easyresponders

Service

2007-10-09T05:38:00.000-07:00

Since our last post we have been hard at work designing the new version of Easy Responders.

The concept is now finished.

We are planning to match and better the functionality offered by some of the well known responder services and yet at the same time maintain speed of email delivery - which all too often suffers once a service becomes well known.

As a taster of what is to come, we are planning to offer the cheapest co-registration facility on the net. So if you are struggling with your list, co-registration could be your answer.

Keep an eye on the blog for details.

Sign Up Statistics

2007-03-30T06:30:00.000-07:00

We have introduced some more statistics concerning auto responder sign ups.

You can view these on the My Account.

The statistics allow you to monitor the number of signs up to your responders for today, yesterday and for the last seven days.

This initiative is part of some statistics features we will be implementing over the the next few months.

Best Wishes

Paul Langham

Team Easy Responders

Easy Responders Tutorial Series - Getting Started Quick Guide

2007-03-23T02:38:00.000-07:00

Tutorial

Getting Started – Quick Guide

In this tutorial we get you up and running quickly with our “Getting Started with Easy Responders“ guide, which is designed to give you a fool proof quick and easy guide to getting your account set –up and your responders working.

Step 1

Create your Easy Responder account by clicking on the Get Started Here link on the Easy responders Home page

Now enter your details on the sign up page.

2. Check Your mail box for the Easy responders confirmation that your account has been created. Note you should receive this email within 120 seconds or less. If you do not receive the mail, this indicates that the mail has probably gone to your SPAM box, because your SPAM filters have picked up the mail as SPAM

If the mails went to your Junk box then please add paul@easyresponders.com to your safe list.

You can do this as follows:

In Outlook – Actions – Junk Mail – Add sender to safe list senders list

3. Log into your account and you will be presented with the welcome screen

Now follow the instructions on the welcome screen

Click on Manage Autoresponder and create a new auto responder

Having created your responder now set up your first follow-up message.

Simply enter the text you require in the edit box , add an email subject name and a title banner and save your follow up message.

Repeat step b for as many follow-up messages as your require.

d. Open the manage email prospect screen

Add an email using this screen and terminating by clicking on “Add this Email”

Repeat item d. for as many emails as you have or simply load them in bulk using the upload csv file upload facility.

4. Now that you have an auto responder, one or more follow up messages and one or emails added to your list then you are up and running.

5. In order to gain more exposure and more email prospects you may now add a form to your site in which you can capture clients/emails.

To do this, simply click on Create Opt-in Form as follows:

Select your chosen responder from the drop down list and paste the html into your code on your web site. This will create an opt-in form on your site.

Additional Information

Please note that by law Easy responders operate a double opt-in email strategy, this means that when you a client enters his name and email into your form, he will receive an email requesting authority to join your list. Only when the client clicks on the link in that email will he be added to your list and start receiving follow ups.

SYSTEM UPGRADE

2007-03-17T02:03:00.000-07:00

We completed the first stage of the system upgrade yesterday which removes the necessity to paste your messages into note pad prior to putting them into a follow up message.

The system now allows you to work directly in the easy text editor box itself or copy in from your favourite word processing package, MS word for example.

If you break the 5k character limit on a follow-up message you will get a controlled message informing of the this. When you get this simply reduce your message size.

Whilst on the subject of follow-ups and broadcasts, I have alot of experience in email marketing and my advice is keep your messages short and to the point. Get your message across very very quickly.

People simply will not carry on scrolling down looking for the punch line anymore. a few years ago yes - but not now.If you are like me I have about 100 to 150 in my inbox everyday, I buy many many products, including all the usuals from the gurus but unless they convince me in a three or four sentences, I hit delete. I simply do not have the time.

I hope this helps

Good Email Marketing

Paul Langham

Team Easy Responders

UPLOADING YOUR CSV

2007-03-16T02:19:00.000-07:00

One of the features we have made available to Easy Responders clients is a CSV upload facility.

You can use this facility to load your existing email lists into your Easy Responders account.

How does this work ?

1. Download the sample CSV excel file from this link by RIGHT CLICKING and saving to your desktop.

http://www.easyresponders.com/csvtestfile/test1.csv

2. Add your emails to the list and SAVE the file, please keep the headers in place.

3. Login to your account.

4. Select the Manage Email Prospect Option.

5. Select the Responder you require.

6. Click on the Browse button within the UPLOAD CSV OPTION.

7. Locate the file you want to load and then click on the UPLOAD button.

FOLLOW UP MESSAGE SIZE

2007-03-13T05:26:00.000-07:00

We have recently had a few emails concerning erro messages received when entering follow up messages.

We have added the following text to the FAQ section of the site.

I get an error while adding a new message. What is wrong with my message?

There are 2 possibilities which might lead you to getting an error while entering a message:

1. The first and most common reason is that your message contains more than 5000 characters. There is a limitation on the number of characters, because we had to make a decsion between offering more functionality - like the use of colours within your message - and having less space for the actual message. We went for extra functionality.

When calculating the size of your message, please remember that the database also counts "blank spaces" while calculating characters.

2. You have copy and pasted message from other software which has hidden characters. We suggest you to copy the message from Notepad.

How can i calculate the number of characters in my message?

Presently, we do not have an Online Calculator to help with calculating your message size, within Easy Responders, but it will soon be available for users, in a forthcoming release.

However there are many websites which provide Online Character Calculators and the following link offers a good relaible character calculator which you can use whilst our own version is being built. Please use the link below.

http://www.nebensatz.com/zeichenkalkulator_en.html

You can see a fuller version of this FAQ andwer by going to:

http://www.easyresponders.com/faq.aspx

EASY RESPONDERS TUTORIAL SERIES

2007-03-09T06:19:00.001-08:00

EASY RESPONDERS TUTORIAL SERIES

Tutorial 2 – How To Create Follow Up Messages

Welcome to Easy responders and our series of tutorials which are designed to ease the learning curve of using our product. Please note that we will endeavour to limit the steps in our tutorials to just five. Simple and easy – that’s Easy responders

Our second tutorial explains in a step by step basis how to create your follow up messages using Easy Responders.

FOLLOW UP MESSAGE CREATION

Connect to Easy Responders Easy Responders

You should now be looking at our Home Page which looks like this:

The first point to remeber is remind ourselves what a a follow-up message is and how it all works.

HOW DOES A FOLLOW UP MESSAGE WORK

As an internet marketer you will know that one of the ways you can sell your products to people over the internet is to give away some free and useful information about a particluar product, or offere some expert advice in a certain area - both of which will build your prospects confidence in you and make them more likely to purchase from or subscribe too your site.

You can achive this using FOLLOW UP MESSAGES.

A follow up message is then a short message which you write and you define within your auto responder. You can have an unlimited number of follow up messages per auto responder and you can have an unlimited numbr of auto responders.

The way to use the follow up is to break your free course, sales idea, advice or white paper into say five or seven logical parts. Create one follow up message for each part.

Each follow up is sent in a logical daily sequence. This means that if you have seven follow ups, your subscribers will receive one email per day for seven days, starting with follow up number one and ending with follow up number seven.

2007-02-27T06:00:00.001-08:00

EASY RESPONDERS TUTORIAL SERIES

Tutorial 1 – How To Create An Easy Responders Account

Welcome to Easy responders and our series of tutorials which are designed to ease the learning curve of using our product. Please note that we will endeavour to limit the steps in our tutorials to just five. Simple and easy – that’s Easy responders

Our first tutorial explains in a step by step basis how to create an account with Easy Responders.

ACCOUNT CREATION

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You should now be looking at our Home Page which looks like this:

On the left hand side of the home page there is a box which looks like this:

Click on the ‘Get Started Here’ hyperlink and you will be taken to the following screen:

Fill in your details and proceed to the next screen where you will be asked to choose your subscription type as follows:

Check your mail box and you will find a confirmation from Easy Responders confirming your account details and password. You will also find an opt-in link to our mailing list where we keep you up to date with the latest email marketing news.

That’s it you are now ready to go.

Tutorials

2007-01-29T04:45:00.000-08:00

Well, January is coming to a close and we have been busy preparing and planning the next release of Easy responders.

Thank you to everyone that has sent us feed back about the application, requesting enhancements and new features. We will attempt to accomodate all your ideas.

This update is to let you know that we will be creating a series of PDF and on-line video tutorials concerning Easy responders. This is due to the number of ebnquiries we are getting about how to use the plication correctly.

In addition we are looking for two test case studies from our existing clients - these will be people who can give a brief overview of their business and how they use Easy Responders. This is free advertising for a couple of people so if you are interested to take part please contact us.

Best Wishes

Paul Langham

Team Easy Respnders

Happy New Year

2007-01-15T13:51:00.000-08:00

Well a Happy New Year to everyone from all at Easy Responders.com. We wish you much success with your marketing campaigns during 2007.

First up, there will be a series on new features on Easy Responders to be launched shortly to include click thru rates and email delivery rates.

In addition, we are working actively with the major ISP`s to ensure mails are delivered safely.

Lastly, there are many people mailing in requesting our help in finding good products to market and so we will be sending out details of how you can get profitable on-line very quickly by affiliate marketing to our free subscribers.

Best Wishes

Paul Langham
Easy Responders.com

Easy responders guide to on-line marketing using free auto-responders

2006-12-27T02:12:00.000-08:00

I am getting alot of mails from people who realize the potential of using an auto responder, but seem very unclear on how you go about setting up a campaign.

I will write a series of articles in order that people can get up to speed on this and get their campaigns moving.

In these articles I will cover the follow up message, the broadcast, relevancy and frequency of sending your message. Video broadcasting - the hot topic of 2007.

Also we will look at choosing an affiliate product.

Good marketing

Paul Langham

Busy times in the world of auto responders

2006-12-23T05:35:00.000-08:00

Well the responde to easyresponders has been excellent. I have received some very positive comments over the last few days.

For 2007 I have the following development lined up :

- Delivery tracking statistics
- HTML Newsletter templates
- Campaign success rate
- Graphical Interface to track sign ups
- Email capture - double opt-in email lists for your product

Have a good christmas everyone and a happy New Year

Best Wishes

Paul Langham

Eamil Marketing the most powerful marketing technique in the world

2006-12-15T01:13:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Easyresponders.com blog

I have recently launched Easyresponders and the feed-back so far has been very positive, with many people having signed up for their free account.

I would like to explain a little about why I started easyresponders.com

When you market goods and services on the internet you will normally have a client list to whom you promote your services. A daily task of each and every marketeer is to ensure that his/her list grows, this in turn means you have potentially more clients to sell to.

If you use an auto-responder to manage your lists and to contact your clients then you can cut out a lot of the donkey work of managing your mailing list. This in turn free's up up your day to get on with the important tasks of coming up with sales ideas and products.

However, you must have an auto-responder which delivers your email marketing message and does this in a timely basis.

In my experience, even the paid responder services seem unable to achieve this. Therefore I started my own responder and use this on a daily basis in order to keep in contact with my list.

If you are an internet marketeer, run a mailing list and would like to automate your mailshots using a fast, relaible service then sign up for a FREE account now.

Good marketing and may you make many sales.

Paul Langham