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Why Should Webmasters Own an Autoresponder Service

There’s one thing about an autoresponder service—relationship. Getting the contact information of your visitors, like email addresses and their names is one of the essential things you have to do to build a thriving website. Whether the site is a non-profit one trying to update its members, or an online business that is selling the solution to someone’s needs, having the name and email address of an interested party is crucial.

A good email autoresponder service will do more than make it easy to get someone’s contact information, it will make it a snap to continually stay in touch with them. If we relied on people bookmarking our sites and returning when they had time, we would have very few return visitors. Instead, if we keep in touch with them, kept them informed on the topic that brought them to our site in the first place, we will build a relationship with them.

The power of an autoresponder service is that once you write your emails, upload them with just a click, they work on auto-pilot for each individual. Whether someone signs-up for your mailing list today or next month, they receive the same welcome email from you instantaneously. Then, 24 hours later (or whatever time-frame you tell the autoresponder), it sends email number two, and another mail will be sent to them after four days. Maybe you’re asleep, maybe you’re out of town, but it doesn’t matter because the autoresponder is doing all of this automatically. It even inserts their first name into the salutation and body of the email.

You don’t need using the delayed feature, though. You can type up an email, personalize it by inserting each person’s first name into the headline, and clicking “Send” like you would in your favorite email program. Instantly it will be sent to everyone in your list. A good autoresponder service can even indicate how many people have accessed the email you have sent!

There are numerous autoresponder services available on the Internet, but I have found AWeber to have the most features and, by far, the easiest to configure. It’s all about relationships, and autoresponder services can help take them deeper.

James Michael has become somewhat of an autoresponder expert. He moderates the site AWeberReview.com and has an autoresponder tutorial site called MoreAweberUnleashed.com.

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