Is your Autoresponder Good Value?

 If you are attempting any sort of online marketing, you will soon find that you need to be able to easily an quickly email your contacts to keep them advised of your offers and updates, and while there are many mail management systems available on line, deliver-ability of the emails can often be a problem. If you opt for a self hosted system, you might very well find that you Internet provider imposes a limit to how many emails an hour you can send.

This supposedly is to protect them from SPAM complaints, but when the limits can be changed or removed on the payment of a premium, you have to regard it as a cynical method of increasing their revenues.

By using an autoresponder opt in form on your site you can capture the names and addresses of people who are interested in what you have to say, and once they have confirmed that it was them that registered by clicking a confirmation link you have their permission to send them mail.

The use of an autoresponder service gets over these problems, and they all have systems in place that help to keep you on the right side of the law regarding unsolicited mail, and makes administering your list easy with tools like automatic removal on request.

The big players in the autoresponder field are Aweber and Getresponse, both well known and respected companies

List Size: Aweber* Constant Contact iContact GetResponse* 

0-500 $19.00 $15.00 $10-$14 $18.00 

501-2,500 $29.00 $30.00 $14-$29 $28.00 

2,501-10,000 $49-$69 $75.00 $29-$74 $45.00

* Pricing info is a range and will vary based on list size and other variables

 As you can see from the above list the prices vary considerably, the biggest variable is the list size, the more successful you are at adding members to your list the more it will cost you to maintain it.

At this stage I should introduce you to TrafficWave.net a full service autoresponder company that has a one size fits all policy, that can drastically reduce your service costs with unlimited list size, and unlimited number of responders for a monthly cost of $17.95

This company also provides you with a tracking sysem, and your own FFA site.