Autoresponders « Diane Merriam, The Internet Diva

My Ultimate Email Contact Management System

Here would be my ultimate eMail contact service:

There are 3 types of mailings One time broadcast, like announicing a sale for this weekend Ongoing broadcasts, such as a newsletter (extra points for tieing it in with an RSS feed) Autoresponder, sending a pre-written series of emails over a given time schedule

Recipients. Whether you [...]

The Old Familiar Excuses

Do any of these excuses sound familiar?

I don’t need a mailing list because: I don’t mind working ten times as hard for one tenth of the money It’s easy to keep finding new customers all over again for each sale Customers are somehow looking specifically for me, not any of my competitors I don’t [...]

Do you Really Need an Autoresponder?

Yesterday I went over the history of autoresponders. Today I’ll go over their use.

They (almost any “they” you read) tell you that the money is in the list … your emailing list.

You can earn some money without one, but then you have to make each contact with a potential customer a one time [...]

What Are Autoresponders

In the beginning there were two programmers who knew each other, although not well. One of them went on vacation and the other one didn’t know that. He got madder and madder every day when he emailed and never got a response back.

Upon his return, the first person came back to an email box [...]