CloudHost Email Marketing from S6 Connect
with absolutely no monkeying around

CloudHost.Email

Many of our Clients rely on Email Marketing services to keep in regular contact with their members, stakeholders, customers, leads,…. call them what you will. Having your own email list is vitally important, and we encourage everyone to have one even if they don't sent emails out regularly.

There are some great platforms out there dedicated to doing this, and doing it well. We've used and recommended several of them, and continue to do so, but we're also aware that the other services out there don't always tick all the boxes or come with unexpected surprises.

We were prompted to look into this specifically by a couple of our long-standing Clients, who were nearing the ceiling of the free-tier provided by MailChimp (we won't get on our soapbox about the “freemium” model here, but there will be a blog post about this soon). They are struggling to justify the charges that will soon be incurred and needed to look into some other options.

Our in-house email marketing platform is available at no additional cost on CloudHost Connect plans, providing an easy way to manage and connect with your contacts and we can help connect it to your website or other data sources to ensure you lists stay updated.

We're always straight and honest about any possible limitation, so we want you to know that the cloudhost.email platform provides a ‘WYSIWYG' (what you see is what you get) text editor view – with a toolbar similar to Word and other applications to allow for easy formatting without needing to use any raw code – but it doesn't have a fancy ‘drag-and-drop' email builder built in. You can however import templates from other platforms or build the email in services like Stripo for free and then import the content quickly and easily.

CloudHost.Email features

  • Reliable email delivery via AWS or a provider of your choice
  • Create and manage multiple lists and subscribers with segmentation and automations
  • Create multiple custom fields if required
  • Bounce and complaint handling
  • Full campaign reports that are easy to understand
  • Add rules, webhooks, autoresponders and third-party integrations

Native WordPress mailing options

There are also a couple of WordPress plugins available that provide an email marketing platform directly in the back-end of your website. These may be more suitable in some cases and we will always seek to ensure Clients have the most appropriate service for their requirements and budget.

Email List cleansing

Whatever email marketing platform you use, it's vital to ensure that you minimise email delivery failures and spam reports, which can cause emails from your domain to be blacklisted by providers.

We are also able to offer a list cleansing service which tests the validity of email addresses to minimise ‘bouncebacks'.