> > On Mar 23, 2016, at 10:03 PM, Dave Warren <da...@hireahit.com> wrote: > > On 2016-03-23 16:32, Franck Martin via mailop wrote: >> In fact, these providers offer OAUTH2 to allow you to send as using their >> infrastructure, and if you have bigger needs, many domains are going cheap >> at the moment... >> >> Not ideal, but some options... >> > > Are there really that many customers using freemail domains, yet paying for > ESP services? For realsies? And if so, wouldn't this be an obvious upsell > opportunity or partnership to get these customers using their own domain?
There are a lot of small businesses that use yahoo, aol, gmail email addresses as their primary contact and as part of their branding and have done so for years. It's on their business cards, on their stationary and on their vehicles. Some have mailing lists and those that don't are potential customers for Constant Contact or MailChimp. Upselling them to their own domain would likely be more disruption to their business practices as you changing everything from hireahit.com to purpleaardvark.com, and that's likely more work for them than the benefit. And from the ESP point of view - do you really want to be supporting a crappy webmail system at a loss? Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
