If you're trying to build an MLM or network marketing business, one of the key tools you'll need is autoresponders. These allow you to capture people's e-mail addresses and then automatically begin sending them e-mails over days, weeks, or months about your business.

You can place a form directly on your website (and entice them with benefits of giving you their e-mail address), place it onto some social networks or classified ads, or simply send people to a lead capture page with the form built in. And once people giving their e-mail address, you'll also be able to e-mail them one-time notes whenever you want.

So, there are some systems that give you low costs for your first 500 contacts, but they skyrocket after that. I'd like to introduce you to a system that can cost you NOTHING ... and to the opportunity to have me write you a custom autoresponder series featuring YOUR business.

TrafficWave honestly doesn't look as elegant as some of the well-known systems, but it delivers just as well and is easy to use. It also has some CRUCIAL features for those in network marketing, as I'll explain. But first, take a look at the competition's price points with the maximum number of contacts showing in parentheses:

AWeber: $19 (for 500); $29 (2500); $49 (5000); $69 (10,000)

Constant Contact: $15 (for 500); $30 (2500); $50 (5000); $75 (10,000)

iContact: $14 (for 500); $29 (2500); $47 (5000); $74 (10,000)

GetResponse: $15 (for 1000); $25 (2500); $65 (10,000)

TrafficWave: $17.95/month OR LESS for UNLIMITED contacts, lists, and e-mails sent.


Why TrafficWave is so good for network marketing:

• Share content with team members. If you have a great autoresponder series for building the business, refer TrafficWave to team members so they can use your e-mails. You'll get paid for the referrals too -- just 3 referrals and your system is FREE. As they refer team members to share the e-mails, you'll earn even more.
  
  
• Buy leads. If they have capacity, you can include your list in their co-op sign-ups and have people join your autoresponder series on autopilot. As little as 35 cents per opt-in lead.
  
  
• Have me write your autoresponders for FREE! (Up to $1000 value.) If you join TrafficWave through me and personally refer at least 20 paying users of TrafficWave (they don't all have to be in your business with you), I'll write a custom autoresponder series for any business you choose -- up to 7 e-mails in the series written by a professional copywriter.
  
  Or join one of my businesses with me and I'll share the e-mails I've already written, even if you refer no one to TrafficWave!
  
  

(Calling this a "Preview" because a "Review" suggests I've seen and tried this service, and it's currently in beta to only a few users. So I'm commenting based on what they have shared so far.)

I've come across a new "all in one" marketing tool (still in pre-launch) called iBizWave that the early adopters are of course hyping up so you'll join. And the problem is, even while you're conceptually told what will be included, you cannot see it in action yet.

So as usual, I'm concerned that people are so geeked by the possibility of income from referring something, there is no care about the quality of the product. They'll refer it before they use it.

Now based on this screen shot, it does look like they've put together a professional user interface:

What I saw suggests that the monthly cost will be anywhere from $25 to $100 per month. At the moment, there is a $125 start-up fee and then a monthly cost of $50/month for their Silver package, which begins getting charged 30 days after your start-up fee. And yet, the ONLY thing apparently available at this time is the system for promoting other people into iBizWave. (Maybe you can already use it for e-mail marketing???)

Eventually, the Silver package will include:

• Dashboard / reports / training
• Publisher (appears to just be an integrated WordPress site however, which you can get for free)
• Contact manager and e-mail marketing (can't tell how large a list you can grow or what features it includes)
• Social marketing platform
• The ability to sell this to other people.

Because I haven't worked with the platform, I can't say how useful it will be for others, but to me there are much more affordable ways to do all of this. Use WordPress, Blogger, or (my favorite) Weebly to build a free site. Weebly is extremely easy to use.

Then use something free like Hootsuite to manage multiple social accounts if you're using them. And for e-mail marketing / autoresponders, use TrafficWave, which is already established with excellent deliverability rates and gives you unlimited lists and unlimited subscribers for $17.95/month. Now you're saving a whole lot of money.

Maybe you need the training. Maybe you like the all-in-one platform. But if you're looking for a cheap and easy way to pull the essentials together, this option does it.

Still looking for an income opportunity? TrafficWave as a standalone a high-value product -- which can go on anybody's established website, or gives people their own landing / capture pages -- has a multi-level referral program if you want to share it. And if you bring enough team members to TrafficWave (details on request) after joining through my link, I will develop you a professionally written series of autoresponders for YOUR business ... no extra charge. You won't be getting that anywhere else.  ;)