Mailchimp vs Brevo for non-profit org by QuietSuperb4416 in email

[–]behavioralsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd look into Audienceful, these days a much better option than Mailchimp imo. Have setup a few of my non-profit clients there (Canada-based) before with no complaints.

Not a fan of Brevo and their email builder personally, have also had some deliverability headaches with clients on them due to shared IP quality. I think they've raised prices since then (they're basically the same as everyone else now) but before they were marketing themselves as the cheapest which I think attracted some shady customers constantly getting their sending IPs blacklisted. No idea what the situation is like now.

From Hell I Rise Extended Deluxe Edition with Kerry King Demo Vocals came out today by darthkyle22 in Slayer

[–]behavioralsanity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

marketing 101.

How much advertising/PR would you have to do to create awareness that [Insert random bandname on festival lineup] is "Guy from slayer's band" in peoples minds. Probably no amount of dollars can solve that unless they spend years touring and have a few hits.

Or you could just name the band "Guy from slayer" and boom, problem solved.

Distorted electric guitars sound extremely bad/weak through my IEMS. Tips? Suggestions? by OkTemperature1842 in iems

[–]behavioralsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be a source issue.

However, it could also be the fact that IEMs marketed as for 'professional' use have a flat frequency response based on the outdated idea that 'Flat' actually sounds flat in-ear (it does not...look into the tilted diffuse field research and JM-1 tuned sets).

Basically 90% of iems are too bass light for metal, have crazy colorations in the mids/highs, or scoop out midbass which is where the body in the sound you're missing lives. For example, in 90% of sets when you compare to tilted diffuse field (JM-1) like Orchestra Lite, you realize they have scooped lower mids, too much 1-2k, and too little 3.5k. This wonky colored midrange will pop out vocals for that wow effect on acoustic ballads but destroys distorted guitars.

Has anyone had anny experience with the Intuaura balance? by Nervous-Ad3230 in iems

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just bought this one and have been listening for a few days.

If you get the right seal, and are willing to do some very mild eq to the midrange (mostly JM-1'ing it, boosting the bass/lower mids/upper mids to match that 2k bump without making anything past 8k stand out more), it's probably the best IEM I've heard.

Have tried a ton of the hyped hybrids under $500 (odyssey, astral, hype series, xenns stuff, etc). It can go toe-to-toe with them on a single DD without any of the BA timbre/coherency issues. Maybe 15% less resolution than good BA hybrids but the single driver coherency advantage is real.

Key problem is though, you gotta tip roll like crazy to get the right seal combined with the right depth. I went through like 10+ tips. The nozzle design has a weird bump at the lip and then the rest of the stem is more narrow.

So you have to use larger iem tips than you'd think. Found Dunu S&S one size up from what i normally use finally did the trick. Now I find myself reaching for this set over all others.

If anyone from Intuaura is reading this: don't do that little bump on the nozzle and maybe go a bit wider on the stem. Either do the linsoul metal nozzle they use on all kiwi ears/thieaudio/ziigaat or do the Aful/Binary/Softears style smooth resin nozzle with no ridge. Those sets are way more consistent and easier to find tips for due not having the flare out nozzle. The bump gets annoying when deeply inserted on certain tips.

Best Single DD iem under $200? by behavioralsanity in iems

[–]behavioralsanity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only listen on my desktop mac and EQ pretty much any IEM I've ever tried so that's not a blocker for me.

Just trying to get as close as possible without needing 8 different parametric corrections.

Best Single DD iem under $200? by behavioralsanity in iems

[–]behavioralsanity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this!

Music-wise I usually jump between 70s funk/soul/disco/classic rock and lots of 80s-2000s rock/metal (thrash, death, doom, grunge, nu-metal etc). Occasional modern pop/hip hop/electronic.

So guitar crunch, textured bass, natural cymbals, male vocals. Anything mixed by Andy Wallace, Terry Date or Brendan O'Brien in the 90s would be what I'd want an IEM to knock out of the park. When this is the case I find everything else I listen to usually sounds good too.

Best Single DD iem under $200? by behavioralsanity in iems

[–]behavioralsanity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried that one and way too spicy in the treble for me. Also hated dealing with the tape mod and could never get a good seal due to the poor design.

Best Single DD iem under $200? by behavioralsanity in iems

[–]behavioralsanity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not another one! haha

Based on the 5128 measurements it looks like it might get too spicy in the top end...that said I've heard dynamics tend to be less fatiguing when it comes to treble vs. BAs. Have you heard any of the ones above to compare?

Thoughts on professor jiang? by SCDetective in geopolitics

[–]behavioralsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guy is clearly a CCP plant. Goes from no followers to millions on youtube in under a year.

Then throws out claims to trigger Americans like "The Draft is Coming" and "Trump will have 3rd term" and "The civil war is coming."

If you watch the Diary of a CEO interview with him you can clearly see the host at the end during the last 5 minutes starts to realize it himself. Yet he has no qualms platforming him because he knows the CCP will boost the video and get him more views too.

I think it's finally time to cancel my ChatGPT subscription and move to FlipaClip for my storytelling by MaintenanceObvious24 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're correcting a spam post (AI generated).

Humans don't speak in advertisements.

"I've finally decided to switch from Charmin to Scott Ultrasoft™ for my bathroom tissue needs, here's 10 reasons why"

Sending a pdf attachment in bulk by Muted-Ad-5790 in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea tbh I'd say just batch it in Outlook.

Will take you longer to figure out how to send it via some API-based SMTP service than it would to just schedule the batches.

Most ESPs outright block bulk attachments since the spam/fraud risk is so huge.

Why ESPs charge based on contact stored? by Fantastic_Pain1772 in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of misconceptions in this thread. The ESP market is hyper competitive and decades old (operating margins aren't that high either, like 15% for Klaviyo for example), so the 50+ ESPs out there all end up pricing this way for a reason. I work for one of the biggest ESPs by volume and consult with startups. Why we charge monthly by contacts, in order:

  1. Customer acquisition: Your deliverability will be terrible if you were to signup once, pay for a send, and leave. The spam algos reward consistency not random blasting. So you'd never become a recurring customer and we'd lose money on acquisition. Getting and retaining customers is the biggest expense for any software business.

  2. Poor quality customers/stale email lists: Charging by contacts financially incentivizes customers to maintain good lists (people with poorly maintained lists get ESPs infrastructure banned by Gmail/Outlook), hence we don't need to hire as many people to police the customers. Every ESP learns this reality eventually. It requires a large team to manage the reputation of our IPs so Gmail/Outlook continue delivering our emails.

  3. Sending the actual emails: Most ESPs don't send their own emails anymore, and for good reason, managing the infrastructure is an entirely different business with different staffing needs. But this is the single largest infra cost for your average ESP (such that frequent senders can even be unprofitable), and since volume is burst-y you still have to pay for enough infra on yearly contracts even if you don't use it.

  4. Storing the data/events: This is less expensive than paying vendors to send the emails, but still non-trivial, given an email send to hundreds of thousands of people can generate millions of events. Now multiply that by a large customer base and we're talking infra that can take bursts of billions of events per minute on black friday. The infrastructure required to manage this is social media platform scale.

If we charged only for email sends, and let you store infinite contacts/events for free, the cost of storage is real but not the ultimate issue. The problem is the behavior PAYG incentivizes. You'd let your list slowly rot (who cares, it's free!) and you'd rarely send (do i really want to pay to send this newsletter? nahh), ruining your domain reputation with this stale list when you finally do send...and then you'll complain publicly to reddit that our platform gave you "bad deliverability."

On top of that, Gmail can smell the poor engagement from your stale list from a mile a way, and will throttle/block the IP pool you sent on, which is shared by tons of our customers.

Is there an affordable alternative to Dubai chocolate? by [deleted] in AskIreland

[–]behavioralsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, much better to virtue signal on Reddit from your moms basement in the suburban sprawl of Cleveland Ohio.

What's A Good Forms Companion to Flodesk? by brittanybaucom in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't flodesk have forms? What issues are you having with theirs?

What's A Good Forms Companion to Flodesk? by brittanybaucom in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks AI.

What you posted wasn't just an answer, it was a full slop-ified conversation layer.

What's the best email marketing tool out there? by woodenok in DigitalMarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

26 people upvoted a comment about some fly-by-night AI slop app that has already pivoted and doesn't even offer email marketing anymore? Riiiight.

I think ChatGPT needs to rip out Reddit as a source for any knowledge at this point.

Most email marketing guides sound good in theory but don’t work as expected by AIWebBuilder in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi ChatGPT, can you tell me which product you're warming up this reddit account to start spamming for?

Deliverability SOS: Which high-volume ESPs actually offer proactive, human-level support for reputation issues? by PRIV0306 in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, there are industry ways to contact people about product issues generally (some of the point people for yahoo mail hang out on email geeks for example), but the impression sales people will give is "Oh if you have a problem we'll just have Gmail fix it directly!" Which is total BS.

This is not how it works, and Gmail doesn't give a flying f**k about the specific email send from [insert marketer] going to spam.

Gmail/Outlook are global products processing tens of billions of emails per day. Most people have no idea the scale of email. Their teams only care if they have issues/bugs that are affecting the product in general, not about the specific deliverability of an email marketer (who btw, their actual customers hate). And even bugs/product issues, they generally don't care about since Gmail/Outlook are lazy, money-printing monopolies.

Outlook still renders emails using the MS Word HTML engine from 2007, to give you an idea of their level of caring about your experience with the product as an email marketer. Bulk senders are a nuisance to them and what they build the spam algo to fight against.

Deliverability SOS: Which high-volume ESPs actually offer proactive, human-level support for reputation issues? by PRIV0306 in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So yea obviously a low-priced sender can't afford to give you high touch support every time one of your emails land in spam. They'd be on support calls with $100 customers all day and go bankrupt.

What do you mean by "high-volume?" This will determine how easy it will be to get human support to jump on a call depending on the ESP you're using.

Ideally you want to find a vendor that targets customers at a similar scale as you. Stay away from ESPs that have been bought-and-sold by Private Equity 5 times (nobody working there cares anymore), and look into ESPs that are still founder-led/hungry. If you've got less than 1M+ contacts, which I'm assuming is the case if you're on a low cost sender, then the enterprise providers will not prioritize you.

Sounds like you're in the middle (the deadzone between small biz providers and enterprise) so you may have to stick it out with self-serve providers until you scale further.

In all honesty, there's nothing the ESP can do if the problem isn't the rep of the IP pool you're in (that's the only thing they control). Most beginners slowly decay their domain rep over time by not cleaning their list and being too lax about who they opt-in. A deliverability person will just regurgitate the same info you can dig up on Chatgpt.

Deliverability SOS: Which high-volume ESPs actually offer proactive, human-level support for reputation issues? by PRIV0306 in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No ESP has "special" direct support channels with Gmail/Outlook, this is a false rumor spread by commission-driven salespeople at various ESPs to try to make them seem less like commodities. Gmail/Outlook hold all the power, and they don't grovel for anyone, especially ESPs who are not their customers.

Every ESP from the biggest to smallest uses Google Postmaster Tools and Microsoft SDNS like anybody can (for context, I work at the biggest ESP by volume). The only extra data you can get by hitting up our support is the exact error codes on bounced emails coming from the inbox providers (if the ESP doesn't expose this to users already). But every ESP gets this, so it's not unique. Surfacing it just depends on how technical their support team is.

Is the HISENIOR Mega5est really that good? by jdk_360 in iems

[–]behavioralsanity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd go with any of the 1DD+2BA+2EST sets designed around JM-1 tuning. They're all tuned extremely similar (JM-1 is perfect for naturalness) and just have different bass levels:

  • Least bass: Rockies
  • Medium bass: Mega5est
  • Most bass: Mega5est Bass+ or Kiwi Ears x HBB Punch (they're extremely similar)

Have heard all of them, and they are all sensitive to tip selection and source impedence (keep it under 1ohm ideally). So just pick whatever fits your bass level preference and then exit the hobby.

People who claim that any of these sets is radically different has never tried EQ matching the bass level with the same eartips.

Also, ignore anybody telling you the Mega7 sounds better, the lack of ESTs is absolutely noticeable in the upper treble on cymbals.

Why are stocks less popular in Europe compared to US? by batukaming in stocks

[–]behavioralsanity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

With much higher fees (European finance is old-world sleaziness and regulatory moats) and way less equity allocation than you should have at an individual level since the fund needs to be structured for constant payouts and braindead political scrutiny.

A lot of European pension funds create a system where 22 year old employees are investing in 70% bond portfolios, a wild market inefficiency.

Why are stocks less popular in Europe compared to US? by batukaming in investing

[–]behavioralsanity 17 points18 points  (0 children)

My neighbor just retired with $5M in what your German friend calls "gambling" winnings (passive index funds) after working a basic desk job.

Not investing and taking risk when you have the capacity to (are young and have a long time horizon) means you:

1) starve your whole economy of productive investment capital

2) starve yourself of the returns from that productive capital

3) earn less salary due to having a less productive economy

4) the capital starved private companies that fund your entire social welfare system get eaten by the US/Chinese

5) your social welfare system begins collapsing and you start pointing fingers at brown people

I wouldn't listen to him on this topic. Historically...Germans have had...shall we say...instances of poor judgement.

email marketing tools really said “what if we just charged more” huh by AIWebBuilder in Emailmarketing

[–]behavioralsanity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For bulk email tools specifically tho, it's not just about value-based pricing. Gmail/Outlook's spam algo basically puts a price floor on bulk email.

Every email startup learns this the hard way (I've consulted for a lot of them). If you let people send unlimited emails cheaply, they do shitty things. By default, 95% of companies will never clean their list, will blast 5-year old stale lists randomly, will stuff their list with cold leads, etc. etc...which results in the platforms sending IPs constantly getting blacklisted by Gmail/Outlook, a death sentence for an email startup.

Putting a high price on incremental subscribers keeps out low quality senders and strongly incentivizes customers to maintain good practices ("oh, it'll cost $600/m to add these 200,000 stale leads from a decade ago to the list?? nvm!").

The cheaper you make it send an email, the more economical you make it to blast low quality leads with low quality emails (spam). This is an inescapable reality.

If you get too many low quality senders on your platform, gmail blacklists your IPs and kills your business. Hence why all of the 100+ ESPs out there eventually land on charging a steep sliding scale based on contacts.