I`m joining this conversation late. I`m sorry you had this experience but thank you so much for sharing the lessons learnt.

I would like to set up an email pop up to create a list and then use it for marketing. What is the best system currently. From what you say, I`m assuming Mail Chimp is Persona Non Grata for WA members,

So is it Mailpoet? Mailerlite? Or is there another system that is now recommended?

It would also be good to have a relatively consistent recommendation from WA and perhaps some specific training as I think lots of newer members find this less than straightforward.

I have been searching for training today. Can anybody in this chain recommend the best practice email system? Free if at all possible, and ideally some clear training? I thought I saw a reference to Jay doing some training on this but couldn`t find it. His training is usually excellent.

Thanks so much

I also have bad experience with mailchimp as their system was not working for 6 months.
Must have been a wrong link, at least I must have missed out on subscribers and decided to find something better.
I do have a list of subscribers, just in case.
It is always handy to have a back-up instead of losing subscribers (and thus missing out on money).
WA should tell people not to use Mailchimp for affiliate marketing or MLM.
Both will have your account taken down.
Sumo was also not good for me; after 12 subscribers I got the message that I reached the maximum subscribers.
And it was a Chinese puzzle to find out how to send an email, every time my message was rejected.
I was trying freefollowup.com but had a problem getting the subscribe form to work.
After a few hours and no way to contact them, it was time to look for something else.
Mailoptin was also very limited; if I wanted to do something, I had to become a paid member.
I used Google and searched for free autoresponder with many results.
There must be something that is better than what I tried already.
I will try sendinblue, hoping they are better because I don't want to spend about $15 each month for paid services.

We learn from our mistakes that is a fact, you are not the first or the last person to experience being blocked by Mail Chimp for what they consider SPAM.

What you could have done was taken all your subscribers and exported them to your computer for safekeeping and open another email account to sign back up with Mail Chimp.

What you must-do if you are using Mail Chimp is provide links to your blog posts to get people to your website, as long as you don't post any affiliate links you will be safe with Mail Chimp.

I am sorry to inform you one of your subscribers more likely turned you into Mail Chimp, and that is because as long as no one turns you in Mail Chimp has no idea you are inserting affiliate links because they can't keep track of everyone with an account the links they are inserting.

The same thing happened to me, so I know how it sucks but it is not always so bad starting over as long as you have your subscriber list.

I just used another email address and learned my lesson no affiliate links in my email newsletters

Jeff

That was a terrible experience. I never used Mailchimp but I had a similar experience when Facebook unpublished my page because according to them I was making false claims about affiliate marketing! I was mad when I thought of all the false claims many Facebook users make each day!

I am happy that you appraised us of your experience though. It will help us to make informed decisions with relation to Mailchimp!

I wish you all the best.

Claudia

Yep Mailchimp closed us down in our Pilates studio when we offered an up sell of some grip socks at the bottom of our information pages for a challenge we were running - and the link was to us, not an affiliate page.

They definitely do not like affiliate marketers - Constant Contact will shut you down for the same thing.

Aweber never gives me any grief