Posted by Hugh Nations Signing Agents of Austin on 8/11/08 2:42pm
Msg #259697

Any info on mass mail programs?

I am going to do a mass mailing, presumably the first of many, probably in 500-1,000 batches. Does anybody with experience in this have any suggestions? Will the Word Letters & Mailings tool menu item work for mass mailings? If not, do you have any recommendations for an easy-to-use program available off the Net? I'm getting a work from home type to do the preparation for me, so I'm not looking for a heavy-duty commercial type application.

Thanks for any help.

Reply by MsM/CT on 8/11/08 3:07pm
Msg #259702

I actually do mass mail mailings for work and we just use the mail merge features in excel and word. I think I have some tutorials I can email you later on. Once you have a list in excel and your letter typed up it only takes about 5 minutes to complete the merge.

Niecy McCoy

Reply by MistarellaFL on 8/11/08 3:13pm
Msg #259703

Nancy would you shoot me your tutorials?

I am preparing to do the same in the next month or so...and was wondering how to accomplish this easily, too.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 8/11/08 3:14pm
Msg #259704

Sorry, Neicy. I didn't have my glasses on. n/m

Reply by Lee/AR on 8/11/08 4:10pm
Msg #259706

First, you need all target info in a database. n/m

Reply by ZeeCA on 8/11/08 4:59pm
Msg #259708

Re: Neicywould you shoot me your tutorials also? thx! n/m

Reply by Charles_Ca on 8/11/08 6:50pm
Msg #259720

Re: Any info on mass mail programs? Group Mail 5

I use it a lot in marketing and like the program very much, it has a very easy user interface and is efficient especilly if you are doing mass mailings and it can save you money on postage.

Reply by Charles_Ca on 8/11/08 6:51pm
Msg #259721

Sorry, here's the link to Group Mail 5...

http://www.group-mail.com/asp/common/default.asp

Reply by Dennis Larson on 8/11/08 6:51pm
Msg #259722

In my opinion, GroupMail from Infacta is probably the best around. I've had the the pro version since 2003. It is very fast with upwards of 200 simultaneous connections, depending on your ISP, so you could conceivably do your 1500 pc mailing in about 10 minutes. Not cheap, but they do have a free version that limits you to 100. So 1,500 mailings would be 15 separate mailings of 100 ea. http://www.group-mail.com/asp/common/default.asp

Reply by paaz on 8/12/08 9:58am
Msg #259770

Nancy please send me your tutorials too. Thanks

Reply by BrendaTx on 8/12/08 10:06am
Msg #259772

Tutorials are online.

Yes, MS Word will do a mass mail program of 500-1000. From multitudinous (izzat a word?) experience with such things, however, I would break it down into batches of 100-250, but that's just me and my old hang overs from the early 80's when I used Unix MS Word with dBaseIII.

Be brave and tackle it.

Here is a link to walk you through it:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA010349201033.aspx