Your Very Own Optin Email List With Mail Chimp

I know I ranted a little in my last post about opt in email list marketing that I was getting way too many emails. However, one thing I have learned over the last year and a half is that having an optin email list is almost essential to making money online. There are ways around having one, but you will find yourself pulling your hair out trying to get ahead in this world of internet marketing without one.

One of the barriers that I have had is that starting an account with Aweber, Icontact, or Get Response has always been that I would need to make yet another monthly payment that I am not yet covering. I am aware that Constant Contact offers their services for free up to 60 days or 100 email addresses, but in the meantime I have found a better service to use so I can get my feet wet. That service is Mail Chimp.

Mail Chimp will allow you up to 500 members and 3000 sent emails a month for free before you have to sign up for a monthly subscription with them. If you have 500 members on your email list, this would mean that you can send 6 emails a month without having to pay a dime for using their services. They also offer pay as you go pricing, so if you decide that you need to contact the members of your list a little more in one month then you don’t have to start a subscription plan with them unless your account is over 500 members. One thing I almost forgot is the 500 members is across all of your email lists so you can have more than one list, but you are still limited to 500 total email addresses and 3000 total emails sent.

Other advantages of Mail Chimp that I have found are:

1. A WordPress plugin makes it very easy to integrate with WordPress. I use WP almost exclusively, so this is very important.
2. Unlimited image and file hosting for free.
3. No charge for archiving.
4. Easy to use templates.
5. RSS feeds to email. Jackie at Internet Marketing Strategy uses this with her email list very well and it was something I was really glad to find out that Mail Chimp offered.
6. Many more, there’s just way too many to list here.

Some disadvantages of Mail Chimp.

1. The setup interface is a little confusing at first. I can’t say that I can compare it to any other service, but the whole interface just doesn’t seem logical to me.
2. Their signup forms have been a little difficult for me to customize and add to some of my pages. I have been learning a lot along the way though and I’ll try to do a post here soon regarding this.
3. I don’t know if it’s just me, but their help section has caused some fits for me when trying to find answers.

Overall, for me the advantages of Mail Chimp definitely outweight the disadvantages and it’s the service I am running with to set up my email lists. As of today, price is no longer a barrier to entry for those who want to start their first email list.

No matter who you choose for an email list service, please keep in mind how you feel when you are bombarded with emails only trying to sell you something 3-4 times a day. Your list members are people and not just a check.

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Originally posted 2010-05-23 17:41:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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2 Responses to “Your Very Own Optin Email List With Mail Chimp”

1. Trevor Stoyer says:

   June 13, 2010 at 3:43 pm

   excellent post. im still on the phase where i study this. i look forward to more of your posts.
2. Atif says:

   August 29, 2010 at 11:27 pm

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