When I was about 16 years old, I started getting tired of constantly sending out my eBooks though Email manually. It was starting to take me upwards of 2 hours a day to send out all my eBooks through e-mail. I wanted to get Automated. Soon after, I found a way to automate my outlook express, in which I was able to create message rules, and add a response Email for any e-mail containing specific words contained within the content of each individual payment notification. This process did work for me for a short amount of time, but the problems were numerous. I was not able to update a list of my customers automatically, so I still had to do update my customer database manually, plus I couldn't send out large promotional e-mails. (well, I could have sent out promotions, but with outlook it took forever, and the Emails seemed very impersonal, and had terrible conversion rates).
Soon after I began looking for a good autoresponder program that would suit my eBook business well. I quickly realized how insanely expensive these programs were, and how much they ripped you off. I tried a program called ShoutResponse. I was absolutely ecstatic since it made my life so much easier. I was constantly sending out e-mail campaigns and it boosted my sales quite substantially. The best thing about ShoutResponse was that it was cheap too. The price was only $9.95, and that was basically the reason I used it.
Eventually my client database began getting a bit large to manage on ShoutResponse, so I started using GetResponse. this program has been an absolute miracle worker for my online sales. Sure, it did cost a bit more than ShoutResponse, but this program was one well oiled machine. I rarely ever ran into a problem with GetResponse, and if I did their customer service was really helpful, and sorted it out immediately. Within a week, I had GetResponse totally up and running for my online business, and I was really raking in the dough. I was making money without lifting a finer, other than the occasional mouse click.
Autoresponders are excruciatingly important if you are planning to start an online business. They allow you to automatically send out e-mails and responses to your customers, as well as collect their information without a hitch, and this brings me to another important idea as to how to make alot of money. Collecting and keeping your customers information, specifically, their e-mail address. Having a large base of customers to send out promotional Emails to will increase your sales drastically. Again, GetResponse is great for doing this.
Well, thats about all i have to say for autoresponders at the time. I hope you found this a bit helpful in using/choosing an autoresponder.
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