Anyone used AutoMail?

Originally Posted by mmoconnor I am going to try AutoMail. It is less than $10 for a single site license which is hard to beat. The developer's license OTO is $47 and the multisite license is $27. (as of this moment) I have also used GWA which has a free version and is very easy to configure: WordPress › [GWA] AutoResponder « WordPress Plugins

mmoconnor:

Please come back and tell us if it worked out for you.

Renee

Yes, and this is better than AutoMail, which still they want you to use MailJet, and this means you are still external. I feel comfortable with in-house.

Haaa haaaaa, that's what they have you believe. You will find a hidden company in there they are promoting that they say is the only real way this AutoMail is going to work, and which will have you paying substantially more than Aweber and GetResponse combined. Just another scam to get your money.

I thought the same, and got it, and then discovered the hidden "loop" they pitch at you. GWA is ALL in house and much better.

I'm impressed you figured out what it was doing so quickly!

So it's either a hosted solution like AWeber etc... OR try something different. Automail just might be that something different.

Enjoy!

Oh! BTW It does integrate Mailjet SMTP with WP which does have some pitfalls. But all that and how to overcome those pitfalls are in the tutorials. That's it from me. Hope you all make the choice that suits your business.

Just checked out your list. Man... Hope you don't mind me saying so, but WYSIJA seems a little on the pricey side and I'm not totally convinced, although they look good on paper, that Sendgrid is for me. But hey thank you very much for the heads up. It is APPRECIATED!!

That's so you can use AM as a backup - or vice versa - use Aweber (or other) as a backup. In that area you would post the AW optin form.

I left that area alone with no issues.

Cheers,
Coby

Hi Warriors. I have since discovered that Mailjet have their very own plugin available at the WordPress repository. There is also another plugin provider called Tribulant Software that also looks promising. I will add that the Automail site as Keith and others have mentioned is in Beta and the video training is informative. Hmmm... I do believe that 3rd party SMTP services (at least the better ones) have measures in place that boost your chances of emails being received. That is, they use their IP range to improve deliverability etc. Mailjet is one of those services. Also with the Tribulant plugin you can use GMail 's SMTP itself. Hope this helps... No doubt we are on the right track.
EDIT: What I want is one service that does the job. SES or SMTP. Need to make a choice within the next week or two (leaning towards SMTP at this stage) I have a product to launch and I want my relationship with my clients to be served like it deserves to be served and I don't want anything to get in the way of that. After all it's not just money that's on the line... It's my reputation! If a purchaser of my product does not get their confirmation email I'll hit the roof! I'm sure you guys hear me.

While this is always a possibility - it will be based on your own efforts as you will have a dedicated IP and MailJet has reputation monitoring so they route your emails accordingly. So they pick the IP that is best suited for your current situation. They also take care of the throttling, etc, needed to warm up a new IP address.

Essentially MJ is doing all the grunt work we expect from AW while giving you 100% control of your list and how you manage that list.

It's hard for a lot of people to "wrap their head around" until you actually get down into.

In my opinion - this is a "best of both worlds" solution.

I've been using MailJet with Interspire for about a year, but IE has no automation options - which AM will fix that for me.

As mentioned above AM is still in beta - but give it a few weeks and it'll be rockin.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Coby

Agreed, that's actually the most important part of the sell IMO. He does mention it on the JV page which I've found http://wpautomail.com/jv/and you can not even log into the site at this point in time.

For those interested Mailjet is here >> https://www.mailjet.com/

And the plugin here >> WordPress › Mailjet for WordPress « WordPress Plugins

ALSO SEE THIS: http://www.ombud.com/product/reviewDetail/mailjet/730

Enjoy!

Hope Alexander sorts things out..

Those questions are answered earlier on in this thread.

Cheers!

Hey Everyone,

First of all i just wanted to say thanks for checking out Automail & to let you know we are having a few #techissues. Hostgator Just informed me they are doing maintenance and that my sites will be down for a hour or so (This is not just me but many people using their service). Rest assured we will be moving over a better dedicated server very soon but dont have time to wait for the propagation to begin just yet. So please give us a bit of time to get the site back up and running.

Now let me Explain why myself and my development team created Automail.

Prior to the gmail tab system I had had many issues with deliverability using many of the major autoresponder networks, I looked at many different options on the market but none of them integrated with what i needed as a internet marketer, optin forms, membership system, sales pages etc. So we decided to create a system that is built from the ground up with wordpress in mind with the idea that we will be able to make it work with all major 3rd party software. Automail will be the flagship product we build our other services around.

Then the gmail tabs system came out and we discovered that when using SMTP properly we could get all our emails into the gmail primary tab easily.
Staying their ment we had to follow best practices to ensure our SMTP providers would send our emails with their servers that had the best rep.
The only way to future proof this method is to get your subscribers to create conversations with you or mark your emails as important.

We are in beta with the actual plugin and at the moment & we are only working with mailjet and in the next few days local server. We will be introducing many more SMTP services over the following weeks and many more advanced unique features that we are keeping up our sleeve for now. But we ashore you, we have tested many of the current plugins that have been mentioned and we knew their was massive room for improvement.

I knew a lot of people would be hesitant to leave a autoreponder service, so we integrated our optin forms with them so our system can be used as a backup for your email lists incase your accounts get shut down for whatever reason.

I will try to keep a eye on this thread if anyone has any questions, While my support desk is down i am somewhat helpless... Will be back up and running very soon..

Alex

Your welcome,

1) I have used the free account and my emails where going to the primary inbox without issue. I have expanded to silver only recently.

2) Yes this is the case, it is up to mailjet to remove bad apples from the pie. So your domain/email reputation must be built over a period of time. If you are consistently sending out promotion offers then it will not be as easy to keep a good reputation, but if you use your SMTP to deliver your transactional emails,quality content and build a relationship with your list you will get much more value out of the service. As mailjet removes people that will give them a bad reputation i have found them to be a very stable service to use even with the shared ips, Upgrading to a dedicated ip is good once you know you have a clean list that does not bounce or unsubscribe. Using services like listwisehq.com are very good in this respect (to clean your list) Mailjet also blocks bounces from being sent etc.

3)
I have sent emails with unsubscribe links without issues, but i cannot say if gmail will find a way to filter these messages yet. You need to have a unsubscribe message in your email (otherwise people will hit the spam button and thats even worse), but im not sure it will be easy to tell what a unsubscribe link is,for example, "remove yourself from this receiving email from us" gmail would probably take a while to work out what that means as opposed to the traditional "unsubscribe" link. I need to check the law on this and see if its allowed as it may be a little grey hat in that respect but i want to cover as many possible routes.

4) It is always possible for gmail to sus it out as they always change so i cant guarantee it will work forever or how long it will work for, but it is working now. Using this tecnique along with Gmails official future proof methods (getting users to star your emails or mark them as important etc) is a great way to get in theprimary inbox in the first place and get your users to keep you in their.

5)
The local sever config allows you to send emails from your own server, This is more for advanced marketers or people with small lists. Ideally you need your own dedicated server and a strong understanding of email setup OR a small list that you dont mind how fast the emails are delivered.

I hope this helps answer your questions (great questions by the way)

Do you mind if i add them to the FAQ section of my site? (once its up)

Thanks
Alex

Hey, im really sorry about not being able to contact everyone straight away, we have setup a temporary page so everyone can still download the plugin and access a few of the videos.
We are now moving servers straight away so by monday we should be running a lot faster for everyone. ( we decided to do this while we have a temporary page up and as it is usually quieter on the weekend so we should have time to propagate before monday.

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As for the comment about us recommending mailjet and being a scam "shame on you" Its not fair to judge us so fast...

WE chose mailjet (after a lot of research)as they have a very easy platform to utilise "even making it simple to setup spf and dkim for our customers" We wanted to provide a solution to the gmail tabs before anyone else and listing every single service would not be easy straight off the bat.

Like bruce lee says, Perfecting one punch is better than throwing 100 different sloppy punches. or something like that ....

So Automail is starting out by utilising mailjet, Then we branch out to all the other companies (amazon ses,sendgrid,smtp.com etc) not to mention using your own server to send emails automatically. we will be providing a lot more training very soon. and yes we are in beta at the moment but i guarantee we will have a very high end system for our members before long.

Our development team at pressword are very strict on using clean code and will not be incorporating fancy menus and drop downs, we are focused on creating a tool that works with wordpress best practices and utilises top quality coding. So please Don't pass judgment to fast and i ensure you, you will like what you see. Remember you have 30 days to test the beta version and keep a eye on how many updates come out in that time and if your not happy or you cant see the Potential you will still be able to request a full refund.. I am very confident in the quality and the direction we are taking.

Not only will we be working hard on the software but we will also be working hard on researching what works when it comes to getting your emails where they need to be, You have seen gmail introduce the tab system and chances are many more services alike will follow suit soon.

I hope this helps, and to those pointing out other plugins, yes some of them may be good now, But they wont touch us soon as a internet marketer i know exactly what functionality we need to take this to the next level and if you give Pressword a little more time you will see this for yourself

Thank you to everyone supporting/trying us out

I'm in the same boat. Someone throw me a buoy!

Alexander,

I also didn't get the chance to grab the OTO, and contacted you via email.

Can you please send me the OTO link?

Thanks
A Bary

Alexander I too missed out on the OTO and would like to pick up a Multi if possible.

Cheers mate...

Lawrence

Hi i signed up with mailjet awhile back not for this reason i just heard about it..

But did notice they didn't have optin form code just plugin that makes one ugly form.

dose WP automail have its own optin form code?


Cheers

Ian

I received two email updates since purchase...

The last update was August 6 - visit JVzoo and go back to the download page to access it - they've added some more training vids also.

Cheers,
Coby

Version 1.3 has just been released. Looking good. Just head back to JVZoo as Coby mentioned and you'll be able to access the new version there.

Enjoy!

hey, has anyone even seen WP Automail around lately (within the past week or so?). I can't access the site and I don't receive any replies to my support requests. Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks....

Hello all, Well wonders never cease! I checked the members area at WP Automail again late last night and I was able to log on and it all seemed functional. I don't know what happened, if it was my computer glitch or the site was down for awhile, but I am just glad it is up again. I really did NOT want to go through the whole refund process thing. Although, from what I have read here by other Warriors I may end up doing the refund thing anyway because I bought this product to get away from monthly AR fees, Not to replace them with some other service fee!

If you're on a VPS or dedicated server you can easily update through your WHM, Web Host Manager. Otherwise, you'll need to contact your host provider to perform the upgrade.

Sorry Keith, what do you mean by "I canceled the trial before the big payment"..what trial do you mean? and what is that big payment??! Is there any hidden "trick" there? :confused: