Computers For My Business - Avoid Being Blacklisted

These are links and information pertaining to mass emailing and the avoidance of being considered a spammer and avoiding being blacklisted.

Published By: Knowledgeman
Published: 2009-08-07
Revised: 2010-08-03

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People using email sometimes send one email to multiple people or email accounts. If the number of people you send the email to is somewhat large, as many as only 30, the email servers receiving the emails can electronically label the sender of the "mass" emails as a spammer and may blacklist your email account and/or server that you are sending from.

When you are blacklisted your email and/or server or server ip address is blocked from many servers that are subscribed to the blacklist. Meaning the emails you send are not always delivered.

Avoid Being Labeled A Spammer And Avoid Being Blacklisted
The methods described here are not guaranteed to avoid getting blacklisted but have helped avoid blacklisting in the past.

Manual Method: If you have a list of say 100 classmates you want to email a class reunion invitation to: send in groups of 20, 15 minutes apart. This is the least safest way, but is cheap and easy.

Constant Contact: Web based software that manages your email lists and groups and provides the backbone that avoids blacklisting. You import your email addresses to online software database and send them from there. $15 per month for 0-500 addresses. This is a safer method, but costs money and there is a small learning curve.

madmimi: Competitor to Constant Contact. 100 or less email addresses is free. 100 to 500 is $8 per month.

mailchimp: Another web-based email marketing software and database. 100 or less email addresses 6 or less mailings a month is free. 100 to 500 is $10 per month.

listrak: Another web based software that is more robust and more expensive. The website has a nice information and resources center.

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