Mail Chimp is a great tool for tracking your mass emails to parents and volunteers. I am amazed that they offer so much for the free service. The free service allows you to store up to 500 email addresses (plenty for most churches) as well as send up to 3,000 emails per month. So if you had 500 addresses, you could send 6 mass emails per month free of charge. They also offer a 15% discount to non-profits.
I’m really looking forward to using this in a similar way that Jonathan Cliff does (only I believe he uses Constant Contact-a paid service). Jonathan sends out weekly update and leadership videos to his volunteers. He utilizes Vimeo for this. Mail Chimp will allow you to communicate things like this to your people as well as keep track of who actually has opened the email and who clicked on the links within it.
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2 Comments to 'Mail Chimp–Free Email Marketing for Parents and Volunteers'
August 31, 2010
This cracks me up. I moved to Mail Chimp this week. Constant Contact was costing me so much money, and Mail Chimp is easier to use and is FREE.
Dont' forget that it ties in your email campaigns to Twitter and Facebook too. And works well with Google Analytics!
August 31, 2010
Jonathan,
That is awesome! What great timing! Thanks for the feedback and extra info. Keep up the great work!
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