e-mail marketing

Sending newsletters via email is not only cheaper than traditional post it's also much faster. Additional benefits include accurate tracking of individual email messages... and yes, it's more environment friendly! With the following services you can create and send email newsletters in a few minutes. Most, if not all, provide predesigned (professional) templates that you can either use straight off or customize with ease by adding your own fancy formatting, images, company logo, direct link to the product sale page etc.

MailChimp

MailChimp's free account allows you to send 6,000 messages per month to a list of upto 1000 email addresses. To send unlimited messages from this email marketing firm, just shell out a measily $15! MailChimp offers 15% discount to non-profit organizations and charities.
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Constant Contact

Constant Contact charges a flat monthly fee which is based on the number of email addresses in your list. With a minimum of $15 you can send unlimited email messages to upto 500 people.
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VerticalResponse

Choose between two pricing options - Pay-As-You-Go and Pay Monthly. The latter is more suited for people who plan to send frequent email fliers. For instance, $10 will enable you to send unlimited email messages to 500 recipients.
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iContact

Monthly email marketing packages starting at less than $10 and based on the number of email addresses in the list. Discount available if paid yearly.
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GetResponse

GetReponse offers several plans for email marketing all of which (except the free account) let you send unlimited email messages. The prices are dependent on the number of email addresses in your marketing list.
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StreamSend

The monthly email marketing plans from StreamSend depend on the number of messages you want to send out. At the time of writing, the company does not have an unlimited email option in the standard plans.
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CampaignMonitor

The pricing from CampaignMonitor is simple. There are no set up and monthly costs. You pay a flat $5 delivery free and 1 cent for each recipient. Thus, the cost to send email newsletters to 500 people will be (500 X $0.01) + $5 = $10.00
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Benchmark email

The pricing is based on the number of email messages you want to send in a month; no unlimited sending, sadly. The minimum you have to pay is $9.95 that lets you dispatch 600 email newsletters per month.
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myNewsletterBuilder

The plans from myNewsletterBuilder are comparable to other email marketing companies and come in two flavours. The monthly unlimited plans start at $10 for a list of upto 500 addresses. The Standard Plan is based on the number of emails sent in a 30 day period.
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GraphicMail

The minimum email marketing plan from GraphicMail costs a little less than $10 with which you can dispatch 2000 email newsletters or messages. That's half a cent for each email. This figure drops down to 1/4th of a cent when the when the list if larger (100,000).
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dotMailer

dotMailer is a UK based email marketing company. To know the cost, use the (great) animated price calculator they have on the web site. For instance, to send 5000 messages per month, you'll have to dish out GBP 79 (yearly contract).
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I highly recommend The Email Wars web site if you want to learn about email marketing. If offers great advice that would surely help increasing the success of your email newsletters.

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