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Idiot Proof Online Responder Gadget

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.

 

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