[thelist] Sending Bulk Email

[Joel Canfield]

>
> Why build it when you you can pay $30 and use a service like Constant
> Contact or iContact to do it for you? Sign up, upload your contacts
> (up to 5000 for the $30 tier), send the email, then cancel the service
> (it is a subscription service, so you don't want to leave it going).
> There may even be a trial promotion offer. I've seen them before.
>
> (Don't work for either company, but my company does use CC.)
>
> there's also Feedblitz, which is even less expensive and looks good (used
by Seth, and by CopyBlogger) and Campaign Monitor (pure HTML email design,
$5 plus one penny per recipient for each email.)

Plus, all these tools manage your CAN/SPAM compliance and they all take bulk
uploads.

joel