{"id":2036,"date":"2011-12-05T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2011-12-05T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T09:45:51","slug":"mailchimp-the-downside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"MailChimp: The downside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Mail Chimp logo.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mailchimp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-head.jpg\" alt=\"MailChimp has been our provider for most of 2011.\" width=\"119\" height=\"119\" \/>There are two problems with MailChimp, our email provider.<\/p>\n<p>The first is cost &#8211; we&#8217;re paying <strong>\u00a33,700 a year<\/strong> for this.  I think we might be able to find something equally good for less money.<\/p>\n<p>The second &#8211; and more important &#8211; is that MailChimp, unlike previous tools we have tried (e.g., PHPlist) <strong>doesn&#8217;t allow multiple admins<\/strong>.  So if I want to give a language editor the ability to post messages to their list, they all share the same user ID and password as I do.<\/p>\n<p>This is idiotic.<\/p>\n<p>It means that every time we do a mailing, I have to collect the translations from each one, format and edit them myself.  This is particularly difficult for the non-Latin based languages which I do not read, such as Arabic and Japanese.  We need a system which can do this, which is cheaper, and which works otherwise just as well.  I&#8217;m looking into this now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two problems with MailChimp, our email provider. The first is cost &#8211; we&#8217;re paying \u00a33,700 a year for this. I think we might be able to find something equally good for less money. The second &#8211; and more important &#8211; is that MailChimp, unlike previous tools we have tried (e.g., PHPlist) doesn&#8217;t allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}