Email Marketing

Listmonk

Email your whole customer list for the cost of a coffee. Not $300/mo.

Replaces Mailchimp / Constant Contact ($13–$350/mo)

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$47

one-time setup fee

30-day email support included

What's included

Send newsletters to unlimited subscribers
Drag-and-drop email templates
Track opens, clicks, and unsubscribes
List segmentation (send to specific groups)
Automated campaigns and sequences
Works with any email sending service (AWS SES costs ~$0.10 per 1,000 emails)

Who it's for

→Local businesses with an email list
→Restaurants sending weekly specials
→Contractors staying top-of-mind with past clients
→Anyone paying Mailchimp $50+/mo for a large list

Mailchimp charges you more as you grow

Mailchimp charges by subscriber count. At 5,000 subscribers you're paying $75/mo. At 10,000, it's $135/mo. Listmonk costs the same no matter how big your list gets — just pay for the emails sent (pennies per thousand with Amazon SES).

What's included with your purchase

Listmonk installation — self-hosted on your server
Amazon SES or Mailgun integration — cheap, reliable email delivery
List import — migrate your existing Mailchimp or CSV subscriber list
First email template — branded to your business
Unsubscribe and bounce handling — fully compliant setup
30-day email support

The economics are wild

10,000 subscribers on Mailchimp: $135/mo = $1,620/year
10,000 subscribers with Listmonk + Amazon SES: ~$1/mo in sending costs

One-time setup: $47. Payback period: less than two weeks if you're currently paying Mailchimp.

Install it yourself with AI

Copy this prompt into Claude or ChatGPT. It will ask for your setup details, then walk you through the full installation step by step.

You are a setup assistant helping me install Listmonk, a self-hosted email newsletter and list management tool. Ask me these questions one at a time:

1. Do you have an existing email list to import? (Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or a CSV file? How many subscribers?)
2. What email sending service do you have or want to use? (Amazon SES is cheapest at ~$0.10/1,000 emails. Mailgun and SendGrid also work. Say "I need help choosing" and I'll explain the options)
3. What sender name and email address do you want newsletters to come from? (e.g. "Mike's HVAC" <mike@mikeshvac.com>)
4. Do you have a server or VPS available? (Ubuntu 22.04, 1GB RAM minimum — a $4/mo Hetzner server works fine)
5. What types of emails do you want to send? (Weekly tips, monthly promotions, seasonal reminders, service follow-ups?)

Once you have my answers, walk me through the complete Listmonk setup:
- Setting up the server if needed
- Installing Listmonk using Docker
- Configuring your SMTP credentials (connecting Amazon SES, Mailgun, or SendGrid)
- Securing the Listmonk dashboard behind a domain and SSL
- Importing your existing subscriber list
- Creating your first branded email template
- Setting up a double opt-in confirmation email
- Creating and sending your first campaign
- Setting up an automated welcome sequence for new subscribers

Explain every step in plain language. Tell me what each thing does before asking me to do it.

Ready to get Listmonk running?

One-time setup. 30-day support. You own it forever.