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try constantcontact.com

email me (see my profile), I think I might be able to help.

Originally posted by D Williams

email me (see my profile), I think I might be able to help.

Please answer the questions here on the forum for all to benefit from.

As for other mailing services, I hear great reviews for AWeber.com as well as constantcontact.com

We use AWeber and absolutely love it, their webforms are awesome and very easy to integrate in to your sites.

There is an option to shut off the "double opt in" if you want to.

Here is a link to a page with more info: [AFFILIATE LINK REMOVED BY ADMIN]

I too like Icontact. They have several levels of service to choose from depending on the number of emails you want to send, plus some great html templates for making your emails look professional.

Hi Nate,

There isn't any best thing to do that works for everyone. The first thing I would look at is how you accumulate your email list. If you do it through an opt in system and have a targeted list of email recepients who want to hear from you then the junk folder shouldn't be as much of an issue. So really where you want to start following the trail is how you're getting these emails and then weigh out the pros and cons of text vs html.

If your audience isn't highly targeted then you should take the lead of the spammers and use text because when they open their mail and see X's where photos should be it's an auto delete. On the other hand text gets through directly and they are exposed to the message where with the html they might not see anything but a bunch of empty boxes.

Text is simply more direct and more personal and many of the guru's that border on spamish behaviors have taken note of this.

I'm a fan of html though because you can get the interactivity going and they're engaged if they are expecting it (opt-in) because they'll click to see images. When I'm dealing with people I know like my buyers list and investors who also know me I will go with the html for the engagement factor and it allows me to plug in extra stuff in an orderly fashion.

But think about how you do business and use that to guide you as to what direction to take. For instance when I get business cards and give business card I make clear that I have a dynomite mailing that I send out every Wednesday (REIA events are Tuesdays) and talk it up so they are excited to receive it the next day.

It's not just about what you are doing but also about what else you are doing to stack the deck in your favor.

Oh, I use AutoPilotRiches and it works just fine for my needs.