By chris pergantis on
We have a couple of clients that would like to use their user list to market. Are there any modules that are organized for marketing without depending on the API of an outside service?
Some of the features needed.
- Replacement of fields within the email template body with information from the profile like their name.
- Multiple lists or awareness of a profile field to specify a classification into a list
- link-able response areas for removal from the lists (opt out)
- timing of emails and quantity limits
From my search I found most are just using the outside services. Does anyone have suggestions?
Comments
you may be looking at mailing
you may be looking at mailing or subscription modules. look at the following mods
http://drupal.org/project/phpmailer
http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions
http://drupal.org/project/MailingList
i only listed a few but you can use the keywords i gave you to search for more appropriate module.
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Rachel J.
SimpleNews
SimpleNews does all this.
http://drupal.org/project/simplenews
Your third bullet, providing a way for people receiving the marketing mail to unsubscribe, often gets overlooked. This is required by the Can-Spam Act and is also provided by simplenews.
I use SimpleNews for a site that sends out about 15,000 mails a week, about 1000 every 15 minutes. For the most part it works well, however I hear mail coming from MailChimp or Constant Contact is less likely to end up in the SPAM folder.
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com
Simplenews
If we were to use Simplenews; is part of the subscription process a requirement to be a registered member?
Chris Pergantis
Founder/Chairman/President
Accelerated Design Inc
No
The second sentence on the SimpleNews page says, "Both anonymous and authenticated users can opt-in to different mailing lists."
;)
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com
deeper into the email piece
We now have a handle on Simplenews. The client wants to produce a newsletter subscription that will provide filtered views as a result.
I have imagined a process that might fulfill this site requirement. They want the person subscribing to enter some filter values that would be pertinent to the specific results that they want. Using the Webform module with Simplenews module should allow the subscriber to select filters and the system to store those values for their individual newsletter. Each subscriber would be sent a newsletter containing a link that would call a view page, back at the site, using the parameters from their selections.
Has anyone had a similar use or results that might be handled better than stated above? Any comments or other ideas?
Chris Pergantis
Founder/Chairman/President
Accelerated Design Inc
The use of an imported email list
Has someone been able to import an opt in email list into the subscription system of simple news?
Chris Pergantis
Founder/Chairman/President
Accelerated Design Inc