A free Wordpress email autoresponder plugin is the most cost-effective way to start building an opt-in email list of subscribers to your newsletter. As you may know, an opt-in newsletter is perhaps worth its weight in gold, because the list members have voluntarily chosen to get your personal or company correspondence and they await valuable content from you on a regular basis. You therefore have a captive audience who you can feed great stuff: building their trust, loyalty and word-of-mouth about your expertise and brand.
Presently, only one free Wordpress email autoresponder exists on the English-speaking Internet market today. That is: Gary Pomerant’s GWA AutoResponder. I will have a look at this piece of software today, so you can get an idea of its worth and feature-set.
The GWA Autoresponder is a handy plug-in that you download and install in your Wordpress back-end. It takes about 10 minutes to setup and then you are ready to grab visitors to your website and allow them to quickly subscribe to your newsletter. Once the plug-in is installed, you may simply create newsletter “messages” to automatically deliver to subscribers - choosing the delivery dates (e.g. on day 1, day 7, day 14, less frequently or more frequently). The newsletter is then delivered via an auto-responder function to all new subscribers to your list.
The plugin also provides additional functionality such as:
- a subscription form widget that can be placed in the sidebar of your website
- ability to schedule daily mailings of pre-written material
- an easy-to-use GWA control panel for newsletter management
- a mass-mail option so you can send special messages to all your subscribers at once
- a portable sign-up form for the same list that you can use on multiple websites
Gary has left no stone unturned with his product, as he provides free membership benefits including:
- tutorials on how to operate and get the most out of the plug-in
- a forum for discussion of the plugin with other users
- bonus gifts for free users, like “Ebook: Top 15 IM Questions Answered!” and “50 INSTANT Internet Marketing ARTICLES”
- a support ticket system for professional response to any support issues
In general, I see no downside to this free Wordpress email autoresponder plugin - it is free, fully-functional and well-supported. It works with the latest version of Wordpress and it is updated each time Wordpress gets updated.
Highly recommended!
