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help me spam people [small business e-mail list?]
fightinfilipino
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so i work at a small immigration law firm, and we'd like to reach out to our past clients about the new updates on immigration reform. for now we've been using a small business e-mail account via Yahoo. we'd like to send out listserve-style e-mails to our clients, and Yahoo won't work for that purpose. can anyone recommend a solution for a listserve? preferably a free solution, but we are willing to pay for a service if it does the job well.
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Typically for mass email I'd recommend something like MailChimp:
http://mailchimp.com/
Although, not being sure what listserve is, I may be on the wrong track?
What I would suggest is make a contact excel spreadsheet with emails, first and last names, company info, and anything else you would want to reference, then draft up a Word Document to use as a mail merge. Set the merge fields for the salutation and general info that you would want to personalize for each to pull from your excel collumns, then mass send 400+ emails using outlook or whatever work client you use.
This way you can quickly send an individualized email to each and every client without anyone else CC'd or BCC'd and still get them out fairly quickly.
— Robert Heinlein
With this sort of setup, your excel document would need 5 columns:
-Email
-Company Name
-Season (probably the same for all)
-Previous Purchased Product (reference what you are wanting to sell individually to THAT client)
-Discount Percentage (maybe different depending on how good a customer they are, etc).
One you had that in word, go to mailings and then "Select Recipients" and then click "Use Existing List". Once you have selected your excel document, you can select each of the [BRACKETED ITEMS] and click "insert merge field" and select the appropriate column. Then, when you are ready, click "Finish and Merge" and you will have the option to print out a paper item if you wanted to physically mail it, use existing email client (and type what you want to be the header), and a few other distribution options.
— Robert Heinlein
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However, it might be easiest for you to use outlook, it's easy and allows for that kind of shenanagins.
http://www.ehow.com/how_12209039_create-listserv-outlook.html
This is true. I'm not saying you have a good idea, but this service is a way to avoid looking like a scammer or a small company using yahoo for their business email.
also, my concern is more about trying to send out a few hundred e-mails through our dinky Yahoo account and getting shut down for looking like an actual spammer or a compromised computer. i'm thinking more along the lines of third party services that help with e-mail lists. Constant Contact, MailChimps, and Kayvu all sound like good starts. keep the suggestions comin!
wow dude, super harsh :[
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Out of everything lawyers do to ruin the world, it's spam that pushes you over the edge? I guess we're slacking on out evil quota this quarter.
as for lawyers in general, there are some bad actors out there, but for the most part, lawyers are simply doing their job, representing someone. sometimes that means they're representing someone who opposes someone else or is otherwise scummy. eh.
in any event, all i'm asking for is help on how to reach clients we already have worked with and who have given us their e-mail contact info. we are not sending unsolicited spam and we're definitely not buying lists of random e-mails.
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— Robert Heinlein
Because they're a dinosaur.
Going extinct.
Etc.
Anyway, depending on the size of the list, a decent email provider like one of the ones I listed above might work. For example, Office 365 has a daily recipient limit of 10,000. Google Apps has a daily per-user message limit of 2,000. If your list is 500 people, then you're probably fine.
If you need more than that, then I would look at iContact. Personally, I haven't used them, but they have a recommendation from Rackspace and that means a lot to me.
Avoid Constant Contact. They've had frequent problems getting blacklisted as spam. Over the years, they've played fast and loose with their anti-spam policies and their reputation has suffered for it.
I've used ExactTarget in the past for this purpose but it was for a large corporation and I have no clue how much it cost.