Autoresponders

If you’ve looked at the prices of autoresponders that are available
online, you may have decided to search for and use a free  for your marketing needs. Using free autoresponders is acceptable in certain situations, and in the world of Internet marketing, any autoresponder is better than not using it at all!
Your first option for a free autoresponder should be the one that comes with your webhosting account –if you have a webhosting account.These autoresponders can easily be set up through the control panel of your website, and they do not contain advertisements from the autoresponder company or webhosting service. If you do not have a hosting account, or your hosting account does not include autoresponders, there are other options that you can pursue.
There are many free autoresponder services to choose from.
These services are free, because the company makes their money by placing a small advertisement in each message that your
autoresponder sends out.These advertisements may appear at the top of your auto responses, or at the bottom, depending on which

company you use.

Many paid autoresponder

services offer a free version as well. These free versions may or may not include

advertisements in the outgoing messages. These lighter versions of
the paid autoresponders typically do not include many of the
powerful features of the paid versions. But if you don’t need the
more advanced features, this is a great choice. Most free
autoresponders have a limit on the number of subscribers you can
have. Many people start out with the limited free versions, and
then upgrade to the paid versions once their lists are large enough
to exceed those limits. Many marketers don’t feel that the expense
of the autoresponder is warranted until the list that they are
building is turning a profit.
From a business standpoint, this makes sense.As the owner of a
business, you are the only one who can decide whether you need a

paid autoresponder service, or a free one. If  your list is small, a free autoresponder should do everything that you need it to do, but as your list grows, you should definitely consider upgrading. However, having the small advertisements that the free services place in the outgoing messages may present a problem if the ads compete with what you are trying to sell. They may even pose a problem if they do not directly compete with your product or business. Again, this depends on what you are trying to accomplish with           your autoresponder.