Overall Satisfaction with iContact
- iContact allows you to store a large number of images (5,000 KB) within your account without upgrading or paying an add-on fee. I do manage and pay for an FTP site with another brand, which I use to maintain my website and store images on as well; however, iContact saves me the time (and money) of going back and forth from an FTP site to my e-newsletter.
- I am very happy with the lack of bugs or idiosyncrasies I have experienced with other programs. Paragraphs don't shift on their own, WYSIWYG, so there are not surprises when it is finally sent out to my audience.
- Even if I have not logged in for a while, it remembers me. That is beyond convenient, and after two years, I have no reason to believe it is not secure.
- I would really like a way to put captions under any image at any time. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
- All of my previous e-newsletters do not show under the Messages tab. They do show up under "Email-Re-use." It may be that I am reusing my previous message each time to keep the template in order.
- A separate archive folder would be handy, a la Constant Contact.
- I use iContact to successfully deliver my e-newsletter to my audience without any issues or complications. That makes me appear as the professional I am to my readers.
- My e-newsletter is a loss leader, used at my sole proprietor company to keep my name and face in front of the people on the list I have generated over the years.
- Close to a dozen jobs have come to me via my iContact e-newsletter, which I call The Hestia Report. Those jobs are from people who know me. When they get my e-newsletter and happen to need some marketing/PR at that time, it triggers a call.