<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">While we were preparing for FOSS4GUK we talked about the possibility of building a mailing list to send infrequent newsletters to people who attended our events but might not want to follow this list. This would help us market to potential attendees and sponsors.<div><br></div><div>I undertook to review the free tiers of several of the commercial services. I did not consider any self hosted solutions as I don’t have the skills to stand something like that up, but if anyone is willing to do that feel free to put your hand up!</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the best options that I found:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Zoho is free for up to 2k contacts and 6k emails per month but has no segmentation <a href="https://www.zoho.com/campaigns/pricing.html?src=dd">https://www.zoho.com/campaigns/pricing.html?src=dd</a></li><li>Brevo (formerly Send in Blue) offers unlimited contacts but only 300 emails per day (so would require batching somehow) and includes segmentation <a href="https://www.brevo.com/pricing/marketing-platform/see-all-features/">https://www.brevo.com/pricing/marketing-platform/see-all-features/</a></li><li><li>Sender looks good 2,500 free contacts and 15,000 sends per month, includes segmentation. They also offer a PAYG model where we pay £4.68/1000 emails if we need the advanced features but only a few times per year <a href="https://www.sender.net/pricing/">https://www.sender.net/pricing/</a></li></li></ul><div>
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