NooraK
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I decided I was going to try out iContact. I was sending out my newsletter in batches of 10-30 recipients at a time (depending on how lazy I was feeling) to try to avoid them getting marked as spam, and I was getting tired of all the work.
So, my open percentage is about 21%, but I don't care. Why? Because I got an email almost immediately from someone saying she's a huge PC fan, and she'd love to have a party! From the sound of the email, she has never received my newsletter before, even though I know this email address has been on my list for a couple of months.
I also noticed that she is not listed as one of the "opens" in my report. So I did a test. I sent a copy of the email to my gmail, as well as here to work. iContact registered the gmail version being opened, but not the one here at work, because Outlook did not download any of the pictures in the email. This means many more people than what iContact shows may have seen my email.
I also no longer have to hassle with updating my contacts when someone unsubscribes or their email bounces. I did get a "complaint" which I found in their glossary to mean that the recipient had marked it spam. No biggie. But when I upload new contacts, iContact will only update new contacts (I think)
One thing I didn't really understand though. Although I only opened it once, it shows that the gmail copy has been opened 7 times. It actually went from 3 to 7 while I was logged out of gmail all together.
But all in all, I'm happy with it, and I think it'll be worth signing up for the paid version.
So, my open percentage is about 21%, but I don't care. Why? Because I got an email almost immediately from someone saying she's a huge PC fan, and she'd love to have a party! From the sound of the email, she has never received my newsletter before, even though I know this email address has been on my list for a couple of months.
I also noticed that she is not listed as one of the "opens" in my report. So I did a test. I sent a copy of the email to my gmail, as well as here to work. iContact registered the gmail version being opened, but not the one here at work, because Outlook did not download any of the pictures in the email. This means many more people than what iContact shows may have seen my email.
I also no longer have to hassle with updating my contacts when someone unsubscribes or their email bounces. I did get a "complaint" which I found in their glossary to mean that the recipient had marked it spam. No biggie. But when I upload new contacts, iContact will only update new contacts (I think)
One thing I didn't really understand though. Although I only opened it once, it shows that the gmail copy has been opened 7 times. It actually went from 3 to 7 while I was logged out of gmail all together.
But all in all, I'm happy with it, and I think it'll be worth signing up for the paid version.