Collecting emails without aweber

erifdekciw

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aweber has a shitty double opt in. kills sign ups so i don't wanna use it. Anyone know any simple email collecting script / auto responder program or service that doesn't come with all the shit of aweber compliance. Just the bare essentials?
 


aweber has a shitty double opt in. kills sign ups so i don't wanna use it. Anyone know any simple email collecting script / auto responder program or service that doesn't come with all the shit of aweber compliance. Just the bare essentials?
You can do single opt-in with Aweber.
 
Yeah, you can single opt in with Aweber, or try constantcontact.com which is marginally cheaper ($15 a month, up to 500 subscribers)

Aweber seriously became Jew, their old pricing plan (which I'm on) is $20 up to 10,000 subscribers. Now they're charging $70/month for 10k subs, and $150 month for 25k subs, lol.
 
interspire self hosted right? I would say stay away unless your list is small or really targeted, or you know how to change hosting and IPs/whitelisting and dont give a fuck about rbl, etc...

If you wanna look self hosted, also try OEMPro and PHPList.
 
streamsend is the cheapest I've found.

$39.90/mo 10,000 emails $4.00 additional 1k emails.

Mailchimp has a 500 subscriber 3k emails per month free plan.
 
I am trying MailChimp at the moment and what it offers for free is quite satisfactory for me right now.
 
If you want to go real basic, just use a simple php form that submits to a mysql table. After each submission you can have the following page forwarded to a your host's autoresponder (liquidweb). This is if you're doing low volume of course. Good thing is, theres no OPT IN!
 
If you wanna look self hosted, also try OEMPro and PHPList.

I've run my lists off of PHPList for the past 2 years and I love it. I am not a big time emailer by far but I have a solid list which I email to regularly and never have had a problem with it. Definitely easy to use and setup and seems to have the features that most people need when they have a smaller lists like me, which I consider 50,000 or less.
 
Thanks for the tip for PHPList. I've been getting really sick of Aweber for a couple of months now and not just because of the higher fees. Forcing me to go go double opt-in (without telling me first, just flipping it over) on lists with no spam complaints EVER and adding to that, the insult of being denied the "privilege" of selecting my own subject line for the opt-in email.