Email Marketing? Your Opinion Would Be Appreciated....

Yes these budget plans or software seem like a great idea when you're setting up an autoresponder.

The problem is as soon as you have a list of any size most of the budget alternatives stop being effective (your emails get dumped by ISPs and spam filters and your delivery rate drops to an incredibly low level the larger your list gets).

Since your email list is one of the most valuable assets you'll ever have you should be willing to ensure that list stays valuable by using a premium service like Aweber.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

I'm learning a lot about keywords lately...I didn't utilize them properly at first...I bought a book called 'Content Rich" to help me learn great copy. If you have any other suggestions for better writing, It would be helpful.

Thanks for your Help...I've seen your comments around the forum and like your advice...

Which service is your email account with, I've found that it usually depends on each services spam filter. Yahoo Mail seems to dump a lot of auto responder emails in spam.

GMail hardly sends any aweber email to spam in my experience.

Email marketing is definitely the way to go, and is a great way of generating traffic, some people call this "push button traffic". Once you've built up a considerable amount of leads, and built a relationship with them, you will make much more money than with PPC.

I would avoid those cheap services, like others have said the deliverability rate will be poor, with most of your emails ending up in spam. I was tempted to go with one of the cheap options, but I'm glad I was persuaded to go with Aweber now.

Also you may find it hard to transfer your list to Aweber at a later date, should you decide you don't like your current service. So you might as well just go with Aweber from the start and avoid the hassle.

Just think how you would feel if you lost all your leads, and had to start building your list all over again from scratch!

I hope that helps you to come to a decision?

Paul.

I have an autoreponder(I didn't realize my question was ambiguous, sorry), I just don't have the big list yet. I guess this email stream was one with a built in list they send to. the recipients have agreed to receive their emails, and I can advertise through them...That is what I thought anyhow. I hoped I could get some list building through their list...I'm going to go back and make sure I'm not confused about the service.

I'll have to look at aweber v. who I use now for my responder....maybe a switch is necessary.

My blogs are relatively new, I've got an autoresponder for my website and just realized I can use the code on a few different sites so I have 2 blogs and 1 website so far w/autoresponder. I have been giving each venue a uniform feel so you can tell it's me writing, not ghost writers, but each has a little different vibe as far as ads, promos, content, and structure.

I'm testing to see which will convert better, simplistic w/great content v. more ads, google ads, etc on it. Sales online is a little different from in person/ over the phone so my goal is converting my sales and marketing skills to the internet.

I appreciate your help!

I've only been on Warrior Forum for a short time...I almost just tried the cheapo method, glad I asked here first....

I'll check it out, thanks

My autoresponder needs work. I have 9 preset messages so far and I'm not liking my 'fluidity.'

I'm going to rehash my marketing soon to make it more exciting and unique.
I'm used to selling people on the phone and its easier to gain trust when you hear a voice. So, I need to spend more time trust building in my AR...I'm always tweaking stuff, it's kinda fun.

I appreciate the advice.

I am currently using Aweber and Emailaces and satisfied with both.

You can trust them.

Thanks, I will definitely check it out. I've been submerged in books trying to figure out the best stuff, any help is appreciated.

I've learned that adwords isn't my friend when it comes to controlling cost. Especially as I'm testing different ideas.

I was going to try yahoo or some other ppc to see if I could get the price down a bit.

Building the list is my goal. I just want to drive enough traffic to my site (a similar story I hear on the forum). Being a new website owner, I'm realizing patience is necessary. I've also been diving into keyword research and looking for my best angles.

Thanks for the help