Why does nobody use mail chimp?

So people get their accounts closed if they use it for marketing? That seems kinda counterproductive on Mail Chimps part.

I did.

In fact, they just disabled 'sending' option. So they allow you to keep the list, build the list using forms, but you cannot send anything to your list

Anyways, I moved my list.

I don't know many serious, successful marketers using confirmed opt-in, myself.

Anyway ... in theory, yes ... but they'll still probably have to re-confirm.

No respectable autoresponder service is going to let a new customer import another list built at Mailchimp without limiting them just to starting with a re-confirmation request. And that can decimate a list.

(GetResponse has a service where they'll test a small part of an imported list themselves before determining whether or not the customer has to start that way, which is very good of them, but in reality I've never heard of them allowing it in the case of a list built at Mailchimp, and I'd be extremely surprised.)

Here's the point: unlike hosting and some other temporary/changeable things, selecting an autoresponder service is one of the very, very few things in internet marketing that you really do have to try to get right the first time you choose, because there tends to be a dramatic opportunity-cost to getting it wrong. I'm not saying that's a good thing; I'm not saying it's a bad thing; simply that this is - undeniably - "the way it is". Autoresponder services were emphatically not "created equal", and however you look at it, Mailchimp sucks. This forum is full of hundreds of members explaining why. I've linked to 7 or 8 of those threads, just above. The evidence and discussion is all there, for people who want to read it. (And in other forums, too.) The subject is really not worthy of yet another full-blown "stewards' inquiry", guys. Use Mailchimp if you really want to ... and if you can also persuade my competitors to use it, then so much the better.


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