Re: [UG-ADMINS] Mailing lists

Hey Cal,

    We have both a MailChimp and a Meetup.com list. We use both for broadcast only. We send out about 2-3 job postings a month as well as an announcement when the monthly meeting topic is announced and a reminder to attend/update your RSVP a day before the meeting occurs. We also send out messages about local-ish conferences or discounts to conferences or products that may be of interest to our members, though we try to combine those with a message that is directly related to our group. We also push open CfP's for local-ish conferences or conferences that will pay travel and housing expenses to our members. We try to keep messages to 1-2 a week. We have about 500 people on our mailing lists.
    The biggest thing we have done to impact our mailing list is our conference and our speaking workshops.

Thanks, Beth On 3/13/18 7:18 AM, Cal Evans wrote:

Hi! :) I'm curious - and no, I'm not going to ask you to mail something to your mailing list for me - how often do you mail to your mailing list? Is your list discussion list (meetup.com) or a broadcast list (mailchimp)? If your list is a discussion list, how many emails per week? (aprox) Aprox how many do you have on your list? Last one. What is the one thing you've done in the past year that has had the biggest impact on yuor list? (an email that you sent out that generated discussion, a rule you put in place, whatever) The reason I'm asking. Mailing lists are interesting to me. I know how often I mail to the ones I run, but I'm curious how my lists - broadcast and marketing - compare with UG lists. (I assume most are discussion lists and purposfully devoid of marketing) Thanks! And once again, than you to each and every one of you for all that you do for the PHP community. Cheers! :) =C=

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