Everybody has a mailing list these days and there is a good reason for it.  You have to have a way to stay in contact with your readers and visitors or the traffic you are getting is pretty much a one shot offer. If you are trying to sell online, then you simply have to have a mailing list or you are missing the point.  There are some great email list building and newletter services out there.  The only problem with most is that they only offer a monthly plan, you never own the software and you can’t even install the software on your site, you must go to another website to manage your list and edit your autoresponder.

I am not trying to knock these services, but I do offer a better solution for both price and usability.  The Free WordPress Autoresponder allows you to build and manage mailing lists from within wordpress. It is easy to install and works on most any recent version of WordPress.  This plugin is absolutely free and you can start building a huge mailing list today, without having to schedule monthly payments to some other service provider.  Once you have already setup a solid hosting account, then you should be finding more ways to take advantage of the service you are already paying for, not looking for more people to send a check to every month.

One really cool features about this amazing and free plugin is that the code it generates is completely portable. This means you can setup your mailing list and auto-responder on your wordpress site and then you can add your subscription form to any other blog, splash page, capture page or any other site you like.  This allows you to take on new subscribers from pretty much anywhere on the net. If you want to manage multiple lists and use the power of trickle feeding your message releases using smtp, you can buy an upgraded plugin that will cost you less than $30 and that is a one time fee.

This plugin is amazing and very simple to use, so if anybody is looking for a great alternative to those other guys, this is it!

Have fun building your business and you list,

Nick Simpson