Hi Parrish,
Have you found your way through some kind of free email marketing?
There's a free email marketing program called Rapidsmtp (free up to 200 email addresses) - supposedly one of the best - but it seems it has to get connected to Microsofts dns server, which isn't possible yet, I think. The software says "Wrong SPF records". The company says it's possible to use the software with Microsoft Office Live, however, as Microsoft didn't create a possibility to edit SPF records, it would be necessary to use email redirection, which is only possible with the professional version of the program.
Maybe there's a change there, and someone here in this forum could give some helpful advice? I mean, I'd like to use a free service for starters as well and use the Beta program when I'm more established.