MailChimp now free up to 2000 subscribers

[lukestevens]

Probably worth relinking their excellent blog post "Going Freemium: One Year Later" http://blog.mailchimp.com/going-freemium-one-year-later/

Their 'reverse freemium' approach is really interesting -- rather than de-emphasising the free and focusing on the [pre]mium side of their biz, they've been slowly expanding their free options and growing rapidly -- in terms of profit -- because of it.

[zacharycohn]

I think the major difference here is that it's easy to have to migrate from free to paid. If your site/newsletter starts doing well, you hit a point where you HAVE to start paying them.

[tapz]

"No Credit Card Required. No Contracts." Thanks. A lot. - a teenager

[adrianparsons]

In the US at least, you can -- and should -- set up a bank account with a debit card. Sometimes it requires a parent to cosign, but it is quite worth it.

[DenisM]

I wonder, can't you buy a anonymous credit card from a department store?

[marcusEting]

Extensive list of e-mail marketing services, free and paid: http://techblog.willshouse.com/?p=522

(Constant Contact, iContact, Vertical Response, StreamSend, and many more)

[JesseAldridge]

I've actually found Wufoo + Gmail to be the simplest way to handle e-mails. Use a Wufoo form to collect user info, then export the data to csv and import the file into a Gmail group. I haven't done anything terribly advanced (I just notify a list when a new article is posted) -- but it works for me.

[slig]

Anyone with experience on Direct Mail(http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/)? I'd like to use it with SendGrid and later move to SES.

[JacobAldridge]

Thanks Marcus - I've added a couple of others in a comment.

[antidaily]

wish it distinguished free from paid.

[timjahn]

I love MailChimp. They're branding is so friendly, their people are so friendly, and overall they just love their customers.

I'm a fan of their model. If you have more than 2,000 subscribers, you can most likely afford to pay without issue.

[jefe78]

Well said! I'm pretty excited to use these guys again. My last job used them and I instituted the template and stuff but it'll be nice to set everything up from start to finish. Its a great product.

[joelrunyon]

MailChimp seems bound and determined to never let me pay for the service. I guess I'm okay with that. :)

[kevinburke]

Awesome! Any chance you can get the site to load more quickly?

[nhangen]

Great for free users - my concern is that it won't scale or that they're not as profitable as they'd like to be.

[bjonathan]

I dont worry for Mailchimp, when I see the pricing difference between Amazon SES* and them (even if it's not the same product I know and agree)

* http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

[amdev]

I work at MailChimp. I don't worry about that.

[vrikhter]

Was doing some reading on the company and came across this: http://www.quora.com/How-much-revenue-is-MailChimp-doing-the...

If that's really true, I don't imagine they will have to worry for a while.

[ez77]

Just curious: when they write "Unlimited", what exactly do they mean? Wouldn't this be a spammer's good investement?

[qeorge]

MailChimp are very diligent about spam. If your emails get reported as spam more than %0.5 of the time you'll be banned.

So "Unlimited" has a built in limit.

(We use/love MailChimp, definitely recommended.)

[joelrunyon]

They HATE HATE HATE spam. I got flagged one time because I used the word craigslist in a blog post I sent out automatically through an RSS to Email feed. Luckily customer service threw a banana at the spam team and they got me back up and running.

[amdev]

I work at MailChimp. The answer is nope.

[jkahn]

Does anyone know of an easy way to migrate to MailChimp from Aweber?

[vaksel]

You can just do a bulk import.

So download your aweber list csv and then just upload it to mailchimp.

The only problem is that autoresponders don't seem to work for old users unless you do a dirty hack

[mise]

I wish they gave better campaign-like reporting for autoresponders.