Best E-mail Marketing Service Providers

**Warren** · 03-21-2011 12:56 PM

Following up on my post regarding e-mail industry benchmarks, I thought it would be helpful for the community to see which e-mail marketing service providers everyone prefers and why.

Please vote on your preferred solution and follow up with a post on why you prefer this solution.

My personal vote is for Aweber (although that's not what we use here at CAP). I believe their deliverability is one of the best out there, and that's a very important metric to watch in e-mail marketing to ensure your message can be opened and clicked on.

**fonzi** · 03-15-2012 11:15 AM

Does the benefit outweigh the cost when using these services? I have a poker forum with 46k members and pretty much stopped sending emails though the forum because of spam filters.

Also is there a way to tie any of these services to vbulletin so that members who don't want to receive emails won't and also to keep the list up to date?

Thanks

**JillO** · 03-15-2012 11:41 AM

Honestly Fonzi... YES... the benefit absolutely outweighs the cost. Using an ESP to communicate to your forum members is way easier than using vBulletin. Plus, vBulletin's delivery is quite poor and they don't provide any reporting metrics, so there's really no way to measure what's working and what's not.

As for subscribing/unsubscribing... Users will be able to do that through the ESP, so you can manage all email correspondence that way. How come you would want that info to carry over to vBulletin as well?

**fonzi** · 03-15-2012 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by JillO

How come you would want that info to carry over to vBulletin as well?

I don't want to have to manually add and remove new forum members from the email service.

**JillO** · 03-19-2012 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by fonzi

I don't want to have to manually add and remove new forum members from the email service.

I understand... Yes, you would have to make those updates... However, it's actually a pretty simple process. It only requires you to download the data from one system and upload it to the other. Most ESP's automatically scrub duplicate data, etc.

**harold** · 05-10-2012 09:45 AM

I'm looking for an ESP that would accept a casino affiliate as their client, and so I landed on this thread. Can anyone recommend one that does accept casino affiliates?

For example, Mailchimp and Aweber do not accept casino affiliates, at least that is what their support told me when I asked about this.

Any suggestions?

**Caseym** · 05-10-2012 10:00 AM

Have you tried the other poll choices??

**harold** · 05-10-2012 10:23 AM

Yes I'm considering them but it doesn't look very promising for most of them. Here is what I found so far:

Constant Contact, iContact and Stream Send all mention in their terms that they dont accept gambling websites.

Mailchimp told me through their customer service that they wouldn't accept a gambling website. and they also have it in their terms.

I'm not sure now anymore about Aweber ( I thought they told me they wouldnt take gambling but I dont see it in their terms now) so I will ask them again.

Campaigner I have asked the customer support, no reply yet.

Infusion soft also mentions in their terms that they may close an account offering gambling content.

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