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Tailslide
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Intelligent autoresponders? - 4/2/2008 10:34:31
Hi all -
I've got a client who wants to allow users to sign up for one or more email newsletters (the contents of which would be delivered in one shot).
The problem is that she wants the end-users to be able to then opt in or out of the various newsletters and give more information (such as birthdates) as they want, whenever they want.
I'm not remotely experienced in autoresponders - the ones I've used and looked at seem to only offer a simple opt-out-of-everything option via the opt out link at the bottom of the email.
Is there a hosted solution that allows this sort of complexity?
Or would it be easier if I just set the whole thing up as a database on the client's web server to take the information via a form - give the client a login so that they can in future change their information and options via a protected page and then export this database to the autoresponder as a .csv ?
Any suggestions welcomed.
(I've also posted this query on one other forum as I'm really stuck!)
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rdouglass
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RE: Intelligent autoresponders? - 4/2/2008 10:58:56
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The problem is that she wants the end-users to be able to then opt in or out of the various newsletters and give more information (such as birthdates) as they want, whenever they want.
So she wants to be able information specific to each news letter or just specific to the client? I understand being able to opt in/out of each letter clear enough, but how diverse would the varying newsletter specifics be?
To be able to keep the list of newsletters, that seems pretty straightforward; a one-to-many relationship in a DB should take care of that but I suspect that's not exactly where your issue is.
Personally, I see this as a roll-your-own DB kinda' thing but their may be stuff already in place to do this. Exporting to .CSV shouldn't be too much of an issue either.
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jurgen
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RE: Intelligent autoresponders? - 4/2/2008 11:46:38
You might want to check out this link:
http://www.phplist.com
I use it on my site and it works pretty good.
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jurgen
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RE: Intelligent autoresponders? - 4/2/2008 15:43:52
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Eeeeeick! Stay away from phpList, I had nothing but problems with it.
Funny that different people have always different opinions. It works just fine on my end....
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check out your host's mail throttle policy. Mine would only allow 100 per hour
If the outgoing mail is restricted I consider this as a host issue and has nothing to do with phplist. The program let you send what ever you want.
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coreybryant
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RE: Intelligent autoresponders? - 4/2/2008 17:12:34
What about Constant Contact? It is a hosted solution and I think offer a variety of options
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RE: Intelligent autoresponders? - 4/3/2008 16:57:23
Take a look at Opt-in and Ezine Help. One of the members also recommended Aweber. I have heard of them, but most use Contact Contact.
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