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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>D<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces@omls.oregon.gov> on behalf of Reedsport Main Street Program <mainstreet@cityofreedsport.org><br><b>Reply-To: </b>Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers@omls.oregon.gov><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 9:01 AM<br><b>To: </b>Main Street Listserve <oms_managers@omls.oregon.gov><br><b>Subject: </b>[OMS_MANAGERS] Email Platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Good Morning,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Courteney Halstead</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Administrative Assistant | Main Street Liaison </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>City of Reedsport</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>451 Winchester Ave.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Reedsport, OR. 97467</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>541.271.3603 ext. 1005</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>541.271.2809 (Fax)</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><a href="mailto:chalstead@cityofreedsport.org">chalstead@cityofreedsport.org</a></span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><a href="http://www.cityofreedsport.org/">http://www.cityofreedsport.org/</a></span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#2E74B5'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>