StreamSend Isn’t Quite There Yet
Alright, some complaints about StreamSend:
- You can’t edit scheduled campaigns. Instead of quickly changing the subject line, you have to cancel the whole campaign and start it again from scratch.
- No “Unsubscribe Date” for users
- Filters are cool, but they’re kinda weak. And you can’t exclude them from your sending lists.
- No number-based list segmenting. If you have a list of 35,000 people, and you want to send the same e-mail to them 1,000 at a time over 35 days, you have to manually cut the list into segments of 1,000, and then upload 35 different lists.
- FAR too easy to accidentally “unsubscribe” all your recipients. In the list upload process, you can’t specify a status.
- Related, unsubscribed recipients can be turned active just by uploading their e-mail address again. That should never happen. They should stay unsibscribed.
I haven’t used triggers or the API very much, although they seem pretty useful. I like CampaignMonitor a lot better. :-(
Posted on Mar 13, 2009 - 11:51 AM
