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The No.1 Marketing on the Web for Free - Would You?

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chiefmonkey

10:01 pm on Dec 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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It is commonly known that having a mailing list is all important to success on the web.

It is also known that the No.1 Marketing tool on the web is Sequencial Autoresponders.

I'm graualy putting together a website that will allow any member to create and share Sequencial Autoresponding email through a community of webmasters.

If you were offered a website that provided you the webmaster with the ability to use a very advanced mailing software (without advertising of any means) to look after your membership and put them through your course of emails to inform them and sell them your product/service.... would you be interested?

Would this kind of service appeal to you?

Advertising Free Autoresponding Software (Mailing List), Internet Marketing Forum (to share tips and email courses), another community with the same quality and hopefully as well respected as webmasterworld.com - spammers forbidden and hunted

Please post your thoughts...

fathom

10:35 pm on Dec 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



It is commonly known that having a mailing list is all important to success on the web.

It's commonly known that your mailing list is all important to success on the web.

It is also known that the No.1 Marketing tool on the web is Sequencial Autoresponders.

I'm graualy putting together a website that will allow any member to create and share Sequencial Autoresponding email through a community of webmasters.

If you were offered a website that provided you the webmaster with the ability to use a very advanced mailing software (without advertising of any means) to look after your membership and put them through your course of emails to inform them and sell them your product/service.... would you be interested?

Would this kind of service appeal to you?

Advertising Free Autoresponding Software (Mailing List), Internet Marketing Forum (to share tips and email courses), another community with the same quality and hopefully as well respected as webmasterworld.com - spammers forbidden and hunted

hmmm... I might not be undrstanding you correctly, I do use autoreponders for customer support/services and marketing to "existing customers" (e.g. preset dates from original purchases, download, and newletters).

I personally don't like mailing lists simply because of the integrity factor:

did all though email addresses opt-in

what did they opt-in for,

who provided the email address to the list

more importantly -- were opt-outs screened out, and/or

how many emails were crawled off web sites with no permission to use.

In my experience general email lists are garbage, more credible ones are themed to a specific topic(s) and/or markets/industries

Your own mail list developed my you, retained by you are crebible as long as they stay with you.

In addition, autoresponders can be tricky particularly when there is another autoresponder at the other end... and the ping pong starts.

If I have misunderstood your post, sorry. ;)

Brett_Tabke

10:56 pm on Dec 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Unless ordered to by a higher authority, NEVER give out any mailing list to anyone for any reason.

Dante_Maure

11:59 pm on Dec 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



As you said... your list is all important.

I would never depend on a free autoresponder service for something so crucial to my bottom line.

Most serious business people wouldn't even consider using an @freeautoresponder.com address due to the lack of professionalism it projects.

Free autoresponders (many ad free) are a dime a dozen, as are internet marketing forums.

If you're not charging for the service, or serving ads through the emails, you're going to have to make your venture successful by marketing directly to your user group.

Meanwhile, this niche is over-saturated, and the user base will be made up primarily of "instant" BizOp and freebie seekers.

If you're going to try and make a dent in this arena, you'll need an astounding Unique Selling Proposition, and a brilliant plan for monetizing this free service.