thanks guys.
just for your interest i just got off the phone to
HTML:
http://swiftdigital.com.au/
the questions i asked were:
i'm looking for an australian equivalent of mailchimp?
i want to send @ 2000 newsletters a month and grow to 10K +,
do you have templates?
i want just 1 database of people,
information gather will only be name,email,postcode.
now worries he says, we can do that but you have to create your own temple but we'll give you the specs.
that will be $1850 to setup your account, $2750 per annum and 3 cents an email from then on, the good thing is we offer great service and you only pay for emails you send.... you don't have to buy a monthly subscription.
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so what does he call the annual $2750 ? obviously not a monthly subscription !!!
tim