Review of MailChimp

One of the topics that has arisen in TrafficLeads2Income is that of Free Autoresponder services… You can read what I posted there at RobsNetworkers Forum .

MailChimp is a Autoresponder Service that offers a Free Account giving you a 500 Subscriber Limit and a 3000 Email sends per Month,

So if you were to get to your 500 Subscribers you could email each of them 6 times per month making this a program worth further investigation.

Once you go over the 500 Subscriber limit – its $15 per month up to 1000 subscribers and then it starts getting more pricier than the Awebers and GetResponse Services that cost around $18 USD per month for up to 10,000 Subscribers.

Compared to other services like GVO’s EResponder which is included in your Titanium Hosting package, giving you **unlimited hosting at $44.95 USD per month with a limit of 20,000 Subscribers and **unlimited campaigns, MailChimp becomes far too expensive and GVO becomes even more attractive.

Changing Services with an existing List.

So for a service to get started out with, it might be an option. But what if you wanted to change Services once you get over your 500 or 1000 subscribers?

You could export your subscribers into another Autoresponder Service? That can be a painful experience. The worst case being the new service requiring that each imported subscriber be sent a new “Confirmation” Email where they’ll have to open it and click on the link to join the new list. This is a process the new Autoresponder Service will provide once you import your list.

You may loose a few subscribers who don’t get to see your email during the changeover, but you will be keeping those that actually read your emails. So the damage may not be that great. You could consider it as a process of cleaning your list.

Another, wiser option would be to email your list from your old Autoresponder service, advising them of the upcoming change and over a few emails , ask them to join your new list. If you have a responsive list, you should get a much higher subscription rate.

The Pros

Apart from the aspect of the high cost of having a 1000+ list, the sites user interface is one of the best I have seen.

There is help everywhere and for someone starting out, this would be of great value in learning the in’s and out’s of an Autoresponder.

It might be so attractive and easy to use that you may even stay with them and pay the extra.

They have an extensive list of plugins for the popular website scripts like WordPress, Joomla, and some Ecommerce Scripts. Making it very “plug in and play” without the need of having to write any HTML or PHP. But then so do Aweber and GetResponse.

It’s really a matter of what you are comfortable using.

There are, of course, many other Service that offer a Free Entry level subscription. When I find those that I consider worthy of note, I’ll talk about them.

You can of course add those that you use in the comments. So please feel free to tell us about the ones you are using and how you rate them.

Note: **Unliimited is used to mean – Alot.. In the case of the webhosting that’s 75Gig of diskspace at the time of writing. Which is Alot!

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