Automated emailing

[mythandmagic]

Hi all,

Not been on here for a while, but thought someone may know this answer here....

I am looking for a piece of software/program for email marketing, but i want it to do more than just mass email.

We need to email our customers every 6 months from date of purchase.

So say we get 50 orders in Jan, in say June we want an automatic email going to these people.
and 50 orders in Feb with an automated email in July.

And really what we want is for it to have their name on the email, not just a general hello all.

Is there like a plug and play type kit that would do this?

[I-CC]

The schedule element of it would require access to all of the order details to pick out the date of order and the like and then do an auto email. Not sure if thats possible, but you can always export the customers details based on date range of when purchased, and then import that into a Mass Mailing function like MailChimp or similar.

[jont]

Another thumbs up for MailChimp - you could create 12 groups for each of the months - export just the buyers who have ordered into each respective month and then you can select which month to send out on a quarterly or bi-annual basis as required.

You get 2000 emails addresses free so worth testing the water. The drag and drop interface is great and it allows you to test on mobile previews. A great tool.

[guccij]

I use MailChimp too and am a big fan. However, MailChimp is very strict about only using people who have signed up to the mailing list you are using. I am not sure that sending out these reminder emails six months on, to people who haven't agreed to receive marketing emails, is OK. You could get a load of spam reporting which would get your account suspended.

[Jan]

So say we get 50 orders in Jan, in say June we want an automatic email going to these people. and 50 orders in Feb with an automated email in July

You can use the mailing list function to extract lists of people that ordered in a certain people, you can also get lists of people that order at 'x' time but haven't order since 'y' time

Cheers,