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Christian InTech Articles - Ezines
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5 Keys To A Successful Ezine
There are 5 basic keys you need for your ezine to be successful and here they are though not necessarily in this order.
1- Hosting
You need good reliable hosting for your website. You don't want to lose subscribers because your site is...
How Much Per Year Do You spend On Advertising?
If you are a serious player (or you want to be) then advertising should be your largest expense, getting your message out to as many places as possible should be your number one priority. There are a lot of people out there telling you to join...
How To Get To The Top Of The Marketing Food Chain
Copyright 2004 Priya Shah http://www.PriyaShah.com Are you tired of living off handouts from big-name marketers, earning meager affiliate commissions? If you truly want to live and breathe the rarefied air of the super-marketers, what you need is...
Solid Internet Marketing Strategies
It's so easy to fall into a 'labor of love' - painstakingly revamping our websites so that they look absolutely 'perfect' ... or pouring our heart and soul into creating the best product possible, one that's sure to draw rave reviews. The...
What Star Wars can teach you about creating a Buzz for your Business?
Many people think marketing is some type of mystery that only a few select people know the secret too. In fact if you look at the entertainment industry you will find some of the best models to follow. Let’s look at George Lucas and Star Wars. How...
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Autoresponder Etiquette
Autoresponders are one of the most widely used promotional
tools on the Internet. They're also known as mailbots, automatic
email and email on demand. They were derived from the very
popular fax on demand and designed to automatically respond
to any email message sent to it with an automatic response.
Autoresponder programs vary from autoresponse messages
set-up within an email program to a script that runs on a server.
This script may run a web-based autoresponder system that
utilizes a web page form or it may run with a pop email account
on a server. It's programmed to automatically send out a pre-
determined message when a message is received to a
specified script address or email address.
Not only are autoresponders one of the most widely used
promotional tools, but are becoming one of the most widely
abused. While using autoresponders will enable you to put
a lot of your daily tasks on autopilot, autoresponders can also
wreak havoc on innocent individuals who may cross their path.
Autoresponder addresses should NEVER be used when
submitting your website to Search Engines, Directories, Free
For All sites, or in Classified Ad contact forms. Many of these
types of websites use autoresponders to send thank you or
welcome messages to their users. When their autoresponder
sends a message to your autoresponder, this creates what is
known as a loop. Each autoresponder will continue to respond
to the other.
When subscribing to an ezine or email discussion group,
always use a real email address and NEVER subscribe with
an autoresponder address. Subscribing to these types of
publications with an autoresponder address will get you
immediately unsubscribed. Why? For example; If you're a
member of a
discussion group and receive many messages
each day, your autoresponder will respond to every message
it receives. Not only will the list owner receive a mailbox full of
complaints, but they will also receive all of your autoresponse
messages.
Another problem ezine publishers encounter with autoresponder
subscribers is locating the perpetrator. Many times, the
"reply to" and "from" address of an autoresponse message aren't
the same as the address they subscribed under. It takes a
great deal of time and effort to track the address, which is
time that could have been better spent elsewhere.
Another unethical use of autoresponders is autoresponders.
Let me explain... There are many Internet Marketers now
using unethical techniques to subscribe innocent individuals to
their junk mailing lists. They will send a message to an
autoresponder address using their subscription address. When
the autoresponder answers the message, the "from" address
on the autoresponder will be instantly subscribed. This
technique is not only unethical, but also unprofessional.
Autoresponders can be a wonderful tool for Internet Marketers
and can save you hours of valuable time. However, if not used
in a professional manner, can wreak havoc on the Internet
community. Don't be tempted to tarnish your professional
reputation by indulging in the abuse of our autoresponder
system. It's just not worth the price.
About the Author
Shelley Lowery is the Webmaster of Web-Source.net -
A complete resource portal for the Internet entrepreneur.
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