Aweber Autoresponder Service Is Stepping Up With Enhanced Web Forms
Don’t you just LOVE competition?
Competition fuels innovation in the marketplace and inspires companies to develop better products.
In the internet marketing realm, there has always been fierce competition between various email auto-responder systems. As a result, email auto-responder systems keep getting better and more effective for folks like you and me.
For the sake of this article, I’m going to assume you already understand what a sequential auto-responder is and how essential it is for your business.
Let’s also assume that you are already using one (or multiple services) for your business.
I’m looking for reasons to choose a particular service over another and I’m going to give you some compelling reasons to join in on the conversation…
First,
I WILL ALLOW AFFILIATE LINKS IN YOUR COMMENTS BELOW
But…
Here are a couple ground rules.
- Contribute. No posts with a simple “link” will be approved
- Make it a discussion. Explain WHY you recommend the autoresponder that you mention in your comment
- Add value to the conversation
- Make a compelling arguement for your autoresponder of choice.
- If someone else has already listed their affiliate link to the autoresponder you want to recommend…don’t feel like you can’t submit your recommendation. Who knows? If your comment is more compelling, maybe visitors will click YOUR link.
I will approve all legitimate comments.
Frankly, the aim of this article is to inspire some conversation in the form of comments below this post. So stick with me here…and let the best auto-responder win.
I’ve tried several auto-responder services in the past but I keep coming back to Aweber. It’s my personal favorite.
One thing to consider when you are choosing your auto-responder service is the fact that once you build a large database of names for your email marketing efforts, it’s going to be REALLY hard to “switch” companies. Most companies require double opt-in and if they allow you to import a list from a company you were using before…it’s likely that they will require ALL of your subscribers to opt-in again.
Because of this…
I actually have several auto-responder accounts with different providers. It’s just to darn hard to convert the names over to Aweber. So…now I have several accounts.
One company in particular, ImnicaMail, works extremely hard at getting your business by offering list imports WITHOUT verification (within reason). If you already have a double opt-in list from an Imnica competitor, they will consider your list and help with the import.
So…
Now it’s YOUR turn.
Please leave a comment below to discuss your favorite auto-responder service.
Let the best auto-responder win!
Remember, you may include your affiliate link (if you have one) in the comment below.
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Jason, you wrote: “If you already have a double opt-in list from an Imnica competitor, they will consider your list and help with the import.”
We do the same thing and always have. We allow on a case by case basis imports of existing subscribers without requring re-confirmation if we can audit the appropriate existing confirmed opt-in data on each subscriber. Just call our Customer Solutions team and we can look at your specific case or anyone else that may be in that situation.
Forgot the URL to our FAQ about imports:
http://www.aweber.com/faq/questions/548/Can+I+Import+Subscribers+without+Confirming+Them%3F
Awesome Tom…
Glad to know that you also accept imports (on a case by case basis).
Hi Jason,
Thank you very much for the mention of Imnica Mail.
I have to agree that competition is fantastic. It’s what drives companies to not only move forward, but, to innovate and expand, which in the end massively benefits the end user.
Email marketing in particular is a very exciting arena at the moment, with more and more businesses looking for better ROI on the advertising budgets.
Yes, social media, etc is gaining a lot of ground, but, it has been proven over and over again that by building a proper list, and building a great relationship with that list will currently, and for the foreseeable future, outperform any social media sites as far as response rates for advertising campaigns are concerned.
Imnica Mail and all other Email Service Providers will continue to innovate and make the whole process easier for the end users, while ALSO continuing to build outstanding relationships with the ISP’s to ensure that the emails actually gets delivered to the Inbox.
I want to recommend http://www.Followup101.com. As the owner, I admit to being biased. What caught my attention on this particlar post was the mention of enhanced forms. Followup101.com has the standard point and click on what info you want to add to forms, such as name, email address, physical address, etc.
What makes it different, is that you can also include surveys in the same point and click menu. This allows you to survey your subscribers, but not only can you collect the info, you can actually respond to your prospects with their specific answers.
I have a live example that I quickly put together for a cooking themed giveaway. Instead of just getting the name and email, one of the questions I asked is are you a home cook or professional cook. This allows me to micro target a broadcast mailing only to those who responded with professional cook, home cook or I could mail to the complete list.
Again, since it is my service, I am biased, but I know most survey programs just let you collect data and in general give you feed back such as 33% of the subscribers are professional cooks, but you don’t usually know which individuals make up that 33%. Well, followup101 tells you exactly which individual said they were pro cooks, and then lets you send a message specifically to them, and only them. You can see a live use of this at http://www.FreeGiveawayZone.com/veggies/signup.html You do not have to signup. But this example will show you the dropdown list of responses. There is also a fill in the blank option.
Thank you,
Kelvin Brown
http://www.Followup101.com
In service since 2001