lot more. Best of all it runs on my server and its FREE. Check out ChurchMediaDesign.tv (episode 55 and 56) i cover how to set it up and put it into use!

By: Bill Whitt

Bill Whitt — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:45:30 +0000

For what it's worth, our firewall blocks aweber.com links where I work. So I really don't subscribe to people who use that for email marketing.

We still do email blasts, but not as often. Most of the time, I just create the mailings manually in Dreamweaver and then use our Web host's basic mailing list service to send it our subscribers. A lot of other businesses in my town use ConstantContact.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:11:52 +0000

Mail Chimp…i didn't care for Constant Contact

By: Cale

Cale — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:35:56 +0000

I was beginning to get a little worried when the first four posted didn't mention MailChimp but then the fifth post came around, along with all the rest. MailChimp easily beats out iContact and ConstantContact in my opinion. I haven't used the other ones but I can't imagine they're any better or else I would know about them

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:56:03 +0000

http://www.mailchimp.com/ Like there template builder the best.

By: James

James — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:17:07 +0000

I use Aweber and LOVE it….

By: @mandycsingleton

@mandycsingleton — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:13:02 +0000

We at http://www.hopeclinicforwomen.org use Emma (http://myemma.com) and LOVE it but it's definitely designed for people who don't have to have technological ability. If you want to customize and do lots of crazy stuff, you may not like Emma but she's a sweet girl and very affordable. There are a lot of layouts and templates you can use but not sure exactly how flexible all of that is. Love all the back end tracking you can do and customer service is fabulous.

By: philldo

philldo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:55:50 +0000

We use mailchimp. These monkeys rawk plus they are in your back yard.

The features are good for us. The monthly plan is based on list size and not number of emails sent. So our Daily Devotionals do not break the bank.

The RSS to email campaign feature is nice too.

By: wvpv

wvpv — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:02:04 +0000

I use Mail Chimp for church and Exact Target at work.

I demo'd and evaluated 20 smallish enterprise class e-mail marketing apps for work and Exact Target was clearly better for us. It's expensive, but it is first class. Support is excellent, features are rich, tracking is good. Email composition and templating tools are great for those that don't/can't handle the HTML.

I chose Mail Chimp (+ the AIM add-on) for church because it has a lot of good features for the price and I felt it was much better than Constant Contact and Vertical Response. There are some god features in Mail Chimp that I wish were in Exact Target.