Railway Preservation News :: View topic - Maintaining your mailing lists

Many railroad museums have postal mailing lists of past constituents and customers. I'm trying to find a database to keep them in. Just one rub: It needs to be online. It can't sit on the museum director's personal laptop, otherwise no one else can maintain it. It's on a Google Doc right now but I'm hoping for something that is a little more designed for this purpose.

What does your organization use?

Author:	robertmacdowell [ Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:35 pm ]
Post subject:	Maintaining your mailing lists
Many railroad museums have postal mailing lists of past constituents and customers. I'm trying to find a database to keep them in. Just one rub: It needs to be online. It can't sit on the museum director's personal laptop, otherwise no one else can maintain it. It's on a Google Doc right now but I'm hoping for something that is a little more designed for this purpose. What does your organization use?

Author:	wesp [ Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:51 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Maintaining your mailing lists
Our mailing list is maintained on an Access database on the desktop in the treasurer's office at the Museum. Wesley

Author:	pwkrueger [ Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:24 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Maintaining your mailing lists
We use Vertical Response for our emails, but it can also store physical mailing addresses. The list can be downloaded as a .csv file. Vertical Response is free if your list isn't big (maybe 1,000 addresses?). http://www.verticalresponse.com/ Paul Krueger Seattle, WA

Author:	Heavenrich [ Tue Apr 07, 2015 7:40 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Maintaining your mailing lists
robertmacdowell wrote: Many railroad museums have postal mailing lists of past constituents and customers. I'm trying to find a database to keep them in. Just one rub: It needs to be online. It can't sit on the museum director's personal laptop, otherwise no one else can maintain it. It's on a Google Doc right now but I'm hoping for something that is a little more designed for this purpose. What does your organization use? have you looked at what's available through techsoup or recommended by them? Bob H

Author:	Evan [ Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:24 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Maintaining your mailing lists
Though the 'home base' for our membership is still maintained in Access on one computer (with frequent backups, of course), I use Mailchimp for sending e-mails (free) and Click2Mail to send snail-mail (at non-profit postage rates). Both services let you up- and download CSV files. A few years ago I experimented with Zoho.com as an online collection of business tools (includes database, CRM, spreadsheet, etc) when it was free but they now charge for these services. Google.com also has a suite of online business apps, but they aren't free either.

Railway Preservation News https://www.rypn.org/forums/

Maintaining your mailing lists https://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32465	Page 1 of 1

Author:	TangoFox [ Tue Apr 07, 2015 6:13 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Maintaining your mailing lists
You could probably use a program like Dropbox. If you're techsavvy you can get rid of Dropbox and use Owncloud - it just needs a dedicated linux server to sit on. We have ours there and also on our ticketing software host - where we can send mass emails through.

Page 1 of 1	All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group http://www.phpbb.com/