Autorepsonders are invaluable to anyone with any online presence. Communication with, prospects and customers must be consistent and timely. Which autoresponders provides the best service? The answer will depend on your type of business, the level of usage, and the kinds and amounts of communication your business uses.
Aweber is one of the most popular autoresponders on the Internet and with good reasons. This third party autoresponder services provide you with unlimited autoresponders, campaigns, follow-ups, and broadcasts. Plus there is an excellent inline message editor. Message scheduler, reporting tools, and tracking tools are all included to make your communications online complete.
Aweber is an experienced autoresponder provider as they have been providing online services for nine years. The main advantage of Aweber is the fact they are the industry leaders in terms of email deliverability(by pass spam blockers). I would still suggest that you test and see if your emails are delivered into the inbox instead of the junk mail box.
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If you??™re looking for combined services, you??™ll need to look elsewhere.
One online provider that does provides a shopping cart as well as e-mail broadcast services is 1st Shopping Cart. With 1st Shopping Cart you get multiple services related to your website and online presence. Your shopping cart, database for prospects, clients, and affiliates are all included. One of the cools things about 1shoppingcart is you can continue to email prospects until they decide to buy a product from you. Once they buy a product you can instatnaly move them to a different autoresponder. This is a powerful feature that one can only find in an integrated(autoresponder+shopping cart) solutions.
ishopping cart has been re-branded by many markerters and it comes in the form of Marketers Choice, kickstart cart etc.I have known many marketers who have tried customizing this with Aweber successfuly.
In most cases, your IP provides an autoresponder. It??™s usually very limited and not a good choice for managing enahcned and tracked communications. The services offered vary from provider to provider. Alternatively you can use your desktop to send emails, and most applications(not all) that run off your desktop need a dedicated IP from your provider.( Make sure you get a clean static IP from you provider)
Another autoresponder service comparable to Aweber is iContact. iContact offers the same services as Aweber, plus a few more. One of the main differences between Aweber and iContact is the fact iContact charges by the size of your lists, while Aweber charges a flat fee for unlimited services. I have never tested iContact.
Take the time to make sure you??™re choosing the best services for your needs. All of the above have advantages and disadvantages just make sure you choose the services that match your business, growth, and needs.
Sometimes I think I could have used evite.com as my autoresponder. None of the ISP’s dare to block this one.