@isaiah58 wrote:
The company should provide Schedulers with licensed bulk email software or an equivalent tool via their website. Our emails should be kept on a private server, not distributed to schedulers directly.
For Servimer (a company who uses Shopmetrics) the emails are not "distributed". I can go into the system and search for shoppers by several criteria. I can then click a button that says 'send email' and all those email addresses are loaded into a system generated email. It is auto set to BCC and I just type my message and hit send.
The problem with this is that NUMEROUS email providers label this as spam and shoppers may never see it. I also have a work provided email that is hosted by Google (rdelrio@servimer.com if anyone wants to see whats available in Minneapolis, Chicago or Wisconsin!!) That email is not nearly as likely to go to spam, but I have to be careful with the BCC. This email also requires me to download the email address list into Excel and then upload it into the email.
I just wanted to give a little insight into the choices I have when using Shopmetrics.