Email Marketing For Newbies

If you’ve ever asked for information online about a product or service, or signed up for
an e-list or group membership on the Internet, and received a nearly instantaneous
response in your e-mail inbox, an autoresponder program was responsible for delivering
the reply.
Simply put, autoresponders are e-mail programs that send out a preset message in
response to every incoming e-mail received. Some autoresponders, like sign-up services
for e-groups and forums, are one-shot deals: a single response for every message
received. Just about every Internet-based company uses autoresponders for a variety
of purposes, from automating tasks that would otherwise take up hundreds of manhours
to building lists and tracking prospective leads.