Pros: Price and power are the main benefits of this script. As a script based autoresponder, you pay one fee to own the script. The license is good for running any number of autoresponder messages or campaigns from one server and one domain. Therefore, the life-cycle cost is much lower than subscription based services. This script is very powerful and contains all the features of the web-based services and more.

The installation guide is very thorough, and you can try to install the script yourself, but professional installation is available for free. Recently updated to AutoResponse Plus , a wide variety of features and functions have been added, making this script based autoresponder service the most powerful and versatile available. Strong forum support to help solve common technical problems without having to go through Customer Support. Strong Customer Support section if you do have a problem the forum people can’t help with.

Cons:The many options comes with a price of being more complicated to set up than the web based services. With professional installation available for free, this really isn’t a problem.

Price: $195 (unlimited time, one time payment)

The following is a partial feature list:

• Uses MySQL for speed and reliability.
• Installs on your web site or server for data security and 24 x 7 access.
• No monthly fees and no ads or banners in your messages.
• Create and run and unlimited number of autoresponders, each with an unlimited number of follow-up messages.
• Create plain text and HTML messages and give your subscriber the choice.
• Optional double opt-in per autoresponder with customized opt-in e-mails and confirmation pages.
• Customize your subscription confirmation pages to match your site.
• Create time-sensitive offers.
• Send one-off broadcasts to your entire subscriber list or selected groups – immediately or schedule for sending later.
• Multi-tasking – send multiple broadcasts at the same time.
• Real-time queue manager for broadcasts – watch their progress as they go out or log off and receive a summary e-mail when the process is complete.
• Over 70 dynamic data tags for personalizing and individualizing your follow-up and broadcast messages, subject lines, headers and footers.
• Control what happens when the personalization data isn’t available.
• Track the source of subscribers whether they are through web based forms, e-mail or Javascript "Click OK To Subscribe" popups.
• Attach files to your messages – e-books, spreadsheets, PDF files, music, video, graphics.
• Very flexible message scheduling.
• Different (personalized) subject line per follow-up message.
• Subscribers can unsubscribe by clicking on a link or send an "unsubscribe" e-mail.
• Subscriber can "self-edit" details of their subscription.
• Optional e-mail notification to you when someone subscribes or unsubscribes.
• Custom reply name and e-mail address per autoresponder.
• Real time dates.
• Multiple autoresponder subscriptions from the same form.
• Automatic form HTML generator with on-screen form preview.
• Store an unlimited number of custom fields per subscriber and use that data in your follow-up and broadcast messages, subject lines, headers and footers.
• Create headers and footer per autoresponder and use these in one-off broadcasts also.
• Multiple signature files managed in a single location for easy inclusion in messages.
• My Record – many fields holding your company’s information that are managed in a single location and easily inserted into messages.
• Dormant status – put an autoresponder to sleep until you’re ready to use it again.
• Many "de-duplication" features – prevent duplicate subscriptions, lightning-fast manual de-duplication or do it or automatically, avoid sending a broadcast message to the same person more than once.
• Bounced e-mail management with multiple retries before giving up.
• Remote control – create subscriptions from your other software.
• IP address capturing with date and time of subscription to fend off "Spam" accusations.
• Very powerful subscriber filtering, grouping and sorting with special "Group Tasks" for working with those groups.
• Message logging of every follow-up and broadcast.
• Quick find a subscriber with only a part of their name or e-mail address.
• Importing and exporting of CSV files. Complete backup and restore to a single SQL file.
• Automatic capitalization of subscriber’s name.
• Automatic splitting of a name into first, middle and last names.
• Advanced Javascript menu system- most parts of the system are just once click away.
• E-mail yourself your login details if you have forgotten them.
• On-screen display of background tasks and last cron job run.
• Background processing of lengthy tasks to free up your browser. You can even log off and switch off your computer – the background tasks will continue until complete. E-mail notification to you of task results. (eg 10,000 subscribers successfully imported).
• Message limitation if your site hosting provider limits the number of messages you can send at one time.
• Pause and unpause broadcast messages.
• Instant online version check and single-click link to upgrade history and download area.
• Single-click links to user community forums, help desk system, continually updated online help and ever-growing FAQ library.
• Choice of SMTP or Sendmail for sending your messages.
• Mail blast test -check how quickly your server sends e-mail.
• All screens section headed for ease of navigation. Every screen has a detailed help screen with every option explained.
• Javascript enhancements to many admin system pages for ease of use.
• Logging of cron task and background processing.
• Clone an existing autoresponder.
• Import messages from one autoresponder to another.
• Test each autoresponder by sending to your own e-mail address. Choose HTML, plain text or both.
• On-screen preview of plain text and HTML follow-up and broadcast messages. Previews include personalization.
• Automatically unsubscribe someone from one or more autoresponders when they subscribe to another.
• Autoresponder list shows break-down of subscribers for each – active, canceled, failed etc.
• Control what happens when a follow-up sequence ends – start another, loop back to start etc.
• CC and BCC of follow-up messages.
• Check plain text and HTML message length with a single click.
• Subscriber can (optionally) request next message in sequence without having to wait.
• Group editing – change many of the settings for a group of subscribers or the entire database.
• All group task screens show the number of subscribers that will be affected.

Before your choose an autoresponder system, we recommend you check out AutoResponse Plus.

Setting up and using email autoresponders on your site is an easy way to make repeated contact with your visitors. Studies have shown that more than 60% of a site’s visitors who eventually end up buying a product or service don’t do it on their first visit. Email autoresponders are one way to make your site "sticky" — encouraging your visitors to return and make that purchase!

The Benefits of Autoresponders

The benefits of autoresponders are so numerous you can’t afford to ignore them. You’ll find that you have the ability to communicate with your customers in a way that was never possible before. Internet marketing requires that you use the latest technology to interact with your customers so that they feel they are getting 100 percent of your attention.

Benefits of Automated Email

· Cost Reduction: Autoresponders reduce your costs across the board. Everything from long distance phone bills to direct mail postage in your sales and marketing department to reducing the need for additional hiring of staff for customer service and support.

· Easy to Run: The number one complaint of most business owners is their inability to be away from the business. Your business becomes so much easier to run and you don’t have to physically be there when you use autoresponders.

· Happy Customers: Autoresponders lets you serve your customers faster and more efficiently. Staff can focus on other higher-value functions that require human intervention or you can reduce the high cost of customer service representatives.

· Targeted Marketing: While building your emailing lists your prospects can be segmented according to the offers and promotions that they respond to. Once they ask or email you for a specific offer they can be put on a segmented list that identifies them, the products they want, and their personal preferences. This lets you market to your prospects more effectively, efficiently, and personally.

Autoresponders Give Your Business the Winning Edge

Autoresponders may be just what your business needs to give you the edge over your competition. By using autoresponders properly you will see your online sales profits excel beyond what you ever thought possible.

Choosing an email autoresponder…

It can be simple to set up and use an autoresponder, but choosing which one from the dozens of autoresponders that are available can be difficult. We take the drudge work out the decision process for you — we’ve searched the web for the cream of the crop and provide reviews and articles to help you make your choice quickly and easily.

Uses for email autoresponders…

• Give your visitors an easy way to receive a "printer friendly" version of your sites main sales messages.
• Send repeated messages to your visitors with reminders of what you sell and what its benefits are.
• Send a several part email course – the free email course can be a powerful incentive for your visitors to leave their email addresses.
• Collect addresses for you email ezine which will give you periodic access to your site’s visitors. You can sell advertising in your ezine or just use it to promote your products and services.

Types of email autoresponders…

You probably wouldn’t be looking at this site if you were satisfied with the first type of autoresponder – most web hosts offer a simple autoresponder that gives one email message in response to an email to a specific email address. The problem with this type of responder is that one message is often not enough to keep the continued contact or deliver the content that you want to offer your visitor.

There are two main types of autoresponders. They each have their pros and cons.

Autoresponder services:

Autoresponder services are web based services that allow you to send a series of emails to a visitor who has either requested the email through a web-based form on you site (the service provides the html code for your site to use) or who has sent an email to a specific address the service has provided you to use.

The primary advantage of such services is that they are very easy to set up, and are very reliable. In addition, they are host independent. This means that your web host doesn’t have to allow you to run any particular services on your site to have access to all that an email autoresponder can provide.

Email autoresponder services have two main drawbacks – they can be costly, especially if you need to use an autoresponder on more than one web site, and they lack a certain amount of flexibility – whatever the service provides is what you get. There is a limited amount of customization that you can do with such a service. GetResponse is what we recommend for most people. It has great customization, and the prices are quite reasonable. The ease and convenience are well worth the price, in our opinion.

Autoresponder programs (or scripts):

The other choice for an autoresponder is to purchase (or lease) a program or a script (usually written in perl, requiring CGI access on your server.) Several of these are available. They offer the potential for lower cost, especially if you have multiple web sites to support. (But be careful to check the license agreement. Some license agreements require an additional fee if you are going to use the program or script on more than one site at the same time.)

Mailloop Email System: 4.5 Stars.

I don’t ordinarily reprint the marketing information provided by a software marketer, but after evaluating Mailloop (just upgraded to Version 7), I’m convinced that this is the best software based mailing and marketing manager available. One price and you never have to pay recurring fees for autoresponder services again! Recommended.

I couldn’t say it better than what is provided by the company itself:

"Is this email marketing software all hype?

Or, does Mailloop REALLY have the potential to
help you grow a six-figure income Internet business?"

Product Review of "Mailloop: email and Business Automation Software"

Are you drowning in a sea of email chores…? Sure, email is now considered to be one of the top 3 essential Internet marketing strategies:

… The PROBLEM is, unless you automate your email chores early in your business lifecycle, what you’re *saving* on postage and printing costs COULD be eaten up by 100s of wasted hours.

It’s not really FREE to send an email campaign if it takes you 3 days to actually get it out the door!

Fortunately, today there are software and services available that take the grunt work out of sending email campaigns, newsletters, and autoresponders…

… Leaving you free to worry about the fun stuff, like crafting high-impact email campaigns… or automating your backend sales with series of autoresponders!

A favorite on my list of tools is Derek Gehl’s (of Internet Marketing Center fame) Mailloop — email and Business Automation Software.

Are people REALLY increasing profits
with Mailloop? Or, is it all hype?

Personally, I’ve always been comfortable using and recommending Mailloop to my friends and business associates because it has a proven track-record.

The software has been around (and evolving through updates) since 1998… and was originally built by Derek’s team to manage their own email marketing campaigns, which now…

Generate over $3.5 Million is sales per year!!!!!!

Of course, if you’re just getting started, software that manages email campaigns worth MILLIONS of dollars per year might seem a bit out of your league.

So I think it’s important to note that Mailloop also has a long, proven track-record of helping "Regular Joe’s" who have started small (with NO opt-in list or experience sending email) grow to a six-figure income — and beyond!

Sure it’s more affordable… but are you
giving up features and control?

If you’re price conscious like me, you’ll also appreciate the value-for-the-dollar Mailloop gives you.

Mailloop has been designed to give small and home-based business owners ALL the email automation tools you need, in one easy-to-use software interface…

So while many of the email management services used by the Fortune 500s will "two-bit" you to death with extra charges that can run into the $1,000s per year, with Mailloop you get everything you need to…

• Easily collect email addresses from an opt-in form on your website
• Subscribe and unsubscribe people from your list automatically
• Import existing lists of opt-in customers and subscribers
• Send professional-looking email campaigns — in text and HTML
• Manage MULTIPLE newsletters from one interface
• Automate your customer service with autoresponders
• Send automated "follow-up" emails with unlimited autoresponders

… Plus tons more, all for one very reasonable, low one-time payment — and NO EXTRA charges, ever!

What about support? Will you be crying
by your computer at 2 a.m.?

Here’s where I really give Derek and his team some serious praise.

Until a couple of years ago, support for the Mailloop software was limited to some videos and a help manual. Yes, there were a few staff dedicated to supporting customers, but I generally get the impression they were spread too thin.

In the last couple of years, though, Derek and IMC have really beefed up their technical support… I take it this has happened in response to customer demand.

So now, not only has Mailloop been streamlined with these GREAT wizards that walk you step by step through all the critical tasks like sending your first email, setting up your first autoresponder, etc…

… Mailloop ALSO now comes with a complete suite of video tutorials, a customer support center, and personal support on-demand from a very knowledgeable, and VERY available, team of Internet marketing experts.

So getting set up with Mailloop and sending your first email campaign is a breeze…

The final verdict… Is Mailloop a diamond or a dud?

Overall, I give Mailloop my highest recommendation.

Not only do you get the entire suite of email management tools for a low, one-time payment — a value of literally $1,000s per year…

… You also get unlimited support from IMC’s experienced staff… something other service providers are charging $100+ per hour for!

And with Mailloop’s track-record of helping regular people boost their incomes over six-figures per year, you can be confident that you’re using a software that’s already PROVEN to get results!

Pros: You only have to pay once, and the cheapest version is less than many year long subscriptions for web based services. Allows the creation of filters which will automatically send out user prepared letters to various types of messages, with no need for supervision.. As opposed to previous versions of the same software, no full time internet access is necessary. You can try the fully functional copy for thirty days before purchasing registration codes.

Cons: As a windows based program, this runs on your computer, taking up space and processing speed. Unlike web-based or script-based services, it only checks e-mail as often as you schedule it to do so, not instantly (similar to e-mail program such as Outlook).

Price:

Lite Edition- Euro 67

Personal Edition- Euro 147

Professional Edition- Euro 287

Enterprise Edition- Euro 1397

Price is in Euros, but they use PayPal so you can pay through any currency PayPal supports, including the dollar. There are also discounted upgrade prices available, if you misjudged your needs.

Summary: In Personal Edition, ads are included on the interface of the program. These are removed in the

Professional Edition, and the Enterprise Edition allows usage of software on any number of (your) computers. All versions allow ad free messages — that is even with the Personal edition, all of the emails that the program sends are ad free. This makes the Personal Edition a great deal for the price!

Lite Edition doesn’t contain many of the features which are present in all other versions of the program. Specific features available in each version can be viewed here.

PromaSoft AutoResponder is a windows based autoresponder. It requires a computer to constantly run itself. The price above is only paid once. The following is a list of features provided by the official PromaSoft AutoResponder web site.

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Pros: Easy to set up. Web-based so no software to install or maintain. Web-based interface makes it easy to edit your messages. Can set follow on messages to any variation of schedule (after one day, two days etc). Great assortment of bonuses if you sign up for the pay version. Very fast – email usually goes out and received within seconds of a request. Can have sign up through an html form or through a blank email. Excellent reporting – one of our favorite features is the ability to see after which email customers decided to opt-out (if you are using a multiple email approach). Emails can be of unlimited length and can use plain text or html and can have attachments. Price for three years is great. Great customer support.

Cons: GetResponse, as with other web based systems, requires a recurring subscription. However, this is a case of “you get what you pay for”. In return for the payments, you get a continually improving state of the art autoresponder system maintained by professionals – you concentrate on your business, GetResponse concentrates on your mailing list management.

Price:Free for advertisement supported version (limited feature set)

Get Response Pro (No ad version):

GetResponse PRO BRONZE
US $17.95 a month (regular rate)

GetResponse PRO SILVER
US $47.85 quarterly ($6 off!)

GetResponse PRO GOLD
US $87.70 for 6 months ($20 off!)

GetResponse PRO PLATINIUM BEST DEAL – RECOMMENDED!
US $145.40 for 1 year ($70 off!)

Summary: GetResponse is a web-based email autoresponder service. It offers both a free version and an upgraded no-ad pay version “GetResponse Pro”. The version discussed here is the upgraded pro version. The free version has some of the same great features, but all your emails will have small ads placed in them. We are great believers that your email should be the place for you to market your products, not someone else’s. If the small price for a pay email autoresponder service is too much for you to pay, then by all means try out the free service of GetResponse.

GetResponse offers an easy to use web-based interface for setting up your emails. The following is a list of features of the service as provided on the GetResponse website: