Dirt cheap email marketing platforms you or your partner can take advantage of in your spare time

Amazon is one of the world’s foremost authorities in high-deliverability transactional and marketing related emails.

Trusted by millions of businesses, Amazon Web Services powers billions of messages each day through it’s Industry leading “Simple Email Service”.

It’s email sending platform is built on the same backbone that powers Amazon’s own email operations, giving customers access to one of the highest-reputation sender networks in the world.

With unlimited scalability, advanced authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and rigorous anti-abuse systems, AWS has set the standard for reliable, secure, and high-trust email delivery (across every industry).

But there’s just one problem…

It’s built for developers…

Not entrepreneurs.

That’s why a lot of marketers, myself included, rely on tools like Fluent CRM to bridge the gap between AWS’s sending infrastructure and real world usability.

Once combined, these two utilities give you the power to eliminate several serious problems that haunt many every day email marketers:

• Email automations that sometimes take several minutes to activate and send are delivered instantly, and reliably via Amazon’s dirt cheap sending servers (at a cost of $0.10 cents per 1,000 emails that means most people will spend not more than a few dollars per month for nearly unlimited sending).
• Complicated, non-visual automation sequences are replaced by clean visual workflows that make it easy to tell what’s happening, and what’s not, inside your automations at a glance (from trigger to completion).
• Unusual occurrences of your best customers getting “bounced” off your email list for no good reason, making it impossible for them to ever re-subscribe unless they sign up again with a new email address (are virtually eliminated because you now have full control over how your contacts are managed).
• And connections to your favorite checkout solutions like ThriveCart, or alternatives like SureCart (which has a full featured free + fee plan), are native and allow you to keep most or all of you tech stack nestled neatly inside of WordPress (as long as you’re a slightly tech savvy marketer or entrepreneur).

Now, it’s important to know that if you’re not already familiar with WordPress, or would not like to be, then this solution isn’t for you.

But there is an alternative.

For those of you are initiated in the WordPress ways, Fluent CRM might just be golden solution you’ve been waiting for.

I can’t say for sure, and you should definitely do your own research as far as whether or not you think you’re going to be able to figure out how to use it or not. But I will say that if you ever find yourself struggling, their support is excellent, and they have a strong community of WordPress minded adventurers that would likely come to your aid.

And you can learn more Fluent CRM by using my affiliate link here:

https://kevinhood.me/fluentcrm

But for those of you who want access to some, not necessarily all of these benefits, there’s a surprisingly simple solution that lives outside of WordPress, is relatively plug and play, and similarly affordable called Email Octopus.

And you can learn more about them using my affiliate link here:

https://kevinhood.me/ses-email-octopus

And the only final thing I’ll say about this is that if you want to take advantage of all the control and deliverability regarding your email list, you’ll also have to take responsibility. And the first thing you’ll have to do is setup an Amazon SES account properly, and get approved for production sending by following the step-by-step guides available for doing so.

But like I said…

With great power comes great responsibility.

So don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Best,

Kevin Hood