Hi Nancy,
BASUG uses Wix to host our website, and Wix has integrated email blast tools as well. So that won't help. Before we moved to Wix a couple years ago, we were also using Mail Chimp, but I think we paid for it.
This reminds me, I'm going to post a question to see what people think about "pay-what-you-want" webinars. If 20% of free webinar attendees were willing to pay $5 for a free webinar, that might help cover some of these UG expenses.
Look forward to hearing e-mail blast thoughts from others.
Thanks,
-Q.