icontact vs constant contact vs doing it myself

I have the ability to manage my own mailing list to manage bounces and duplicate emails and such - importing and exporting as well.

I was toying with the idea of making it even easier for email marketing, if I let another company help with templates and archiving newsletters at icontact and constant contact. These are two companies that offer these services for around $15 dollars a month.

The drawback is the limited number of images and templates one can have.

I'll have to think about this and stay tuned... if you want to sign my mailing list that I'm testing out: try out: http://www.risingpianofire.com there's a mailing list feature on the bottom.

- Calvin Lee