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AngieGreen · #1 (**permalink**) 03-11-2009

Does anyone know of a good free or low-cost autosubscriber service? I just want to be able to send a free report to anyone who signs up on my website. Thanks!!

clickawayva · #2 (**permalink**) 03-11-2009

Hi Angie,

check out Zebra Tracks by Mailworkz. They actually have a free for life program where you can send to 300 contacts per month for free. If you go over the 300 the next level I believe is 1000 for something like $5.00. Very, very reasonable. I have recommended this to clients and colleagues.

Your Virtual Wizard · #3 (**permalink**) 03-11-2009

Thank you, Caroline. This is great information. My Constant Contact trial expired and I only have about 26 subscribers so it didn't warrant paying the $15 a month until I had more subscribers. Great question, great answer! Thanks!

Janine

clickawayva · #4 (**permalink**) 03-11-2009

You are so welcome Janine.

I actually moved a client away from Constant Contact over to Zebra Tracks as she had at that time a list of 250 and building. She is now at just below the 1000 mark and loves that she isn't paying a small fortune.

AngieGreen · #5 (**permalink**) 03-11-2009

Awesome resource, I checked it out and it looks promising (and I like the price)! Thanks!

JoCarole · #6 (**permalink**) 03-12-2009

Thanks for these tips, good to know!

YourLeftHand · #7 (**permalink**) 03-24-2009

Take a look at MailChimp. They have a free plan as well. They are part of SurveyMonkey, which is a REALLY great online survey tool.

Prime Admin Solutions · #8 (**permalink**) 03-24-2009

You can try mynewsletterbuilder.com

I use it for newsletters.

It has auto responders, the option to have scheduled newsletters and surveys.

It's $10/month if you go month-by-month but if you prepay for a year, you get 20% off, so it's only $8 per month (for up to 500 recipients). It's a pretty good deal.

I've used it for two newsletters and really like it.

Innovative Office Support · #9 (**permalink**) 04-26-2009

This is great info!! I wanted to try to incorporate some kind of email "thing" for my relaunch.

YourLeftHand · #10 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009

Just wanted to pipe back in on this thread, as my initial reply was a few months ago when I had recommended Mail Chimp. I hadn't done much with it at that point and since then I have created a few newsletters and autoresponders. It is a really great site and there is a free account for up to 100 contacts and you get 600 or so "credits". What's nice about Mail Chimp is you don't have to do a paid subscription on a monthly basis, you can do a "pay as you need" type of structure and I think it amounts to 3 cents an email or something like that.

The emails/newsletters I've created there look really nice and they have a lot of templates to choose from.

I feel for me, their site is laid out well and easy to understand. They also have a lot of online resources that can help the beginner with the whole concept of email marketing.