Email
Marketing Companies
Email marketing has become extremely
popular over the last several years. Although highly
effective, email marketing can be quite costly at hundreds
of dollars per email blast. In 2008 it is expected that
spending on bulk email services will top over 1 billion
dollars. Wow!
Single blast email services usually
charge about $100 or more per blast and are highly effective,
our results show safe-list mailing which charges a membership
fee and allows members to blast usually once per day
where roughly the same.
Why pay hundreds for one blast when
you can pay $30 or $40 for multiple blasts each supplying
similar results?
Below are the top 5 email marketing
companies reviewed by our staff. We began the review
by selecting 18 of the top email marketing companies
and sent the same email through all services, each with
a unique tracking image attached that allowed us to
see exactly what percentage of emails actually were
opened, a tracking link to see how many recipients actually
went to the advertised website, and what percentage
of those who visited actually placed an order.
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NetMax Marketing’s
Eblaster business model is to offer a simple
user interface, much like the visual editor
you use with MS Outlook, while establishing
one of the largest and most frequently updated
email databases on the market.
Out of all safe-lists reviewed,
NetMax Marketing’s Eblaster showed
the best results in all tracking catagores.
NetMax Marketing has implemented an updating
system which removes email addresses within
the system which bounce more than 5 times
and replaces them automatically, ensuring
all blasts which travel through the system
only see valid email inboxes.
Three features that stand
out with this product are the easy to use
visual editor, making html emails a breeze,
database stats displayed in real time for
all members to see, and the demo account
feature. Unlike most other safelists you
may create an account and view the systems
inner workings before you purchase. Over
all very easy to set up, simple to use,
and great results.
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Web Traffic Marketing's
SafeMailer ZT has recently been updated
and is quite impressive. Right when you
login you are presented with a easy to
follow user guide, which we always recommend
reading, but probably not necessary as
the system is so simple as is.
Similar to the Eblaster,
each account come standard with real time
database stats and an easy to use HTML
building tools including a visual editor
and a great html guide for those who wish
to hard code their HTML emails. Results
on a percentage bases where not quite
as good as the Eblaster, but were still
exceptional and still far exceeded our
original expectations.
In addition to the bulk
emailing software we were pleased to get
the extra search engine optimization guide,
which we expected to be outdated, but
instead found it to be one of the better
guides we have read. In fact, if we rate
SEO guides in the future this guide may
end up in our top 5 list. When you add
in their super fast support Web Traffic
Marketing comes out highly recommended.
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Safe Mail Services has
begun to make quite a name for themselves
over the last year. Although they do not
supply a visual editor, they do include
a simple html building tools which allows
users to easily enter HTML right into
your email design with just a click of
the button. In addition, we loved the
preview mode, although NetMax Marketing
and Web Traffic Marketing also offered
a preview mode it was not quite as clean
as the Safe Mail Services.
Results also where quite
positive as well, total opened emails
were about the same as Web Traffic Marketing’s
results, but sales where only slightly
more than half.
We liked the real time
stats showing us how many recipients where
actually receiving our ad, and for those
who wish to track their email a link tracking
generating tool is supplied for free.
The only thing we did not like was the
fact we did not receive the validation
link our first attempt. However, when
we changed emails it came through right
away. Over all, if bulk email marketing
works for your product you will easily
make your membership fee back on your
first mailing.
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10-Million-Hits offers 3
safe lists, which at first you might think
is a good thing, but in fact it is a negative.
Although we did see quality results, we
had to do 3 times the work. Instead of setting
up one account and sending our ad just once,
now we have to do each 3 times. For the
rest of this review when I refer to 10-Million-Hits
it is going to include all 3 of their lists.
Results for 10-Million-Hits,
were still excellent over all as far as
bang for the buck, but with a list of 10
million recipients I would hope so. 10-Million-Hits,
had about 75% the sales as Safe Mail Services,
which makes me think their list is more
like about 2 million. One thing we did not
like was the fact that they did not not
display database stats in the member’s
area, so we could not know for sure how
many email ads we were really sending.
On the flip side they do
offer other useful products with membership,
which are all optional. Over all, the supplied
safe-list still produces positive results.
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Blast4Traffic.com
has many features and products which are
easy to set up and to use. We especially
liked how we had an option of downloading
software which allowed us to send directly
from our computer without having to login
to their site. There is also many other
free gifts members can take advantage of,
although most of the gifts are low quality
tools, for those who can take advantage
of them it’s a nice bonus.
Total results were slightly
lower than 10-Million-Hits, somewhat surprising
because 10-Million-Hits is about 4 times
as large.
Set up was simple and so
was starting our campaign, but we were not
impressed with their HTML building tools.
Although results were good, if you want
to send HTML and you are a beginner Blast4Traffic
is probably not your best choice. Over all
we where impressed with the percentages
and the timely replies from the support
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