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While you are waiting for the email... let me share with you the very first lesson of email marketing, which I learnt it the hard way.  I hope my experience will help you save time and money...

My Miserable Lesson of Using Autoresponder
2 years Lost And Thousands Dollars Thrown Into The Toilet... 
By picking a wrong autoresponder service...

Here is my embarrassing story, and I hope you won’t make the same mistake…

Back in 2004, I wanted “cheap and easy” way to manage my email marketing campaign. I bought a script a very renowned self-hosted script, and installed it onto my server.  I loved it when people started subscribing to my newsletter and buying my then-eproducts. 

I was happy ... for a few months.

That success was also the beginning of my online misery. It was one of my biggest marketing mistakes. I should have said it’s a diaster.

The script only worked for a few months - I found that it was not delivering my emails to my subscribers! Many web service providers like AOL blocked my emails as they think my emails were SPAM.  I already used "double opt-in" for my subscribers to sign up.

(Note: double opt-in refers to people need to confirm subscription to verify they indeed requested the email information, like the one you have to do above.)

The conclusion? No matter how well you manage your newsletter, someone will complain to his/her ISP (internet service provider) that your emails are spams. It will happen, one day, if that has not happened yet...

Now, after 2 years of frustration, I quit using that self-hosted autoresponder service. I am now using third-party autoresponder.

I did my homework and researched it hard and long enough, before committing myself to it.  I have researched more than 10 email autoresponders and come up with the following conclusion:

Only use a third party autoresponder and it's either GetResponse or Aweber.

Both of them have very good market reputation - while Aweber is a tad more popular due to the fact that it is more user-friendly and the web-interface is more fine-tuned, while GetResponse has more criticisms towards its interface for not being intuitive enough.

Both GetResponse and Aweber tries hard to deliver your email. At the time of writing, Aweber claims it can deliver 99 out of 100 emails!  6 out of 10 internet marketers use Aweber as their autoresponder provider. Aweber simply delivers. I have watched and read many reviews before commiting myself to it.

I practice what I preach...Yes, I do use Aweber myself, since 2006. I have never regreted using it since...

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Let's face it, you need a truly functional autoresponder - one that really delivers - email. I have seen some online marketers asking for cheap or free autoresponder service (like myself 2 year back); I think it's a big mistake. Autoresponder is not a marketing service to cut corner from, as a reliable list management system is vital component of any traffic. As they always said, ...

"The Money Is In The List Gold"

For more articles, check out how to build your subscriber list.

That's it for now... you may check your inbox to continue our email marketing lessons. Enjoy!

Roy