Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Newsletter platforms

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Jan 13, 2022, at 1:40 PM, Linda Hobbet <coho [at] lindahobbet.com> wrote:

> A contact database
> A signup form
> Ability to create and send an html newsletter with text, links, and photos.

We don’t send a monthly newsletter but when we were starting we just had an 
email list at Yahoo that was open to the public, so people got all news.

I noticed that your personal website has a WordPress installation. If you are 
using Wordpress, I recommend MailPoet. It works from within WordPress so 
everything is on your site. The will send the email with their service and do 
all the checking of junk addresses and keep statistics — how many were opened, 
how many click throughs, etc. You can set up the contact form so it stores 
whatever information you want to keep. 

I think their current plan is free for up to 1,000 names. It changes from time 
to time.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org