BigMailBox or BigAdBox?
Right then,
I want to take the plunge and start offering a free email address for my visitors. I've done a fair bit of research and BMB seems to be the one to go with. The only thing putting me off is the large amount of ads that seem to appear on the users inbox.
My questions are:
1) Does anyone who currently uses BMB such as you Mr James get any negative feedback from its visitors due to these ads?
2) How reliable are the BMB servers?
3) Is it straightforward to setup POP3 access to BMB for my own email so I dont have to go online to access my email?
4) Has it improved your sites stickyness?
5) What is the overall feedback you have recieved from your users?
Thanx in advance!
mjames posted this at 01:56 — 23rd March 2002.
They have: 2,064 posts
Joined: Dec 1999
Certainly, the quality of BMB has decreased as the ad market as descreased. There are popup ads and the first page you see when you login is a big ad, essentially, which is composed of an IE window, it is supposed to look like, with links to search, travel, etc. - a bunch of categorys advertisers paid to be listed there.
The servers havne't been terribly unreliable, as a matter of fact - sometimes, I notice the mail that forwards through their servers gets delayed, but for the price, I'm not complaining.
It is pretty easy to set this up. You have to e-mail your host and get your MX records modified - but if they get that right, you'll be ready to go.
I'm not really sure if it's improved stickyness - there are several hundreds members, but most are ones for our columnists. I can't really find a basis to compare anything.
But I can commend BMB's support - when you compare it to Everyone.net, which charges for any kind of support, BMB is great. Their support replied within 48 hours and that's the second time it's happened. I'd say give it a shot...
openmind posted this at 19:07 — 23rd March 2002.
He has: 945 posts
Joined: Aug 2001
Thnx Marc,
I think I'm gonna give it a blast!
Thnx again...
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