What's The Best Email Capture/Auto Responder for Wordpress for Landing Pages?

OK, aweber is probably the best autoresponder system out there. Runs $19 a month. You don't need a plugin. But if you are looking for a system to build killer landing pages OptimizePress is amazing. Build killer landing pages and you can beautify the aweber code to make it look pro.

Michael

I will vote for Aweber, Email marketing software that's easy to use & only $1 to try. Send email newsletters & autoresponders. Top notch email deliverability with our tools.

optiMizepress is good but do you really need 50 samples of squeeze page and sales pages.... Isn't 1 or 2 samples of squeeze page OK which will only cost 20$....optiMizepress has lots of lots of options and confusing for a beginner. I think KISS is the best policy.

thnx

Some ARs are starting to integrate with plugins, I went with ImnicaMail because they have a plugin which registers a user on the blog when somebody opts in (especially cool if you're using a facebook connect on your squeeze page)

They're also cheaper than aweber if that's a concern, I went with a 1 year plan for $82 (Though I'll have to upgrade when my subscribers go over a certain number)

But if you have the product launch theme which came with Mike's evergreen business thing the other day, that only works with a handful of ARs, aweber being one of them.

Aweber is awesome. Start with the $1 trail and then use the WordPress Plug-in they have created especially for what you want to do.
Remember, you can only use this on a private hosted wordpress site, not a free wordpress account....so as long as you have your "owndomainname.com" with Wordpress Script installed on it, it will work. Its worth the money any way as you are in business aren't you?

I have been using aweber for about 2 months now, and recommend it. I like it's ease of use and it is easy to track responses, clicks etc.

I have used aweber for over a year and built up an 8000 subscriber list with it. While pricey, the ease of use and reliability is worth it IMO.

aweber all the way, ive used numerous over the years and aweber has been the easiest to use, had issues with getting blacklisted on a few other competitiors but ive never had issues with aweber with some very large lists of over 10,000.

I would probably recommend aweber but many marketers have said good things about Get Response. The most important thing is to have one

Hi,

ive been researching on the same for past one week.

Initially i chose Gmail to be my auto-responder. But, nope. The canned Response in gmail doesnt not send a response to "Reply-To:" address. So, that was not an option.

Mailchimp has only Double opt-in. Big Nope for me.
Aweber too expensive for me after the first month of $1.

Check out this plugin for wordpress called Wysija. Their rating and the number of features look promising. The free version can handle upto 2000 subscribers. Im yet to install and try it out.

Any reviews of List Wire? Anybody?

Cheers

You Can't go Wrong with AWEBER!
Lucky for me, I have the old account (with old price too ) The different is only small analytic that can install in your domain (Java script like Google Analytic) so you can see your subscriber behavior / doing on your site..

Other than that the old account 100% exact same layout and can be use for track link, split test, open rate, etc

But if the problems is budget, you can choose the aweber alternative like Imnica or trafficwave

The problem you will have with self-hosted autoresponder/e-mail marketing scripts (including the WP plug ins) is that your shared hosting account will be in jeopardy if you try sending out a lot of e-mails. You can choke the send but that kind of defeats the object and can still land you in trouble. So you may well have to factor in the cost of a VPS or dedicated server not too far down the road.

Also, you have to stay within the law and ensure that you are inboxing with the main e-mail clients from your server. Not as simple a solution as it appears.

One alternative is to use a service like SendGrid in conjunction with self-hosted but that could be a little more pricey and will lack the flexibility of having a complete service which will enable you to create all kinds of webforms and will integrate with other tools easily.

I have used (and still use) ImnicaMail, GetResponse and have a Listwire account too.

From my experience with these, currently I would massively recommend GetResponse. The thing is packed with useful features at a reasonable price.

ImnicaMail was my favourite. It has always been good for the lower cost but it has been having some inboxing issues with Gmail and Yahoo of late. In fairness, this is being worked on and it is improving again. I think there is also a major features overhaul due to be rolled out in the coming months. It needs it as, sad to say, the functionality and ease of use that you find with GetResponse leaves it in the dust right now.

Listwire is free but has some very serious drawbacks in my opinion. I, personally, would no longer recommend it at all, although there are some who think it is marvelous.

I hear good and bad about Aweber. It, too, had some reported deliverability issues with Yahoo a while back (not sure how true this was but there were a lot of moans being voiced at the time). The marketing community no longer seem to be as enamored as it was a couple of years back. Some "big players" you will have heard of have been told that Aweber no longer wants their business of late as they try to appeal more to large blue-chip clients rather than individual entrepreneurs that make up the majority of online marketers.

My advice... Invest in a good service.

Now...Landing pages. I always used html pages as I thought that using Wordpress for this was overkill. But it is much faster and easier to create landing page variants for split testing using Profits Theme or Optimize Press. Those who say OP is hard, start at lunchtime in Dreamweaver making 6 styles of landing page for testing. I will have done it in OP or PT and spent most of the afternoon in the pub with traffic to my pages while you have been messing about. It doesn't get much easier.

I reckon you can't go wrong with Optimize Press + GetResponse

I can suggest profit theme + aweber

Hi,

I don't have hearing such things that my shared hoster will closing my account-or is againsts the shared hoster Terms when I send emails to people, who have double opt in to my list.

I must ask my hoster, but I think so long the email traffic who is under the bandwith limit, than it is ok.

marco005

Hi,

Yes! My hoster does allowed unlimited autoresponder and unlimited cronjobs.(european hoster)


marco005

GetResponse or Icontact,

Aweber will shut your account down if you are in this industry.

Hi,

thanks Paleochora.

My hoster says, it is ok to install an autoresponder or an wp autoresponder plugin as long as we get no discomfort- what he mean with that, I don't know but I hve ask back again, he must little bit describe that,also what they mean with this.

I only use double opt in (within in the law in europe)- so that this must not give problems.
I think I must regulary extract and backup my wp data base from old emails, to have an actual unbloated wp data base, within this I not get trouble with my hoster, so Im not in the gaming,gamble, adult niche....

So this is an good option for me to start my business slow with low budget.And when I make good money,than I can invest more in my business-this is old school-but solid it is usual in the business scene.

OK, when anyone US Investor give me 15.000$ Credit, with this ,oh yeah I can start with a bigger online business, but I don't have such an US Investor.But for an european this is not possible :-(

And last but not least I always must sream loud about that, what I miss in many us business;
That an business partner (amazon, or your hoster in this example) don't make clear unequivocal contract7 rules with you in their TOS. I always must say loud this, it is not serious that an hoster shoot you down when you have an own autoresponder, so he must that declare in his TOS, why so many in USA not make this? In USA it is usual that an serious business partner which you can make business by handshake ,so someone is highly regarded and respected, in europe this is usual. Not make any TOS like this; want to , can , perhaps only vague clauses, this is not serious. When you are an webdesigner and make such contracts with your clients full of such vague clauses, would you make a contract with him? I bet NO!

When a hoster not have such rules in his TOS so he can not shut down you account when you have ann autoresponder when your hoster this not have forbidden in his rules,or not?

I find such a behavior not serious in Europe or USA or any other country, it is not normal,this is not a golden rule.
When I read Dale Carnegie I wonder about that , or are Dale Carnegies rules are not worth the paper who is written??

marco005

Hi,

when I broach such topics the thread goes silenced............LOL, is bad unethical business trendy now?
Some people says the devil lives in USA- LOOOOOOOOOL, that's nonsense.
Yes my hoster makes clear rules and I can use wp autorepsonder plugin which is free.
Will see does this plugin makes success or not.


marco005

• Optimizepress
• Aweber

This is what you need to create awesome squeeze pages and collect emails


Fergal

Hi,

Fergal, I know many recommend these services and they must be good, but I will first make money than later invest in these.

marco005

Aweber has never failed with its support, features and flexibility but it can be a bit pricey.

Hi,

I will use a simple short opt in letter,the simple works best IM says.

marco005

aweber is the best service.

you can combine aweber , wordpress , facebook + youtube

I've tried them all and keep returning to Aweber. But, for a new blog I'm currently trying out GWA Auto responder PLUS the Yoast Postmark Email Plugin for Wordpress.

To quote Postmark: "This plugin replaces WordPress' internal email sending functionality by routing all email through Postmark, greatly enhancing email reliability. If you rely on your WordPress install to send you email, this plugin along with the awesome service from Postmark makes sure that it actually does reach its destination.Emails sent through Postmark will, if you've set up your email addresses in Postmark correctly, show up as signed in people's inboxes."


So far, this experiment is going well and I'm happy with the combination of the two plugins.

voting for aweber!
easy to use especially with wordpress. i personally dont use squeezepages but a blog with the signup form, it converts better imo.