Small business email provider recommendations

I work for a very small staffing agency and we are looking into finding a new email provider.  Does anyone have any recommendations?  Because we are a staffing agency, we receive a high volume of emails and timeliness is critical.  Thanks for our help!

Google Apps for Business. Been using it for our small company for a couple of years now and it's great. Easy to use Outlook as a front end for it (you can use Gmail webmail / apps as well), and it's like $50 a user per year. Fairly easy to set up group email distro lists (sales@company.com support, etc) as well. 

Thank you kenboy.  

If you're looking for something not too expensive, but scalable for your business try Marketo, Zoho or even MailChimp.

Fastmail.com

Very fast, highly reliable and I think they can handle large mail volumes without delay. They support aliases  and allow you to use your own domain.

https://www.fastmail.com/signup/personal.html

https://www.fastmail.com/signup/business.html

Your most sensible (but not necessarily the cheapest) option are Google Apps for Business and Office 365. I wouldn't go with anything else for really any size company at this point. I run IT for a 100-person architecture firm and we've been on Google Apps for the past few years and are happy with it. We don't use the Outlook integration because we like the agility that being web-based gives us, it always works and never requires tweaking like Outlook occasionally does even when using an Exchange server.

I suspect your version of 'a lot of email' probably doesn't match up to what the Internet imagines is a lot of email, but if you're doing bulk mailings you'll want to use a service like MailChimp so you don't run afoul of Internet blacklists, etc.

I've used Google Apps on various scales. I used it for my one-person consultancy, and right now, I administer it for my workplace, a college of about 5,000 people. It works really well, and I don't know of another mail service with the same amount of features.

I'm not sure how small your small business is, but I'm generally happy with Constant Contact

TarheelsInNj said:

I'm not sure how small your small business is, but I'm generally happy with Constant Contact

That's email marketing. I'm pretty sure HaHa is asking about email hosting.

Tom_Reingold said:

TarheelsInNj said:

I'm not sure how small your small business is, but I'm generally happy with Constant Contact

That's email marketing. I'm pretty sure HaHa is asking about email hosting.

Ohhhh, oops. I don't know anything about that We use Outlook/Mail365

Thank you everyone.  We ended up going with Google Apps for Business but I'm definitely keeping this thread in case it doesn't work out for us.  

If it gives you trouble, come back and ask for help. I know a fair bit about it. I've been using for a few years.

Tom_Reingold said:

If it gives you trouble, come back and ask for help. I know a fair bit about it. I've been using for a few years.

Thanks!  I will be sure to do that although I'm hoping to to be problem free. 

Google apps!   And the premium version (I think it's $199/year) is worth every penny.  Live technical support that's really good.  No # email limits.  Ability to set up fairly high number of email addresses (great to set up one for accounts receivable and another for general info say)  and unlimited drive storage, too.

btw google apps has their version of broadcast email (like constant contact) but no experience with that.