What a MailChimp alternative!

  • Adam

    (@gourmetbooks)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve been using MP about 3 months, on three sites. Not only is just about everything a quick learn, it’s easy enough to teach it to clients. I don’t send an enormous volume of mail, which is probably the case for most of us starting lists, and it seems like all the functionality available is exactly the stuff I need—no fluff.

    That you can easily pull in automated posts (and custom post types!), and send featured images is a huge, wonderful plus.

    My only complaints:

    • It took emailing MP support to find the Lists page (links to it are hiding at the top of the Subscribers page). Push those to the plugin menu, and it’ll be much more consistent with other WP experiences.
    • List and subscriber management is a little convoluted. Adding a Quick Edit option to both might speed it up/make some settings easier to find.

    Other than that… well, suffice to say MailChimp is on its way out of my workflow. MC has the advantage of being its own platform (and so platform-independent), meaning if I ever decided to leave WP, it’d be easy to keep working. But were that to happen, what’s a little export/import?

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  • Dear Adam

    Need your advice. I am using Mailpoet. I have put phone number as a required field but I cannot capture the information, do you know why? I am able to capture name and email. I have set the form to included the 3 fields (name, email and phone number)

    Thread Starter Adam

    (@gourmetbooks)

    Hi @conniegoh,

    I’m sorry to tell you I’m not a MailPoet tech, so I couldn’t tell you. I suggest you ask in the plugin forums, or email them directly.

    Valid concerns Adam. Hope they are resolved by now. Being a non MP user I have no clue about this. I am using Ariticmail, which is pretty easy in all ways. Regards..

    nathanelward

    (@nathanelward)

    Hey Adam.. hope your issue is sorted by now.. buddy there are hell lot of better options in the market now. for instance the one that I use EasySendy Pro.. apt for small users as well as bulk email senders, free plans include all features including advance autoresponders and most importantly they allow usage of multiple SMTP servers under one platform, check them out if you are still looking, Thanks, Nathan

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