Archive for September, 2009
September 30, 2009
This very simple autoresponder is probably the easiest one to use on the Internet. It builds & manages opt-in e-mail lists for you using very simple HTML editors. It is the favorite autoresponder tool of nonprofit businesses, associations and small business owners. It is also great for beginners because you don’t need any particular expertise technically to make it work for you and the dashboards that manage it’s different features are very easy to understand.
The Email Campaign Wizard offered with this program is absurdly simple. Among the functions offered are easy send scheduling, preview and test, personalization and a color and fonts picker. Once you are inside the guts of a template and are designing your letter you also have convenient drag and drop functionality and flexible one screen editing.
You don’t have to worry about what it is going to look like other. Constant Contact’s templates are tested in a number of email enviroments to ensure that they look great when they are received whether they are created in text or by using HTML.
There are also more than one hundred customizable email templates offered with the Constant Content subscription. There is on onsite HTML point and click style editor that allows you to brand and individualize your emails. You can also add you affiliate links to you emails using this function of course.
The email list management has functions that allow you to efficiently manage your subscribers. There are not a lot of fields but you can input things like the person’s address and phone number. You can also easily create groups by using certain perimeters, which makes it easy to compartmentalize your email list if you need to.
You can import and export lists but it only imports addresses from Microsoft outlook. This could be a drawback for some people who would like to import a list of addresses some other way. Of course you can always input an email list manually into this program. You also have the capability of compartmentalizing the list so only certain members are sent certain materials.
This is a reliable follow up autoresponder program but it is very affordable. Like more expensive software tools you can also add a plug in to your website using Constant Contact. This is a simple pop up that asks your customers & prospects if they would like to subscribe to your newsletter or e-course. This pop up window can also be customized so that it matches the rest of your website.
There are fifteen fields altogether in your file about each contact. This allows you to collect the preferences of those who do join. This is also a double opt in system which means that people cant’ join the list until they are sent a confirmation email. This prevents anyone from being volunteered on to your list and potentially being spammed by you.
September 27, 2009
Ecourse Wizard is noted for being one of the simpler autorepsonder systems that an affiliate marketer or ebusinss owner that can use. It has fewer options then other products on the market but this is not necessarily a bad thing. Many people prefer a control panel that allows you to simplify their life as too many options becomes a consumer of their time.
Ecourse Wizard gets its name from the idea that you can get subscribers to your site by sending them a free informational product such as an eBook, newsletter or a short mini- course. Offering visitors to your site a course will often persuade them to give you their email so you can follow up with potential prospects.
Ecourse Wizard autorespondesr are available in different types of packages that are easily upgradable. This also makes it a good choice for beginners or start-ups who don’t want to spend a lot of money before they know for sure that they want to get into any kind of Internet or e-marketing type business. I
Like many programs of its kind, ecourse wizard has a plug in tool that allows you to install a pop up on your website. On this pop up you will ask your website visitor if they want to subscribe to your e-course or newsletter. This is called creating a pre-qualified list. Sometimes it is also called an opt-in list.
This plug in allows you to add up to five different questions to your subscription form. This is how many Internet marketers get a lot of their market research information so they can find out what their customers are actually interested in. These types of questions are also gathered if you also intend to sell your mailing list one day. All in all you get three customizable templates to choose from.
On the most advanced membership your pop up sign up forms can be customized fields that allow for room for ten pre-defined questions, five custom questions and ten questions about demographics.
Once you have the subscriber’s email address you can them unlimited follow up responder messages until the subscriber decides to opt out of the subscription. At the bottom of every email they can choose to terminate the membership. If this happens then the eCourse Wizard will no longer allow your email to be sent to them. This can save you from a lot of complaints about spamming. They can also unsubscribe via web link and a form right on your website as well as through the email link. The more ways that you give a disgruntled visitor to unsubscribe the less likely you are to be accused of sending unsolicited emails!
September 24, 2009
Aweber is an online autoresponder service that is run by Tom Kulzer. It has been around for the last nine years and the reason that it exists is because its founder wanted to produce a spam compliant, ethical service that would easily facilitate the delivery of newsletters and follow up emails for people around the world. He also licenses out this product to different gurus who sell it under different names. It is also very commonly known as Prosender which is distributed by Mike Filsiame from income.com. The price for an online subscription to this helpful autoresponder program is the same for both Aweber and Prosender.
This fast simple and affordable online auto responder system, that is purportedly used by over half of the internet marketers in the business allows you to present visitors to your site with opt in sign up web forms and then assists you ins sending these prospects unlimited follow up emails and newsletters. This program is particularly good for people who are giving away viral informational products as you can easily attach a PDF to it. These emails serve as a constant reminder to your clients that you are around, open and that you want their business. Autoresponder emails refine your business, save you time and chase your prospects for you while you do other things with your life.
Aweber also has a reputation for being very efficient. It is fast and very few emails appear to ever bounce back. If an email is returned, the control panel on this program will tell you exactly why it did –whether it was because of wrong email address or a full mailbox. You can also program Aweber to keep trying to reach your respondent as many times as needed if the email box if full. All in all the email deliverability rate with Aweber is 99.34%, which is very high. This means that it can get by many different types of virus and spam protection programs that normally block auto responder correspondence.
It is also a spam compliant program meaning that it is 100% legal. Although you may be emailing people with a list, they will always have a way of opting out. This can save you from dealing with customer complaints and allows you to convey your message to targeted visitors, which are those who want it and might actually buy from you. You don’t end up annoying people with your promotional emails accidentally.
Aweber also earned a reputation for being an ethical email autoresponder as it founder wanted because nobody receives an email who doesn’t want it. The recipients of your emails clearly have the choice to subscribe or unsubscribe to your email. You can also create a customizable subscription optimization web page that includes your company logo and your website link so that the people who receive your content know exactly who you are. Many autoresponder programs encourage the cloaking of this type of information so you can “legally” spam but this does not seem to be the policy of the folks who run Aweber.








