There aren't many email systems that let you send MLM or affiliate emails. Risk using the wrong system and you could lose your entire list if you send these types of emails.
The only 2 I recommend for emails like these are AWeber and SendSteed.
Briefly, AWeber also offers a free account; you only get 1 list with it, and up to 500 subscribers. But AWeber does INTEGRATE with just about any marketing software that comes out, and its free account gives you autoresponders. So if its limits meet your needs, you could sign up for free with AWeber. After that, it starts at $19/month and goes up with subscriber count.
The only 2 I recommend for emails like these are AWeber and SendSteed.
Briefly, AWeber also offers a free account; you only get 1 list with it, and up to 500 subscribers. But AWeber does INTEGRATE with just about any marketing software that comes out, and its free account gives you autoresponders. So if its limits meet your needs, you could sign up for free with AWeber. After that, it starts at $19/month and goes up with subscriber count.
SendSteed
But for this page, I'll focus on discussing SendSteed. It doesn't integrate with all the latest marketing software, and its free account doesn't include autoresponders. (These are emails that you can write once and have sent automatically to your new subscribers.) But in other ways, SendSteed far exceeds the free account from AWeber. And if you dare to go Pro (just $20/month), you'll get way, way more than you bargained for. (I have had a Pro account for years, and there's a reason I keep subscribing.)
What you get for FREE with SendSteed:
Pro Accounts get everything above PLUS:
Sending Limits:
Broadcasts can be sent to Active Subscribers (new to your list, or have opened your emails in the last 30 days), Inactive Subscribers, or both.
What you get for FREE with SendSteed:
- Up to 10 mailing lists with unlimited contacts per list
- Email broadcasts
- Lead capture forms, including lightboxes, full-screens, slide bars, corner blocks, and more.
- Landing pages with built-in lead capture forms.
- Basic tracking of sends, opens, and clicks.
- Preview Text: this is pretty cool. Systems like Gmail and AOL show a preview of an email, usually showing the first sentence of the email itself. You can choose to set a custom preview for them, better written to encourage someone to open the email!
Pro Accounts get everything above PLUS:
- Unlimited lists
- Autoresponders (i.e., automated emails sent out over time to your subscribers). I love autoresponders, which is why I feel a Pro account is important.
- Repeat Broadcasts: if you want the same message to go out on a regular basis (between every 3 and 30 days), you can have it do so. This is a great way to regularly check in with your subscribers and remind them who you are ... even if you've not bothered to write anything new!
- Subtle Verification: this is another huge reason to consider a Pro account. Oddly, many if not most people who subscribe to an email list NEVER confirm their subscription by clicking an email link. This means you LOSE many leads who should be subscribed to you. Pro accounts have 1 month to email Unverified users up to 4 times to complete the opt in. In many cases, if they OPEN the email, they will be confirmed. If their email settings don't allow this, they can still click any link in the email (like to a free ebook ...) to confirm.
You can use Repeat Broadcasts to set up enticing emails for those who haven't finished their confirmations so this is all done on autopilot. Just to be clear, this means you have the verification email and up to 4 more opportunities to get someone onto your mailing lists, and once you set up a good Repeat Broadcast, it's all done on autopilot. This should build you much bigger lists.
Sending Limits:
Broadcasts can be sent to Active Subscribers (new to your list, or have opened your emails in the last 30 days), Inactive Subscribers, or both.
- Active Subscribers: free accounts can send 10 broadcasts a month; pro accounts can send unlimited.
- Inactive Subscribers: free accounts can send to them once a month; pro accounts twice. This is to limit sending to those who aren't very interested and gets you better open rates. If they open an email, they get moved to the "Active" list. (With certain email settings, they may need to click a link to get active again.) Send your BEST STUFF to this group since you're limited.
Building Beautiful Emails is Simple:
Unique about SendSteed:
The reason you get so much more value from SendSteed than other systems is that SendSteed is part of a larger platform called LeadsLeap, which is also FREE. The main point of this page is to explain the SendSteed for sending emails. But a few key highlights:
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- It has a tremendous link tracker. One of the best I've seen.
- Also promotional bars for any link you send someone to. (Share an article, promote something else at the same time.)
- Link rotators.
- An ad exchange, with free ads for Pros. (I get over 1000 visits to my sites each month from these without surfing ads.)
- A powerful reviews platform for driving people to things you'd like to refer.
- And all these free things to give away to OTHERS if you want to use them as offers for joining your mailing lists!
- Of course Pros have benefits within each of the tools. As you can see above, I think the Pro account is worthwhile just for SendSteed. All the ad traffic, link tracker benefits, etc. are just icing on the cake.
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