• Stands for Unsolicited Bulk Email/Unsolicited Commercial Email. In other words defines what spam means. This is the general definition for spam that is accepted and used by companies like Spamhaus.
• Sending Bulk email by itself is not considered as spam. This means that it may be possible for somebody to send a hundred thousand emails to email addresses and there may not be a problem.
• However, the problem will start when these emails are unsolicited i.e. people who are getting them didn't ask for them.
• The action will cause a reaction i.e. people who hate spam will start hitting "This is spam" or equivalent button in their email/webmail accounts.
• The ISPs/ESPs will soon find out and if they get more than one such instances, then they will try to get the IP address/addresses that are sending those emails blacklisted.
• Also the contents will be noted by the spam filters and possibly the URLs in the email may also get blacklisted.
• The next time if the same sender tries to send emails to same recipients or even new recipients, the chances are that they will be bounced back/end up in spam folders/deleted without any warnings.
Re-iterating the Consequences of Using a Purchased List:
• A purchased list contains a list of email addresses whose owners have not provided explicit permission to the buyer of the list to send them any emails.
• In order for you to prove that these email addresses were acquired legitimately, legally, you will need to provide information like,
o The date/time they signed up
o The IP address they used to sign up etc.
• Sending emails to such subscribers will most likely result in getting the sender’s IP addresses and the URLs used in the contents blacklisted.
• The result of which will be – the least possible – your email will go straight into the spam folder of the addressee. The worst possible – any emails sent with your URL will bounce back.
• It can take a while to get your IPs used/URLs white-listed and even that is not guaranteed.
• Countries having stringent anti-spam laws like U.S., Canada etc. can get you in trouble if you are not able to prove that the email addresses on your list provided a direct permission to your company to receive emails from you.
• In summary, sending emails to people who never gave you permission to receive emails is not a good idea. It is much better to advertise and build your own list. This way you start from building a sold database of your prospects who may eventually convert.
P.S: If it still didn't make any sense to you, simply follow this advice:
DON'T SEND ANY EMAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS ON A PURCHASED LIST. DOING SO WILL JEOPARDIZE YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS
A List of Remotely Hosted Autoresponders Companies:
& Approx Price for 200k Subscribers
1. www.getresponse.com
$208 a month for 200k;
$18/mo for 10k
$5 for each 5k afterwards
This company offers the best value for your money and also has a good reputation in the industry.
2. www.aweber.com
Roughly $1000 based on the table below:
Subscriber Monthly
0 - 500 $19
501 - 2,500 $29
2,501 - 5,000 $49
5,001 - 10,000 $69
10,001 - 25,000 $149
25,000 + Contact Us
3. www.constantcontact.com
Same as above
4. www.verticalresponse.com
Same as above
5. www.mailchimp.com
$240/month for 50k subscribers
6. www.Icontact.com
Not given. Contact them
7. www.Jvlistpro.com
$20/month for 10k, $400/month for 200k
8. www.emailbrain.com
$420/month for 200k
9. http://www.omnistarmailer.com/
n/a
10. www.Inwise.com (Contact them)
11. 1shoppingcart.com (Contact them)
12. 1automationwiz.com
$174/month for 200k
13. Firebirdpro.com
$25 for 2k
