Best Autoresponder Software

Aweber is probably the most popular but there are a lot of people's thoughts about the other ones if you search this very website. And bear in mind that it might be a good idea not to put all of your eggs into one basket....

Kind regards,

John

$20? I've always paid $49.. :confused:

I would suggest you go with Aweber. Imnicamail is a good alternative and very much cheaper not sure if they accept credit cards easy to check
though.
Just a heads up mail chimp dos not accept affiliates if that's the way you want to go.

My vote is for the Aweber. One thing to note about Mailchimp is that they do not allow affiliate marketing in the emails that you send. So as long as you are not doing that, you should be all good if you need a free autoresponder.

With anything that you use, make sure that you back up your list often.

I used Aweber, Getresponse and iContact (also Infusionsoft, but it's another price bracket), so I can speak for experience.

First: each service has its quirks.
Second: you CAN'T USE (anymore) iContact for "make money online" or "internet marketing" business.

HOW ICONTACT IS KILLING INTERNET MARKETERS

A friend of mine (no, it didn't happen to me, it's really another person) had built a few lists and managed them with iContact. They went from "make money online", to trading, to a few other things. The infoproducts + affiliate marketing online biz we know and love.

Two weeks ago (Jan 2012) he decided to upgrade to 35,000 contacts on iContact.
Bang! After a few days he got his sending blocked and a request to contact the delivery dept. (it probably triggered a list control, so much for privacy)

He contacted them and they sent an email saying:

I have reviewed your account and unfortunately the content you are sending falls under our prohibited content policy. We will no longer be able to send on your behalf. I have scheduled the account to cancel on 2-24-2012. We wish you the best of luck in your future email marketing efforts.

What is the prohibited content? Pornography? Slave trade? Drugs? 9-11 DVDs?
No. It's "make money online".

Here is from their website:

7. pyramid schemes, multi-level channel and/or network marketing opportunities, including, but not limited to personal work-at-home offers promoting "get rich quick," "build your wealth," and "financial independence" offerings;

So you cannot use iContact to promote ways to get your "financial independence".

I called them to get a confirmation of this folly and the guy at the phone told me "we reserve to check your messages and approve them in case".

Maybe they want to become the Google of email marketing, but they are copying the wrong things.

AWEBER IS OK WITH IM BUT HAS ITS ISSUES

The limitation with Aweber is that you can add contacts to your list in any way you want if it's optin. :-)

This means that if you created an optin list in another system and want to go to Aweber you have to do the optin again (est: you lose 70% of contacts and even more if your business is not in English).

They go to the extreme that you cannot even move contacts you have on Aweber from one list to another! You have to go again thru the optin.

On the other hand, they are ok with "make money online" and IM. I expressely checked with their customer service. It's their bread and butter in fact. (they just don't like porn).

GETRESPONSE IS SOMEWHAT MORE FLEXIBLE

I must say I haven't used Getresponse for 3 years now, probably they got better. I remember when they moved to the new interface in 2009 we had 1 month of disrupted service, I mean are you serious?

However, Getresponse are more flexible than Aweber (iContact is out).
I mean the people, they try to find solutions. Maybe because they are European, but you can actually talk and find solutions to new problems you can have (try to do it with Aweber).

For instance, if you have a list that you managed in another system (as a client of mine had a few years ago) they accepted an import without re-optin with some deliverability tests and information added to the list (IP and date of registration, that we had).

However, I just checked their website for any sign that they don't like Internet Marketers. BTW, there are less and less IM people using Getresponse from what I see in the lists I am subscribed to, so maybe they are losing grounds.

Here what I found in their Terms of Service:

(h) offer or disseminate fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (e.g. make-money-fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes) or engage in any unfair deceptive act or practice;

Ok it seems IM and "make money online" is almost safe with Getresponse (I wish it would be make-money-fast!) and their flexibility should be another factor to trust they won't shut off your IM lists.

But for a "IM loving" email provider, Aweber is the choice.
The only choice it seems. And this is never a nice feeling, I should add.

WE WARRIORS SHOULD MAKE AN EMAIL SERVICE

I mean, how is it possible we have our business managed by 2 companies? Less choice means less quality and higher prices.

I believe we warriors should create an email service for us, by us. There is surely the technical competence here in the forum. And as a collective project there could be the money too.

What do you think?
(PM me if you like, or better email me at marco@internetmoneycoach.com)

The problem with a Wordpress plugin or with ANY script on your server is twofold.
1) How you manage load with a shared server (you need a dedicated one or a professional SMTP solution)
2) How you manage the whitelist and blacklist problems (your doman will be blacklisted very easily and then your deliverability goes to zero and your system is ineffective).

Yes you can pay with debit cards.

I'm thinking about trying trafficwave. 30 day trial then 17 monthly no matter list size. Trafficwave is also on this forum I believe.

All my mentors and gurus in the past always recommended Aweber or Getresponse.

I used both and both are good, I prefer Aweber's interface and Getresponse is a little bit cheaper.

Cheers,

David

This is horrible advice. Those autoresponders will run into all kinds of delivery issues and are not worthy of setting up for a business. The OP is better off taking a trial run of Getresponse, Aweber, or using Imnica Mail.

I've testing most of the major autoresponder softwares out there and they work fine for a little while, until you start building larger lists and running into false positives and other spam-filtering issues.

RoD

HI, This only works when you have a dedicated account, your own IP and still the load of a server to consider. For this you pay anything between the amount you would pay for a VPS and autoresponder. up to a hundred dollar just like that.

Hi Mick,

DOH! My bad! I guess my sig doesn't show up here. I'm the community manager for GetResponse Email Marketing. I'd be happy answer any questions you might have, anytime.

Knowing how careful the mods have to be about promotional posts, I try to err on the side of caution with links and stuff .

Regards,
jim

Consider clicking the email address link directly below the toll-free number on the lower left side of the screen.

Depends. If you're running adult, gambling or other high-risk lists, then they will be a problem.

With normal mainstream niches, you'll be ok as long as you have a VPS or Dedicated server to handle the load. Shared hosting always limit the amount of emails you can send.

If the VPS or Dedicated host doesn't let you use their SMTP server, you can always "plugin" to SMTP.com and relay (send) all your messages through them using Interspire. Then you'll be ok. Just make sure you monitor blacklists and stay off them. You'll want to setup "Feedback Loops" with all the major email providers. Feedback loop (email) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Finally, setup SPF records and DomainKeys. If it sounds complicated...it's because it is. That's why I use GetResponse despite knowing how to do all this stuff.

I use to be with Aweber and GetResponse, but since they have started having trouble, i moved to ListMailPro and they have been great, good delivery rate as well on a shared hosting server