If you've reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up with answering the mountain of emails that threatens to bury you alive every single day, you're ready to learn about autoresponders.

The bad news is that people expect prompt replies to their email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual twenty-four hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming emails (while they're eating up your revenue), you have a problem. The good news is an autoresponder is an inexpensive method of quickly responding to emails. What these programs do is automatically respond to incoming emails as soon as they are received.

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By Kathryn Beach

It doesn't matter how big or small your company, or how famous its name. The internet is the great leveler when it comes to marketing, and e-mail marketing works the best--and it works for most every company. In fact, it may actually work better for the small niche business.

Your web business probably gets product inquiries from potential customers around the globe. Inquiries come via e-mail and your web site, and you try to send information to each hot prospect as quickly as you can. You know that you can drastically increase the likelihood of making a sale by satisfying each person's need for information quickly!

By Joan Pasay

This diary entry is based on real life events.

Dear Email Marketing diary,

About six months ago, I went for my yearly visit to Dr. E. Newsletter. He poked and prodded and checked to make sure everything was working as it should, then he sat down on his little stool, looked me straight in the eyes and asked:

By Gary Durkin

Just in case you don’t know, your ‘LIST’ – is you list of optin subscribers who have taken the time and effort to personally subscribe to your newsletter or ezine………..

By Michael Turner

Before you start an e-mail marketing campaign it is important for you to know what e-mail marketing is, the benefits of e-mail marketing, and whether or not e-mail marketing is right for your business. Once you are educated on the finer points of an e-mail marketing campaign, you will be poised to either learn more and get your campaign going or else find another means of marketing your products.

By Michael Turner

If you are just starting out as an Internet entrepreneur then you have a lot to learn about doing business online. One such thing you need to concentrate on is your e-mailing habits. E-mail is your way of communicating with people and potential customers, so developing good e-mail habits early on is very important.

By David Callan
Autoresponders are just that, they're programs set up to automatically respond with an designated email when a blank email is sent to a certain email address.

Have you ever seen something like this

For a Free Guide to ? send a blank email to freeguide@akamarketing.com

That email address is the address of an Autoresponder and when someone sends an email to an Autoresponder they receive a pre-written email message back with information that is setup for that particular address immediately within seconds. In this case the information would be a free guide.

Basically Autoresponders are "email on demand" bots which make your information available 24 hours a day, 365 days per year and believe me when I say they can dramatically increase your sales without any work because they can.

Autoresponders are very important tools when you need to automate your Internet marketing efforts. You can easily process over 50,000+ requests daily without any effort on your part!

They're used mainly for three things

Sales Letters
Customer Support
Email gathering

Autoresponders are great for sales letters. Suppose you post to a couple of forums and newsgroups, within your posts you can offer a free report about your industry and included in that report you could have a sales letter. You then post the email address of the appropriate Autoresponder and tell people to send a blank email to it for the free report and within seconds the user could be reading the report and your sales letter. You don't have to do anything.

Number two is particularly relevant to very busy sites which get a lot of support related questions, many of them similar. Autoresponders allow you to set up predefined answers to the most likely questions about your company or products and services. Using Autoresponders like this can cut up to 70% of your customer service requirements.

Imagine if you run a hosting company and people wanted to know how to set up a CGI script, you simply direct them to an Autoresponder with lots of information and details as to how to do this. This way real life people won't have to do it, they could spend their time doing something more productive like marketing and promoting their site.

The true beauty of Autoresponders however is that they capture the email addresses of people who have requested information from them allowing you the Internet marketer to follow up with those prospects. You'll be able to retrieve these addresses from your Autoresponder log.

Certain Autoresponders can even be set up to email these people at designated times of the year, the power in this feature of Autoresponders is the ability to resell your products to past customers perhaps after their subscription has expired or after their product has run low.

Autoresponders are truly amazing marketing tools which even the smallest of companies can use. With them you can automate your marketing campaigns and connect with your customers and potential customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, this in turn will help you sell more.

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Article by David Callan. David is an Internet marketing professional and webmaster of http://www.akamarketing.com/webmaster-forums/ webmaster forums. Visit his webmaster forums for the latest discussions on search engines, website authoring and Internet marketing related issues and topics.