Hi,
This is Eugene Uchuvatkin from HomeIncomeWorld. You connected with me because you signed up to one of the traffic sites as my downline, opted in for one of my reports, or subscribed to the "Amazing Credits Giveaway".
My email list is small and responsive because I only keep subscribers who are actually paying attention. I routinely remove everyone who didn't open my emails in the last 90 days.
Many beginning marketers get lost in their goal for a BIG email list, rather than a responsive one. Total list size doesn't matter. How many clicks you get on every email you send does!
When choosing auto-responders, marketers get caught up in the ability to have unlimited subscribers.
It doesn't matter if you can have unlimited subscribers at your auto-responder, no matter what the sale page for the program tells you. As I noted above, if you remove the non-active subscribers from your list, you can be an industry leader with an audience of 1,000 subscribers.
If you are making money, then you don't mind paying for the tool that actually makes it all possible. Pro tools like AWeber and Get Response let you have hundreds of subscribers for under $20 a month.
Other key factors you need to take into account when choosing auto-responders are:
1. Deliverability that an auto-responder provides you.
2. The ability to search for non-active subscribers.
Many of the common auto-responders that beginning marketers use will end up with almost all of your email in the spam folder, never to be seen again. Big programs like AWeber or GetResponse have relationships with the big email providers, so you can count on better deliverability.
If your auto-responder doesn't allow you to search for non-active subscribers then you can't remove them and keep your list clean. Almost no entry lever programs, like Traffic Wave, AIOP, and others have that capability. However, more professional tools like AWeber and Get Response do.
Don't waste your time building a list on the wrong platform. Get a free trial of GetResponse or free AWeber account and use the tools the pros do, but without the hard learning curve.
Thanks.