Golden Rules For the Use of Autoresponders

Autoresponders are a perfect way to increase traffic to your website. They can save many valuable hours by automatically answering emails concerning frequently asked questions about a service or product, or by sending a welcome letter to new members of your program. There are many ways that autoresponders can help your business. One of the most important is their ability to track the effectiveness of your campaigns. Since autoresponders are one of the most popular marketing tools available today, they are used by many different types of companies and websites. Some of these take advantage of the system to use autoresponders in a negative way. You should be aware of some of the "golden rules" when using autoresponders.

You should not use an Autoresponder address when submitting to search engines.

Since you most likely will submit your site to search engines such as Google or Yahoo!, Directories, classifieds, and free for all sites, please be aware that these sites often use an autoresponder as well. Should you use your autoresponder to contact these companies, their autoresponder will reply to yours and so on and so forth. Thereby creating a vicious circle of autoresponses that will flood your email box, and their also.

You should not use an Autoresponder to Subscribe to Ezines or Discussion Forums.

Since most of the time an Ezine will send you updates and new information regularly, your auto responder to send them a message each time. In a discussion forum, will every person in the discussion forum to receive your automatic reply. This can be annoying, and most of the time you will be unsubscribed. It is often difficult for administrators of the forum or ezine to determine who uses the auto-reply, so it is just common courtesy to never use a autoresponer in this way.

You should not use an Autoresponder to exploit Unsuspecting Individuals.

Some very unprofessional companies will use autoresponders to respond to an automated message when this is done the address in the "from" field will automatically be enrolled their mailing list. This is a extremely unethical use of autoresponders and those who do, are in danger of creating a very negative image of themselves and their businesses. Rather than promote their service or business, this usually leads to people becoming very upset and spreading a negative word about your business instead of a good one.

The Internet can be a good place to do business and autoresponders can be an excellent way to save time, but when used in an unprofessional way, they can lead to frustration and aggravation for others. Your company will suffer the loss of a great business if you choose to participate in these abuses. Proper use of auto responders can generate a large amount of business, while inappropriate use can drive away that business.