There are many friends of mine came to ask me whether they should get an auto responder. I think there are 2 reasons why you need an auto responder:

1) You need to build your list of customers and prospects so that you can send out constant emails to keep in touch with them. Not only just selling your new products, but also building relationship with them, informing them your update on works, activities as well as personal news sometimes. It is not compulsory to tell all of your news but you can selectively tell what you want to tell.

2) Product survey: once in a while you may want to conduct survey to your customers and ask what do they want and think about the respective product / info. We can?t really know what they want until you ask them. By doing so, you will get to know better about your customer and develop or search for the relevant products and sell to them.

My first auto responder was GetResponse. However, I don?t like to use it as it has too much advertisement in my email. They sent me promotional emails constantly. I believe my customers do receive it as well (after I stop using their service).

Later on, I changed to Marketer Choice. What excited me was Marketer Choice has all-in-one service for online marketer solution. It includes an auto responder, shopping cart, affiliate program manager, click tracker, digital products delivery system, and many others. Marketer Choice also give you 30-days test drive, you can test the program before you pay for the service. For more info about Marketer Choice you follow this link to find out more. They have different packages to suit your need. I end up like most of the people do, sign up the lowest plan that is cost me US$29 per month.

After sometimes, I find that I don?t really use this all-in-one features fully yet and basically I only need an auto responder and to get a similar feature of service, I can get some other program like AWeber at much lower price but bear in mind this are single function auto responder only, not with all-in-one feature like Marketers Choice.

You got to ask yourself, what do you need? Do you want just an auto responder or all-in-one solution like Marketer Choice?

If you are running affiliate program or selling ebooks online that need instant delivery with the shopping cart plus auto responder, then Marketers Choice is for you. It?s a good system that use by some of the top online marketers like Alex Mandossian, Armand Morin and Perry Marshall. It is very convenient to have all the service under one roof.

On the other hand, if you wish to have just an auto responder, then you can choose AWeber. I was struggling to make my decision to move on to AWeber even though I knew Marketer Choices is good.

There are 3 reasons why I use AWeber:

1. I am not ready to fully ultilise other all-in-one features
2. There is an overprice for the basic auto responder solution
3. I was recommended by 3 of my online marketer friend to use this and I found out many other professional Internet marketers also using AWeber system.

AWeber does most of the function like many other provides do, below are the good impression I got from AWeber.

1. They send out personalize snail mail to you when sign up for the service or become their affiliate. When was the last time you receive snail mail from your service provider when you sign up their products and services, AWeber gives me a very good marketing images, I will assured all my friends who use AWeber do receive the same greeting letter ? I feel good.
2. They provide live support from 7am ? 7pm on EST Time, Monday to Friday
3. You can generate pop-ups, pop-over, exit pop-ups
4. Can integrate with ASK Database, the world?s first surveys search engine (and still).
5. Email newsletter templates
6. RSS-to-email service enable (new implement feature)
7. and many more …

How Do I use AWeber now?
Currently I am using it for my web opt-in and communication tools for my website with its visitors. I also collect email address by providing downloads for free reports and ebooks.

How difficult to use AWeber?
It took me about 4 hours to find out how to use it correctly without watching the tutorials. This is my bad habits which I knew I don?t normally go thru the basic training. Never assume all the auto responders are having the similar features and you can just jump into it and start using (I was a Marketer Choice user).

Don?t worry, AWeber is totally design for the non-programmer, you can master this tool within the short period of time if you follow the tutorials. Of course you can always drop by to chat with the live support people, they are right there to assist you about your problem. I have chat 2 times with them, so far the response is satisfactorily.

Price
You can find Marketer Choice & AWeber price here. If you are going to use it extensively in the future, I suggest you go for the yearly plan which you can get the heaviest discount rate for both programs. Besides this, both program give you a 30-days satisfaction guarantee.

Obviously, I am prefer AWeber more than Marketer Choice now, but wait a minute, before you make a decision, I suggest you go and visit their website and find out more about the features and ask yourself, what do you want? An auto responder? Or more than just an auto responder with all-in-one features? Check out the testimonials and ask the current users for opinions, narrow down your selection and make the final decision to use which one. Remember, making a decision to purchase doesn?t lock you as most of the online products offer 30, 60 or 90-day money back guarantee. You can reverse your purchase after you use it and you are not happy with their products and services.

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