I'm looking for advice on migrating away from Mailchimp, and using Ghost instead. There's a nice fella in Germany that someone here mentioned recently who offers a fully maintained Ghost setup at very fair prices.
But when I search this topic all I get is tech outlines on how to move the list from one system to another. I already have a website and a blog on my own server. Still trying to get my head around how best to setup Ghost just for the purpose of a mailing list.
It's conceptual not technical. I want to envisage how this might look before I get too far down the road.
#Ghost #Mailchimp #EDM
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@ewen I guess that was me. The fella is @jannis from Austria and he does an excellent job. His company is https://www.magicpages.co?aff=29C4U1fWqXc7 (with my sexy affiliate)
Best: ask him.
From what I think: Ghost is basically everything together. You can use it for mailing only, but you can't get rid of the other parts. But that honestly doesn't matter. It's then just a starting page that handles your mailing list archive (if the mailing list is public), if that makes sense?
Feel free to chat. I'm here.
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Yes Jannis emailed back right away. Have already sent his details to a few friends who are either already on Ghost or about to start a new website.
I think the conceptual framework I need is that Ghost is a blogging platform that integrates the email 100%. And I only need the email part. I am not a poweruser on Mailchimp, I don't have funnels and flows and journeys etc. I suspect I am very very typical in this regard.
I like the idea of paying 1500NOK a year to host the mailing list, instead of the slippery slope for Mailchimp's pricing, where a little but of success might ruin you!
So I'm thinking about a framework where I write a blog post on Ghost about what's new this month. Like a journal if you will. The actual content will remain on my existing blog, but I link back to those articles and my videos and whatever else. The key will be to setup a subdomain just for the Ghost instance. Over time I'll end up with a collection of past journal entries, which is kinda nice. More work than I wanted, but not pointless work.
Yes Jannis emailed back right away. Have already sent his details to a few friends who are either already on Ghost or about to start a new website.
I think the conceptual framework I need is that Ghost is a blogging platform that integrates the email 100%. And I only need the email part. I am not a poweruser on Mailchimp, I don't have funnels and flows and journeys etc. I suspect I am very very typical in this regard.
I like the idea of paying 1500NOK a year to host the mailing list, instead of the slippery slope for Mailchimp's pricing, where a little but of success might ruin you!
So I'm thinking about a framework where I write a blog post on Ghost about what's new this month. Like a journal if you will. The actual content will remain on my existing blog, but I link back to those articles and my videos and whatever else. The key will be to setup a subdomain just for the Ghost instance. Over time I'll end up with a collection of past journal entries, which is kinda nice. More work than I wanted, but not pointless work.
What Chris said.
For a mailing list itself, Ghost might be overkill, since you cannot get rid of the website/blog part. You can, however, make it a really nice newsletter archive with (free) themes like these:
https://ghost.org/themes/bulletin/
https://ghost.org/themes/dawn/
You could run that under newsletter.yourdomain.com or something similar.