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

"I need to send personalized emails to individual users. Each email will be unique with different content. We can produce the emails, we want to be able to send these emails from a white-listed server that has all can-spam features and handles our compliance. I need delivery for high-quality emails that we produce."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Seattle, WA

"We are a non-profit organization established for 5 years. We have a direct mail campaign and are looking to expand into email marketing."
-- Partner/Principal, Non-Profit, Arlington, WA

"I am the PTA secretary for my child's elementary school, Eastvalley Elementary in Marietta GA. We are looking for an inexpensive yet reliable way to communicate to our parents via email, as we have a small budget. Thank you very much."
-- Buyer, Non-Profit, Marietta, GA

"Definietely want to mbe sure we capture and clean people who "dont want" us to contact them."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Real Estate, West Palm Beach, FL

"Would like to be able to drop close to 1 million emails a day to segmented lists and have the ability to import and export the list when we need to."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Advertising/Marketing/PR, West Palm Beach, FL

"I am mainly looking for a company that will provide us with the email content and will post on our sales team contact info. The content doesnt have to be related to our business, rather thoughtful quotes or articles."
-- MIS/IT, Retail, Mahwah, NJ

"I have a list of 15k realtor email addresses and need to send them out new listings and such every once in awhile."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Real Estate, Henderson, NV

"We will be sending emails to three groups with a total of 135,000 emails. These will be sent once per month."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Insurance, Warrenville, IL

"My present autoresponder is on a shared server with a stingy cron scheduler. I have multiple lists that I will need to export that, in total, exceed 10,000. I would likely send 3 emails (including my newsletter) PER WEEK. I also intend to use a Co-Registration service, so sending a blank email to a specified email address would be nice. Thanks! Pj."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Montgomery, AL

"We would like to submit the body of the email in PDF form. We don't want to send it as an attachment. Rather, we want it to be the main body of the email."
-- Partner/Principal, Equipment Sales & Service, Laguna Hills, CA

"--------- i need to send a msg to registered voters in my district about the action(s) their party is taking and solicit their vote and their volunteerism . . ."
-- Buyer, Government, Orinda, CA

"We do not want it to look like a mass email."
-- Office Manager, Real Estate, Minneapolis, MN

"Requirements:My requirements for the email program are:1. Must be able to hold at least 5,000 addresses and hopefully more like 10,000 for the longterm.2. Must be able to do an "out of the office autoreply" (Thunderbird does not do this)3. Must be able to merge my address books and emails within their specific folders into the new program.4. Must be able to network between my 2 computers."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Olympia, WA

"I will need to be able to import my own database every time I send an email. Otherwise, it will be nearly impossible to keep up-to-date as my membership is constantly changing."
-- Facilities/Operations, Non-Profit, New York, NY

"We need email/contact lists only for business in the US and Internationally. We will then send emails through our own service we use."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Other Business Services, Dallas, TX

"I want to send home listing emails to other realtors. I have the list."
-- Sales/Business Development, Real Estate, Ellicott City, MD

"We have our own design we have been using for a couple of months and would like to be able to continue using that format without having to use an existing template."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Legal, Dallas, TX

"I'm looking for an easy to use, effective, software that I can manage, but have the available resource to ask questions of the sw mfr. reporting is a must, acknowledgement of what happened with the email...if it was opened or not, etc. I have a large list of prospects, that don't know I exist and want them to know that my company sells the items they want."
-- Sales/Business Development, Equipment Sales & Service, Brooklyn Park, MN

"I have a client base of 2000 Discount card holders and 200 businesses that offer the Discounts. Need to contact them with simple text and/or pictures on a monthly basis. Need report of Bad emails. And I will probably request several other mailings to new databases as I increase my clients. "
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Covina, CA

"Web-only, online membership-based business; in addition to above, need sales conversion tracking, ROI tracking, list segmentation, refer-a-friend. We serve a highly segmented, but quickly growing, market. Need to integrate an email marketing company into the fabric of our daily operations -- not just as an appendage or extra tool. We are a new company, and are content to build our list slowly and surely. It would be my preference at this time to receive quotes, etc, by email, and i will follow up with a call. Thank you!"
-- CEO/President/Owner, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Santa Fe, NM

"We have the email that needs to be sent it. We just need a reliable server to make sure all of the emails actually get to the customer."
-- MIS/IT, Retail, Uniontown, OH

"We need a service that has good relations with large isp's and that can get the e-mail through without it being filtered out at the isp server level."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Real Estate, Pigeon Forge, TN

"We are an online pharmacy.We are obligated to comply with "No Spam" rules.All emails are of our CLIENTS !"
-- Administrative Assistant, Biotech/Pharmaceuticals, Fresh Meadows, NY

"None We do Estete sales and need only send emails when sales are coming up."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Oak Park, MI

"I have email addresses in an RAR file and a brochure in a pdf format.I want to send the brochure to the email addresses in the RAR file."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Carol Stream, IL

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