Free Autoresponders - Big Mistake!
October 17th, 2006After reading Project X I have just set up a new affiliate campaign (check it out here if you want to see what I am promoting) and it was all going quite well until I decided to try out the free autoresponder ‘Responsebot’ (because I am too tight to pay for one), Huge mistake!!
I got the pages all set up, wrote out all my email messages and spent ages learning and testing how it all worked. Well it seemed fine, so I set it up and left it alone. Another Huge mistake!
Well the campaign has been running a while now and I was getting no response at all so I checked out Responsebot and guess what? They are ‘temporarily off line’. The only problem is they have been for three days!! Needless to say I have scrapped it all completely and have decided that I am probably going to have to pay for a decent service after all.
For now I have set up the campaign again with the free limited service from www.Getresponse.com and if I get any response I intend to upgrade to the paid version ASAP.
One thing I noticed immediately when I was setting up the autoresponder with Getresponse was how much more professional the back-end was, and how much more reliable their service is (when I was testing it the emails were instant rather than waiting and hoping they came through!). It just goes to show, you get what you pay for.