AutoResponders

If you have used email for any length of time,  you are more than likely familiar with autoresponders. Autoresponders are the mechanisim used to relay the messages you receive when you "opt in" to a newsletter subscription or offer. Commonly used to automatically reply to people who email you and inform them that you have received their message and will reply at a time when you are available. Many business people use autoresponders for holiday notices, letting their correspondents know that they are presently on away and that they will respond to the email on their return or my personal favorite; so that the person trying to contact them, knows that their email has been delivered and that someone will get back to them as soon as they are able to!

Autoresponders are useful to webmasters in several ways:

Autorespnders can be used for tech support to notify customers that you have their message and will get back to them soon. These messages are important because it let your customers know that you have their support request and will be attended to when you are available.
 
It can be used to send prospective customers information such as frequently asked questions and other fixed information. People emailing that address will automatically get your message in reply.

Sending email course modules. For example; if you have a six week course, the course documentation can be sent to your students on a predetermined shedule, you can automate the process by having the students "opt in" to your given autoresponder campaign. The autoresponder will then automaticly send each module of the course to your students at the scheduled times.

Webmasters promote their offers. By advertising a particular address whereby customers can opt in to recieve a free sample of their product be that an audio, eBook or part of a course. The autoresponder then sends a sample of the offering to the customer. By giving snippets of the product the customer is able to evaluate and decide if they wish to proceed further if  they see the value in the offer. As long as the quality of the offer is high, the autoresponder segments can be a very effective sales attention-grabber to induce the customer to buy the product.

If your autoresponder needs are straightforward, such as simply sending a single message reassuring your customers that you'll get back to them, you could use the free autoresponder that come as part of your web hosting package. The procedure to set up these autoresponders vary from web host to web host, but it is as a rule a fairly simple process involving a visit to your web host's control panel to activate it, the pitfall with this kind of Autoresponder is that your messages will be sent with Advertising from 3rd parties as well, so you end up in competition with the 3rd party, not to mention, when I get an email, I don't want to be confused by more than one offer, nor do I think it is very professional if the sender can't afford to pay for a professional service.

If you need an autoresponder to transmit more than one message, or if you need to schedule messages to be sent at specific intervals over a period of time, you will either need to program the mail system on your domain, otherwise use one of the free or pay for a professional and commercial autoresponder system.

If you are new to the world of internet marketing a free autoresponders can suffice, however, it is worth upgrading to a paid service when you start doing serious business, as the advertising that is sent out with your free messages will divert attention from your message and end up costing you serious money in lost sales.

Don't leave this page before you have read the article below about the spammer that went to jail!

I have tried both Get Response and AWeber below are a few of the pro's and con's, I have placed two trial banners below for you to make up your own mind. Try them out and do it for free. If you take the service, yes, I will make a commission, however if you don't, you haven't wasted any money!

Get Response Pro's

 

  • Cheaper than the competition by a few dollars.

 

Get Response Con's -

  • Most of the messages that you add click tracking to end up going nowhere - in fact I had to abandon all click tracking as my list was reporting broken links, the links were due to GR scripting.
  • Just after signing up GR changed the way they did things and added many more features, at a cost. (I never tried them, as I had already become dissatisfied with the product)
  • The Set up of new campaigns is very confusing even after having been with them for a year.


AWeber Pro's

  • Very Simple and uncomplicated wizard that walks you through the whole set up of your list.
  • Extremely simple and very professional looking Opt-in Forms
  • Most important: When you add tracking to the link, it actually works!


AWeber Con's

  • A little more expensive than GR however, you can start off on the basic package and build your business - by the time you need to upgrade, you will be earning money enough to pay for it!

Free Trial and Paid Service Autoresponders

aWeber - White Hat -No Spam - Double Opt in Autoresponders


GetResponse -  White Hat -No Spam - Double Opt in Autoresponders

Spam Mailer Gets 9 year Jail Sentence

April 8, 2009 

A Virginia (USA) jury found a man, described as one of the top ten spammers in the world, guilty on Friday of the felony crime of using an alias to send massive bulk e-mailings. The 9 year prison sentence handed down by the jury was put on hold by the Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas Horne, allowing the perpetrator, Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., to seek an appeal.

Jaynes, who used the alias Gaven Stubberfield as well as others, peddled junk products and pornography. Prosecutors say he grossed up to $750,000 a month by sending at least 10 million emails a day using 16 high-speed lines.

The case was prosecuted in Virginia because it is the home to the leading internet service provider AOL, the company who instigated the charges. This is the first time a conviction has been gained using the legislation enacted in 2003 to curb bulk e-mail, aka spam, from unsolicited distribution into users mailboxes.

Jaynes remains free on a $1 million bond while his case is appealed. Prosecutors differed with his attorneys on the prospects of Jaynes winning his appeal.

His attorney, David Oblon, though never denying that his client was in the marketing business, argued that nine years was too long to sentence an out of state resident for a law that had taken effect just two weeks earlier.

"We have no doubt that we will win on appeal," Oblon told reporters. "Therefore any sentence is somewhat moot. Still, the sentence is not what we recommended and we're disappointed."

Prosecuter Lisa Hicks-Thomas said she was pleased with the outcome and confident the law would be upheld on appeal.

Sources

By: WiKiNews


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