[OSGeo-UK] Email Newsletter to event attendees

[Nick Bearman]

Thanks Steven - this looks good.

How important do you think segmentation is? I think it could be useful 
going forward if we want to be a bit more strategic - e.g. sending 
different emails to people interested in different venues - but not sure 
if we want to get that complex!

Only other thing that comes to mind is GDPR compliance - I assume they 
all are, but it is something we should check before signing up.

Any comments from anyone else?

Best wishes,
Nick.

On 20/09/2023 3:28 pm, Steven Feldman wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> Here are the best options that I found:
>
>   * Zoho is free for up to 2k contacts and 6k emails per month but has
>     no segmentation https://www.zoho.com/campaigns/pricing.html?src=dd
>   * Brevo (formerly Send in Blue) offers unlimited contacts but only
>     300 emails per day (so would require batching somehow) and
>     includes segmentation
>     https://www.brevo.com/pricing/marketing-platform/see-all-features/
>  *
>
>   * 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 https://www.sender.net/pricing/
>
>
> Thoughts?
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