MAIL CHIMP IS SHUTTING CRYPTOCURRENCY ACCOUNTS BUT THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES
Mail chimp has joined the gangs with facebook and Google to block cryptocurrency related accounts. Facebook decision to block cryptocurrency related ads was understandable because Facebook is a closed platform that can decide to accept whatever content that pleases them. This means that each user uses facebook won’t see blockchain related ads.
Google decision to ban blockchain related ads was a serious issue because millions of websites advertise through AdX and Adsense. Google’s decision was a punishment to millions of publishers, researchers, and entrepreneurs that love the blockchain technology.
Mail chimp posted this on their twitter feed on Thursday.
“The promotion and exchange of cryptocurrencies is frequently associated with phishing, scams, fraud and misleading business practices at the moment. It’s important to note that this policy does not prevent the discussion of related topics in messages sent trough our platform. For example, Publications and Journalist may send cryptocurrency-related information as long as they are not involved in the sale, production, exchange, or marketing of cryptocurrencies.”
This means that Mail chimp has decided to censor what companies can share with their customers. “This is an unfair decision” — They are a private company and not a government company.
Due to curiosity, several companies have contacted mail chimp to ask about the metrics that they will use to distinguish between the companies involved in blockchains and others involved in news-related discussions. People claim that it is only humans that can perfectly distinguish those accounts.
Right now, mailchimp has failed to respond any inquiries. Mailchimp may be following facebook steps that banned all blockchain related ads earlier this year. They claim that the anonymity nature of digital currency is a treat. The news is already affecting bitcoin price. Bitcoin is currently trading below the $7,000 mark.
Mail chimp might be the leader in the email space due to their business presence. They may also be great at deliverability but other email clients can also reach out to the same users.
Each time a company decides to block any content about cryptocurrency or people associated with it, there will be discussions about it being considered censorship. People will always argue the fact that they are private business.
We’ve seen other sites like youtube, twitter, Reedit, Google, Facebook banning contents from other platform. Mailchimp news is a sad one. They suddenly decided to ban mailing list that focuses on a topic that is not an outright scam.
Their AUP policy also discriminates against “Credit Repair Services” and “Work from home” mails for the same reasons. It’s not really worth it to distinguish the services that aren’t scams when many of them only pay a few bucks per month.
Mail chimp will end with blacklisting problems and far bigger deliverability if all the Cryptocurrency people move to a smaller email service with a friendly policy. This is however, game over for them.
7 Alternatives to mailchimp
The ideal alternative to mail chimp will have the following components:
Transactional components (Ability to integrate with other providers)
Reasonable to use API
Easy to use
Mail chimp has become unreliable because they can decide for some reasons that your manually created campaigns are a scam. They block peoples account without giving any warning. They block everything including the API used in sending emails. Mail chimp has joined the gang of companies that treats you as if they are doing you a favor even though you are a paying consumer.
That is why we’ve decided to write out these alternatives for mail chimp
- Sendgrid has a marketing product called “Marketing campaigns”. They also allow you to decouple the API using AWS SNS. Send grid is a scalable email delivery service that handles SPF, ISP and DKIM. They also use content inspection, rate limits, spam reports and bounces to help users.
2. Mailerlite is the cheapest alternative on this list. They allow their users to send unlimited emails to 5,000 subscribers. It’s a free plan that allows users to send 1,000 emails to subscribers. Mailerlite is the perfect choice for first time email marketers. It’s light weight makes it easy to send out emails. Malierlite has a basic auto response, A/B testing, and the ability to embed signup from any website.
3. Freshmail is the perfect solution for experienced marketers that need a little bit of marketing automation. Freshmail is a light weight solution that can easily compete with other systems. Freshmail pricing scheme is flexible and they even have a freemium plan that allows users to send unlimited emails to 500 contact. Freshmail goes a step further by allowing users to import contacts from other services such as Gmail, CSV and CRM.
4. Constant Contact is one of the largest and fastest growing email marketing service in the world. It is also the most easy to use and beginner friendly email marketing service. You can easily manage your email lists, contacts, email templates, and more. Each account gives you access to easy tracking and reporting, built-in social media sharing tools, an image library and 1GB of storage for your own files. Constant Contact offers unmatched support with live chat, email, community support, and a vast library of resources
5. Active campaign is a great choice for businesses. They offer flexible pricing options for any business. The email management is built around split testing functionality to create special date based campaigns. Active campaigns also allow users to upload contacts and sync the contacts from third party programs like CRM. Lastly, they have a phenomenal drag and drop interface that is perfect for beginners.
6. Sendinblue is one of the most trust worthy choice among this list. They communicate with every contact to ensure that the contact is 100% subscriber. They also communicate with their contacts to make sure that they have not been listed for previous sending issues. It is their way of ensuring that their users are successful in their marketing efforts.
7. Getresponse is the final option for email marketing. Get response has lots of features that other vendors don’t offer at all. For instance, they allow users to split test up to 5 landing pages. They also have an inbuilt landing page creator and a specialized tool to create webinar marketing tracks and did I also forget to mention their exclusively drag and drop editing features.
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