Which Newsletter configuration to choose to send events newsletters?

[Interessere]

I am part of a Buddhist spiritual group and, linked to our website on WordPress, we have a newsletter, until now hosted on Google Groups. We would now like to try using the Newsletter plugin and would need help figuring out which configuration to choose. We have about 2,500 subscribers to the newsletter and we send out between 5 and 10 messages per month, all pulled from events we post on the site via The Events Calendar (that we could change, if useful). Thanks for helping us figure out how to use Newsletter in our case, even possibly with paid addons. Best wishes, Stefano

[Interessere]

P.S.: it would be good if a newsletter would be automatically sent every time an event is created. Or, to gather events and send them together in a weekly newsletter

[Michael]

Hello,

I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that Newsletter integrates perfectly with The Events Calendar and that you can schedule automatic newsletters with last events through our Automated addon. Both are included in all our premium plans, which you can find here: https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com/premium

[Interessere]

Thanks Michael for your prompt reply.

Wonderful, we would be happy to subscribe to you premium plan! Do we need anything else to send our newsletters, for example an SMTP server registration? Do you have any limit concerning subscribers and monthly sent e-mail?

[Interessere]

P.S.: sorry, I have just read in your FAQ that “The Newsletter Plugin doesn’t have any limit on subscribers or newsletters. Our plugin can manage unlimited contacts and send unlimited emails (your hosting provider may have some restrictions).” Please, I am a newby, what do you mean with “your hosting provider may have some restrictions”? What does that implies concerning the delivery of messages in the inbox and not in the spam? Thanks!

[Interessere]

Waiting for your reply, I studied a little bit more the situation…

It seems that with Newsletter blogger plan we could integrate on WordPress The Events Calendar events manager with your plugin and send automatically every event published by The Events Calendar, using for example Brevo (ex Sendinblue) service (that is integrated with your plugin too). Is that correct?

Thanks for confirming it, it could be the cheapest solution for our needs.
Best wishes,
Stefano

[Michael]

Hello Stefano,

my answer is yes to almost all your questions : ) The limits we mention are those of the hosting providers: generally speaking, they never offer a real smtp service and even if they do, it’s almost never reliable. So yeah, if you’re sending out relevant amounts of emails, it’s very recommended to subscribe to a (even a free) ESP (email service provider). All your other assumptions on the The Events Calendar integration are correct.

By the way, siamo italiani e se hai bisogno di avere qualche info in più puoi tranquillamente scrivermi a michael@thenewsletterplugin.com : )

Thanks,
Michael

[Larry Pint]

I do a similar thing. We send out a weekly newsletter with any new posts from the previous week and the upcoming events for the next two weeks. We use the automated feature of this plugin for this and it works GREAT! We use EventPrime for our events calendar. (Also highly recommended.) Since Newsletter does support EventPrime, we use “The Events Calendar Newsletter” plugin as our interface between EventPrime and the Newsletter plugin. This works extremely well. the Newsletter plugin makes it all easy and automatic. I work on events and posts during the week and every Sunday night our newsletter goes out with the latest events and posts with no additional effort on my part.

[Michael]

That’s nice Larry, glad to hear your positive experience with Newsletter : )

[Stefano]

Hi, you can give a try to our latest addon which which integrated even EventPrime. It’s a beta since we coded it but we’re waiting for the author support to know exactly how to extract the events in the correct way. But the integration seems to work :-).

Stefano.

[Interessere]

I am left (I hope) with only one doubt. Reading about Newsletters and its integration with The Event Calendar (TEC) I see that “Combined with the Automated add-on, you can even automatically generate daily, weekly, or monthly newsletters with the latest events!” I would just like to confirm that you can also automatically and immediately send a newsletter whenever a single event is published, with all the data from that single event.

I then saw that you are integrated with a service I was not aware of, SMTP2go, which seems quite inexpensive for our needs. Could that be a solution? In this case, but also in Brevo’s, do subscribers reside in a list on Newsletter or on the external email service?

Thanks again for the clarification.
Have a nice day,
Stefano

[Michael]

Hello,

no, you can’t send automatic and “immediate” newsletter when a new event is published with out plugin. With Automated addon, newsletters are sent with a schedule (which can also be hourly): if it finds new events published in that interval, it will generate and send a new newsletter, otherwise it will stay idle.

Smtp2Go is a good service, and will provide of course optimal deliverabilty at cheap prices.

Michael

[Interessere]

Thanks for your answer! Ok, it could be good like that. We only need to pay attention not to publish more than an event per hour, not to risk to send a single newsletter with more than an event. As I have time I will subscribe the blogger plan and test it!
Stefano

P.S.: what about the last question: do subscribers reside in a list on Newsletter or on the external email service?

[Michael]

Oh yeah sorry: everything you create or collect with our plugin will reside on your own server, nothing is stored elsewhere.

Michael

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