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Do any of you work with large (over 10k) email lists?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 2/7/17 at 6:17 pm
I know this is a shot in the dark, but I need to know the correct way to deploy this.
Any one in here an expert?
Any one in here an expert?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 6:23 pm to I Love Bama
Screw that. I get nervous whenever I have to email a couple hundred.
This post was edited on 2/7/17 at 7:21 pm
Posted on 2/7/17 at 6:26 pm to Givens
I can't afford to mess this up. Do you know anyone who has done it?
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:06 pm to I Love Bama
Look at 3rd party solutions like Mailchimp.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 7:46 pm to jmorr34
Already on that. The problem is e-mail providers marking it as spam, fricking my email account and shooting all my emails to the spam folder. There is quite a bit of risk in email lists thi big.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:29 pm to I Love Bama
quote:
Do any of you work with large (over 10k) email lists?
Subtle brag.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 11:18 pm to jmorr34
I used a setup for sending emails via onsite exchange at a previous job. Sometimes up to 175k emails at a time. Pulled recipients from a DB and did mail merge and all that jazz. Probably way more than you're looking to do though. I've never used it but I'm pretty sure mailchimp would be the kind of thing you're looking for.
Posted on 2/8/17 at 10:57 am to I Love Bama
quote:
(over 10k) email lists
quote:well it is spam. by definition.
marking it as spam
Posted on 2/8/17 at 11:27 am to I Love Bama
Did you buy this email list from someone off the Internet?
Posted on 2/8/17 at 11:48 am to shotcaller1
No. I put it together myself with the help of some other people.
Posted on 2/8/17 at 11:51 am to I Love Bama
If it's not a complicated creative (just a message), try Outlook/Excel Mail Merge: LINK
Posted on 2/8/17 at 12:13 pm to I Love Bama
quote:
can't afford to mess this up. Do you know anyone who has done it?
Break it unit 10 1000 email lists
Problem solved
Posted on 2/8/17 at 12:43 pm to jmorr34
quote:
Mailchimp.
This is the way to go.
Posted on 2/8/17 at 12:44 pm to I Love Bama
quote:
No. I put it together myself with the help of some other people.
Mailchimp and likely other email vendors will make you confirm these people are all opted in to receive emails from you (to be compliant with CAN-SPAM)
Posted on 2/8/17 at 12:54 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Yep. That's my problem. I don't want to get in trouble.
Posted on 2/9/17 at 9:46 am to I Love Bama
I work with a few large size email lists. I had an email blast go out 20min ago. A few things to help you.
Are these strictly promotional (marketing) emails or are these transactional emails?
I literally have three different systems to send emails depending on who they are going to and because of CRM costs. I have a transactional email service, a marketing email service for our existing customers, and a CRM with email included service that I use for prospects. I don't put the current customers in our CRM because the costs would be astronomical and its a hard to explain customer base. With that being said...
Break down these lists by segments (DO NOT SEND ALL AT ONCE). Send to segments based on the context of who they are and their interests (state, buyer journey stage, interests).
Do A/B testing to a small sample size to see which ones get better CTRs first.
If you're worried about CAN-SPAM, make sure you aren't deceptive in your subject line, you have an easy way to unsubscribe, and you have a physical sender address.
As far as spam goes, if you didn't get direct permission to send, you will get unsubscribes and spam complaints, but the more the email ties to a person's interests, the less likely they are to mark as spam. Just don't add a personalization token and just hope you don't get a direct spam complaint to your email provider (literal death sentence for that service)
Look at the bounce codes as well. Anything with a 500 bounce rate is a hard bounce (bad) and could be based off reputation or user doesnt exist or you were marked as spam.
Honestly, I didn't know anything about marketing like 5 months ago but have learned alot by using Hubspot's free service. If you can watch their email marketing cert videos, I highly recommend. They also have great blog articles as well.
"TL;DR" You spam, you going to have a bad time.
Are these strictly promotional (marketing) emails or are these transactional emails?
I literally have three different systems to send emails depending on who they are going to and because of CRM costs. I have a transactional email service, a marketing email service for our existing customers, and a CRM with email included service that I use for prospects. I don't put the current customers in our CRM because the costs would be astronomical and its a hard to explain customer base. With that being said...
Break down these lists by segments (DO NOT SEND ALL AT ONCE). Send to segments based on the context of who they are and their interests (state, buyer journey stage, interests).
Do A/B testing to a small sample size to see which ones get better CTRs first.
If you're worried about CAN-SPAM, make sure you aren't deceptive in your subject line, you have an easy way to unsubscribe, and you have a physical sender address.
As far as spam goes, if you didn't get direct permission to send, you will get unsubscribes and spam complaints, but the more the email ties to a person's interests, the less likely they are to mark as spam. Just don't add a personalization token and just hope you don't get a direct spam complaint to your email provider (literal death sentence for that service)
Look at the bounce codes as well. Anything with a 500 bounce rate is a hard bounce (bad) and could be based off reputation or user doesnt exist or you were marked as spam.
Honestly, I didn't know anything about marketing like 5 months ago but have learned alot by using Hubspot's free service. If you can watch their email marketing cert videos, I highly recommend. They also have great blog articles as well.
"TL;DR" You spam, you going to have a bad time.
Posted on 2/9/17 at 9:48 am to Breesus
quote:
Break it unit 10 1000 email lists
Problem solved
Or to make it look even less fishy, 1000 10 email lists
Posted on 2/9/17 at 9:49 am to Poohbear8487
Thank you so much for taking the time to write that out!
Posted on 2/9/17 at 10:07 am to I Love Bama
Is this legit email or is it SPAM? We send mass emails two different ways. One, on behalf of our customers and two through our customers. We had to setup an external smtp relay and make sure we have DKIM and DMARC setup. Its still a constant battle with the SPAM brokers. How are you trying to send it now? I know gmail wont allow you to do it with the free version.
Posted on 2/9/17 at 10:16 am to Vlad
So the e-mail list is very fresh and I expect a less than 1% bounce rate.
To use an example, let's pretend these are all CPAs. I am promoting a free service that they would like.
Now is that a legit e-mail or is that spam? I would say it's closer to spam.
I'm not sending any e-mails until I figure out they best way to do it without getting in trouble.
The e-mails were obtained off the CPAs actual website.
To use an example, let's pretend these are all CPAs. I am promoting a free service that they would like.
Now is that a legit e-mail or is that spam? I would say it's closer to spam.
I'm not sending any e-mails until I figure out they best way to do it without getting in trouble.
The e-mails were obtained off the CPAs actual website.
This post was edited on 2/9/17 at 10:22 am
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