Hi Stacey, I thought I would just share what I do to add another idea into the mix. I use
WAHMCart for a shopping cart and autoresponder. It's $40/month so you need to be selling at least 1 product to make it pay for itself. Anyway, it has unlimited autoresponders you can set up so that's the feature I really love. When someone signs up for your free guide (for example), the program will automatically send it to them in an email. Or, you could set it up to send something to them in a series of emails, like you mentioned. As I said, it's a big monthly expense but I haven't found any other cheaper autoresponder programs out there. Plus it has all of the other functionality like newsletters and shopping cart.