What Is An Autoresponder
Carl Pruitt
If you've ever asked for information online about a product or service, or signed up for an email list or a group membership on the Internet, or you have received a nearly instantaneous response when you email someone from a website, an autoresponder program was responsible for delivering the reply.
To put it in simple terms, an autoresponder is an email based program set up to send out a predetermined message response or series of responses to every email that comes in to a particular address, or in response to input from a form submitted on a website. Some autoresponders, such as email list sign-ups may initially be single shot responses. Others may set up a sequence of responses over days, weeks or months. Nearly every internet business uses autoresponders for a variety of different reasons. Automating jobs that might otherwise take up excessive work hours as well as for building and maintaining customer and lead lists.
The autoresponder can be set to send out a message series to the email addresses submitted. An instant response may go out, followed by another the next day, then 3 days later and so on. This can be set up to go on as long as the author wishes the messages to continue.
Autoresponders are the most powerful Internet marketing tools available. They are easy to use, and once they're set up the entire marketing process is automated and instant. When you use autoresponders, your Internet business runs itself 24 hours a day. Launching an effective autoresponder campaign can mean the difference between a struggling business and a wildly successful one.
How do I use an autoresponder to make money?
There are very few businesses - online or off - that can't benefit from using autoresponders. As a matter of fact, a brand new home internet business can be built up around an autoresponder program. All you need is a product to sell and a series of autoresponder messages to follow up for you and you can have your own business up and running within hours.
Your autoresponder is your golden goose: the marketing tool that will sell your well-developed product far more effectively than any other form of advertising. Few sales are made by impulse buyers, particularly on the internet. But if you are able to get your message out repeatedly to people who are already interested in what you have to offer, you will see an explosive sales response.
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