Email Announcements
Partial comparison of email announcement tools.
In evaluating mailing list managers, there are several criterion:
- Authoring tools make it easy to draft html emails.
- Filtering tools make it possible to decide who receives the email based on database fields.
- Processing determines the workflow for contacts.
- Security tools determine who can send emails to whom.
- Price determines how much it costs.
NationBuilder
- The Authoring tools are reportedly difficult to use.
- Has great filtering tools.
- If you can send emails, you an send them to everyone.
- CA spends $10K/year. MO spends 2.5K/year.
Beehiv
The Butch ware campaign uses and recommend Beehiiv.
ListMonk is the open source tool in this category. Like Nationbuilde it lets you collect client information, and then filter on that information. For example, one could ask for the zip code or state and county. And then email lists can be created based on filtering that data. And uses can be granted permssions to send emails only to people on a certain filtered list. Listmonk lets you use any of the folloing buld email providers. Gmail Amazon SES Mailgun Mailjet Sendgrid Postmark Forward Email
- Pricing. $1.5/Month for the server, plus Bulk Email services. You can visit the above listed vendors for details, but generally 6000 email/Month Free. 15,000 email /Month $17.