Comments on: MadMimi Brings the Fun Back to Sending Email “Blasts”

By: Boris Mahovac - Your Ezine Coach

Boris Mahovac - Your Ezine Coach — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:19:09 +0000

Hi Melissa,

Last time I checked, all of the ESPs you mention, except Constant Contact, have the ability to import your blog posts and send them out as newsletters.

This is also true of MadMimi.

If you can add any text widget to your WordPress.com-hosted blog’s sidebar, then you can use the code supplied to you by any one of these ESPs.

The way you’d deliver the white paper would somewhat depend on the ESP: some are able to send attachments (I’m assuming a PDF), but I wouldn’t recommend this option, since attachments can get filtered by spam filters.

A better option would be to use a “thank you” email which you’d send automatically once the new subscriber confirms the subscription. This email can then have a link to your white paper, which you’d have to upload to your site via the WP back end.

You would want to hide the page that contains the link to the PDF from your blog’s menu.

If this sound too complicated, please call me at 1-888 694 2655 9am-4pm EST to discuss your options.

cheers

Boris

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:22:13 +0000

Hi Boris. Stumbled here while comparing constantcontact, icontact, aweber, and mailchimp. Never heard of Madmimi, so will have to add that to the mix. Perhaps you can give me your thoughts: I have a wordpress dot COM blog, note the COM not ORG which means I’m somewhat limited in adding code, etc, although I can add widgets to the blog. I am looking to have an opt-in sign up for a newsletter on my blog. I’d like to be able to send a freebie white paper when they sign up. Then, ideally a program in the ESP that places the last week’s blog posts into newsletter template and emails out. If the ESP could import my current blog subscribers, too, that’d be awesome. What would you recommend? Is this something I can pay you to help me with??

By: Boris Mahovac - Your Ezine Coach

Boris Mahovac - Your Ezine Coach — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:16:52 +0000

Bob,

Campaign Monitor is really meant more for designers who manage their clients’ email campaigns. Also their pricing is twice as much as MadMimi’s

If price is not a factor, then make your choice by features they offer.

By: Bob Dobolina

Bob Dobolina — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:40:30 +0000

I’ve been using Constant Contact, but I’m now checking out Mad Mimi and Campaign Monitor (they both look excellent). Thanks, everyone, for the opinions.

By: Boris Mahovac - Your Ezine Coach

Boris Mahovac - Your Ezine Coach — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:37:34 +0000

Hi Gina,

Good point, I should write a follow up post about Mimi, soon

Here’s a list of all the articles on this blog that mention MadMimi.

But, back to your main point, yes, my strong recommendation still holds, as MadMimi has become even better, with features such as RSS-to-email, social links, etc.

Their email editor looks so simple you may think it can’t be very good, but quite the oposite is true — it’s so much harder to make something look easy and make it powerful at the same time, and the team at MadMimi have managed just that.

It doesn’t hurt to try MadMimi: you can use an account for free — with full features enabled — for as long as your lists are fewer than 100 contacts.

Most of the features are included in the regular price (which is typically 50% lower than their competitors’), but some advanced features are an added cost. However, overall, I’d say MadMimi is probably your best bet in terms of total cost, ease of use, features and excellent support.

Fell free to ask any questions here, or shoot me an email at Boris@…. or on Twitter @YourEzineCoach

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:52:10 +0000

I am leaning towards going with MadMimi, but noticed that these posts are from 2009. Are there any 2011 posts regarding MadMimi?

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