Email Autoresponders ~ Which To Choose?
Bulk Email Marketing Auto Responder Comparison
What is Email Marketing?
And why would I want to use an email marketing service?
Email Client
- Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, Windows Mail
- Manages email on your computer
Web-Mail Services
- gmail (Google), yahoo mail, msn, hotmail
- Comparison of the Top 17 Email Services
- Most are free
Email Marketing Services
- aWeber, Constant Contact, iContact, Mail Chimp, Verticle Response, Elite Email, 1ShoppingCart/WAHMCart
- Why use an email marketing service
- Less likely to be seen as spam
- Allows for “pretty” emails – great way to extend your branding
- Large lists – You can send as many or as few as you want with little problem
- Reports for tracking – how many opens, who is opening, opt outs
- Automatic opt outs – you don’t have to keep track unless you want to
- Other things to note
- Permission based
- Templates for ease of use
- Technical Support
- Comparison—Top 10 Email Marketing Softwares
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AWeber
My favorite, but probably the least user friendly. You can get a 30 Day trial for $1—Then $19 per month for unlimited emails to up to 500 subscribers. There is no Image Hosting, but there is a free online archive. Autoresponders.
Most user friendly and one that I have most used. You can get a 60 Day FREE trial with 100 subscribers. Then $15 per month for unlimited emails to up to 500 subscribers. Im-age Hosting is available but limited, Online archive is extra.
30 Day free trial—Then pay per email rate of 0-1000 @ $0.0150—A list of 150 with one campaign would be $2.25. Free Image Hosting. Online Archive. Some reports of trouble when sending lots of pictures.
15 Day free trial—Then $8.46 for up to 250 subscribers and $15 for up to 500 with unlimited emails. There is also a survey option.
FREE — I think this is my new favorite. Up to 1000 subscribers and up to 3000 total emails per month—for FREE! Not as easy as Constant Contact, but worth it. Archiving is free.
I don’t know much at all about this one, but someone recommended it, so I will try it, just to see how it works. Pay as you go at $.01 per email or monthly plans.
Everything in one place including a shopping cart. $39.95 per month with up to 10,000 subscribers. This sounds too good to be true, but it comes highly recommended. It will not allow to upload or import a current contact list – all contacts must come through a registration form.
Features Included In Most Email Marketing Services
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This list and comparisons was created by my Virtual Assistant: Linda Melcher
Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!