Are Free Email Autoresponders Safe? Online Marketing Tools

Are free email autoresponders safe for your online marketing business? I will show you three main issues behind a free email autoresponder offer and how to escape them.

As you may have heard, knowledge is power: if you know the dangers, you can avoid them.

I’m talking about free online marketing tools you can have access to by way of a free subscription. Sometimes you could find yourself bombarded with spam or, even worse, malware before you even realize it.

Of course, if your goal is to make money online you have to be careful when using free online marketing tools, a good dose of malware would definitely throw a wrench into things, free is not always the way to go in my own opinion.

The most important online marketing tool is email autoresponders, Many companies offer a free autoresponder account. Unfortunately, not all these offers are really what they seem.

Here is a list of things to watch out for.

1) A 1 Month Free Trial

Most of the top autoresponder companies offer a free account with this clause: "You will receive an account free of charge for a trial period of one month and then, if you then decide to keep it, you must pay the monthly fee."

To escape this trap you need to carefully check the terms and conditions before subscribing. If you decide to use the free email autoresponders just to test the service out, it’s no skin off your back if you drop you account at the end of the month. However, if you do indeed decide to use the free account for the real intent to grow your online business, make certain you don’t loose your subscribers at the end of the 1st month. The only way to escape this is to make sure, before subscription, that the service allows you to export your subscribers list. Once exported, you get your asset and you can import it and market it with any other email autoresponder service.

2) Limited Follow-ups

One of the main limitations of free email autoresponders has to do with the number of follow-up messages you can import. Obviously, you will need at least a follow-up series for each one of your marketing campaigns, but this is something many newbies don’t realize. That’s why they may discover how a free email autoresponder may limit their business when discover, it’s too late.

An easy way to escape this trap is to subscribe for more than one account to the same service: If the free autoresponder service gives you 3 follow-up series, you could subscribe for two accounts and get access to 6 series. Most of the time, the only thing you need is another email address, and you can get as many as you want at gmail.com (within reason) then again this does require a bit more work to manage. This is up to you to evaluate: You should plan in advance which kind of business you want to build and how many campaigns it will need. If the campaign number is high as compared to the maximum follow-up series of the account, maybe the price you’re going to pay for it will be too high. As before, check the terms and conditions before subscribing then make your plans accordingly. I personally would never go this route because I don't need the headache.

3) Low Level Instruction (how to use the darn things)

If you have never used email autoresponders before you might find that with a free service that there is little to no real instruction on how to properly set them up and use them to your advantage. When working online you know that time is precious, you do not want to find yourself bouncing from page to page like a confused crazy person unable to find what you needed. Again, it depends on the service you choose. What I can suggest you to do to avoid falling in this trap is to check the instructions and tutorials right away after subscription and before launching any marketing campaigns.

Everybody learns differently, some need to read it, some need to hear it, some need to watch it and some need all three and there is nothing wrong with that.

With the set of online marketing tools I use including email autoresponders, there are video tutorials, text based tutorials, live conferences 4 times per week where you will get your questions answered, there is even a Skype group where people (from around the world) gather and offer help. All for a Basic Membership of $9/mth up to a $39/mth Elite Membership where the online marketing tools is unlimited.

I hope this article will be useful to you. If you’re determined to build a real business and make money online, know that you can do it with free resources, Personally I could do without the headaches.

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Email Autoresponders (Part 2) | 12 Second Commute | Angie Mitchell

If you are going to be successful with your online endeavours, it would be a very wise choice to have reliable, powerful and easy to use email autoresponders. 12 Second Commute will provide this tool and more complete with videos and conferences where you’ll be shown exactly how to build a quality and responsive list using the only email autoresponders and online marketing tools you will ever need in an easy to use all inclusive system.

12 Second Commute is an online tool and opportunity center unlike anything else on the Internet. Regardless of the product or service you are selling, you must have tools to succeed. This service has everything necessary to succeed in one place so you are not wasting your time and money bouncing all over the Internet to run your business.

Email autoresponders Special Features:

The special feature section of your email autoresponder contains services that you won’t use often, but they are extremely valuable assets to your online success.

Profile Variable Setup: This is a huge time saver as it allows you to setup custom variable codes that can be inserted into any message so instead of typing the same thing over and over again in your autoresponder messages, you setup the custom variable section of the site to do this for you.

There are instructions that tell you exactly how to use this feature on the Profile Variable Setup page. There are also training videos on the same.

Import email autoresponder messages and manage autoresponder export passwords: If you have or when you get a downline in any program, product or service, the Import autoresponder messages and autoresponder export passwords sections are going to be one of your best friends because it allows you to setup messages, customize those email messages and then as you bring people into your program, product or service, you can give them your customized email messages and the system will automatically customize the message for the new person and place the messages into their own email autoresponders.

The beauty about this is that they won’t have to write letters as they will be copying your success, doing exactly what you do and since it is working for you, it will work for them and poof–your business is off and growing.

But more importantly, it is these effective online marketing tools which give you the freedom that makes the whole online marketing experience so envious to those without. These tools will free you from hours or even days of tedious work and will do most of the work for you. Professional marketers know an investment in high quality effective marketing tools will pay dividends again and again… they also know it is the only way to proceed. PERIOD.

You can review the entire 12 Second Commute system absolutely FREE for a full 30 days. There is NO credit card required to get your account and if you decide that 12Second Commute is not for you, you simply cancel your account within 30 days or do nothing and it will delete for you after the 30th day.

Currently being offered is an Elite account for only $19.90/month–the regular price is $39/month, but this is for a limited time and only available during your first 10 days of your 30 day trial.

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Email Autoresponders (Part One) | 12 Second Commute ~ Angie Mitchell

You simply must have email autoresponders if you are going to succeed online, but you also need a reliable, powerful and easy to use autoresponder and that is just what you will get with 12 Second Commute. Please note that you cannot import any leads into the autoresponder as that will only produce spam. However those who succeed online don't waste their money buying useless leads anyway and with our online videos and conferences we will show you exactly how to build a quality and responsive list using the only email autoresponders you will ever need.

12 Second Commute is an online tool and opportunity center unlike anything else on the Internet. Regardless of the product or service you are selling, you must have tools, training and resources to succeed. 12 Second Commute will provide those tool, training and resources in an easy to use all inclusive system.

12 Second Commute includes all the following tools and resources in one easy to use account. We give you the convenience of having everything necessary to succeed in one place so you are not wasting your precious time and money bouncing all over the Internet to run your business.

Email Autoresponders
Ad and Link Tracker
URL Rotator
Capture Page Creator
Contact Manager
Downline Builder
Training Center for Newbies
Blog
Conference Center
Smart Page, Translation Area, and More

Today I'm going to focus stricktly on the email autoresponders.

This is where you will create new messages and edit current messages for any of your autoresponder lists. You can also add letter templates and edit letter templates.

New Autoresponder Message: After you have setup your mailing list, one of the next steps is to create your actual email autoresponders. Remember that messages are list specific so if you have 10 different mailing lists, you can have 10 different autoresponder message series, although you can use the same messages in all your lists if you're promoting the same thing and you just want to test different advertising.

When you click on the new autoresponder message link, you will come to a page where you can fill in your messages, choose one of the ready made templates, setup your message delivery options, add attachments to your messages and basically get your messages ready to go make you money.

View/Edit Autoresponder: Once you have setup your email autoresponder messages, there might be times you want to edit and update those messages and the View/Edit feature allows you to easily accomplish this task. You can edit any part of your autoresponder from this one simple interface.

Add Letter Template: While you have access to dozens of fresh and professional letter templates in your autoresponder setup section, we also realize you might want to create your own and if you do, you click on the Add Letter Template link and use the editor to create your own professional looking templates.

View/Edit Letter Templates: Just as you can edit everything in all other parts of the email autoresponders, you also get this ability with your own templates that you have created. The View/Edit letter template is the place to go for this and all edits are done in real time so you never miss an opportunity.

You can review the entire 12 Second Commute system absolutely FREE for a full 30 days. There is NO credit card required to get your account and if you decide that 12SC is not for you, you simply cancel your account within 30 days or do nothing and it will delete for you after the 30th day.

There is no risk. If and when you’re ready to upgrade, click on the Upgrade Options link next to the instructions link at the top of the page. Currently being offered is an Elite account for only $19.90/month--the regular price is $39/month, but this is for a limited time and only available during your first 10 days of your 30 day trial.

In my next article I will be sharing the email autoresponder special features.

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