To execute a successful email blast campaign you’ll need a good message, clear call to action, a good looking template and a service to send your email blast.

There are hundreds of email blast companies on the net. All with different pricing, features and software. Choosing the right email service provider is a important because it will take a couple hours to craft a compelling message and place your message in a nice looking template.

Your efforts will be wasted if your email blast company is unreliable.  If no one opens your email you just wasted your time and money.  So go ahead and spend a little to sign-up with a reputable company.

Sign-up for a free trial with these email blast companies

Email Blast Company	Free Trial Offer	Overall Rating
	StreamSend 30 Day free trial, no credit card to try Plans from $20/month Good for both beginner and experts Pay for messages sent (good for large lists)	Rating:
	iContact 30 Day free trial, no credit card to try Plans from $10/month Excellent stats and integration Pay by list size (good for frequent senders)	Rating:
	Vertical Response 30 Day free trial, no credit card to try Plans from $10/month Easiest system to use, also does surveys Pay for emails sent (good for large lists)	Rating:
	Constant Contact 60 Day free trial Lots of great looking templates Great for beginners Pay by list size (good for frequent senders)	Rating:

*Since most companies offer a free trial, you should sign up and test drive each interface.
You will quickly figure out which email service provider is best for your company.

Email Blast Companies (technically called email service providers) provide you with the tools needed to design and send effective email marketing campaigns.

This usually includes a combination of mailing list management software, HTML email design software and graphics file hosting. Your email service provider will also provide statistical reporting, a key element in any marketing effort, so that you can fine tune your email marketing campaigns.

Your ESP will probably not provide an email list. If you don’t have a list, you will need to use pay per click to generate leads which can then be followed up with. Pay per click list building combined with automated email blasts are an excellent way to create an email marketing campaign.

You will get the best email marketing results when sending to your customer database. Open and response rates will be higher for a list of people you have done business with in the past.

As an email marketing firm we send dozens of different email blasts for our clients each week. Some of our clients host their own email blast server, others purchase our email vps server and others use 3rd party email service providers. Each method has pros and cons, and depending on the number of people on your list and how often you send, one type of email blast company will be better than the others.

Our Favorite Email Service Providers

Here are our favorites. The links below will provide you with a free trial of their services, so you can see which one fits your needs.

1. StreamSend – Easy to use, intuitive and not very expensive. They charge based on emails sent, not the size of your list. This is important if you have a really large list but only send send once or twice a month.
2. Vertical Response – Great for people who need automated email blast campaign followups – where you create a email sales campaign and then send on a time delay (ex. 1 email per day for 7 days.) Vertical Response offer a great free trial, so check them out. A good choice if you new but plan to do advanced email marketing tactics in the future.
3. iContact – The top choice for marketers looking for an email service provider with CRM integration capabilities, marketing automation and sophisticated tracking. Not quite as easy to use as StreamSend, but more features. If you are extremely analytical and have the programming talent available to run sophisticated tracking, iContact is probably the best choice. If you are enterprise level, iContact is the email service provider to go with as they can integrate with SalesForce and other enterprise level CRM systems.

Reminder: NEVER send an Email Blast with your regular email account

It is extremely easy for email blast messages to be caught as spam. If that happens, it can cause major problems for you and your customers, often resulting in no email to or from your organization. The last thing you want is to have all of your normal email go straight into your customers junk box, or worse yet, be blocked from delivery.