Newsletters, Sendy and Threadloom Question

[Your Ski Advisor]

We are currently using Mailchimp and with a database of over 17K, the cost has gotten out of hand. the question I have is, only 5k of that database is from our site, the rest is from a database we own. Can we add that extra 12K to either of these plug ins?

 

[BoostN]

You can import users into Sendy from a list. Your add-on would sync up the 5K users into Sendy from XF, and then you would fill in the rest via a manual load.

 

[Your Ski Advisor]

Thanks @BoostN. For those who have worked with Sendy and Mailchimp, any thoughts and any idea on the costs? We are spending $174/mo with MC.

 

[leebo]

We use Sendy and send out roughly 45,000-70,000 emails a month during the summer. We’re a very seasonal website so we only do blasts during peak times. On average, I’d say our bill is about $50 a month. Hardest thing for us however is the updates as AWS is kinda hard to learn while with MailChimp it’s all done for you.

 

[Your Ski Advisor]

We use Sendy and send out roughly 45,000-70,000 emails a month during the summer. We’re a very seasonal website so we only do blasts during peak times. On average, I’d say our bill is about $50 a month. Hardest thing for us however is the updates as AWS is kinda hard to learn while with MailChimp it’s all done for you.

Are there any basic templates available?

 

[leebo]

Not on Sendy, but if you do a search for HTML Emails you’ll likely find some for free. We had a design custom coded for us then we just make small edits each month to add new content.

 

[BoostN]

I agree with @leebo ... getting one made to fit your site/theme usually works best.