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If you have 50,000 subscribers and you send bi-weekly emails or roughly 10 campaigns every month. You would be paying $49(Flat Fee) + 10*($5) = $99 Any…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"9118324","richardwigley","I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75. So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit…",{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"Small businesses running email campaigns","maker",[65,68],{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},"9118307","Yeh you can better measure stats like open rate, CTR and deliverability. 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Menu takes up the whole screen so I couldn't read anything about the product.",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"9118429","supercoder","Site seems really broken on iOS",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"9118575","midnightmonster","For me on iPhone, the page would be fine if only the entire almost-full-screen-size navigation didn't switch to fixed positioning and block most of the page once I scroll past it.",{"value":130,"source":51,"evidence":131},"Pricing is unclear; SES costs are extra",[132],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},{"value":134,"source":51,"evidence":135},"Small business market may be too small",[136],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},[138,142],{"value":139,"source":51,"evidence":140},"Clearer explanation of the SES pricing",[141],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},{"value":143,"source":51,"evidence":144},"Simpler setup without needing SES",[145],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},[147,154],{"value":148,"source":51,"evidence":149},"What is the biggest difference from Constant Contact",[150],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"9119464","crazyintern","Having used Constant Contact for a while now I'm kind of biased towards them but I'm always looking at new ways and services for doing things. 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