My selfmade solution also can do HTML mailings, but I never was able to measure any benefit of styled newsletters over text. So I usually use just text.
The unfortunate thing is that every time there's a new trusted mailing service with a good reputation, spammers flock to it.
The reason why I shy away from measuring CTR is that I then cannot give people the real url. I like to directly give them the final url instead of some intermediate page. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer that.
How do you measure deliverability?
How does your setup work? Have you thought about open-sourcing or selling the script?
I am using MailChimp for weekendhacker but i always feel like it's way too bloated for my needs.
The small business market is already hard since budgets are small and support needs are high.
Potential savings over long run is pretty high once someone setups and connect SES with SendGlide.
Other than that we are always available to help incase someone needs any help in setting up their SES account.
If you willing to join us, you can contact us anytime via contact link on our website.
Thanks Neeraj
I'm glad to see they fixed their logo so it isn't a blue owl.
I'm disappointed to see that they still haven't made it more clear that the $29 / month is a flat rate to use their interface and the end user still pays $1 / 10,000 emails to SES. If you send a weekly email (4/month) to 10,000 subscribers, you pay $29 + $4 = $33. If you send a daily (30 / month) email to 10,000 subscribers you'll pay $29 + $30 = $59. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070921
If you have 50,000 subscribers and you send bi-weekly emails or roughly 10 campaigns every month.
You would be paying $49(Flat Fee) + 10*($5) = $99
Any other email service charges roughly $250 or more for the same. So overall there is huge cost saving with SES along with SendGlide.
If you are willing to join SendGlide, Feel free to jump on the live chat on the site or send an email. http://www.sendglide.com/contact-us/
So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit
Mail Chimp - $75 - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/
SendGlide - $29 - http://www.sendglide.com/
Still favourable for you but significantly different. I appreciate that pricing is always complicated. Am I missing something?
So probably they had to sort out a different name quickly...
Are people finding that the fancy emails convert better?
It also allows conditionals (Mustache like syntax) and multiple languages in one "Send"... Haven't bootstrapped it though, it's for personal use and because i have multiple clients in french, english and dutch...
Most of the time, i use it to send the "launch" letter for a new website, with the mailing list that i collected from their landing page.
it just makes my life easier :)
