Is there a third part e-mail newsletter package?

I am extremely happy with Intellicontact. www.intellicontact.com.
For $10 a month, it provides a ton of features.

Now, if all you need is a simple newsletter, Drupal may do the trick, and I may switch over because maybe I do not need all those features, but it is still pretty good stuff...

download simplenews from here :
Simplenews

You can see our party web with this modules installed.I hope this can help

National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas)
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PAPERNAS

I've carefully researched newsletter and autoresponder services, and I found none better than Aweber
Do a little search, and see for yourself.

Thanks guys for the info, I'll look into those.

SimpleNews is wonderful, unfortunately, it lacks the more complex features I need.

One of the reasons I think I need to go to a third party is because of the need for a more sophisticated package, than the average Drupal Newsletter.

Although I haven't personally used them, I've heard good things about Campaign Monitor.
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

anyone know of any Drupal modules that does mail merge?

here is a good review

Things I like about CC:

Simple to use for newbies, but also works for those who want to design their own
Easy to setup subscribe/unsubscribes, signup form, thanks form, etc
Easy to customize standard email templates a bit or design your own in Dreamweaver, etc, and paste those in
Good documentation and forums (haven't used forums myself tho)
Good phone support. Most reps have a decent understanding of email, and 2nd level reps help resolve issues if necessary
List management specialists help resolve list issues so you don't have to talk to a complete generalist (of course this varies rep to rep but my experience with them has been better than with other competitors)
Easy integration of PayPal buttons - tutorials and help doc give step by step for 1st timers
Easy personalization (Hi George) and merging of subscriber fields within standard email templates, and pretty easy in custom ones with a bit of reading
Decent tracking, with nice comparison to averages from all CC users to tell you if you ave above or below on your numbers
A variety of templates. A quick way to get started is to edit their template in Dreamweaver.
Long-standing, mature company (isn't going to disappear like some have)
Free trial to check it out, or for use with less than 50 subscribers. Free version includes CC ad, tho so not a good thing for pros IMO.
A few things it doesn't have that I'd like to see:

integrated autoresponder like Aweber, GetResponse, 1ShoppingCart
inegrated surveys like SurveyGizmo, SurveyMonkey
agency feature for managing multiple clients, assigning login priveledges so clients only see certain reports and can't do anything else (i.e., mess things up)
I've recently looked in detail at a few others because I want integrated autoresponders and surveys (NOT use separate applications). While time and my understanding level don't allow a detailed review, I had a few impressions that you might find helpful. Check them out against your "needs and wants" list and see what you think.

Intellicontact (http://www.intellicontact.com/)

Nice integration of email mktg, basic surveys, basic autoresponder, rss at a good rate
Poor support was the deal-killer for me. I did not have good experience. Sales and support reps not only did not know their own product well enough to answer questions, but they didn't recognize what I consider basic email marketing terms (like split testing and a few others I don't remember at moment). Questions asked were answered with completely unrelated questions. Maybe not uncommon these days, but not at all helpful.
Not much documentation (except for super basic stuff) to make up for the poor support so I crossed this one off my list despite the appeal of the integrated features. If I can't use it and have to deal with unpleasant or unhelpful support it's not a good choice for me or my clients. Aweber (http://www.aweber.com/)
One of the most popular autoresponder services, but you can also use it for sending broadcast emails like newsletters. Really powerful possibilities. Good learning resources, phone support, online knowledgebase and video tuts. Phone support also.

Emma (http://www.myemma.com/)
Nice features, including agency feature, but higher in cost. Includes a custom designed template with every account, so is a bit more $ upfront, but probably a good thing because their input will make your email campaigns more effective immediately. Nice trigger email feature. Nice lack of techie talk.

MailChimp (http://www.mailchimp.com/)
Good features, including agency setup, fun/user-friendly attitude, good learning resources. Don't remember their support info, but several people I know who are very savvy marketers really love it so it must be decent. A bit higher cost

EmailLabs (http://www.emaillabs.com/)
For high-volume or advanced features, this is fantastic. Excellent features, support features, and knowledge of the email marketing and online business environment. 1st tier, but with a corresponding price. Subscribe to their newsletter for excellent info, and check out their articles. If I could afford it, I would switch to this in half a heartbeat.

I highly, highly recommend getting a month trial and creating a realistic sample email using the features you need to see how they really compare. Send a sample campaign to a group of buddies, use their support, check the delivery over different email clients and ISPs.

Take some time to check them out up front, because switching between providers later is very difficult because you have to use double opt-in at most reputable companies so you have to re-subscribe your list after you move.

Vic - WolfPaw Computers
01-31-07, 07:13 AM
Keep in mind that AWeber is also one of the most blacklisted services in the industry.

Many ISPs and Hosts have them blocked due to all the spam complaints.
http://extranet.miva.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2251.html

I work with a lot of campaigns and community groups, and this is needed badly.

We tried using CiviMail, but besides taking up a ton of resources, it sent the e-mails way too slow. For many small campaigns, community groups, etc., having a dedicated web server just isn't an option. I hope one day I can get one, but for now it's shared hosting.

We rely heavily on CiviCRM to keep track of supporter and volunteer information, and we want something that ties together with this.

We decided to start using MailBuild/CampaignMonitor. I just put out a bid for work to tie CiviCRM/Drupal with MailBuild using its API. Hopefully I can find someone who can do this for a reasonable cost, as I'm just a small time web designer and don't have access to a lot of funds to get this done. But I see this as being a huge hole for those of us using it for political campaigns.

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Jenni S.
http://www.nu-look.net
Portland, OR metro area
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Can anyone help? I need to:

Send nice looking html personalised newsletters
Send emails from a package similar in content and feel to Yahoo..with address autocomplete
Email package need to have a good system of storing name, address and contact details
I need to be able to send up to 5000 newsletters at a time (we are a not for profit organisation)
Ideally, I want to be able to have something as good as Constant Contact for newsletters and as good as Yahoo for email, and something which preferably stops the need for us to have each person's contact details in the email package, mailer package and an excel spreadsheet!

Please, if anyone could help, I would be more than grateful!

Dee

Subscribing.

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Darly

There's UAS' Email Service for CiviCRM which may make CiviCRM more attractive, as you don't have to set up CiviMail.

http://civicrm.org/node/237
http://www.uas.coop/civismtp-application

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

Just posted this:

http://drupal.org/node/210846

I'm willing to work on developing an email campaign module for Drupal, just need some contributors. Anyone interested?

I'm currently working on a module that will allow Drupal sites to take advantage of the iContact.com (aka, intelliContact) API for bulk mailing.

Campaign Monitor is just too expensive.

If anyone wants to sponsor the module to speed development and get a community version released, contact me.

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Drupal Micro-Blogging at Twitter

Does anyone know of there's allready a campaign monitor's module for drupal 6.2?

Hi,

Would anyone know which of these companies offer a Canada service? My client won't use an US company due to homeland security regulations. I'm considering Gravity Factor right now which is probably a bit over-powered for them but it is a Canadian solution.

cheers,