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Reader Poll: What Email Program Do You Use To Connect With Fans?

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What program do you use to collect email addressees and stay connected with your fans?  They come in all shapes and sizes and cost anything from free to hundreds of dollars a month.  Which one works best for you?

Email The Rules:
  1. Let us know the name of the email program that you use in the Comments Section. Sharing why you like it and a url is great, but not required.
  2. We'll count up the top programs and put together a formal poll later this week for you to vote on. We reserve the right to add a company or two to the poll if some of the most popular programs are not included.
  3. We'll share the results in a special post with links to and reviews of the top programs.
What program do you use to collect email addressees and stay connected with your fans?

Bruce Houghton on 06/01/2009 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (22)
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  1. We really like using Fanbridge for collecting email addresses and connecting with fans.

  2. I’m also using Fanbridge. I don’t have a huge mailing list, so their free version suits me just fine. I really liked Reverbnation, except their free version is heavily branded with their colors, their logo, etc. Their paid version is nice, except it’s for-pay for everyone, even for artists with small mailing lists.

  5. I currently use Fanbridge.com, great way to maintain and organize my email list, send out flyers, it has an HTML editor built in with templates. Easy to navigate, cool features for tracking and anlayzing your email campaigns. Free for small guy, very reasonable for large. You can’t beat it!!

  7. FanBridge can’t be beat for flexibility at a reasonable price (or free)!

  9. I use fanbridge for my small amount of fan contacts. So far it’s free. If my fan base grows, I’ll be happy to pay the small amount they ask for larger mailings.

  10. Relenta (http://www.relenta.com/). It’s not music-focused but it works great as an all-around email/contact/task master. Basically I have all my contacts — press, industry, fans, bookers, etc — labeled and can send mail to any person or group easily. It’s got predefined “canned responses,” “campaigns” (ie, someone signs up and gets sent an auto-responder message and you can follow up with more automated responses), etc. It’s also got an interesting method of maintaining the conversation so I never really have to look for previous threads or interactions. They are all right there. Very cool. I’m using the free version which has been fine for me but tops out at 250 contacts. I think once you hit that mark you’re looking at a reasonable monthly payment. I will make that jump when the time comes.

  11. I’m using FourFour. It’s great because it’s integrated into the same platform we use to host and manage my artists (The Yelling) website.

  13. I use Fanmail and just love it. I have multiple bands and other brands I manage and Fanmail has everything I need as far as design, mobile services and database management go. They are obviously music oriented (a subsidiary of JamBase) but what I like is that they are focused on “fan/customer management” which we all can use help with. And by the way, their customer service is extraordinary!!!
    http://www.fanmailmarketing.com
    Katie Fox
    
http://twitter.com/kfoxaz

  16. Gmail. I was using FanReach on Reverbnation but the Can Spam Act has put paid to that since I don’t have a physical email address I can use (no PO box or label)

  17. FANBRIDGE – http:/fanbridge.com is by far the greatest email client. And speaking on the subject as a member of a band, owner of a record label and a publicity company Fanbridge offers everything I need and then some!

  21. I’m using Topspin for Tom Howie and Bandzoogle for Project K-Paz.
    Bandzoogle gets the job done, but Topspin is the future. I really hope that when they go public some time in the near future, it will send a ripple through the industry changing the course for independent musicians everywhere.

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