I'm researching a problem that I'm sure all clubs and non-profits have: Looking for a membership management tool that is low cost (or free) to manage the club mailing list, and our annual show attendee list.
Our club has two distinct, and slightly different needs:
1. Manage the membership list for sending our newsletters and other emails to the dues-paying members of the club.
2. Collect and build a "customer list" of vendor contacts and attendees for our annual show.
Currently we have a solution for #1, but not for #2. We don't want a combined list, as we don't want to send internal club business emails to our "customer" list.
Right now, all we have is a collection of emails the club officers have collected over the past few years, but no central repository that any of us can access.
Yes, we could just build out a spreadsheet and keep them there, but that puts the burden on one person to collect and manage the list.
I have googled the topic, and found that there are a variety of online services that offer email management for non-profit organizations. Many offer free service for a list up to X members, with a sliding cost above that. But those solutions seem to be oriented more as a membership tool than a customer tool. So I figured that before I go and try to our half a dozen free or lost cost solutions, I'd ask here....
I'm sure this a problem other clubs must have already solved.....?