Interview with Mailpro: "The market both in terms of the web in general and e-mailing in particular is lagging behind".

Today we welcome Mailpro to our series of interviews with email routing platforms. If you have an opinion on Mailpro's email solution, please feel free to share it with us in the comments.

Can you give us a brief history of Mailpro? When was the platform founded, by whom, has the business model evolved since the beginning of the adventure?

Mailpro a été fondé en 2002 par AgenceWeb SA, qui était à l’époque une jeune start-up du web déjà spécialisée dans le marketing internet. La version actuelle de Mailpro est la version V5, c’est dire l’évolution dont Mailpro a bénéficié durant les 11 dernières années au niveau des fonctionnalités, de l’ergonomie utilisateurs et qualités de déliverabilité. Notre infrastructure serveurs/réseaux/partenaires évolue constamment.

What makes Mailpro unique? What distinguishes you from other players in this very competitive market?

Mailpro est avant tout un outil simple et efficace qui s’adresse principalement aux PME’s, PMI’s, indépendants et associations à un prix très attractif. Nos avantages concurrentiels:

• Long term experience in e-mailing solutions and business applications.
• Partners First class and high quality infrastructure. Connections to the largest fiber optic network in Europe through our exclusive partner www.interoute.com
• Mailpro has been chosen by Orange/France Telecom for their CloudPro- applications
• Reactive support by phone and email in French, English and German
• Present on 5 continents
• Regular investments

What are the 3 main challenges for the next few months in the emailing world?

The mailing market is constantly evolving and requires constant adaptation of the infrastructure and further development of the tool.

What are the next evolutions of your platform?

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Do you offer your customers a "Freemium" mode (free version with reduced features)?

Yes, anyone can open a free account in one minute with mailpro with all active features and 100 credits (100 emails) offered. The use of the platform remains free. The customer only pays for his mailings. He can take a subscription or buy by consumption.

If so, what do you get out of it?

It's a great model to be able to test mailpro for free.

What do you think of the French emailing market? Is it mature or is there still room for new innovations?

We are far from reaching maturity in France. The market as well at the level of the web in general as of e-mailing in particular is late.

A last word to conclude?

A test is worth a thousand descriptions: Test mailpro for free on www.mailprofrance.com