Customer Relationship Management Solutions???

I have spent the last year casually looking for a replacement to my Goldmine Contact Management software.

Goldmine is just not designed to be easily set up to accommodate multiple email addresses, lists and opt-in forms.

I use aweber and I do love it. Unlimited lists, messages and autoresponders, integration with Google Analytics and PayPal. Great product! However - I want to be able to add offline opt-ins easily. Not at the rate of 10 a day. And not at a double-opt-in level.
I also want to be able to store my own template. I am a graphic designer and it seems a shame to have to pick away at code every time I want to send a newsletter.

I have looked at http://www.salesforce.com and do love them too.... except you are limited to 1000 emails a day. Not useful for sending to a list of 10,000 when your offer is time sensitive. Granted I could buckle on another email sender like Vertical Response but then I am charged by the email. I already pay for hosting and ISP, I do not see what value is provided.

So I have just purchased MailLoop - after contemplating it for years. What I appreciate is that it has all the features of aweber plus list import, template creation, my own email addresses AND no monthly fees. I bought the pro version for $379 - the tutorials that come with it are worth that!

Now I just need to implement it - another learning curve to climb! Oh well - this version has a lot of built in wizards to speed up the task. I will be using this software to manage my site http://www.speakersandtrainers.net launching in May.