Posted on 03/13/2015 8:19:14 PM PDT by hsmomx3
I am doing some clerical work for an insurance adjustor and he has asked that I assist in setting up a system where one email would be sent to 50 recipients.
He does not want it done in BCC format as he claims those on the BCC list would be able to discover who the email was sent to.
I do not want to make this more difficult than it has to be. He said an email blast program may be the way to go but I know nothing about these.
Your advice/assistance is most appreciated.
Look at Aweber.
Don’t violate the CANNSPAM Law.
You can use something like Mailchimp. It allows you to send up to 12,000 emails to 2000 subscribers for free.
This email is for business purposes due to a fire at a condo unit. I think composing a BCC in a gmail account would be simple but he does things a little more advanced then I prefer!
“composing a BCC”
No, you really shouldn’t do that. It would share their email address with a lot of strangers. It would be better to go through a bulk email provider.
Not as far as I know. Bcc is just that, a blind copy. Even in the email header, something that is normally hidden, you can see only the individual recipient and no others.
That’s what I thought.
Mass emails? Do you do those on Sundays?
Ditto on Mailchimp. Super easy to use and good tracking information on who opened email and at what time etc.
Used Mailchimp a few times for lists around 150 people. No complaints, easy to set up.
Use undisclosed recipients
Write a personal e-mail to each one.
Take the list and Cut and Paste in each name into the body.
Double check the name and e-mail address before pressing send.
If you were my employee that’s they way I’d want it done. (And yes I had my own business for 30 years before retiring it.)
As your Customer I would appreciate it too.
Thank you all so much for your links and assistance. It is much appreciated.
Can you buy mailing lists and use mailchimp?
Example: email 1 million people for a product to sell.
Any suggestions on a mailing list company?
I would not be soliciting business. It is more for people whose condos were damaged due to fire and he has to do some claims adjustor work for them. I am not sure what the email is to say.
It is not a good idea however to send an email to a large number of recipients using Bcc.
This is because some email providers limit the number of recipients you can send to in a single email to or the number of email recipients in a 24 hour period for a non-commercial email account (Gmail, yahoo, etc., even Comcast for non-commercial accounts) and they will lock the sender’s email account for exceeding those limits. His email account could also get flagged and locked out if there are a number of undeliverable emails (bad email addresses) that come back so you want to make sure that all the email addresses you have are correct, up to date and are entered correctly. He’d probably be OK with sending to 50 recipients in one email, one time but if he sends out follow-ups, it could be a problem.
But the bigger potential problem is that many email providers may see an incoming email with many Cc’d or Bcc’d recipients as being spam and filter it out, sending it to the recipients spam folder (and if he wants these emails to reach and be read, he doesn’t want them going into the recipient’s spam folder) or even worse, reporting the sender’s email domain name as being a spammer. And that could cause any and all future mails from that email domain name to be then blocked by many email providers and it’s no fun to get unblocked.
As others have suggested, MailChimp or AWeber might be an easy and affordable solution. I haven’t used either of those, but I did use Constant Contact when I was on the board of a NFP and sending out monthly newsletters and blast email updates to our over 200 active members and sponsors.
When we decided to try to save money on the printing and postage costs and send our newsletters along with blast email announcements out electronically, the first time I tried to send a mass blast email about an event cancellation, only to about 50 people and a simple text only email and using a Bcc and doing it from my personal Comcast email account, I quickly found out about the limits, I ended up having to break it up into 3 separate emails and even then got a nasty gram from Comcast about “spamming” and got my personal email account locked out for a short time until I was able to resolve the issue with Comcast and get my account unlocked.
The only thing I would say is that services like MailChimp, AWeber and Constant Contact are geared more toward sales and marketing and newsletter emails and so for a simple text only email, could be overkill in that you would have a lot of options to gussy up the emails with logos and graphics and such that you might not need or not want to avail yourself of.
But when I used Constant Contact, even in designing very professional looking newsletters with embedded links and graphics, jpegs, etc, it was surprisingly simple and easy to use and because we got NFP pricing, was very affordable over printing and snail mail costs. I could also track any undeliverable email addresses and easily remove them from future communications and “subscribers” could opt out of receiving future emails so that we didn’t run afoul of spamming.
Good luck with your project and let us know how it turns out.
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