[OMS_MANAGERS] Email Platforms

Tue Oct 6 09:09:23 PDT 2020

For basic email, we use Gmail as our mail exchange … very inexpensive. We also subscribe to Office 365 primarily for Outlook/Word./Excel, etc., and if we weren’t already using Gmail, I’d use Office 365 as our mail exchange. If you’re a nonprofit and connected to TechSoup.org, you can get O365 licensing for $3/month/user. 

For email marketing, I don’t know if Microsoft or Google have anything comparable to Mail Chimp or Constant Contact. We use Constant Contact. It’s a relatively larger cost, but if the goal is to regularly send formatted content to multiple email addresses, it’s definitely worth having. I also think the interface is more intuitive (and certainly more capable) than MailChimp. They also have nonprofit pricing. 

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From: OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces at omls.oregon.gov> on behalf of Reedsport Main Street Program <mainstreet at cityofreedsport.org>
Reply-To: Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers at omls.oregon.gov>
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 9:01 AM
To: Main Street Listserve <oms_managers at omls.oregon.gov>
Subject: [OMS_MANAGERS] Email Platforms

Good Morning,

For those of you that run the email management portion of your main street. What program do you use? Our program was set up under mail chimp, which is difficult to use among other faults, I am also the only one with access to our email account and I would like to change that, so I can share the load. I am wondering if any of you operate off Microsoft 365 or other programs that you have found useful. 

Thank you!

Courteney Halstead

Administrative Assistant | Main Street Liaison 

City of Reedsport

451 Winchester Ave.

Reedsport, OR. 97467

541.271.3603 ext. 1005

541.271.2809 (Fax)

chalstead at cityofreedsport.org

http://www.cityofreedsport.org/

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