Positives:

So far, it has worked with sending a few campaign email alerts to subscribers informing them to new blog posts. Also, the subscribe button and other features have worked for me, as described.

Also, the tech support team was prompt in responding to my questions.

Area for improvement:

The one drawback I’m aware of regarding the non-premium plugin is that it doesn’t send email notifications to subscribers directly after publication, or even in batches every 15 minues or so.

What it is programmed to do, quite oddly, is to hold emails in a queue and then begin sending them only after a visitor visits the underlying website.

So, for blogs that don’t have many subscribers and those subscribers expect to get an email alert about new blog posts rather than their needing to continually visit and check the site, then this plugin will disappoint — because one will have to manually release the emails that are held the queue each time a new post is published.

This isn’t a deal-breaker, but it doesn’t make much sense to me. Especially since one of the main reasons I’m using it is to automate the email alerts to subscribers informing them that a new post is available…so they could then visit the site (not the reverse).

Why would the default be to hold emails until someone visits the site?? That could be many hours or several days for a small blog with just a few subscribers. Makes no sense.

Anyway, the support threads don’t explain the reasoning, just that it uses WP Cron, which will send the emails after a visitor visits the site.

I have a more active website so I’ll look into using a different plugin/provider that sends the email alerts automatically after publication, without using the queue.

For my small blog, I’ll keep using this plugin for now, at least in the short run, since it’s already setup.

I just started using Sendinblue to build my email list and I can say that after three months I am really satisfied with it. Although I did not use the many options available on the platform, I am having good results in doing campaigns and classifying contacts.

I strongly recommend for those who are starting in email marketing.

My question is in regards to email campaigns. I need email a specific customer segment based off of previous & current purchases.
Example, sending an email to customers who purchased product X in the past, who are currently SUBSCRIBED to product Y.
The system needs to build this email list automatically without the user having to select individual accounts. I will have over 5000 active accounts at any given time. It will be very time consuming to manually build an email list.

Does any anybody have a recommendation of a combination of plugins to accomplish this task? There are so many affiliate blogs… I’m looking to hear real world input.

Thanks in advance.

I was looking at settings on mailchimp and it was telling my feed wasn’t valid. After looking in to that problem and updating Jetpack the feed starting saying it was valid again but it is still not sending out the campaign every time the blog is updated like it’s supposed to now.
The actual feed is showing the most current blog posts but when I look at the preview email on mailchimp it’s showing posts from TWO DAYS AGO and not the most current ones.. I don’t use feedburner but I do have a feedburner set up and I looked at the feedburner version of my feed and that also only shows the posts from two days ago and before that.. Does anyone know of anything I can do to get this weird issue I am having sorted out? I even tried setting up an RSS campaign on mailerlite because I thought maybe mailchimp was being a mailCHUMP and mailerlite also only displays posts from two days ago and not the most recent posts..

I don’t know understand why it’s not working! Help?

Thanks to Mail Chimp for an effective, fun interface leading to feature-packed list and campaign building, tracking and more.

I am interested in building email campaigns for registered users of the site, but want to limit the number of different things that people have to sign up and register for.

Thank you WP fam!