Email communication is a critical piece to being a professional network marketer. There are so many tools available for this purpose, but most of them are not very good. There are however some very solid systems available that are commonly used by leaders throughout the industry.
if you already have a system that is working for you, then you understand the importance of it. If not, then here are a few things to consider when looking at email systems:
- Cost – is it duplicable from a cost standpoint if your team wants to use it too
- User-friendliness – is is simple to use
- Deliverability – is there full-time staff working to insure that your emails are getting white-listed by the major email hosting companies (aol, yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc.)
- Can you import your existing list
- Is there a way to automatically have new list members added (capture forms, widgets, pages, etc.)
- Can you use it for team newsletters
- Can you use it for mlm prospect & lead autoresponder emails
- Is it a permission-based system (protects you from violating SPAM laws, etc)
- Can you send an unlimited number of emails
- Can you send both html rich text and regular text messages
- Will it automatically insert first name & other fields into the email messages
These are just a few of the features and benefits to consider.
Constant Contact is one of the best ones available on the market today and they have now extended their FREE trial to 60 days!!!
This is one of our favorites. This service has over 300 email templates built into it. You have access to all of them and you don’t even have to be a programmer to use them. The authors of this blog use this service for their team newsletters and trainings. It can also be used as an autoresponse communicator with your leads.
We personally love using it as a way to communicate with our customers (those who are not taking advantage of the mlm opportunity, but using the products/ services). In fact, you can even make sales directly from the newsletter.
In our monthly newsletter to customers, we always offer a product special with a discount. We can even accept orders through Paypal right from the newsletter. This creates sells by eliminating the extra step of a customer having to go to a website to see your special and then going through a shopping cart process.
Here are a few big benefits of using Constant Contact:
- Over 97% deliverability rate
- Over 300 built-in email templates
- Easy-to-use email wizard
- Tracking and Reporting so you know that your emails are getting delivered & opened
- Over 40 online survey templates
- Live demos available for free
- 60 day FREE trial – cannot be beat. No brainer!!!
Check it out for yourself and take advantage of the free trial. Let us know how you like it.
NOTE: we previously had evaluated Oprius as a great contact manager for network marketers. It can also do autoresponder emails, team newsletters, etc., but its email functionality is not as sophisticated as Constant Contact if you have special needs (example: if you want to create a very functional newsletter and be able to sell products or services directly from the newsletter itself).
