MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

Re:MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers by patio11 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @11:47AM (#2170890)

0.1% actually. I kid you not. (This causes me a minor issue once a year. One of my autoresponders caught a flag in January for having 6 / 4000 = 0.15% spam complaints. They were quite clear in their mail: I'm on probation.)

Have I mentioned I love MailChimp? They take deliverability seriously.

(Also, they do have actual human beings who you can talk to if you get flagged unnecessarily. For example, within 24 hours of opening my account and funding it, it was closed because I used the word "bingo" in a draft email. Their filter smacked me down for promoting gambling. I mailed them and the CS department got back with "Thanks for your explanation of what your business actually does. OK, we reinstated you. Be careful.")

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Re:MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers by ssharp on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @12:57PM (#2171230)

I ran into an issue with Constant Contact that basically banned one of my mailing segments of around 500 emails. The rest of the list was okay to send to, just one segment was blocked. The issue was a false positive spam test by Constant Contact and they refused to unlock that segment. Even had they unblocked it, the CS experience was still bad enough to raise a warning flag.

I've since moved on to MailChimp and have been much happier with it than I was CC.

I'm glad to see them improving on an already highly functional free-tier.

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