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Newsletter as an email is still a very powerful tool. Have a listen to Jason Calacanis (This Week In Startups) on this topic, he runs both and has his highest hit rates from email. This is because most business people still look at their email as one of their primary applications that they return to many times a day. The message appearing in here is more ...

1 million emails delivered within 48 hours? That's around 6 mails per second. That's doable from a single server, but it would have to be a fast server with excellent network connectivity. One way to more or less achieve OP's goal is: Lease a good server with a fast disk subsystem (Unix mail servers use disk for mail queuing, meaning disk-I/O is vital for ...

I am in the process of launching an email based start-up and I have been struggling with this question too. I think it is going to depend on the type of content in your newsletter. In my case my newsletter content is a variation of a "tip of the day", which lends itself nicely to being duplicated as a short blog post. On one hand I worry that some people ...

It could work if done right. But you have to be respectful of your users. Here are a few things to consider: Make it relevant to your users. I wouldn't be upset if one of the services I'm signed up for emailed me information about a relevant service or offer that I might be interested in. For example, I recently received an email offer from Kissmetrics on ...

I think you're trying to do too much in one move. I'd also say, you're also trying to do the wrong things. Let' me explain: Most people are not going to talk about stuff they haven't seen or used yet -- unless you're already important or known to make exceptional stuff. I doubt that's the case, here. It's rather easy, however, to get some people to follow ...

If its either one of newsletter or blog, go for blog. Newsletter is still an effective tool, however in this socially connected world blog is becoming more powerful & effective everyday and certainly this is the future. With blog posts, your ideas reachability increases many-folds as blog posts can reach readers through facebook, twitter, rss feed, ...

Why is exclusivety so important? Two points: To answer you immediate question: Yes, your content should be available archived online. Put a delay between the newsletter and its archiving to the site, if necessary to maintain some illusion of "exclusivity". An additional point: you should have as many path to your content as possible. Not everyone likes ...

Communicate with your stakeholders in the way they prefer. With today's integrated publish platforms it is possible to match your content by how an individual wants to receive the information. Blogs, RSS feed, Twitter, SMS, Email, eBlast, eNewsletter -- different platforms for different messages for different content for different targeted audiences. I ...

I think PHPList is the best list programm in PHP so far. I don't like it myself to be honest. The problem with PHP is it has a in-built time out which cannot be modified with most hosters. It might occur that after 100 seconds of sending your emails the php process gets killed by the system. Then you have a problem. 100 seconds are not too much if you send ...

Here is the canonical US reference. And yes, it doesn't reference anything about migrating existing subscribers. Most mailing services publish best practice guides & suggest sending out a confirmation email to existing list members older than 6 months to confirm their interest (double opt-in). If you have a good mailer, it will capture the ...

Personally I still sign up for newsletters if I am really interested in the company or its offering. However I am now starting to unsubscribe from these newsletters and subscribe to their RSS feeds. I dislike getting 50 newsletters a day in my inbox, it takes time to filter and creates a lot of clutter, which reduces my productivity. Now with Google ...

No disrespect to your idea but that's what expert marketeers like to call a ticking time-bomb. Any kind of manipulation of followers/subscribers attention by partnering with other business is going to backfire at some point. It's a gamble. Instead if a company knows how to create and execute social media strategies properly, they can create their own ever ...

You can ask existing users of website for email opt-in using a beautiful javascript based dialog which could pop-up next time they log in or visit the website. Just take care to ask them with Yes and No button so that they won't need to type their email address. Further, don't forget to put unsubscribe link in the footer of emails. If there are many ...

Yes, you can send an email out to your users. You should let them know how you acquired their email address (normally this is written in the footer) and give them the option to unsubscribe if they choose. There are many services that will make sure that you are sending newsletters in a proper way. I'm a huge proponent of Mailchimp which will guide you ...

If you're ever going to be sending more than a trivial amount of email (more than a few hundred) then, quite frankly, you are insane trying to self host this. ;) Bulk email is a dirty messy business, full of bodged hacks, held together with Duct tape and obscure incantations and you should have plenty of better things to spend your time on. Its not the ...

There are these two: http://www.phplist.com/ http://dadamailproject.com/ Both are not really satisfying compared to tools like Mailchimp. Both are a bit tricky to install and I have never found trust into them. But my experience is pretty old, they might have become better. WHile phplist is using php, dada is based on perl. I think both have templates ...

I've seen a lot of names for it, such as "corporate capability statement", or "corporate capability package" as I see it on wikipedia. Regardless, you want a formal document that outlines your specific areas of expertise. If it's high level project management talk about the management styles and structures you work with. If you work at the custom coding ...

It really depends on the user. I personally like to get newsletters on start-ups. I have a newsletter that gives buys people information related to staying health while working. For my readers, getting a weekly e-mail on a topic like: standing desks,which running shoes to buy or productivity tips is helpful. Think about your audience and the content your ...

One line answer - Emails tend to be more personal compared to RSS feeds. For my company personally, email newsletters perform really well. Blog becomes a medium using which people sign up for a newsletter. Emails provide a personal touch and if written with the reader in mind, they can be really deliver. Make sure your letters are focused and provide ...

Canadian legislation doesn't specify "how" you do something, rather it specifies "why" and "what". The legislation requires that you contact people only if you have their consent, and the mechanism you follow is up to you. I doubt anyone can give you a straight yes or no answer as the law neither specifically prohibits nor endorses single opt-in lists. That ...

I would have used sendgrid as @JIMG suggested and not your own server. Sending a million emails is the easy part... Convincing google, yahoo & hotmail not to reject those emails or dump them to a spam folder should be the real question here. Even if you send a million via your own server, odds are that only a fraction will reach your customers. When ...

I ended up using a PHP-based newsletter program on my webhost and selecting LuxSci at www.luxsci.com as my SMTP service. LuxSci seems to be reputable and have prices based on limits. As my amounts increase, I can simply increase my limits and pay more. I've started at 5,000 emails for $5.00 per month. I can go to 75,000 emails per month at $135 per month. ...