[OSGeo-UK] Email Newsletter to event attendees

[Matt Travis]

Hi Steven

I think this would be a useful tool, especially in terms of reaching past
attendees and reaching out to sponsors.

I'd be happy to work with you in setting this up.

Thanks

Matt

On Tue, 26 Sept 2023, 16:51 Steven Feldman via UK, <uk at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

> Segmentation is essential IMO - that’s how we can target sponsors
> separately from attendees and how we can tag what events people attend and
> venues.
>
> GDPR is a must but really not that difficult, I think all of the options
> are GDPR compliant
>
>
> BUUUUT - we can’t start this without a second (and possibly a third)
> person who want to be involved, I’ll get things started but I am not flying
> solo on this
> ______
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> On 25 Sep 2023, at 14:56, Nick Bearman via UK <uk at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> 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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