Need mas mailing email help

[RVJimofOregon]

I mail out a non-profit newsletter as a PDF file each month to 450 members which will grow to maybe 700 in the next 6 months.
I am using Gmail but they have limits like a maximum of 500 mailing per day and only 50 (some say 100) per time. While this works I am looking for a better, quicker way.
It would be nice to have a data base maybe in excel with the names, email and additional information that we could use for other reasons. If I could import the email address monthly and send it out at one time it would be nice.
All this and have to watch the budget as it is a non-profit.
Any ideas would be helpful. I would like to use my gmail account but I could change.
Flagman

[ga80486]

Bummer. I use SerialMailer, but it's a Mac program. It lets you import addresses, compose email and use attachments, but it also can schedule X amount of emails then pause for X amount of time.

I usually do 3 emails then wait 3 seconds. Since I started doing that I've had no more blacklist problems.

[RVJimofOregon]

Thanks for all the input and will do some research on your ideas.
Flaguy

[RVJimofOregon]

rwbradley wrote:
There are 2 components to mass mailing. One is what you can send, and the other is what can I receive. Just because you find a service that will allow you to have more recipients does not mean the recipients mail service will respect that. Spam filters are very complex and have hundreds of weighted factors. One of the biggest factors that goes toward a high spam score is the number of recipients. From my experience, any single email with around 100 or more recipients will be marked as spam by the majority of receiving mail systems. Another big factor is the number of email with high spam scores coming from a single address or mail server in a short period of time. The point is that if you add more recipients or more email messages you are more likely to be rejected by the recipients mail service or end up in their spam folder. Mass email is also no longer considered politically correct and in fact Canada went so far as to make it illegal unless you can prove your recipient has chosen to opt in.

I am with GordonThree. Post it in a Wordpress blog and have people who want email notification to subscribe to the blog, then they will get an email with a link to your post/newsletter whenever you post something new.

All of our members have requested to receive the newsletter.

[RVJimofOregon]

ga80486 wrote:
Mac or PC?

PC

[RVJimofOregon]

2oldman wrote:
Where have you already looked?

Google

[monkey44]

Look at "mail-chimp" -- I'm no tech, so not sure how it works, but you can mass mail out of it because the recipients must OPT IN in order to receive your email. Once a client OPTs IN, then the spam filter leaves it alone.

Unsure of the tech aspects but my tech person emailed out over 400 per time at once to our clients.

[Gdetrailer]

RVJimofOregon wrote:
I mail out a non-profit newsletter as a PDF file each month to 450 members which will grow to maybe 700 in the next 6 months.
I am using Gmail but they have limits like a maximum of 500 mailing per day and only 50 (some say 100) per time. While this works I am looking for a better, quicker way.
It would be nice to have a data base maybe in excel with the names, email and additional information that we could use for other reasons. If I could import the email address monthly and send it out at one time it would be nice.
All this and have to watch the budget as it is a non-profit.
Any ideas would be helpful. I would like to use my gmail account but I could change.
Flagman

Most non commercial email accounts will have some hard limit, that is due to possibility of spammers making use of non commercial accounts..

Seems to me your organization may need to look at a web host and get a domain setup.. That would most likely allow you to setup mass mailings easier..

In the interim, you could get mail Google mail address and make use of the free Google drive (yep, FREE online storage).. Google drive is a online storage site and you can "share" the contents of the drive..

Copy your newsletter to Google drive, and instead on monthly emails you can give all of your "member"s a hot link to the the newsletter folder..

Then you can simply copy the next months newsletter to the drive and they can view the new one whenever they feel like it..

[rwbradley]

There are 2 components to mass mailing. One is what you can send, and the other is what can I receive. Just because you find a service that will allow you to have more recipients does not mean the recipients mail service will respect that. Spam filters are very complex and have hundreds of weighted factors. One of the biggest factors that goes toward a high spam score is the number of recipients. From my experience, any single email with around 100 or more recipients will be marked as spam by the majority of receiving mail systems. Another big factor is the number of email with high spam scores coming from a single address or mail server in a short period of time. The point is that if you add more recipients or more email messages you are more likely to be rejected by the recipients mail service or end up in their spam folder. Mass email is also no longer considered politically correct and in fact Canada went so far as to make it illegal unless you can prove your recipient has chosen to opt in.

I am with GordonThree. Post it in a Wordpress blog and have people who want email notification to subscribe to the blog, then they will get an email with a link to your post/newsletter whenever you post something new.

[K_Charles]

Our family mails out about 600 news letters each year and we use Mymaillist.
Not everyone wants an email so we still use Gmail for that. Mymaillist keeps track of who gets which but you are right, Gmail only wants so many at a time.

[bcsdguy]

Look here: mass mailings

[ga80486]

Mac or PC?

[GordonThree]

Some of the most powerful and wealthiest companies in the USA are "non profit" 🙂

Yahoo used to offer a "groups" service, I believe it was free or ad supported.

Create a free blog for your company on wordpress.com and add your mailing list as subscribers. Update the blog, subscribers get e-mailed.

Office 365 is a few bucks a month and the mailing limit is some tens of thousands per day.

Google for business is a few bucks a month too, and offers much more generous limits than the free product.

[2oldman]

Where have you already looked?