BuyerZone users' email marketing service requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their email marketing service purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of email marketing services other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: email marketing service purchasing requirements

"We have a small list now, but plan on it growing over time. All e-mail we have are from people who have requested information from us through advertisements. This is for a network marketing opportunity."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Bountiful, UT

"I am looking for a bulk email service with good reporting features. I want a service that allows me to EASILY upload my own text and art. I am not interested in any service where I have to pay a fee to have a custom template built to make it easy to use my own design. I have tried SmartBlast/Benchmark and found the customer service dept to be poor."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Bel Air, MD

"Ability to sync address book with ACT! database. Newsletters would be the prime focus of the emails with insurance customers being recipients."
-- Buyer, Insurance, Shawnee Mission, KS

"Mailing list consisting of females only located within 50 mile radius of 32763 - equal to or less than 1000 e-mail addresses only, for a local research project."
-- Buyer, Health Care, Orange City, FL

"Depending on whether the customer is an existing client or prospective client we will have two email campaigns that will run on a timed release basis."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Legal, San Diego, CA

"The list is updated at least once monthly and our provider does not use comma or other separation between email addresses-also needs to be linked to an existing website."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Non-Profit, Pearl, MS

"If your company receives a reply from a campaign that I have just run will you forward the message to my email address."
-- Office Manager, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Herndon, VA

"There are two lists (one containing about 250,000 names, the other about 26,000), all local addresses. Eventually, there could be up to 60 distinct and different messages. Each could be sent out weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Each message could be selected to go to one of the lists or to both of them."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Consulting, Huntley, IL

"I need a program that will allow me to send bulk email legally as my clients have opt-in to get information from my company. Because I have such a high volume of requests, I need something that is not going to be grabbed as spam."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Dunbar, PA

"I work for both a non-profit theatre company and a Presbyterian church - both of which I'm pricing email newsletter services for, so I'm wondering if there are any non-profit discounts from any of the vendors as well. Thank you!"
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Non-Profit, San Francisco, CA

"I wish to start a newsletter/ezine. I need opt-in link for classified ads. Opt-out link on all transmissions/absolute privacy for clients/email capabiltiy from responder/pre-dated articles that can be loaded for later timed release/ NO ADS other than my own/archive library for past issues that can be accessed/ support from service company as I'm new to this."
-- Consultant, Information Services, Elizabethtown, PA

"Currently have a template deisgned in Publisher. Wondering if we can use this to creat the email."
-- Office Manager, Wholesale, Solon, OH

"Need to blast a couple thousand emails regularly for a client. Imperative that emails get through and are not tagged as spam. We already have back-end software for the click-through and open rates."
-- Human Resources, Computers - Software, Mission Hills, CA

"We need to have a company that can let us schedule our own blasts-add and delete emails on our own."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Roselle, IL

"I would liek templates provided as part of my package. I am averaging about 25 - 30,000 emails per month. also I need alot of room for image storage as I use alot of flyers for each email."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Charlotte, NC

"We are looking for a third party email. We will provide our list and email."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Real Estate, Tempe, AZ

"This is for a 2,000 patient medical office. We have a web designer who will desgn the enewsletter but doesn't do mailing. We want the cabability to send periodic emails, invitations and newsletters to patients. I would like to be aable to conduct and analyze surveys. We are not very technologically savvy. Software or Service must be intuitive and/or come with alot of instruction."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Health Care, Englewood, Nj, NJ

"This is a nonprofit newsletter. We do not want a byline about marketing from the vendor on each email."
-- General Manager, Non-Profit, Winston Salem, NC

"I need a cheap email service. I am going to send a generic, low size email, no links. Very easy and simple."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Bloomington, IN

"We plan to email to 150,000 recipiants 2 to 3 times per week within the state of Florida. We have our own list. We require the ability to upload our address books into the platform in multiple groups. (Excel Spreadsheet)."
-- Sales/Business Development, Real Estate, Punta Gorda, FL

"Ability to import in real time, dedicated clean IPs, dedicated servers that will allow for high delivery speeds, ability to support suppression files (preferabily a system that will allow for automatic uploads of suppression files)."
-- Buyer, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Harrisburg, PA

"Only looking for a vendor that provides service. Not looking for software."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Manufacturing, Santa Clara, CA

"I would like this to be discreet so that each recipient is addressed seperately."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Consulting, Philadelphia, PA

"I want to just be able to give you the email lists and have you do all the rest."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Columbia, MO

"I would like the e-mails to be able to have a link to my website."
-- Buyer, Real Estate, Tucson, AZ

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