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It is relatively straight forward to do the calculation for them
Number of contacts x 10 emails per month x 12 months = total emails per year.
The issue comes if you have 100,000 contacts that you want to reach out to once a month, rather than 10,000 contacts you want to reach out to 10 times a month. Then the argument breaks down.
Please remember, that ClickD is priced on email sends per year, where as MS Marketing is priced on Contacts where each contact can have 10x emails per month.
ClickD cheapest package is $650 per month for 200,000 email per year or 16,000 per month. Also using ClickD over time takes up quite a lot of storage space in your Database table which you will eventually start to pay for per GB per month. This must be taken into account.
MS Marketing is $750 with first 10,000 Contacts included (10,000 x 10) = 100,000 per month x 12 = 1,200,000 emails per year.
Also, you don't pay for Contacts in your database which are not Marketing related so it's not all the Contacts in your system but just a subset. While I agree that on the surface MS Marketing seems expensive it is comparable in the market for what you get. There are a lot of Azure services used by Marketing so the costs of this must be covered.
External web links are not allowed due to security concerns.
Also, the file we would access on a website/server would be large. Vendor BOM files are typically 240MB for everything on the tool.
In the situation outlined above, I wanted to add a smaller PDF file (200kb) that would open just like a photo. Then the weblink can be used to go to our internal part ordering process. This would enable us to look at a exploded drawing view, select the vendor part number then open the part ordering weblink and enter the information.
In other words I am asking to put additional media panels, to be used for images, pdfs, and weblinks.