One mistake many clubs make is that they have one contact distribution list being done via Oulook, Gmail, or others, but it’s time to move your email subscribers to an online service. Especially, when it’s 100% Free!

Before email newsletter services could have cost your club $15-20 a month (thats about 5x more than a monthly ClubHosting membership), but now you can do it all for free via MailChimp. They offer up to 2,000 Subscribers, with up to 12,000 emails being sent a month. That means you can make multiple newsletters for your snowmobile club, and mail people multiple times without fear.

The biggest advantage though is it makes your club more professional, an enhances communication with your users. Many clubs fall into the trap of sending newsletters via mail

$1.25 to print, package, and mail (and that’s the low end), times 100 people, 5 times a year is $625!

I have heard of a club that pays near $2.00 a letter; and they have over 700 members. They mail at the start and the end of the season, and I believe they are spending at least $3,800 on Mail alone!

So, when we heard that, we did our research, and uncovered mailchimp. Below is a gallery to show you how simple it is to use, and get you an idea of it’s features. It’s free, for anyone. Integrating a form on your list will be up to your webmaster (or enabling the plugin on our network for Extras! customers).

Sample form below, of a “Subscribe” addition.

Just to show you how easy it was to add to website, we went, logged in, copied, and now pasted this beauty.

Subscribe to our mailing list

Pretty simple. Granted, our customer point and click form builder (the one you can sell Memberships with and collect (and verify) PayPal payments for Club Membership Dues automatically has the Mailchimp plugin. So you can add mailchimp to any form you build using clubhosting with a few clicks (and have it look a little better than the above).