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Electronic Direct Marketing Resources
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Electronic Registration
Cinram: www.cinram.com
Information: Provides electronic registration services.
Leadertech: www.leadertech.com:
Information: Publishes PowerRegister, an electronic registration package for PC, Mac, and Unix.
EDM Brokers
Opt-Influence.com: http://opt-influence.com
Information: E-mail newsletter ad network offers access to more than 1,000 email newsletters, totaling more than 106 million subscribers.
EDM Enhancements (return to top)
Droplets.com: www.droplets.com
Information: See "Zaplets" in this section.
eCommercial.com: www.eCommercial.com
Information: Offers a service that adds audio and video clips to E-mail.
Comment: Your mail can now sing and dance!
E-Dialog: www.e-dialog.com
Information: Offers a variety of EDM services. Of particular note is their ability to take a conventional DM list and derive E-mail addresses.
eGroups: www.egroups.com
Information: Allows a publisher to setup a mail group via a user registrationprocess. Text ads can be attached to the letters sent to the different groups.Voice: 310.578.6725.
Contact: Jay Stevens
Information: Allows you to send streaming video via your E-mail.
Great Big Noise: www.greatbignoise.com
Information: Provides the ability to create and manage Flash-based EDM campaigns. Pricing is based on a per-mailing fee (no monthly maintenance charge) at $19.95 (US) per email plus 1 cent per name for your own mailing list; add 2 to 4 cents per name for list rental.
InterSpire: www.interspire.com
Information: Publishes SendStudio, a very powerful and reasonably priced E-mail and content management system. System is designed to be server-based; includes free installation by InterSpire, a valuable benefit. PHP source code provided as well as private branding.
SubscriberDrive:www.subscriberdrive.com
Information: SubscriberDrive allows you to build a newsletter subscriber base. Works by having place of HTML code on your Web site. This code creates an exit popup window containing offers for 10 other newsletters. Every time your popup appears, you earn 10 exposures for your newsletter.
thatgame: www.thatgame.com
Information: Offers a series of small "games" that can be attached to an E-mail, then played. When they are played, a series of messages are disclosed to the players.
Comment: Fascinating idea! Does it work?
TinyURL: www.tinyURL.com
Information: Allows sites that want to link to a specific page within their
site, but not wanting a long URL, can go to TinyURL and obtain a short link that redirects to the long URL.
EDM Services (return to top)
(Before using any third-party EDM service, we strongly suggest you contact them beforehand and find out precisely what they mean by "spam" and what their precise policies are in the event of a complaint. We can tell you from personal experience that any newsletter you create will generate "spam" complaints regardless of how many times someone "opts-in." If you do not receive assurances that unreasonable and silly complaints will not affect your marketing operations, look elsewhere.)
Assurance Systems: www.assurancesys.com
Information: Company offers a message checker that examines your EDM to determines if it wlll be blocked by most filters, a service that informs you if your pieces were diverted to junk mail folders and information on whether your mail servers have been placed on a blacklist.
Aweber: www.aweber.com
Information: Competitively priced EDM service.
Boomerang.com: www.boomerang.com
Information: Provides E-mail and direct fax broadcast services.
Britemoon: www.britemoon.com
Information: EDM management service.
Bravenet: www.bravenet.com
Information: Offers many free web services, including a decent list manager. Makes money by affiliate programs, inserting ads into its services.
Boldfish: www.boldfish.com
Information: EDM management service for high volume users.
BrontoMail: http://brontomail.com
Information: Provides a web-based email marketing service for Communication Directors and Agencies to send newsletters, surveys and press releases.
E-mail:caroline@brontomail.com
Contact Caroline Harsant
Voice:919.806.4421
Constant Contact: www.constantcontact.com/home.jsp
Information: EDM management service.
Free Email Address Directory:www.emailaddresses.com
Information: Contains much useful info on EDM products, services, and lists.
EmailLabs: www.emaillabs.com
Information: EmailLabs provides leading edge email marketing technology, that
empowers marketers with easy-to-use emarketing solutions. Our hosted technology is actively used by over 120 corporations, and unfailingly earned rave reviews for its feature set and usability. Easy to use technology, unrivaled tracking options, and secure/reliable infrastructure are EmailLabs hallmarks and the focus of our continued product improvements.
Voice: 1.866.362.4522.
EmailFactory: www.emailfactory.com
Information: Site provides list creation and management, campaign management, and a viral marketing and contest module. Prices start at $25US per month.
EmailList Cleaning: www.emaillistcleaning.com
Information: Service that cleans up Email lists. Minimum cost of $100 for up to 5K addresses. Cost ranges from $4 to $5 CPM depending on volume.
Comment: Service can be a lifesaver if you're attempting to verify a list or clean up a badly aged but still useful database.
FollowUpMarketer: www.followupmarketer.com
Information: Follow up email automatic responder for marketing campaigns. DEMO version is available. Includes dedicated version, subscription & unsubscription form generators, tracking system, easily import and export opt-in subscriber lists, Send HTML or text messages, Complete 24/7 control over your list via an online control panel.
GetResponse: www.getresponse.com
Information: EDM campaign management service.
Comment: Reasonably priced, seems full featured. Gave unclear answers when asked its policy of "spam" complaints.
Gotmarketing.com: www.gotmarketing.com
Information: EDM campaign management service. Allows you to set up an opt-in system on your web site.with little or no HTML knowledge required. Allows you to Integrate a GotBuilder into your email campaigns and on your website to get users to fill in fields of information, complete surveys, register for information or subscribe to your newsletters.
Hotsocket: www.hotsocket.com
Information: EDM service.
iMakeNews: www.imakenews.com
Information: Automated systems that allow you to create an HTML-formatted newsletter via a browser interface. Newsletter can incorporate your content or you can use provided canned content. Price ranges between 100 to $500 per month.
Kana.com www.kana.com
Information: Offers a browser-based EDM service.
ListBuilder: www.listbuilder.com
Information: Microsoft's Bcentral EDM management service.
Comment: Pricey for what you get.
ListChannel: www.listchannel.com
Information: EDM management service.
ListHost: www.listhost.net
Information: List server.
Lyris: www.lyris.com
Information: Popular list server.
Quick Topic: www.quicktopic.com
Information: Basic list server system for web sites.
Rapid Reply: www.rapidreply.net
Information: EDM management service, very reasonably priced.
Relevant Tools: www.relevanttools.com
Information: EDM services. Free for the first month and then $10(US) per month thereafter (max 500 database records/500 emails a month). VIP Membership begins at $30(US) a month, which allows you to build a 10,000-record database and send 10,000 emails per month.
Responsys: www.responsys.com
Information: EDM management and list send capabilities via your browser.
Sandy Bay: www.Sandybay.com
Information: Provides a web-based EDM marketing suite.
SpamCheck: http://spamcheck.sitesell.com
Information: Site checks EDM pieces and reports how likely they are to be filtered by the various idiot filters out there. A free test is available.
Spark LIST: www.sparklist.com
Information: EDM service. Offers a "pay per subscriber" program.
Topica: www.topica.com
Information: EDM service. Prices range from $23 to $485 per year based on volume.
Comment: Free "lite" version of the service is useful for small publishers on a tight budget.
Yesmail: www.yesmail.com
Information: Opt-in service.
EDM Software (return to top)
Arbitrel - Intelligent Business Software: www.Arbitrel.com
nformation: Enterprise level EDM software priced for the mid-market, provides personalized email campaigns with individual tracking.
E-mail:info@arbitrel.com
Contact: Kimberly Na
Address: 3601 West Garry Ave.
Santa Ana, CA 92704
Voice: 714-338-7990
Fax: 714-338-7999
Autoresponseplus.com http://www.autoresponseplus.com
Information: Autoresponse program that has a one time fee of $99. Script based.
Arial Software: www.campaignsoftware.com
Information: Publishes Campaign, an EDM management package.
BoogieTools: http://boogietools.com
Information: Publishes and automated E-mail bounce handling system that recognizes more than 700 different e-mail bounce formats to keep opt-in e-mail lists clean and current. Runs as an automated e-mail client that runs on Windows NT/2000/XP. The software is priced starting at $349 for five accounts, with trial downloads available at the BoogieTools Web site.
Harjari Software: www.hsoftcon.com/emailtracker.htm
Information: Email Tracker. Extracts out the email address from a .txt, .doc or a .rtf file. ' is specifically suited for organizations who receive thousands of emails everyday. All the email addresses from these files can be extracted and maintained in a database.
Gammadyne: www.gammadyne.com
Information: Publishes Gammadyne E-mail management software.
Great Circle Associates: www.greatcircle.com/majordomo
Information: Source for open source list servers.
Infacta: www.infacta.com
Information: EDM management software.
Interspire: http://www.interspire.com/sendstudio/
Information: SendStudio is a powerful and very cost efficient browser-based PHP email management program. Server based, company offer free installation, a very nice option.
Ixnet: www.inxmail.com
Information: Publishes Inxmail. The product supports personalized mass emails, arge mailing lists, subscription handling and bounce processing, offers link tracking and graphical reporting.
Mailworkz.com: www.mailworkz.com
Information: Publishes Broadcastc@ast HTML, an E-mail manager. Cost is $2495 for the version you want.
Mojo Mail: http://mojo.skazat.com/
Information: CGI script-based mail server.
Comment: Very powerful, good community support.
Online Automation: www.onlineautomation.com
Information: Offers both products and services for EDM management.
Stalker: www.stalker.com
Information: Publishes Communigate, a Linux server application for managing mail lists.
Viral Marketing (return to top)
Cgispy: www.cgispy.com/info/sendasite.shtml
Information: Send-a-friend Script offered by CGI hosting service. Requires you include banner on your site.
Recommendit: www.recommend-it.com
Information: Pay money to your site referral system.
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