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What do you use for newsletters?
I've been struggling with what to choose.
We've been using Mailchimp before. Now a friend told me that Sendgrid is way better and cheaper, but it feels more dev-oriented and suitable for larger companies.
There are also some emarketing features in Lemonsqueezy. Another thing I'm considering is whether I can use a CRM (Pipedrive or Folk) for the emails. Yesterday I stumbled upon another tool - Beehiiv. There are so many options...
What do you use? Do you have any recommendation?
We've been using Mailchimp before. Now a friend told me that Sendgrid is way better and cheaper, but it feels more dev-oriented and suitable for larger companies.
There are also some emarketing features in Lemonsqueezy. Another thing I'm considering is whether I can use a CRM (Pipedrive or Folk) for the emails. Yesterday I stumbled upon another tool - Beehiiv. There are so many options...
What do you use? Do you have any recommendation?
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For personal writing I moved from Revue to Substack when Revue shut down.
Beehiiv looks good. I personally avoid them because one of their growth marketers cold emailed about my personal newsletter to my work account, which I found extremely unprofessional. I don't want to reward that behaviour.
One app I'm keen to try out going forward is MailCoach, as it seems solid & affordable. It's also run but Spatie, a big name in the Laravel world, so I know their Laravel support will be good. So it seems like the best of both worlds for non-techies and Laravel devs alike.
Using EmailOctopus, it has a free tier up to 2500 subscribers.
If you have 1000s of subscribers then this might help you wip.co/posts/what-is-the-opti…
It seems like loops.so is getting popular lately.
Much faster and more reliable than active campaign &co !
I use Substack for a couple of newsletters that I know will remain free forever. I plan to use Ghost for others that will be monetised.
I used Ghost until subscribers grew and then moved to Postmark integrated with Django. Postmark was good, so I moved over transactional emails that had been on SendGrid and now just use Postmark for everything.
Substack for newsletters. Convert Kit for automated email campaigns.
I use Substack for personal. I think Beehiiv is a good option. For business, marketing email, I heard many good things about Convertkit.
I love Beehiiv; but also seen lots of ppl here use Tiny Email (www.tinyemail.com)
I use Brevo (former SendInBlue) that has not been mentioned here yet
I previously utilized Mailgun, but faced deliverability issues, particularly on the Free plan. Since then, I've developed a solution for my customers through Noticeable.io, which I also employ for my own services. This solution leverages Amazon SES for backend operations.