Hi Jenni....
I just started using Your Mailing List Provider.... and it was excellent!
www.yourmailinglistprovider.comI sent out my first email yesterday. And I got an order within hours for something I had promoted in the newsletter (

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If you haven't got an existing mailing list... you can start with them on the FREE account - and you get 1000 subscribers! You don't get so many reports... and when a customer signs up, they get a confirmation with an 'ad' on it.
With their professional account... it was $3.75 a month for unlimited subscribers... and you can send out to 500 a month. For 501-2500 it only costs $7.50 (US). You get some great reports to tell you how many people open, and how many click on the links. You can personalise the opt in/opt out, and the customer doesn't get any adverts on the professional plan.
I had 250 email that I needed to import... so I signed up for the professional account. I paid for 6 months - $22.50. My first order paid for that plus some!
They had some templates, which I found REALLY EASY to use. I will find your email and send my newsletter to you, so you can see what it looks like. You can embed the pictures - so that they open up on all 'html' email servers... and it creates the 'text' version for you as well so you can see/change that too.
I did a fair bit of research, and asked a lot of people about email programmes. Some prices are outrageous. Some are cheap - but incredibly frustrating to use.
I highly recommend YMLP.
Jodiesuper mum of 2 -
Shaun (05/06) &
Shelli (11/07)