Hi Hackers,
I have a question and would be interested to get feedback and thoughts.
In my Google Apps email account I have over 7,000 contacts (possible more with my previous startup account), everyone on the contact list has had some kind of interaction with me via direct email. I wanted to send out an email to everyone telling them about something that I'm working on.
Keep it short really and email based not a newsletter
I was looking at using MailChimp but that's pretty expensive you pay per subscriber per month, this is a one time email and don't want to pay such a cost. I checked other services and it's the same.
I looked at using GMail but they limit how much you can out per day or as a batch.
So right now I developed my own small tool that does this via SendGrind, I important my contacts via CSV and connect my SendGrid API key and can create a simple text based email which is sent out.
First I wanted to know if this would feel like spam? Can anyone else use a tool like this? Would this become a spam tool? Is this approach good or bad. Anyways glad to get feedback
In my Google Apps email account I have over 7,000 contacts (possible more with my previous startup account), everyone on the contact list has had some kind of interaction with me via direct email. I wanted to send out an email to everyone telling them about something that I'm working on.
Keep it short really and email based not a newsletter
I was looking at using MailChimp but that's pretty expensive you pay per subscriber per month, this is a one time email and don't want to pay such a cost. I checked other services and it's the same.
I looked at using GMail but they limit how much you can out per day or as a batch.
So right now I developed my own small tool that does this via SendGrind, I important my contacts via CSV and connect my SendGrid API key and can create a simple text based email which is sent out.
First I wanted to know if this would feel like spam? Can anyone else use a tool like this? Would this become a spam tool? Is this approach good or bad. Anyways glad to get feedback