Everyone has an autoresponder, we all need them to run our businesses.
There have always been those overpriced mailing services, corporations and other companies that just don’t know any better use them, they charge per mailing, per contact, etc. it comes down to them drastically overcharging for a simple service.
Marketers have always used companies like, Aweber and GetResponse, there have been many others over the past 10 years but most went away because it just got too difficult to deliver the mail with all of the spam issues.
Spam issues however, do not make it more expensive to run the business, they just make it more difficult to provide a good service, since no one wants an autoresponder service that can’t get the eMail through.
I’ve used various companies in my 10 years and even had my own autoresponder on my own server for a while, Autoresponse Plus is autoresponder software that you install on your own server, you pay for it once and that’s it, no monthly bill. I stopped using it after a while because of the idiots that would opt in and then cry spam, when the autoresponder is on your server, this causes problems for all of your eMail marketing, your domain names and your IP addresses, so I decided to go with one of the established companies.
I of course would not use one of the overpriced companies, since my list was over 50,000 and that would have cost me thousands a month.
I went with Aweber, which was $20 a month, unlimited contacts, unlimited amount of eMails sent. It’s the ideal for this type of service. One price, unlimited use.
After a few years, I went offline for a while and opened an offline business, when I came back online, I decided to try GetResponse instead of Aweber. I liked Aweber better, but it’s really just an ease of use thing, either service does what you need it to do just fine.
Now for the problem. Both companies were the standard in the industry for marketers, mainly because of the low price and unlimited use. No one is going to convince me that these two companies were not making money, they are the only options for anyone that knows enough to not get overcharged by the other companies and doesn’t want to install their own autoresponder on their own server.
They have both raised their prices.
They didn’t raise their base price, so you wouldn’t even notice and I’m not really sure if they have grandfathered in existing customers, but as it stands right now, they are both charging according to the size of your list.
Their base price is only for people with lists of 500 or less, so if you have a list that size already or plan on building your list to more than 500, which you should plan on of course since 500 isn’t much at all, then you will have to pay more.
If your list is 25,000, you would pay $150 a month for example. That’s rediculous.
They both still look great at first glance, $18 a month for GetResponse and $19 a month for Aweber, but again, that’s for a list of 500 subscribers or less.
I don’t know what caused this and I think it’s interesting that they both did it around the same time, but I’m not the type to care why, I can’t do anything about it anyway, so my goal was to find a solution to this problem.
In my seach, I found a few other companies, no where near as many as I would have found 5 years ago.
IContact; a bit cheaper for smaller lists but then the same for lists of 2500 or more.
Stream Send; this one seems to be targeting other types of businesses, not marketers and charges per eMail instead of per contact, which is even worse since if you have only 1000 contacts but send 20 times a month, that counts as 20,000 eMails and the cost would be $60 a month. Also, how are you supposed to know how many times a month you are going to send an eMail to your list.
The rest are either software that you install on your own service or complete garbage.
Keep in mind, this is just a simple search that I didn’t spend all that much time on, but I get a lot of eMail and I see what they are using and it’s all the same companies.
TrafficWave is $17.95 a month and is still unlimited. Unlimited messages, unlimited contacts, unlimited autoresponders.
You can even import 1000 leads at a time, no limit. The leads do get a verification message, but this is way better than the other companies which either don’t allow imports or have import limits and charge you according to how many you want to import.
Now, I won’t say TrafficWave is a better service, it’s the same service and does not have as many bells and whistles as the larger companies, but it has what you need and is easy to use. It also doesn’t look as good, the web site isn’t as nice and professional and neither is the members area, but again, it is an autoresponder and does that job very well at a much lower cost.
Another benefit; TrafficWave allows you to create capture pages on thier server, so you don’t even need a hosting account or web page. Even if you do have hosting and web pages, you can run a marketing campaign for something completely different and not have to set up more web pages for it, just use one of their capture pages, they have almost 40 capture page templates that you can edit and use to generate subscribers.
Another really big benefit; TrafficWave has a compensation plan. Not an affiliate program like the other companies, which have a 20% – 30% affiliate plan that pays you commissions for anyone you recommend. This is an actual pay plan.
100% commission on your sign ups first month. That’s $17.95 anytime you refer someone, paid weekly. Refer one person a month and yours is free.
Monthly commissions paid through a 3×10 forced matrix. Get 3 and it’s free for you.
Up to 50% matching check bonus on those you referred.
This is certainly not a primary business, but it is way more than most autoresponder companies give you and if you just got it for free wouldn’t that be nice?
TrafficWave is a full featured autoresponder service for only $17.95 a month, still unlimited, with hosted capture pages and a compensation plan that could earn you a decent monthly and even weekly check.
I’m not giving in to the big name autoresponder companies, I’ve found my solution, what are you going to do?
What is going on with Autoresponder Companies
Everyone has an autoresponder, we all need them to run our businesses.
There have always been those overpriced mailing services, corporations and other companies that just don’t know any better use them, they charge per mailing, per contact, etc. it comes down to them drastically overcharging for a simple service.
Marketers have always used companies like, Aweber and GetResponse, there have been many others over the past 10 years but most went away because it just got too difficult to deliver the mail with all of the spam issues.
Spam issues however, do not make it more expensive to run the business, they just make it more difficult to provide a good service, since no one wants an autoresponder service that can’t get the eMail through.
I’ve used various companies in my 10 years and even had my own autoresponder on my own server for a while, Autoresponse Plus is autoresponder software that you install on your own server, you pay for it once and that’s it, no monthly bill. I stopped using it after a while because of the idiots that would opt in and then cry spam, when the autoresponder is on your server, this causes problems for all of your eMail marketing, your domain names and your IP addresses, so I decided to go with one of the established companies.
I of course would not use one of the overpriced companies, since my list was over 50,000 and that would have cost me thousands a month.
I went with Aweber, which was $20 a month, unlimited contacts, unlimited amount of eMails sent. It’s the ideal for this type of service. One price, unlimited use.
After a few years, I went offline for a while and opened an offline business, when I came back online, I decided to try GetResponse instead of Aweber. I liked Aweber better, but it’s really just an ease of use thing, either service does what you need it to do just fine.
Now for the problem. Both companies were the standard in the industry for marketers, mainly because of the low price and unlimited use. No one is going to convince me that these two companies were not making money, they are the only options for anyone that knows enough to not get overcharged by the other companies and doesn’t want to install their own autoresponder on their own server.
They have both raised their prices.
They didn’t raise their base price, so you wouldn’t even notice and I’m not really sure if they have grandfathered in existing customers, but as it stands right now, they are both charging according to the size of your list.
Their base price is only for people with lists of 500 or less, so if you have a list that size already or plan on building your list to more than 500, which you should plan on of course since 500 isn’t much at all, then you will have to pay more.
If your list is 25,000, you would pay $150 a month for example. That’s rediculous.
They both still look great at first glance, $18 a month for GetResponse and $19 a month for Aweber, but again, that’s for a list of 500 subscribers or less.
I don’t know what caused this and I think it’s interesting that they both did it around the same time, but I’m not the type to care why, I can’t do anything about it anyway, so my goal was to find a solution to this problem.
In my seach, I found a few other companies, no where near as many as I would have found 5 years ago.
IContact; a bit cheaper for smaller lists but then the same for lists of 2500 or more.
Stream Send; this one seems to be targeting other types of businesses, not marketers and charges per eMail instead of per contact, which is even worse since if you have only 1000 contacts but send 20 times a month, that counts as 20,000 eMails and the cost would be $60 a month. Also, how are you supposed to know how many times a month you are going to send an eMail to your list.
The rest are either software that you install on your own service or complete garbage.
Keep in mind, this is just a simple search that I didn’t spend all that much time on, but I get a lot of eMail and I see what they are using and it’s all the same companies.
Except the one I decided to use.
TrafficWave.net
TrafficWave is $17.95 a month and is still unlimited. Unlimited messages, unlimited contacts, unlimited autoresponders.
You can even import 1000 leads at a time, no limit. The leads do get a verification message, but this is way better than the other companies which either don’t allow imports or have import limits and charge you according to how many you want to import.
Now, I won’t say TrafficWave is a better service, it’s the same service and does not have as many bells and whistles as the larger companies, but it has what you need and is easy to use. It also doesn’t look as good, the web site isn’t as nice and professional and neither is the members area, but again, it is an autoresponder and does that job very well at a much lower cost.
Another benefit; TrafficWave allows you to create capture pages on thier server, so you don’t even need a hosting account or web page. Even if you do have hosting and web pages, you can run a marketing campaign for something completely different and not have to set up more web pages for it, just use one of their capture pages, they have almost 40 capture page templates that you can edit and use to generate subscribers.
Another really big benefit; TrafficWave has a compensation plan. Not an affiliate program like the other companies, which have a 20% – 30% affiliate plan that pays you commissions for anyone you recommend. This is an actual pay plan.
http://www.trafficwave.net/members/jimvigilante/affiliate.html
The TrafficWave compensation plan features;
100% commission on your sign ups first month. That’s $17.95 anytime you refer someone, paid weekly. Refer one person a month and yours is free.
Monthly commissions paid through a 3×10 forced matrix. Get 3 and it’s free for you.
Up to 50% matching check bonus on those you referred.
This is certainly not a primary business, but it is way more than most autoresponder companies give you and if you just got it for free wouldn’t that be nice?
TrafficWave is a full featured autoresponder service for only $17.95 a month, still unlimited, with hosted capture pages and a compensation plan that could earn you a decent monthly and even weekly check.
I’m not giving in to the big name autoresponder companies, I’ve found my solution, what are you going to do?
Free 30 Day Trial:
http://www.trafficwave.net/members/jimvigilante
Have Fun,
Jim Vigilante
http://www.opportunityseekers.com