Basically what I'm looking for is a newsletter manager... or something like that. I'm looking for a solution thats easy for the people to use (they arent really that tech savvy).

Currently there are 2 or 3 people who send out the emails, which means that the announcements come from different email addresses. This also means that sometimes one person might not have an up to date list of addresses to send to.

The current "solution" is enter each email (about 30) into an Excel spreadsheet and each time an email is sent... copy/paste.

The only thing I've seen used before for this kind of thing is: [url]www.constantcontact.com[/url]

help plz

how big is the list?

I like MailChimp, it costs (not much) but it's very good.

http://www.mailchimp.com/index.phtml

just about 50 emails but I think more need to be added

buuuuuuump

I am looking for a solution to this too.. but for now we use verticalresponse.com which charges X amount of cents per email.. and it's getting a bit ridiculous when our list has grown to over 4,000

You can make groups in Gmail... if you get all your contacts in a csv file you can import them to a group and then address the newsletter to the group.

Problem is, none of them know how to use anything other than what they use for email. (yahoo... hotmail... ISP emails)

I thought about making a joint gmail account for people... but that could get messy.

Google Groups will allow you to just add your list manually and email them that way

http://www.mailchimp.com/index.phtml
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

Vertical Response looks good in terms of cost (they have Pay Monthly now), haven't tried out their UI though. Mailchimp and CampaignMonitor are solid though.

I've been looking into this stuff for months

MailChimp is the best e-mail marketing tool I've used. I've heard good things about Vertical Response.