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I've got a list of 3000 emails. I've received it in a text file. Now I want to put them in my autoresponder. Aweber, getresponse and icontact is not accepting a list like that.

Can anyone tell me how I can put my list in an autoresponder?
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  • Profile picture of the author rusty1027
    Aweber provides a mechanism for importing an existing list - click here, however it will require that the people on the list opt in again to stay on the list and you will undoubtedly lose a bunch of them. the problem is that even if they are valid subscribers who want to be on your list, people just don't read all the time. So they see the opt in and they think, "oh, I'm already on his list" and they don't click the link and you lose them. I haven't used iContact in a while, but i know that I used to be able to import lists of people without the need for them to opt in again, but i'm not sure iContact still allows that.
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  • Profile picture of the author FromBrokeToRich
    Unfortunately with Aweber and the others you named you are not allowed to import leads that you purchased. The only way you are allowed to import leads is if they are already subscribed to another autoresponder list you have.

    Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here but I'm almost sure of it.

    In order to make use of the 3,000 leads you have what you need to do is use a bulk emailer. With a bulk emailer you can upload 1,000's of leads daily and broadcast your email message out to all of them.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by shawoon98 View Post

      Can anyone tell me how I can put my list in an autoresponder?
      There are "self-hosted" solutions you can use for this - if you're sure you want to.

      But - before doing so - ask yourself why it is that no commercial autoresponder will allow you to import that list. The reasons may prompt thoughts about some of the risks you'd be taking by doing it yourself.

      Don't take it the wrong way, but I'm very relieved that my autoresponder company won't allow people to do this. Because if they did, it would adversely effect the deliverability of my emails to my subscribers who have opted in because they wanted me to send them email, wouldn't it? :confused:

      Originally Posted by rusty1027 View Post

      Aweber provides a mechanism for importing an existing list
      Not if you've bought it, they don't. Rightly and understandably, you have to have proof that the putative recipients have opted in to your list.
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      • Profile picture of the author shawoon98
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        There are "self-hosted" solutions you can use for this - if you're sure you want to.

        But - before doing so - ask yourself why it is that no commercial autoresponder will allow you to import that list. The reasons may prompt thoughts about some of the risks you'd be taking by doing it yourself.

        Don't take it the wrong way, but I'm very relieved that my autoresponder company won't allow people to do this. Because if they did, it would adversely effect the deliverability of my emails to my subscribers who have opted in because they wanted me to send them email, wouldn't it? :confused:



        Not if you've bought it, they don't. Rightly and understandably, you have to have proof that the putative recipients have opted in to your list.
        Although it doesn't reply my question and it doesn't solve my problem, thanks for your wise comments and I am completely on your side.

        But it's an universal truth that the growth of your list and rate of response depend of how you treat them, not how you got them. Even if they don't know you, they'll get to know you with time as you build relationship with them with proper care, not with improper spams. I understand this very clearly. That's why I need a solution to mass email to my list.
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        • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
          Originally Posted by shawoon98 View Post

          But it's an universal truth that the growth of your list and rate of response depend of how you treat them, not how you got them. Even if they don't know you, they'll get to know you with time as you build relationship with them with proper care, not with improper spams. I understand this very clearly. That's why I need a solution to mass email to my list.
          I would have to say that it is NOT a universal truth that where you got the list is of now importance.

          If anything, it leans the other way. That's why all emails have spam blocking and why the reputable autoresponder companies don't allow it.

          I don't even SEE emails sent to me if I haven't opted in.

          People really hate spam.

          If I were you, I'd reconsider this course of action.
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    • Profile picture of the author shawoon98
      Originally Posted by FromBrokeToRich View Post

      Unfortunately with Aweber and the others you named you are not allowed to import leads that you purchased. The only way you are allowed to import leads is if they are already subscribed to another autoresponder list you have.

      Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here but I'm almost sure of it.

      In order to make use of the 3,000 leads you have what you need to do is use a bulk emailer. With a bulk emailer you can upload 1,000's of leads daily and broadcast your email message out to all of them.
      I've been trying a couple of bulk emailers including mailboy. But they don't seem working well. Can you mention any name of a good and cheap bulk emailer?
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      • Profile picture of the author FromBrokeToRich
        Originally Posted by shawoon98 View Post

        I've been trying a couple of bulk emailers including mailboy. But they don't seem working well. Can you mention any name of a good and cheap bulk emailer?
        The best on the market is Jmailerpro from what I hear
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert H Cwik
    Sorry to say that, the money you paid for that list is money well lost. All other aspect aside, think how you treat e-mails coming from someone you've never heard of, offering you something you've never thought of as welcome... Don't expect others to do different with your e-mails.

    On the brighter side (since I found myself in similar situation ONCE ): if you have hosting with CPanel you should have a mailer there where you can import the contacts. I think it has "mailing list" in the name, I don't just remember.
    1. Import the addresses into the mailing list tool.
    2. Create a sort of a welcome e-mail asking the people for permission to send them further information and to reply "YES" to your e-mail. Let's hope some will do.
    3. Next time you make a mailing, do it with a squeeze page, and hopefully some will sign up (you can delete them from the original mailing list), and so on.
    I also thought about combining 2 and 3 with "YES" hyperlinked to your best/most relevant squeeze page (you can tell the people what they will get when they click "YES").
    This way you will clear the list, and have only those who really want to hear from you or are interested in your offer.

    Another way is to keep those people as a mailing group, sending them e-mails, but informing them that they can stop receiving messages from you if they reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE".

    From the point of view of deliverability, tracking, and goodwill the first method is better.
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  • Profile picture of the author RefundHost
    You could have emailed all these people manually in the time it took to get this far in this thread.

    Email an offer of something FREE that that list would want
    ...and force and opt-in to get it.
    Do 10 a day for the next 3 days and see if the list is hot.
    Then try 25 a day ... then 100 .. up threshold until you get stopped
    or opt in rate lowers ( due deliver rate ... at some point it will go to their spam
    and you won't know it )

    Or you can talk to me and I will email the list for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndrewStark
    Please don't use this list it will just get you into trouble and create yet more spam.

    Invest your time and money on building up your own personal list by giving away quality content in a niche that you know a lot about.

    Alternatively you can try and find people who are even newer than you and sell the list on at a profit to them and then hope that they give up after realising they've been ripped off - that's what someone has done to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Osman_M
    Import the list into Aweber or whichever solution you use, send them to a squeeze with a good enough catch and get them to subscribe again. Then you'll know which ones are actually interested and you can target them differently.
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    • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
      Originally Posted by Osman_M View Post

      Import the list into Aweber or whichever solution you use, send them to a squeeze with a good enough catch and get them to subscribe again. Then you'll know which ones are actually interested and you can target them differently.
      This won't work because they will all have to opt in to even get an email from this guy and most will probably never see the email due to spam blocking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Warner
    I bought a well-targeted list. I don't see why I can't send them an email 1-time, and see if they are interested. Since they already opted-in to the target in the first place..
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by AkaGrin View Post

      I bought a well-targeted list. I don't see why I can't send them an email 1-time, and see if they are interested. Since they already opted-in to the target in the first place..
      Please excuse the observation that I'm really pleased and relieved that the autoresponder company I use for my lists looks at it very differently from that (after the resulting complaints they'd have no delivery-rate to speak of, if they allowed people to import such lists, and then my own email to my subscribers wouldn't get through).

      There are perhaps self-hosted solutions for this ... but then it's your server, and your internet connection which which you're running all the risks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Scott Warner
        Thank you.

        I understand this now.

        If these are so targeted as I say they are, then I can take the risk for myself on my own server. Maybe I'll have nothing but positive feedback.. But, I can get all negative complaints too.. Which would destroy an autoresponder business.. and destroy my own reputation.

        I have learned that much more and couldn't be more humble. Now, I see even more value in Solo Ads. (Sending an Ad through someone's own subscriber list, seeing if they want to opt-in to your list)

        Scott
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    if you use wordpress

    Easy PHP Autoresponder: Email and RSS

    your list .. your server .. your choice.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    You will probably have to find some obscure autoresponder program that will allow you to do such a thing. Autoresponder companies frown on this practice because it's possibly related to spam/bulk emailing.
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