Which Autoresponder is the Best to build your Home Based Business list?

Once you have the methods to generate thousands of targeted visitors, you absolutely MUST set up a follow up system. If you are not following up, you are losing a TON of money. Allow me to explain:

Not everyone who visits your website is going to sign up or buy from you immediately. There are people who do not act immediately when they see a good thing.  There are also people out there that will talk themselves out of any form of success. Get yourself an autoresponder. I have significantly increased my conversion rate by doing so,  as people will often come back weeks and even months later and sign up!
Auto-responders are essential.

If you do not know what an auto-responder is, you must learn now. You will need to learn how to use one in order to automatically follow up with people via email. Statistically, a potential customer needs to see your ad an average of 7-12 times before they are confident enough to make a purchase. An auto-responder series will follow up with your leads via email and substantially increase your conversion rate.

You will need to choose between an autoresponder that you ‘rent’ on a monthly basis, or one that you buy and host yourself. The review of autoresponders below will help you to decide what autoresponder is best for you.

Autoresponders paid for with a monthly subscription

Aweber offers affordable monthly subscriptions for their auto-responder services. They have more features than are usually available with your standard auto-responder, and they have free version to check them out. This is the autoresponder of choice for top marketers. If you intend to create your own capture pages and build your list, this is the responder of choice. This is the responder I currently use in most of my campaigns.

iContact is another choice. Similar to AWeber, but with one significant advantage. IContact will allow you to import subscribers that you generated in another system. You can import them and begin to send them mail without them having to confirm that they want to get your mail. This is not to say it is something you would import purchased leads into. But if you generate leads with some kind of affiliate system, you can import them into iContact and mail to them.

Autoresponder software you buy and host

I personally use Autoresponse Plus to import the leads I have generated from the various affiliate programs I promote. This allows me to email them without having to send them a confirmation email. I can follow up with them FOREVER, or until they opt-out. You would be surprised to know how many people have been on my list for YEARS before joining me in my primary business.

I host my Autoresponse Plus at Host Gator. When you buy the licence for the software, they will install it on your server for free. You then have ultimate control over your list.

It is imperative that you learn to use your auto-responder to automatically follow up with your potential customers. Learn to advertise your home based business effectively and use an autoresponder series to follow up — you will produce sales. Leave off the autoresponder, and I cannot say the same.

If you started your business in Network Marketing and have been using the traditional strategies of building your business, then you may not have a clue as to why I am telling you that you should build a ‘list’ if you want to make huge money in MLM.  In fact, it may be totally foreign terminology, so I’ll try to break it down easy.

First of all, this is certainly not the ‘only’ way to make a whole lot of money in MLM.  This is just the way I choose to build my business.  There are many extremely successful millionaires in MLM who never once built a list!  Heck, there were millionaires in MLM before there even was an internet… so don’t get the idea that I’m saying my way is the only way.

I can only tell you what I have done that works.  I have chosen to build my business using the internet and the phone.   I was advised 4 years ago to learn to generate my own leads and learned quickly that my self generated leads had a much higher conversion rate than any I purchased.  3 years ago I began to generate my list, so that all of the leads I generated were in one autoresponder and could be mailed about anything at all I liked.  That means that leads I generated for a business 3 years ago that went out of business… are still my leads.  They did not get left behind in some ‘system’.  I paid with those with money or sweat, and I’ll not give them up!  You should be as attached to your leads as well – they are extremely valuable to you.

I continue to generate prospects online using various capture pages that I design- and have had tremendous results, including enrolling well over 200 people into my business over the course of a year.

Why?

Because:

The Best Source of Traffic for your Website is Your List.

Is your company running a promotion?  The best people to inform – Your List!  Is there a special presentation happening this weekend?  Inviting a few thousand people at the push of the send button will ensure that someone will be there!

These people opted in to hear from you and have chosen to stay on your list.  They may stay there for YEARS before making a move, and that’s OK!  If you have tens of thousands of people that are getting your messages, then there is always someone who’s time is right to act.  The more people on your list, the more people will make the move to get started with you each week, and the larger your check!

Most people who fill out your lead capture page will not take action right away.   If your page captured their phone number, give them a call to make sure they know they are joining a company with a true support system.  They may still need to take a look at your offer many times before they even call you back.  When they do – they are the most qualified of prospects.  Ready to join your MLM!

That, my friend is why I build a list of people who are looking for or are already in a business opportunity.  I’m looking for the entrepreneur minded people who are willing to do what it takes to make a change in their lives.  This is the best audience – and why YOU should build your list.

Check out the success stories and testimonials piling up in the comments section.