There are many email marketing services available but Mailchimp is definately our favourite.

On a recommendation I tried Mailchimp for a new email campaign and I was very impressed with the simplicity and ease of use. The dashboard has clean and friendly design and you can easily switch between your campaigns, your lists, reports and autoresponders from the main tab at the top of the screen.

The email list builder lets you enter detailed information about each client, or you can easily import your list from a text file, a CSV file or from many other services such as Google contacts.

Once you have your list and you’re ready to go, you click on the campaign button and choose either plain text or HTML email. When choosing HTML you are presented with a very easy to use editor. Choose from many templates or easily design your own email.

Then choose which of your saved lists you would like to send the campaign out to, and you are then given a handy checklist to make sure everything is correct before you send.

The step by step process really is quite simple and the interface is very user friendly. I sent our my campaign to 500 subscribers free of charge and I am able to send upto 3000 emails in one month on the free package, but only to the maximum 500 subscribers.

The paid packages start at $30 per month and this gives you a maximum 2,500 subscribers with no sending limit. There are cheaper deals out there but for the fun, easy to use and visually pleasing interface my choice would be Mailchimp.

For full details please visit www.mailchimp.com