Club Communications

[cornfed]

I am in charge of club Communications at my local bonsai group this year and I am looking to hear from you how your club communicates with it's members and what works / doesn't work about it.

For my specific situation, I have a list of dues-paying members emails and a list of "friends" emails. Totaling around 400. But if you send an email through Gmail with 400 recipients you will probably end up in the spam folder. So I was told by the past chair to send in batches of 50.

I'd like to use a mail merge service, like GMass so they can be personalized to a degree, but many of those services are more robust than I need and my usage falls between the free tier and $200/yr tier, so it's close but not quite there.

So I'm looking for advice from anyone who is in a club, or has had to send out batch emails for their work or club involvement.

Thank you!

 

[shimbrypaku]

Cheap
Break the list down to allowable send compliance, then have the auto send stager the send e-mails in smaller numbers.
Just my 2 cents

 

[cornfed]

I'm not familiar with auto send stager. Is that a Gmail setting or a seperate service?

I've been doing essentially that, but manually.

 

[shimbrypaku]

I was referring to Microsoft Outlook, not sure on the Gmail platform

 

[shimbrypaku]

Quick search not sure this will help

Use multi-send for email marketing, newsletters, and announcements - Gmail Help

You can use multi-send mode in Gmail to: Create email campaigns. Send newsletters and announcements. Personalize your email with mail merge. When you add someone to the “To” field, mul

support.google.com

 

[cornfed]

Yeah I ran into the same stuff with my searches. That's Google Workspace, like a paid add on for business. I'd have to look at pricing, but it would be like driving a Tesla instead of a golf cart at the course.

 

[shimbrypaku]

It’s always about money,
First you need to find the maximum send number for Your account.

Then create groups if possible that comply with the send rule, then name them Bonsai_1 Bonsai_2 or something like that, then manually send them one at a time.

 

[jeffapana]

try sendinblue

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their free tier allows 300 emails/day and you can mail merge personalization

 

[leatherback]

I have used mailmerge in outlook very succesfully. Each mail gets sent individually, personalized.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-mail-merge-to-send-bulk-email-messages