Since the setting up of my autoresponder, I had been pretty busy looking at ways to acquire products and building a list. These 2 activities usually go together cause without a product to offer as an “ethical bribe” it would not be possible to build the list. With a reasonable size list, a marketing campaign can then be set up to sell the products.

I have so far garnered about 1000 odd products and more than 100 subscribers to my list. That took up most of my internet time over the last one month.

A few other things I did recently:

1.  Put up a subscriber opt-in form at the top left corner of my site.
2.  Set up the ultimate Multi-Media Autoresponder sales pages. You can access it by clicking on the image from the right side bar.
3.  Added some more useful codes to my “HTML Codes” page, codes which I use pretty often in setting up web pages.
4.  Went into a few Joint Ventures (JV) with some internet marketers to build a list.
5.  Of course celebrating the Chinese New Year, meeting up & building bonds with old friends and relatives.

Guess what, the MM Autoresponder is starting to rake in an income even before I launch any serious marketing campaign. Couldn’t imagine the result once I start promoting it. The MM Autoresponder is a professional and ultimate cost saving autoresponder and I know it will sell. As the saying goes … The Money is In The List, and to build a list, an autoresponder is indispensable.

My next major tasks are:

1.  To identify more opportunities to increase my subscriber base.
2.  To capitalize on the natural traffic of eBay and hopefully become a Power Seller. In fact I have already starting to create the sales pages.
3.  To set up a marketing campaign for the products I had acquired.

That will be quite a handful over the next one to two month.

I am elated!

I had been fully focused getting my autoresponder up and running over the past one month. It is definitely well worth the effort albeit the many errors encountered, sleepless nights and having had to change host in the process.

Here I would like to share with you how you can also save loads of money if you have the intention to set up your autoresponder. To me the autoresponder is the next most important thing to setup after you have got your site up and running.

Why is an autoresponder so important?

In short, an autoresponder helps builds a targeted mailing list for your niche. The list then allows you to do some marketing, be it selling your own products, selling affiliate products or simply bringing traffic to your site and be exposed to your other avenues for revenue. Most importantly it allows you to make money on autopilot. These are big topics and I will not elaborate too much over here at this moment.

In case you think it is spamming, it is NOT. Most people would have experienced receiving unsolicited emails on enlargement of you-know-what and sales of medicine. I hate spamming just like anyone else.

In above-board internet marketing, the subscriber likes what he sees and subscribes to it willingly and voluntarily because there is value for him. He also has the option to opt out of the list anytime by a single click.

Some gurus equate a good list to an ATM. With a good list the possibilities are unlimited. Every time when you need money, instead of going to the ATM, just send out a marketing campaign to your list and watch the money rolls in.

Put it simply, no autoresponder, no list. No list no marketing. Enough said.

What are your autoresponder options?

The 2 most popular autoresponder used by internet marketers I know of are:
1.  GetResponse (USD17.95/mth)
2.  Aweber (USD19.95/mth)

Problem is they both come with a monthly recurring cost. Quite hefty for a new startup if you ask me. I don’t like the idea of recurring cost. The only recurring costs I am willing to pay are Domain name and Host, nothing else.

Many a times I was tempted to subscribe to GetResponse because many experience internet marketers had recommended it. I held off for a while and got paid off.

I stumbled upon an Autoresponder with a one time payment going for a song. The price is less than one month the basic subscription of GetResponse.  Not only that, it has got all the features you will ever need in an autoresponder … and I mean all, no joke. Crazy, but its true. That’s what I call Stylo.

The Pro Internet Marketer, Paul Johnston, who sold it to me was with me every step of the way setting it up. Thank you Paul.

If you would like to know more about this autoresponder, let me know by dropping a comment.

My next job is to create a list capture page, sometimes known as a squeeze page. You will also see a subscription box appearing on my site soon.

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Yes! I am back in business!