Quote:
Originally Posted by Ayles
Just spamming people doesn't do any good. And the notion that you can send millions of emails for the price of a coffee is simply not true. Email marketing done correctly and legally isn't that cheap. I have literally sent billions of emails in my advertising career and am quite familiar with what it costs.
|
It was an analogy.
One can open up a hosting account with a dedicated IP at just about any ISP for $20 a month.
Because it has a dedicated IP they will generally include mass email marketing as an allowed service.
You can bang a crap load of SPAM through the system before the complaints to the ISP get you shut down / your IP blacklisted.
That's one of the things that spammers do and the OP was about SPAM.
You can do a service like iContact and send 1.5 M people emails at a cost of around a half a penny per contact.
That may or may not be SPAM, depending on the source of your list.
You can use, as you seem to, a real legitimate mass marketer / media agency who will compile a qualified list of targeted high purchase intent leads who have all opted in.
That's not SPAM.
That will cost you some money but you are paying for legitimate qualified leads and additional services beyond just pushing random mail through a pipe.
That's what legitimate businesses do. Kudos to you, seriously, not being sarcastic.
Even still at the higher price points the it's a cheap medium.