023 – How to Choose an Email Distribution Company for WordPress

Today I would like to continue our discussion from last week about how to capture email addresses. If you missed last week’s show, press pause, and go to YourWebsiteEngineer.com and look for episode #22

AWeber
Constant Contact
MailChimp
Benchmark Email

Aweber
Newsletters
– 150 easy to customize templates
– dedicated areas for your logos
– email blog updates automatically
– track who opens your emails (and who doesn’t)
– integrates with twitter and facebook
– publish your emails online

Sign Up Forms
– hundeds of templates
– animated sign up forms
– split test sign up forms (try out two different ones)

Autoresponders
– immediately engage subscribers
– welcome new subscribers
– deliver downloads
– set delivery hours

Pricing
– $19 Monthly
– $49 Quarterly
– $194 Yearly
– $1 for first month

Constant Contact
Email Marketing – newsletters and website sign-ups
Event Marketing – easy professional event registration
Online Surveys – get customer feedback
Social Media – connect with social media

Newsletters
– Email wizard to create your newsletter
– Create and send emails on iPhone with QuickView
– 400 email newsletter templates
– Automatically posts to twitter

Autoresponders
– Schedule welcome emails

Pricing
0-500 – $15 month
501-2500 – $30 month
2501-5000 – $50
5001-10000 – $75
10001-25000 – $150

MailChimp
Newsletter
A/B Split Testing
Chimpadee and Chimpadeedoo
– computer signup with no internet access
– iPad app
– Delivery Doctor – figure out why your emails are getting into spam folders
– Dynamic Content – allows you to dynamically change the content of email based on interests and locations
– Email Beamer – use Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail to create – no log in required!
– Geolocation – target audience by location, even if you haven’t collected that data
– Inbox Inspector – shows you screenshots of more than 60 email inboxes to make sure you email looks great!
– Paid Newsletter Subscriptions – charge a monthly fee for subscribers
– Pyow – create QR codes and send to subscribers

Autoresponders
– Welcome Email
– Send out emails x number of days after someone signs up
– Send out birthday emails, sign up date, etc.

Forms
– Custom Forms
– You can personalize everything

Pricing
– Forever Free Plan
– 0-2000 Subscribers Send up to 12000 month
Unlimited Sends
– 0-500: $10
– 501-1000: $15
– 1001-2500: $30
– 2501-5000: $50
– 5001-10000: $75
– 10001-25000: $150
– 25001-50000: $240

Pay as you go plans
– Starting at $0.03 per email
– Low as $0.005

The also have rollover emails
One note: the customer support is horrible

Benchmark Email
Newsletters
– Contact list management
– 400 HTML Email Templates
– Real Time Reports
– Social Media Integration
– Great looking sign up forms
– Autoresponders
– List Segmentation
– Survey & Polls

Pricing
Number of Emails Sent per month
– 600: $9.95
– 1000: $12.95
– 2500: $19.95
– 5000: $35.00
– 10000: $60.00
– 25000: $112.00
– 50000: $200.00
– 100000: $375.00