RSS to Email MailChimp

mailchimpIf you have a blog then you need to provide email access to your content. Very few people outside of blogging and tech audiences understand RSS but everyone understands email.

Up to now most people have used Aweber, Feedblitz and FeedBurner for this, but now they have a new competitor.

MailChimp is a commercial service that takes the idea of “blog to email” and builds it out to be a professional email software tool.

Yes, if you have more than 100 subscribers you have to pay for it. So already it is different to Feedburner and Feedblitz. There are more features though, so it is really more in competition with Aweber.

Now I love Aweber. I have written about how bloggers should use Aweber before. That said, MailChimp is really going for it with additional features that Aweber do not have. Some very cool, but more advanced like an API for programmers.

MailChimp starts at $15 for 500 emails so is competitively priced with Aweber, and there is a free trial.

You can see the full details of what you can do at the MailChimp site.

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Software Tools

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5 Responses to “RSS to Email MailChimp”

  1. Andrew Mason on September 24th, 2008 6:30 pm

    I am just looking for an email solution for one of my companies to create a newsletter. The problem with aweber is one of importing existing contacts. We already have 500 signed up users and to use aweber it will send all of these existing users an opt in email which no doubt most of them will ignore.

    MailChimp however allows you to import such lists.

    Anybody know any way around it with aweber as I would prefer to use them.

    Andrew..

  2. mahalie on December 24th, 2008 1:48 am

    @Andrew – why do you prefer Aweber? I’m trying to decide and after evaluating over 15 different email marketing providers I’ve narrowed it down to MailChimp and Aweber. Both have robust services. Aweber seems to be more historically established and they have instant chat support. MailChimp seems to have the best documentation, including video tutorials, amazing stats apps, flexible templates, and to be constantly adding features. It’s a tough choice for me right now.

  3. Diego on April 22nd, 2009 9:41 pm

    I’m in the same spot as Mahalie was a couple of months ago… Trying to decide between Aweber and MailChimp. For large lists Mailchimp seems to have a better price… Which one have you picked Mahalie? Chris?

  4. Nicol Hepker on October 8th, 2011 8:13 pm

    http://hobbynet.yukapiyon.com/blog/kazu/?p=3988|0

  5. Maida Kuhens on October 29th, 2011 8:41 pm

    Brilliant post, Anders.
    Keep up the good work, looking forward to next post.

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