Best free email sender ?

I am also using it they had a wordpress version which is also good

Mailchimp don't give you automated series of emails sent to new subscribers.

This is a new service i find, thy not like Mailchimp 2,000 free subscribers but 200 free subscribers www.viplus.com

Or aweber thy give $1 for the first month

Here's the controversial but experience-based reality: nobody really "needs" a free autoresponder: people just think they do, through having only partial information on the subject.

It's easy to imagine that there'll be some long-term benefit to starting that way, and that in some meaningful sense it'll be better than not having one at all. It isn't usually so.

Aweber charges $1 for the first month and $19 per month thereafter. If you're not covering $20 in two months, the reality is that you don't have a business at all, and that's not something that using a free autoresponder is somehow magically going to correct.

In my opinion, using a free autoresponder is one of the very most ill-advised and misguided things one can do, in internet marketing.

Few people are more keen on list-building than I am, but I think for most people it's better to start without an autoresponder, temporarily, than it is to use a free one. And (unlike the situation with regard to free hosting), with autoresponders it IS specifically the fact they're free that causes the potential disasters/risks, in my view.

The question you have to ask yourself is whether it can possibly be wise to entrust the safe-keeping and security of your business's greatest, most important and least replaceable asset (your list) to a company whose business model is that of being a free autoresponder. I think that it's generally right at the start of their internet marketing careers, when people understandably have the least judgement about such situations, and the least awareness of the facts and realities involved, that such mistakes tend to be made.

I suspect that people imagine something along the lines of "Well, I can always start with a free autoresponder until I've made some money, and then make the switch to a better one". Usually, one can't easily do that. Moving established lists from one autoresponder company to another is typically hugely difficult, and very commonly results in all one's subscribers needing - at best - to opt in all over again. Many Warriors have commented here that they've lost between two-thirds and three-quarters of their lists, this way!

Some people just shrug and say "Well, you can always back it up regularly, can't you?". Easily said. What are you going to do with it, after you've "backed it up"? How are you going to import it elsewhere? Who's going to allow you to import it elsewhere, and under what conditions? (People don't always think about these problems. But the experience of Warriors who have actually had to try to do this seems to me to point to its being something of a nightmare and a disaster).

Some free autoresponders even monetize their own business partly by sending affiliate-spam to their own clients' subscribers or partly by sending their client's new subscribers (right after they've opted in) to an affiliate promotion of their own!

In the case of Mailchimp, obviously enough, the situation's very clear to anyone willing to make the effort to read their Terms of Service. In the case of other "free autoresponders" (of which there are several), it's usually very much less clear, unfortunately. Typically, those recommending one, in my opinion, are only recent list-builders themselves and may not yet be aware of some of the longer-term pitfalls.

Some of these companies even attach to every email their customers send out to their lists a clickable link advertising their own free service!

It's literally the autoresponder equivalent of having a little website advising people about <whatever> sitting at Yola, with a big clickable link at the bottom of the page advertising "Get your free website here with Yola".

How professional does that look?!

Some of these companies also don't yet have a very well established business model. Who really knows if they're still going to be there 3 years later? But if they're not, that can be an absolute disaster to your business!

If necessary, I'd make a sale or two without having a list, and then start with Aweber when one has $1 to spare.

The set-up costs even for internet marketing businesses which do everything professionally, right from the start, are absolutely minuscule ...

My perspective only - there are others who disagree, of course.

One or two of the people who disagree are owners of free autoresponder businesses.

And some others who disagree, I think, are pretty inexperienced and have maybe not yet encountered any problems - in contrast to others here whose warning-posts can readily be found with the search function, by those willing to look.

Here are some threads/posts which will convince you not to try "Mailchimp", I hope and trust, if you take the time to read them.

Mailchimp not to be used for internet marketing?
Mailchimp blocked my account
Best free autoresponder
If You're Wondering Whether to Use Mailchimp, This is For You
Stay away from MailChimp - Read my story
MailChimp Improved? Versus Aweber, Imnica, Get Response
FREE alternatives to aweber

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I suspect that most of the people who want everything to be free are just (unsurprisingly) a little naive about "how business works", even if perfectly serious about their intentions.

I also suspect that a lot of aspiring internet marketers, through no fault of their own at all, but just through lack of information, don't appreciate that - when you're starting off temporarily with some "free things" because you're undercapitalized - for some things it won't matter and you can get away with it, whereas for other things it does matter and you'll probably regret it. You can't expect someone with no experience to be able to distinguish between those items: it's outside their experience.

For example, I wouldn't criticize any newbie with no money starting off temporarily with free hosting at byethost.com or freehostia.com: there's no great downside to that, at all, and it might even be reasonable, after making some money, to pay, upgrade and stay there. But to start off with a "free autoresponder" is a different category of decision altogether. It's almost unimaginable that it can really be a sensible thing to do. You and I know and can judge that, and say so: a complete beginner clearly can't.

Given all the talk in forums like this one (not to mention all the products for sale stressing the same things) about how you can "set up your business completely free", I think it's not surprising at all that so many beginning marketers are willing to make the mistake of depending entirely on free services.

Let's not forget that there are some genuinely good free services available, too.

Autoresponders just happen (for reasons you and I understand, but they don't, yet) not to be among that group.

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First I want to say thanks for all responses on this thread. I didn't start this thread, but it should be stuck on top. A lot of good info and I feel better prepared. I can also see both sides respectively from Alexa and Fizz --THANKS

With regards to this, I know this is an ignorant response, But what's to stop from opening 5 accounts and run them separately? Track IP? etc? Too shady?

Simply untrue. It has a huge number of prohibited groups of people and activities listed in the TOS, as well as others in force which aren't even explained in the TOS. There speaks someone who has never read Mailchimp's terms of service, hasn't seen all the threads in which hundreds of Warriors warn aspiring internet marketers, here, not to use Mailchimp, and hasn't even read this very thread (see above!) before posting in it.

Why would you recommend awebber vs mailchimp? I've been using mailchimp for years and have been nothing but thrilled by it. I pay per mail sent because I don't do much, but it's basically all autoresponder stuff.

If you are concern about the deliveribity, you can integrate wodpress plugin with SMTP server. That will increase inbox rate.

See my Post here: http://www.warriorforum.com/email-ma...on-learnt.html

I use MailChimp too. They're natural, intuitive, and up to 1,000 with all the features is like $8 a month, which is basically free, plus their customer service is the best ever!